The Art Of The Love Letter: What We Could Learn From Sanford

politico.com:

In today's Twitter- and text-obsessed world, passionate letters even long e-mails are rare. Washington hasn't had a good love letter since the release of some of the 1,300 letters between President Harry Truman's and his wife Bess during their nearly 60-year romance, and the more recent private-turned-public expressions of amour have been significantly less emotional. Consider the phone conversations between President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, or Rep. Mark Foley's salacious instant messages sent to a young congressional page.

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Comments

[BlackYowe]

I will give him that he writes a nice love letter. Beyond that he is a cad!

[TruthmongerII]

To a Rethuglican I imagine rape is considered foreplay, therefore Mark's quite the Casanova. When's this guy appearing as centerfold for Playgirl?

[jazabelz]

So we should learn how to write love-letters to our mistresses? Perhaps to his wife, but not his girlfriend!

[Mercedes Beene]

"A cheap airport novel..." LMAO!!!

[naschkatze]

Whoever wrote this doesn't know what good writing is. His love e-mails stink.

[Mike Barden]

2 all beef patties with Special Sauce

bet his sperm was in great shape.

[Roxanna]

We are human and humans fall prey to seeds of "self-destruction"

Hopefully learning from that destruction who you really are.

It is not the end of the world ,but, perhaps in this case the end of a certain career.

[macohmz]

I thought he was talking to a lobbyist.

[naschkatze]

LOL

[AndSoItGoes]

Resign .... you sorry excuse for a public servant.

[brooklyncitizen]

That scripture from Corintihians sure turns women on!

[learntofly]

To have that many mistresses, you got to have money, power and/or the ability to persuade. Since Jenny has the money in the family, Sanford must have gotten the women by a keen ability to lie about himself verbally & in written form. He's a cockroach.

[jazabelz]

I think you owe cockroaches an apology!

[ObamAtomic]

Napoleon to Josephina.

[Gladys1963]

Could learn how to spell?

[MED1025]

How about spellcheck?

[cindyw]

I'm no fan of Ronald Reagan, but politics aside, his letters to Nancy were very romantic.

[jazabelz]

Yep -- don't forget this was his second marriage and he basically deserted his daughter from his marriage to Jane Wyman!!!!!! Great example!

[BlackYowe]

He probably hired a screen writer!

[johnnygoodwud]

how on earth does his wife ever trust him again? how does she take someone back, who's made it crystal clear he would rather be with someone else. sorry, but i don't see them reconciling.

[Weirdwriter]

Hmmmm. What else could we learn? Oh, yes.

1) Post marriage, never write love letters to anyone but your spouse via email unless you'd like to see 'em published by a jealous third party.

2) Never leave your job suddenly to visit your mistress without designating your stand-in, have a better excuse than a wish to commune with Ma Nature, use your own car, and don't to sneak back into the country through a backdoor airport.

3) Don't marry a strong-minded woman with her own career and fortune if you have any wish to get some on the side and still keep her,let alone your reputation.

[VOTER]

BINGO!