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Ego obviously is a terrible thing to waste. If that were not the case, then South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford would have had the good sense to have resigned before the 4th of July, rather than after. Instead Gov. Sanford is a poster boy for how not to be an elected official. He is experiencing such a serious form of “cognitive dissonance” - that is, entertaining conflicting thoughts - that he’s convinced himself that he is an Old Testament “David” who can be bad and good at the same time. In case he still doesn’t get it, let me say it: the governor is not fit to represent the good people of South Carolina.

Anyone who leaves his four sons on Father’s Day to travel to Argentina to be in the arms of the mother of someone else’s sons has a serious mental health problem. In fact, the more the Governor of South Carolina talks, the more he reveals just how mentally sick, he really is. Psychotic behavior has such symptoms as - making poor judgments, not seeing the consequences of behavior, having a sense of reality that differs from others. Pity his poor sons who have to listen to their “role model” say his soul mate is not the mother of his children or that he is “trying” to “fall in love again” with the woman who bore his children. What about his “boys” and the women who will eventually marry them?

Some might call it a mid-life crisis BUT like PMS that women experience… it’s clear what the governor is experiencing is temporary insanity. In fact, since the “randy” governor’s actions were premediated - he planned his frequent romantic ventures; purchased airline tickets in advanced; lied to his wife and kids more than once and even on Father’s day; and showed no sign of having a conscious when he lied to his staff and state… we should call his crisis what it really is: a mental illness.

Gov. Sanford needs psychological help for his addiction, not the enabling his friends and colleagues are providing. He blew it and his ego prevents him from admitting that he is powerless over his disease. The question isn’t whether he should resign, but when. His moral compass is so bent out of shape that other elected officials and the public should help him to help himself quickly before he totally self-destructs. He doesn’t want reconcilation; Gov. Sanford wants his soul mate. He’s already abandoned his family and supporters.

Like most men who have a mistress… it is ironic how much the other woman looks like the wife being betrayed. It is tragic that there isn’t an adult between the Governor and the other woman - Maria Belen Chapur; they’ve both lost their mind. It takes two in a relationship and I am constantly amazed the extent to which some women are willing to betray their sisters by knowingly sleeping with another woman’s husband. Watching Maria and Mark lose their minds is a cogent reminder that being bipolar

isn’t the only

mental illness that affects normal looking people.

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