And then there’s the sordid

There’s the pointless embarrassment of a state governor calling a press conference to reveal he’s had something as commonplace as an affair. And the emails he’d exchanged with his Argentinian paramour (via 11D) made public, which almost made me feel sorry for them. Almost, but not quite.

I don’t know why Mark Sanford is at all special enough that his marital problems merit a press conference.

I don’t know what having an affair has to do with governing a state – except perhaps if you were elected because you’re one of a group of people who claim they want to strengthen marriage as part of their political platform. Even then I’m not sure that one thing really has to do with another.

But I do know that none of it will matter to anyone outside his family in the long run.