Presidential Timber

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/report_sanford_seen_in_atlanta_airport.php?ref=fpa

Talking Points Memo is all over the curious case of the missing governor and has all sorts of titillating updates. Gov. Sanford, one of the leading lights of the republican party who was on the veep shortlist for McCain, has gone missing. He has not been seen by wife or other South Carolina polls since last Thursday. He has been heard from and various sightings have been reported, first at the airport in Atlanta, but then his car was found at an airport in South Carolina. The first statement from his staff was that he was hiking on the Appalachian Trail. His wife is reportedly not worried, and I like this touching detail, just focusing "on being a mom." She said that he wanted to get away from his children (on Father's Day no less) to spend some time writing. I wonder how he can hike and write at the same time...The story gets weirder and weirder. What is it with the repugs with presidential ambitions? Are they all insane? I must say the talent pool is pretty dismal. In the old days the dems were the ones with the purportedly strange and dissolute lives, and now amazingly enough, they are the party of family values. The Ensign case is evolving daily, and I am sure this one will as well.