Mark Sanford aka Lionel Hutz

I go off the grid for a few hours and look what happens. The last time I blogged, Mark Sanford was due back from hiking on the Appalachian Trail. How things change. Now the story has evolved to his admission of being off seeing his mistress. It reminded me a little of the Simpsons' lawyer Lionel Hutz's quote about a judge he was due to present a case to; I will have to paraphrase here, but it went sort of like this - "Oh, no. Judge Crater. That's not good.... I kind of ran over his dog. Replace kind of with repeatedly and replace dog with son..." In Mark Sanford's case replace Appalachian Trail with Argentinian Mistress and replace hiking with f_king... I watched endless clips of his press conference last night which became more and more bizarre. The setting was strange in that it looked like he was giving his statement on stage with a bunch of school children behind him and each time he opened his mouth he made it worse and worse. The recklessness is breathtaking. Aside from torpedoing any political future, the fact that he would go off the grid to the extent that no one in the State office seemed to know where he was, is astounding. I guess as a governor he has few responsibilities. He makes John Ensign seem almost normal. At least Ensign provided a jobs program for his mistress and family.