LOVE LETTERS BETWEEN GOV. MARK SANFORD AND LATINA MISTRESS EMERGE!

When you woke monday morning and had your Cheerios you probably noded your head as you read in the media about Gov. Mark Sanford's mystery trip abroad while leaving the great state of South Carolina with a "will be back in a flash" sign on the front door.  What you didn't expect were the juicy developments throughout the week leading up to the details of scandalous love triangle!  The man went from, "Ummm... I went hiking" to "My bad, I went away and didn't tell anyone" to "Yeah... I'm having an affair with a hot latina in Argentina."  Which bears the question:  How horny do you have to be to go all the to ARGENTINA for a booty call??

As the plot of this love affair thickens and unfolds the media is blasting the Governor for being a hypocritical cheater who voted to impeach President Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky affair.  Was it right that he lied about his where about's, cheated on his wife, and used tax payer dollars to go on a booty call to Argentina?  Absolutely not.  But when I read the email letters between the Governor and his mistress my cold stone heart melted a little (just a little bit).  What I see is a man who has genuinely fallen a love with a woman and cannot bear to away from her (we just got a little weak in the knees, ugh).  Let's face it, people fall in and out of love all the time.  Marriage is a wonderful thing but reality is that not all of them work out.  What's the point of up holding marital values when the core fundamentals that hold up a marriage such as love, passion and trust are no longer alive?  Should we fault him for being a man who.... fell in love?  You judge for yourself.  

The State newspaper in South Carolina obtained emails between Sanford and Maria last December and is only publishing them now, removing her last name and the names of her children. They are below:

From Gov. Sanford,
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008, 12:24 a.m.

“One, tomorrow leave at 5 a.m. for New York and meetings. Will think about you on its streets and wish I was going to be there later in the month when you are there. Tomorrow night back to Philadelphia for the start of the National Governor’s Conference through the weekend. Back to Columbia for Tuesday and then on Wednesday, as I think I had told you, taking the family to China, Tibet, Nepal, India, Thailand and then back through Hong Kong on world wind tour. Few days home then to Bahamas for 5 days on a friend’s boat for the last break of the summer. The following weekend have been asked to spend it out in Aspen, Colorado with McCain - which has kicked up the whole VP talk all over again in the press back home …

Two, mutual feelings …. You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that so fitting with your beauty. I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night’s light - but hey, that would be going into sexual details …

Three and finally, while all the things above are all too true - at the same time we are in a hopelessly - or as you put it impossible - or how about combine and simply say hopelessly impossible situation of love. How in the world this lightening strike snuck up on us I am still not quite sure. As I have said to you before I certainly had a special feeling about you from the first time we met, but these feelings were contained and I genuinely enjoyed our special friendship and the comparing of all too many personal notes …

Lastly I also suspect I feel a little vulnerable because this is ground I have never certainly never covered before - so if you have pearls of wisdom on how we figure all this out please let me know… In the meantime please sleep soundly knowing that despite the best efforts of my head my heart cries out for you, your voice, your body, the touch of your lips, the touch of your finger tips and an even deeper connection to your soul.”

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From Maria,
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 8:14 p.m.

“As I told you I shouldn’t have done this trip but I would have felt worst if I wouldn’t have come because it was too over the date, he is a very nice guy, great heart … but unfortunately I am not in love with him … You are my love … something hard to believe even for myself as it’s also a kind of impossible love, not only because of distance but situation. Sometimes you don’t choose things, they just happen… I can’t redirect my feelings and I am very happy with mine towards you.”

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From Gov. Sanford,
Tuesday, July 8, 1:42 a.m.

“Got back an hour ago to civilization and am now in Columbia after what was for me a glorious break from reality down at the farm. No phones ringing and tangible evidence of a day’s labors. Though I have started every day by 6 this morning woke at 4:30, I guess since my body knew it was the last day, and I went out and ran the excavator with lights until the sun came up. To me, and I suspect no one else on earth, there is something wonderful about listening to country music playing in the cab, air conditioner running, the hum of a huge diesel engine in the back ground, the tranquillity that comes with being in a virtual wilderness of trees and marsh, the day breaking and vibrant pink coming alive in the morning clouds - and getting to build something with each scoop of dirt.”

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