I liked what Daily Beast's Tina Brown had to say about ex-Mrs. Governor Mark Sanford had to say on NPR this morning.
"I have to say I'm getting increasingly impatient with The Wronged Wives Club," Brown says. "The men they're married to are utter snakes and worms, but these women — they do buy into this stuff, and then they are so humorless about it at the end. Jenny Sanford's book is such a pious document. At some point, I really wish one of these women would begin their book and say, 'I am writing this book out of sweet revenge; my husband was a total worm, and this is payback time.' It would be a little more honest."
Instead, Brown complains, political spouses often retreat to platitudes: 'You know, 'I'm doing this for the children,' " or some such. "It is all nonsense. It is about one of two things: money or revenge. Very often both."
Doing this for the children! Sure, lady! I'd say that most times, when people bring their children into a political discussion ("Ah don't care ta see mah chil'ren and grandchil'ren pay fer Barack Hussein Obama's deficits"), they're really trying to paper over their own, serial bad judgments.
