Gov. Mark Sanford: Future romance novelist?
By Joe McAdory
Published: June 24, 2009
Below is an excerpt taken from an email sent from South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford to the woman in Argentina he admitted Wednesday to having an affair with:
“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 ...
... 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.“
What kind of garbage is this? Dudes don’t write that stuff. This man needs to eat a steak or something and rediscover his masculinity. Maybe watch an episode of Road House or buy a Harley. Sanford shouldn’t be a politician. It’s obvious he’s found his true calling as either a Harlequin novelist or the kind of poet that makes guys like me want to puke.
