He got into trouble as a man and tried to get out as a woman.

[MzNov]

:rofl:

This is the best MoDo little piece of writing I've ever read.

Maureen Dowd at her finest!

Take it away Maureen:

* * * * * * * *

"As in all great affairs, Mark Sanford fell in love simultaneously with a woman and himself — with the dashing new version of himself he saw in her molten eyes.

In a weepy, gothic unraveling, the South Carolina governor gave a press conference illustrating how smitten he was, not only with his Argentine amante, but with his own tenderness, his own pathos and his own feminine side.

He got into trouble as a man and tried to get out as a woman.

He wanted to get his girlfriend a DVD of the movie “The Holiday,” presumably the Cameron Diaz-Kate Winslet chick flick about two women, one from L.A. and one from England, who trade homes and lives. He was fantasizing about catapulting himself into an exotic life where stimulus had nothing to do with budgets.

With Maria, he was no longer the penny-pinching millionaire Mark, who used to sleep on a futon in his Congressional office and once treated two congressmen to movie refreshments by bringing back a Coke and three straws.

No, he was someone altogether more fascinating: Marco, international man of mystery and suave god of sex and tango. . . "



continue....

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/opinion/28dowd.html?_r=2

[Webster Green]

1. Excellent!

MoDo is right on the target here. :rofl:

[MzNov]

3. she absolutely nails his personality

doesn't she?

:-)

[tj2001]

2. A keeper!

[depakid]

4. Occasionally a story comes along that's perfectly suited for MoDo

[dalaigh lllama]

5. Marco -- that sly, sly dog

:rofl:

[Turbineguy]

6. "...suave god of sex and tango..."

Austin Powers would be jealous.

[MzNov]

7. I have so much difficulty imagining a weasel dancing...

esp. a tango

:rofl:




add word

[lindisfarne]

8. I was pretty surprised by the sexist comment: "get out as a woman". Does Dowd have no more

important things to write about? I read it because of who wrote it, but was very disappointed by Dowd. She could have made the point in a few sentences - that Sanford is a hypocrite in so many ways, and used the remaining column to discuss something of infinitely higher importance.

[Demeter]

9. Maureen Can't Handle Importance

because nothing is more important than Maureen.

[Jade Fox]

10. Dowd really nails Stanford's hypocrisy here.....

and how compromised are the morally superior when they can blame their own behavior on amour.

[bertman]

11. For once, I give MoDo a pass based on her nailing this one! A perfect 10.

Recommend.

[Gregorian]

12. Ah, 21st century schizoid Republican man.

As I read this, I began thinking about the governor of Texas, and Blogoyovich, and Palin, not to mention I'll Be Back. It's a brilliant piece that dissects the conservative hypocrite. But it also saddens me to think that our states are beginning to look like towns.

[immoderate]

13. Hilarious! Reminds of when...

Steven Urkel would morph into his suave alter ego, Stephan Urkell.