Spare me the tears, OK? If you want me to respect the privacy of your stupidity, don’t expect my sympathy. And whatever you do, I don’t want to hear about your agony.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s admission that he spent the last five days crying in Argentina provided us with one of those moments to wonder how it is that people can get so far with so little judgment. I know the old explanation that men don’t always think with their brain, but as always, it is the part that isn’t about sex that is so mystifying.

Is Sanford the only long-married politician out there ...

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