Jenny Sanford's "Staying True": inside the Gov. Mark Sanford scandal
Fresh on the heels of a tell-all about the fall of presidential candidate John Edwards comes "Staying True," a memoir from Jenny Sanford, whose husband, S.C. governor Mark Sanford, had an affair with an Argentine woman. If you recall, he vanished for five days last summer, and his aides explained that he was hiking the Appalachian Trail (I never realized it went as far as Buenos Aires). After much bobbing and weaving, he admitted the affair -- and had the gall to ask his wife's opinion on handling the media. And you thought Edwards was a rotten husband. Some revelations from the book -- which will be released Friday -- and an interview to be aired that night on 20/20:
When Jenny and Mark married, he refused to promise to be faithful, insisting that the clause be removed from their wedding vows.
After the affair was exposed, the governor asked her permission to visit his lover again, saying that would be a testament to Jenny's love for him.
He also wondered -- aloud, to her -- whether he should follow his heart to Argentina, and whether he would regret it if he never did.
From the publisher's description: In Staying True, Jenny Sanford recalls her shock and anguish upon discovering that her husband was having an affair with a woman in Argentina, and the further pain when she learned—just a day ahead of most Americans—that he had not ended the affair when she believed he had. She reveals the source of her determination to be honest and forthright instead of the victim in the tabloid passion play that gripped the nation in June 2009.
Comments
As a South Carolina resident, I have to say this all really makes me sad. You have to wonder why she ever married him in the first place.
Posted by: Kathy R (Bermudaonion) | February 3, 2010 7:02 PM
Jenny Sullivan Sanford, raised and married Roman Catholic, was programmed while growing up: sex is only for kids (and the deviance of pedophile priests), the manifest lie of "Original Sin," and, let the husband have sex with others for pleasure as he is "lower" and "imperfect." Watch her TV interviews - she is basically a "zombie."
The other "shoe" will drop when the sins of his adulteries are visited on his sons to the third and fourth generation: the nanobacteria he acquired, prior to the conceptions of his sons, with his "other women," and the resultant diseases, conveyed by sex with his wife, mistakenly thought genetic, which science is now discovering. (i.e.: Polycystic kidney disease; Kawasaki Syndrome, etc.)
G-d permits all to be revealed. The Sanfords are an aspect of the revealed Roman Anti-Christ, as are the Salahis.
The hypocrisy, adultery, lies, and treason - tolerated or condoned - is a bane to America. Their "Birds of Feather" must be removed as well...and what does his yet being in office in South Carolina say about that state's ruling false elite?
His shame is their shame. They are beneath contempt.
Posted by: Will Jones | February 11, 2010 8:54 AM
I am curious as to what Mark Sanford is doing now? Is he with his so called soulmate?
It was a wonderful book and I give Jenny a lot of credit for writing it. Thank you.
Posted by: Nick | November 8, 2010 9:58 AM