Ok, here is where I stand on the Stanford mess.
It isn’t about his tryst, anymore than Clinton’s mess was about Monica. It’s about the misuse of public funds, and in this case, abandoning his position. These are the things that end up destroying the career of people, the lies, trying to hide things.
I am the absolutely LAST person who would be lecturing anyone on fidelity. It’s no secret that I’ve been married more than one time. I don’t tend to hang my old laundry out for the world to see, even on this kinda-sorta anonymous blog. I’ve been cheated on and I’ve cheated, if that’s what you would call a “you do yours, I’ll do mine” arrangment during the tail end of a relationship.
I can even relate to his border-run freak-out. Although, I only ran to Cleveland to get away from the simmering cauldron I’d created, not to the arms of a lover in another country. When your personal relationship is in a shambles, every step you take is the wrong one, and people all around are talking bad about you and giving you “the look” you start feeling claustrophobic. The fight/flight thing sets in and you just panic.
Had he just let his LT Gov know he was going out of town he could have avoided this publicity. It wouldn’t have helped much as far as his marriage. He may still have ended up in trouble with his voters, but I suspect it wouldn’t have been as bad. He might have survived it. But now, I don’t know.
When you are invoved with two people like this. When you believe you love someone else, but your gut is rotting because you don’t want to hurt someone you’ve build a life with, it consumes your mind. It eats away with you until you don’t know why you were put on the earth. It’s a form of tourcher that makes waterboarding look like time-out.
Stanford’s gonna have hell to pay, in more than one way. His misuse of the public monies and abandoning his position will cost him, and it should. Just remember, it isn’t about the sex. Leave his personal life out of the discussion and focus on his abuse of responsibilities to his constituents.
10 Comments
June 25, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I just find it ironic that his Argentinian mistress was reading “age of turbulence” by Alan Greenspan….lol
June 25, 2009 at 2:36 pm
well said. I’m trouble the guy can just disappear.
June 25, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Is there some homeland security thing about suddenly showing up to buy a ticket out of the country? I’m wondering who may have been enabling him. But remember, it is unlikely anyone expected him to just take off, so who would have been looking for him? And who said he was on the Appalachian Trail anyway? Is that what he told people each time he took off? What if his plane had crashed?
Think of this … what if he’d been gone and there was a natural disaster that killed thousands in his state?
But, when you have worms in your brain (which is similar to that feeling you get when you are in this type of love situation) you ain’t a thinkin very good.
June 26, 2009 at 8:42 am
“Had he just let his LT Gov know he was going out of town he could have avoided this publicity.”
True, but then we wouldn’t have the golden phrase “Hiking the Appalachian Trail” as a euphemism for cheating on your spouse, and what fun would that be?
June 26, 2009 at 11:56 am
Ok, this is REALLY bad, but I can’t resist … Wonder if he went to the backwoods?
Ok, I’m sorry. Spank me.
June 26, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Hahaha.
Spank you? Then wouldn’t I be hiking on the Appalachian Trail at that point?
June 26, 2009 at 9:51 am
I agree, Muze. His personal life is between him and his wife, and I feel bad for the whole family to have their personal dirty laundry on national news. it’s hard enough for them as it is, I’m sure.
The misuse of personal funds is what I have an issue with.
June 29, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Cleveland?!?!
July 1, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Yes Chris … don’t you remember?
June 26, 2009 at 7:30 pm
LOL Shit! LOL Only if you enjoy it, Red. Only if you enjoy it!
hee hee hee