June 28, 2009
By MAUREEN DOWD, The New York Times
WASHINGTON
As in all great affairs, Mark Sanford fell in love simultaneously with a woman and himself — with the dashing new version of himself he saw in her molten eyes.
In a weepy, gothic unraveling, the South Carolina governor gave a press conference illustrating how smitten he was, not only with his Argentine amante, but with his own tenderness, his own pathos and his own feminine side.
Read more Dowd!
And again, big thanks to my friend Paul P in Toronto, for alerting me to this scathingly apt and funny piece.
