South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford isn't a man's man, nor is he a ladies' man. He's a very strange man, to be sure. But basically he's a selfish man.

Everyone now knows that Sanford betrayed his wife and kids by conducting an affair with an Argentinean woman whose "tan lines" -- according to an email he sent her -- proved irresistible. Leaping over damage control into hero-worship, Sanford's friend Cubby...