Who really gives a flying crap whether the idiot is a Democrat or Republican? It’s another man who has somehow talked himself in serving only himself and the hell with his wife and kids, much less his public office. I think the dialogue has to be about how we as a society have allowed males to see themselves so separate from their families. I believe we have allowed them to live rather narrow lives while wives must multitask. Men get to avoid the messes of raising a family and developing a family social life. They don’t know their kids’ dental appointments or shoe sizes.  These distances from the real lives of their kids allow these men to also distance their responsibility for the emotional lives of their children. Thus it’s not hard to compartmentalize extracurricular sexual relationships, as they do everything else in their lives. How does one take 5 days off including father’s day to see a mistress?   However given the outspoken hypocrisy of Republicans in matters of family values and gay marriage, I think it proper to observe that perhaps Sanford has found, perhaps like other of his fellow Republicans, that living the hypocritical lie is getting more and more difficult. They are finding that their self-righteous public spin on phony family values DOES indeed have a shelf-life and going rogue may be the only way out of the corner in which they have painted themselves. As a society we are so phony on so many levels, the burden is getting unbearable. Not unlike our economy, phony family values hawked by politicians are coming home to roost. I also believe when we see men like President Obama and even a celebrity like Brad Pitt who are observed to be intimately involved in their children’s lives, you recognize how men who are so engaged, step out of the fake man bubble and accept responsibility for the emotional health of their children. This engagement makes extra curricular romantic activities very difficult. I know there are those who will scream Pitt had an extracurricular relationship while married. I don’t agree. And, I think if you track the celebrity magazines on that breakup, one sees Mr. Pitt told his mate, he had this interest, and they went away to work on their and it didn’t take. They had no children.  And we all must remember not every marriage is made in heaven and should last no matter how the public may perceive it. But that’s where honorable behavior must be the goal. Lastly, women who begin to date married men are not let off the hook. The women who become involved with married men deserve to be named too. If the two want to be together, then do the honorable thing. He steps out of his marriage honorably. Then they pursue a life together. There are no winners in these tragedies.