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Opinion: Why Newt Gingrich's Adultery Matters
By Mark Grabowski - AOL NewsPeople's sex lives are a private matter, right? Not when it involves politicians. During a talk last week at the University of Pennsylvania, Newt Gingrich took umbrage when a student brought up his adultery. "If the primary concern of the American people is my past, my candidacy would be irrelevant. If the primary concern of the American people is the future... that's a debate I'll be happy to have," he said. He joins a long list of politicians who claim extramarital affairs have no bearing on their ability to govern. Unfortunately, many voters seem to agree with Gingrich. A June 2009 Gallup ...
Mark Sanford and Maria Belen Chapur: Happily Ever After?
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailySoul mates are hard to find. But former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has likely found his, and no thanks to popular websites like Match.com and eHarmony. Sanford, who left office on Jan. 12 when Nikki Haley was sworn in, was spotted last week at a glitzy resort in Uruguay with Maria Belen Chapur, a former Argentine journalist he calls his soul mate. The couple fascinates the Argentine press. The Argentine celebrity magazine "Caras" published an eight-page spread on them. One picture shows Sanford in a blue polo shirt, khaki shorts, baseball cap and sunglasses holding hands with Chapur ...
Ex-SC Gov. Mark Sanford, Argentine Lover Hit Uruguay Resort
By not in system - AOL NewsBUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- A week after divorced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford left office, he and his Argentine lover he called his "soul mate" were spotted frolicking on the beach in the same resort where their romance began. The Argentine celebrity magazine "Caras," or Faces, published an eight-page spread on Sanford's romantic encounter last week with Maria Belen Chapur, at Punta del Este, Uruguay, a gathering spot for the rich and famous, celebrities and wanna-bes. Paparazzi photos taken from a distance clearly show the couple enjoying themselves - walking hand-in-hand, digging out a ...
Mark Sanford's Final South Carolina Road Trip as Governor
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailySUMTER, S.C. -- Working the room like he was running for office instead of leaving it, Mark Sanford stopped by Sumter Cut Rate Drugs and Soda Fountain for an hour on Friday. It was one of the last stops on his final road trip as South Carolina governor; this time he let the people of the state know exactly where he was going. Among a mostly friendly group of about two dozen, who asked for autographs and posed with him for pictures, Sanford, 50, seemed relaxed and ready to relinquish the governor's office to his one-time protégé, Nikki Haley. He shed his casual jacket, shook every hand and ...
The Top Five Scandal, Divorce or Remorse Stories, From Abramoff to Sanford
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyPrison. Scandal. Adultery. Delusion. Death. Divorce. Remorse. And always, reinvention. It's been quite the year for denizens of the Republic of Dish, including a quintet of individuals or couples seemingly poised for next acts in 2011. Washington uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff is writing a book about influence peddling, a subject he knows intimately. He left prison in June after serving 42 months for corruption and fraud, did another six months of work-release at a Kosher pizzeria in Baltimore, and is now on probation. Abramoff, who lives outside Washington, is not using a ghostwriter, a ...
Amen, Sister: Joycelyn Elders' Call for More Sexual Frankness
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyOne lesson I've learned: When people feel repressed -- when they feel sex is shameful -- an underworld of sexual activity bubbles below the surface of society. I discovered that reality when I wrote "Sex in the South: Unbuckling the Bible Belt" a few years ago. The South has always been a region of moral conservatism and Bible thumping, with churches on every corner to remind people of their shame and sin. I was reminded of that truth when I read a recent sex survey of 5,865 men and women aged 14 to 94 that has gotten a lot of press attention. The survey, the largest nationally ...
Wronged Wife of Chilean Miner Out-Classes Jenny Sanford
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyMarta Salinas, the Chilean miner's wife who stayed home to watch her husband Yonni Barrios' miraculous rescue on TV (so he could greet his mistress), out-classed Jenny Sanford in the cheated-on-wife category. Senora Salinas' husband was the 21st in the line of men who one by one came up a straw tube Wednesday to a very different world than the one they tunneled away from last August. Television crews, book agents, long lost family members and a watching world were there to greet them. Their extraordinary grace after spending more than two months trapped half a mile underground (the first 17 ...
Gov. Tim Pawlenty Gets an 'A' Grade From the Cato Institute
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe libertarian Cato Institute is out with its report card today, and it could provide a major boost for the presidential prospects of Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who earned an A. According to its website, Cato is "dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace." Just four governors received an "A" on Cato's report card: Pawlenty, Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), Bobby Jindal (R-La.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). The report goes on to note that, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota has proposed pro-growth reforms, opposed tax increases, and been a relatively frugal ...
SC State Senate Majority Leader Glenn McConnell's Confederate Obsession
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 15) -- It comes as no surprise to South Carolina natives that state Senate Majority Leader Glenn McConnell likes to play dress-up. On Tuesday, Will Folks, former spokesman for Gov. Mark Sanford and self-described cuckolder of GOP gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley's husband, posted pictures to his political website of McConnell attending a party dressed as a Confederate general. In the pictures, he's surrounded by various African-Americans dressed as slaves. This was not some secret party. It was last weekend's annual board of directors meeting of the National Federation of ...
Sex Scandals Hit Fictional Senate Wives: What Would Hillary, Jenny and Silda Do?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyHaven't you always wondered what's going through the minds of wronged political wives as they stand beside their disgraced men at humiliating news conferences? In Jennifer Weiner's new novel, "Fly Away Home," Sylvie Serfer Woodruff does Kegel exercises onstage to tighten her pelvic muscles in preparation for the single life, and thinks resentful thoughts about her husband's statement that his mistake was personal, not political. "Was this a triumph because he hadn't raped anyone, because he hadn't given some foolish answer about hiking, because no money had changed hands and there wasn't a ...
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