Former SC Gov. Mark Sanford Gives Hannity Viewers Tips To ‘Fireproof’ Their Marriage

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by Frances Martel | 2:46 pm, August 6th, 2011

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Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who has mostly evaded the spotlight since a scandalous affair that found him flying to South America while his staff thought he was in Appalachia, gingerly tiptoed back into the spotlight in an extended interview with Sean Hannity last night. Sanford, clearly remorseful, put the blame of his failed marriage squarely on himself, ruled out any return to politics, and gave viewers advice on how to avoid temptation.

Despite it being, for the most part, a personal interview, Hannity didn’t let Sanford get away with easy answers to his questions, most of why revolved around the why of throwing away a perfectly good political career for an extramarital affair. For Sanford, the scandal was about “the reality of our own humanity,” and he said he didn’t think it “particularly constructive to look at the might-have-beens of life,” so having as high as presidential aspirations behind him wasn’t so much a problem. The biggest lesson he learned, he told Hannity, was not to point and laugh at the disgraced politicians in the paper: “I now say ‘there but for the grace of God go I.’”

Sanford clarified that he had no political aspirations whatsoever because the experience taught him that politics wasn’t his calling. “As important as that was, that wasn’t my calling in life,” he noted, “my calling in life is to seek God’s kingdom… to love God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself.” This formed most of the advice he gave, noting that “I got my priorities wrong” by putting work over family. He refused to get into too much detail, though also, to some extent, defended his affair, arguing that he did not have a “mistress”– “the word mistress connotates a financial level of support of which there was none” and chalking up the failure to falling “in love with somebody I shouldn’t have,” who he had known for a decade before. Perhaps his most profound bit of advice he could give from his experience? “You haven’t lived until you’ve failed.”

The interview via Fox News below:

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Tedderman

And we’d take advice from you…..why Mr Sanford?
Harry Flashman

Meh.

Like it or not, that quest is eternal. Men have chased it, throwing away everything for it. Some have succeeded greatly because of it – and some have failed in a mighty way.

I have no sympathy for the man for impaling himself on his own folly, but I truly do understand that if there is one thing that will make an otherwise rational man make truly bad decisions – it is a woman.

Been there, done that. And so have a lot of you.
insideguy

Ahh the guy made some mistakes and paid for them. Just like men on the left have. We should leave them all alone.
NotATeabagger.

Typical conservative hypocrites. Do as I say, not as I do.
The Real Royal Emperor

By the grace of God, I have not succumb, but I have been sorely tempted.
The Real Royal Emperor

You mean the way Republicans have left Senator Vitter alone despite his shameful, disgusting depravity?
Anonymous

Robert still waiting for Mr. Right .

Don’t tell BFD.
Anonymous

Talking points from a Weiner apologist .
Anonymous

Talking points from a Weiner apologist .
The Real Royal Emperor

Actually, Liar, I called for Weiner to resign, almost immediately, and I called and wrote his office thrice to demand his resignation.

What exactly have you done to rid our nation of the Pervert Vitter? Please be very specific.
Anonymous

I’m no angel, and most us of would do well to remember only the angels are.
Nature Freak

If I was Mark Sanford I would have learned Spanish and made Buenos Aires my permanent home with María Belén Chapur.
He might as well start afresh somewhere else.
Buenos Aires must beat living in Columbia, South Carolina.

Or he could for real hike the entire Appalachian trail (to late for this year). How about that for a publicity gimmick! I don’t know if it would work.
qwerty

don’t expect a reply from bigeddie on vitter
conservatives are hypocrites
insideguy

no I just mean guy made a mistake, vitter should go as well but we as a people spend to much time on this stupid shit. Men do what men do get in trouble lose their jobs. But its such small potatoes when we have real problems.
Anonymous

Robert is lying , as usual . He said just don’t talk about Weiner anymore .

But since he was a 12 year old VietnamVet , believe this dink at your own peril .
http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

Wait a MINUTE!

No one gave Hannity any kudos for going after the questions of his infidelity. He not only did it once but he did it TWICE!

Now, if this would of been Weiner and Weiner would have been being interviewed on say CNN or LSDNC they would have not even…………well we all saw that didn’t we?

So much for Fox and Hannity not going after their conservative guests.

Oh well, another leftist lie proven to be a lie.

As for the interview, he was spot on, on the economic discussion. Would not want to talk about that now would we leftists?
Anonymous

Good point(s)

Still, judging from the reaction this room received, some 16 comments, nobody cares about the Governor.

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity lasts forever.” Napoleon

HLO (haughty laugh out loud)
Frod

Yes, let’s give kudos to the worst journalist in the history of televised media for barely doing his job for once.
http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

Worst journalist? By the way, he is an opinion hawker. He went after his interviewee, did he not?

Worst journalist, one pops to mind from just recent interviews making Hannity look great, you know that whole interview about the economy and the interviewee asking if the Congressman had an Economic’s Degree and all. Wouldn’t want to mention her name…cough..brewer..cough.
Anonymous

Maybe it’s because there is no hint that Wiener actually cheated on his wife just that he participated in some immature behavior.

My rule is no one over 25 should be allowed to sext.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bonnie-McGuinness/100002588403595 Bonnie McGuinness

What was the point of the interview anyway? So Hannity could exercise his nature of forgiving the scandal ridden politicians and show what a nice guy he is? Please, the little frog surrounds himself with his bevy of fox chicks and they make over him like he is a rock star. Bet his wife loves those little encounters. Sanford needs to go away, work on his family and hopefully his ex-wife and children and stop doing interviews. His take the blame attitude is wasted on me.
http://twitter.com/cek100248 charles kirtley

The best way to fireproof your marriage, Mark, is to weld your zipper shut. But don’t worry, you have a bright future in the Democrat party or as a commentator on CNN.
Irish189

Seriously who cares?

He’s not in politics anymore, therefore is between him and his family, everyone else’s opinion should count for jack
charlie Mcadams

that was a very interesting the statement of his religion. Statistics show that Christians marriages, especially evangelical fundamentalist marriages, fail as often as others. The most successful marriages are atheist marriages. Maybe there is too much pressure on the religious to be perfectly right.