When South Carolina's Governor Mark Sanford disappeared for nearly a week, staff members hastily explained his absence by claiming that the overworked politician was taking a "hiking" excursion on the Appalachian Trail.
Well, unless there has been a huge global warming trend that has caused the Appalachian Trail to drop down into Argentina, it seems that the governor misled his staff members, as well as the citizens of his state.
After being spotted at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, after getting off a plane from Argentina, Sanford held a news conference when he arrived back in SC. He then confessed that he had spent the five missing days with a "dear, dear friend" down Argentine way- yep, a female!- and that he had, in fact, been having an affair with the mystery woman for over a year, meeting her a total of 3 times.
His wife Jenny was not present at the news conference to "stand by her man", having tossed his rear out of their home a few weeks earlier, evidently aware of her hubby's shenanigans.
Now, some of Sanford's constituents and fellow GOP members want to toss him out as governor, as well.
Given the fact that, while a congressman, Sanford criticized then President Bill Clinton's moral improprieties and voted for his impeachment, it seems only fair that he, himself, should be judged by the same criteria.
Charles Out of Charge 
