Politicians and Poontang

Another idiot politician, SC Gov. Mark Sanford, stirs up a tempest by wandering off the family reservation to get some.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford acknowledged Wednesday that he was carrying on an affair with a woman in Argentina when he disappeared from his office last week, only to resurface this morning.

Does he get points for distance? Maybe it's a form of the same compulsion that drives them to run for political office; some kind of ego power thing that makes a woman's thighs look like a voting booth. He just has to get inside and play with the levers.

He also did not identify the woman, but asked for privacy. He said that his wife had known about the affair for five months and that he had known the woman for eight years.

He described the affair has having begun innocently enough, via e-mail.

There is no innocent beginning to an affair. He has staff to answer emails. Let some college intern mess around with Maria and Mabel and Martha over the interwebtoobs.

He left it unclear whether he and his wife would separate, but his wife left little doubt, releasing a statement later that said she'd asked her husband to leave two weeks ago. She said he had not told her of his travel plans.

Momma ain't gonna be none too forgiving when Daddy comes home after a week long romp on the pampas. Momma Sanford has tossed Daddy out on his kiester.

Remember 1974? Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills and his drunken antics with Ms. Fannie Fox, the Argentine Bombshell? His run into the Tidal Basin to escape police?

Stripper Fannie Fox

I hate to even think it, but is there is an Argentine conspiracy to destabilize the United States? Is there an international movement to compromise American politicians by supplying them with an endless supply of buxom Argentine beauties to bewitch and beguile our leaders? Is there like a grant application or something where you can sign up for one?

Congressman Mills and Argentine secret agent Annabelle Battistella, aka Fannie Fox.

Notice the microphones cleverly concealed within her sequinns. This photo was taken in April 1974 right after Mills introduced legislation in the House granting Argentina full access to US nuclear weapons.

Does South Carolina have nuclear weapons?

They don't??

Oh noes!! Where did they go??