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Let\u2019s call 2013 the Year of the Comeback Goofballs.<\/p>\n

The main player certainly has to be former Republican Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, who\u2019s now running for a congressional seat after leaving his prior office in disgrace. You remember ol\u2019 Mark: He vanished on Mother\u2019s Day 2009 and put the word out he was hiking on the Appalachian Trail when, in fact, he was messing around many thousands of miles away in Argentina with a woman \u2013 who wasn\u2019t his wife.<\/p>\n

Shame on you, governor.<\/p>\n

Now, though, comes someone from the other party, former Democratic U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York, who\u2019s beginning to make noises about running for something in the Empire State, possibly mayor of New York City. Weiner\u2019s escapade might be even more bizarre than Sanford\u2019s, although Sanford committed a pretty egregious transgression by duping the public the way he did about his whereabouts.<\/p>\n

Weiner got caught sending sexually provocative tweets and pictures of himself through cyberspace to women. He denied it at first, telling a curious public that the pictures weren\u2019t of his<\/em> body. But then the lying couldn\u2019t continue. The pressure mounted. The curiosity intensified. Finally, Weiner \u2013 according to an interview to be published this Sunday in the New York Times \u2013 fessed up to his wife. Yep, honey, it was me all along, he said \u2013 or something like it. Weiner quit his U.S. House seat\u00a0 and disappeared from public view until just recently.<\/p>\n

Both of these goofballs have something in common. The women they betrayed are paragons of strength and dignity.<\/p>\n

Jenny Sanford divorced Mark and came out of that scandal looking like the far better person than her husband. She\u2019s conducted herself with dignity and class. Her former husband, on the other hand, did something that borders on the ridiculous the night he won the GOP primary runoff for the congressional seat he\u2019s trying to claim: He thanked the very woman with whom he was having an affair at the time of his scandal, reminding South Carolinians of precisely why so many of them consider him to be such a slug.<\/p>\n

Huma Abedin is still married to Weiner. Abedin has conducted herself with equal amounts of dignity since her husband decided to show off his body to other women. Abedin worked as a trusted aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. And let\u2019s not forget that Weiner was sharing lurid pictures of himself with his Twitter mistresses while his lovely wife was pregnant with their child, a son who was born in December 2011.<\/p>\n

Now both of these clowns \u2013 Mark Sanford and Anthony Weiner \u2013 want to get back into the political arena. Call me old-fashioned, but I am one of those who expects elected public officials to be free of the kind of humiliation that will dog these two guys for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n\n

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Let\u2019s call 2013 the Year of the Comeback Goofballs. The main player certainly has to be former Republican Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, who\u2019s now running for a congressional seat after leaving his prior office in disgrace. You remember ol\u2019 Mark: He vanished on Mother\u2019s Day 2009 and put the word out he was … Continue reading Another improbable comeback in the works<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}