Mark Sanford’s transgression is bad news all around — his wife, his children, his staffers, the people of South Carolina all being hurt by his philandering and his lying.
OK; maybe it’s not bad news all around.
Democrats, of course, benefit. And so do writers and reporters who love the use of euphemism.
I can see it now: another press conference where a politician is suspected of “straying,” as The New Mexican headline so gently put it.
“Sir, there are rumors to the effect that … well, I mean, we’ve heard that you … let me put it this way, Governor (or Senator or Congressman or President): Have you been, um, hiking the Appalachian Trail?”
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