Maureen Dowd's Advice To Jenny Sanford: "Change The Locks"

The New York Times:

Stay focused, ladies. Here is The Practical Guide to Help Spurned Political Wives Survive Old Problems in the Era of New Technology.

1. Skip the press conference, especially when your husband is copping to call girls, gay pickups in airport bathrooms or "tragic" and "forbidden" telenovela-style love stories. Stoicism at the skunk's side is overrated and, as Larry Craig's wife learned, sunglasses don't help.

2. When there's an Associated Press bulletin quoting your husband saying that he has found his soul mate but he's going to try to fall back in love with you, change the locks. (At your second home, too.)

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[Just2stressed]

1. Cheated on her
2. Took off on father's day and not spend the day with their kids
3. There were other women (even if he did not 'crossed the line')
4. He wanted her to meet is lover (what did he want, a threesome?)
5. He says his mistress is his soulmate
6. His affair is a 'true love story'
7. You guys can fill in the others....­.

In light of all that, why would Jenny stay with him? Like I said, I would be SHOCKED if she doesn't divorce him.

I would be SHOCKED if his wife doesn't divorce him after all these revelations. I have great respect for her for having not stood beside him when he confessed. She'd have lost all that if she stays with him. He's disrespected her a GREAT deal. They seem to have had a pretty weird marriage.

[tlgeiger62]

Great piece Ms. Dowd!

Sanford, in my humble opinion, is in the midst of some kind of mental breakdown. I believe Maria didn't want him after he'd decided he wanted to "pay the price" and I think he is trying to communicate with Maria through these press conferences in an effort for her to change her mind. Ultimately I think he'll be forced to resign.

Right now I think he's on a ledge; hopefully, if there is still someone willing to stand by him, they'll be able to keep a close eye on him once he does resign and is left with the ruins of his life.

[justoverit333]

Great advice Ms. Dowd. I seriously doubt at this time
that Sanford's wife would even want him back. He
has turned this into a three ring circus. Way too
much information. He's making a complete fool
of himself. If he keeps this up, Maria won't even
want him back.

[brooklyncitizen]

This was pretty funny. Especially no. 3- if Jenny enlists Al Sharpton no doubt Sanford will resign.Men that want it both ways are perpetual adolescents, kick him to the curb already. Even South Carolina doesn't deserve Mark Sanford.

[ofcoursejesusisblack]

I will be the first to join Al in the picket line against that cad Sanford.

[CanisLatrans]

I always wondered about these women that stayed/stood by their husbands when this went down. Although in the case of Larry Craig's wife, it has been long suspected here in Idaho that she is a willing participant in his charade of 'family values' normalcy. She provides him a beard; in return she gets to live a priviledged position.

So I'd say, ladies, change th elocks... and don't be afraid to hire a pool boy, too, if that strikes your fancy. Sauce for the goose, after all.

[escribacat]

Excellent advice. Time for some divorce papers. Free him up to pursue his "soul mate" without the baggage of his wife and four children.

[AZterritory]

And the baggage of all of her money, he just doesn't need that with Maria fulfilling all his needs, right?

[OutWest08]

Another question would be? How did she looked like before the affair?

I think she is a sexy lady before and after.

[GayGrandpa]

LISTEN UP LADIES!

First, I want to thank you to MAUREEN DOWD, thank you.

I am so pleased someone and I am glad it is a woman that is telling women to MAN-UP! MAN-UP, LADIES! Yeah that's right, don't put up with it anymore! I have been horrified seeing what some women will do and have done. I started telling my daughter long before her teen years NOT to put up with fertilizer from anyone, especially a man's fertilizer! No way, no how!

THE REASON WHY MEN DO WHAT THEY DO TO WOMEN IS because nine times out of ten or more they can get away with it. Women ruin other men for other women...as they pass one cheater unto another. It is horrifying. Where's is the wisdom or solidarity in that? Don't do it ladies, don't do it!

MAN-UP! MAN-UP, LADIES!

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

WOMAN-UP.

[GayGrandpa]

Thank you, I stand corrected.

[mydwyf]

Actually, both men and women need to HUMAN-UP.

[jlab]

I'm honestly starting to believe that he thinks he's some kind of hero. Like he's telling himself he's not one of those sleazy Spitzer-types. It's a LOVE story, he said, a forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story! What a sad man and what a ton of work for everybody responsible for those four little boys.

[NotStarvingArtist]

I also think he's getting pleasure from the media attention. Look at me, he's saying, I got this hot Latino chick on the side. It is fake remorse. He doesn't regret a minute of it.

[Flahdagal]

Exactly. And it would maybe be a sweet story, maybe, if he didn't have a family and wasn't governor; two things that imply serious responsibilities that he sought and accepted. As it is, he's no hero, he's just, as you say: more work than he's worth.

[expired]

Yes, what is up with these political wives standing beside the husband who done em' wrong. Bump that, you are on your own buddy. It is so fake and contrived how they are told that they must stand by their man for the sake of the party. Give me a free kin break.

[HowietheScreamer]

Repubican wives are Stepford wives. They do whatever "master" says.

[eleanorhawking]

Is that why Hill stayed with Bill?

[eleanorhawking]

No. Do not change your hair just because of this t u rd, or his unibrowed mistress. I applaud you for not standing by him at the press conference. Do what is best for your kids, but make the ba s t ard suffer!

[JohnFromCensornati]

How much public humiliation is she going to endure?
What's the upside for her in staying with him?

[DinahMoeHum]

Especially as SHE is the one with the big money, not him.
She's no Southern belle; she's an Irish Catholic from Chicagoland (The "Gold Coast", ie. Winnetka). And an heiress at that. Add to that a Georgetown U education and a career at the Wall Street firm Lazard Freres where she ended up as a VP/Mergers & Acquisitions, and really? how much does she really need him?.
Jenny, do the right thing: DUMP THAT CHUMP.

[pam45]

Non really!