Classic narcissistic smug born-again Christian bullshit. " I'm worthy of being forgiven -- you however, are a worthless Heathen bound for hell. "

'Cuz yer not King David, Bozo.

I surprised he didn't try:

George W. Bush went AWOL
I went AWOL
George W. Bush became President
I will be Pres.. (Bolt of lightnight stike)

I waiting for him to move on to a comparison to King Solomon and sign up for the FLDS and move to Colorado City. This guy is insufferably arrogant.

What a douchebag. Did it ever occur to Sanford that David could whack anybody who disagreed with him? State governors, not so much.

Well if he's going Old Testament on us, how about this one:

Leviticus 20:10 (King James Version)

10. And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Your superstition does not trump my constitution.

Let's hope Sanford's mistress isn't pregnant. God killed the child David & Bathsheba's conceived. He wasn't merciful about it either.

I think that men of action have too much testosterone which has to be released one way or the other.
For thousands of years the men of action have had several mistresses and nobody demanded them to disappear from the public scene.
This American hunting for anybody who possibility had a mistress has gone too far and too many wise and smart public servants have had to resign.
We should stop this madness by not purchasing and reading tabloids. And support those public servants we feel are doing the right thing.
They do have the right to their privacy. This we should give them.

David wasn't forced out of office - but Saul was.

And G-d specifically said that murdering Uriah the Hittite (i.e. abandoning the state executive for a week) was the reason David was not allowed to build the temple during his lifetime.

You expect this "the patriarchs had lots of concubines and so can I" stuff from Mitt Romney (R-Kolob) not Sanford.

The more I see of this G-d's Own Party (GOP) the more I believe that the central tenet of modern american christianity is not WWJD but DAISNAID (do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do)

The possibilities of openly biblical based politics are fun!

Will Sanford (R-Judea)consult the witch of Endor to see if he should chop a baby in half?

Will Sanford claim to be Phinehas and run people through with a spear in mid-coitus?

Even more evidence for the diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder: Now Sanford thinks he is King David.

Is he taking notes from the Peter Hoekstra meme? These Republicans are seriously mental...

I kind of glossed over the bible, but I understand that his sins will be forgiven if we nail him to a piece of wood and let him hang around for a couple days. I think if he gets his interpretation of bibical precedent, than I get mine.

Notwithstanding the narcissism and false equivalency, it's clear what Sanford is doing. He is using the only weapon he has left in his arsenal: religion.

I live in SC and unfortunately there are a ton of fools here that will fall for this line.

1. Commits sin.

2. Asks for forgiveness and declares he is repentant.

3. Refers to "forceful" Bible passages to support and justify why he should be granted absolution by the Bible-thumpers in this very conservative state.

Pathetic.

Here in South Carolina we always thought he wanted more power, Now we know he thought he was the king of South Carolina

Wow. What is there to say, really?

No, David didn't resign, but his family paid a heavy price for his sins. The biblical narrative has Nathan the Prophet delivering a four-part judgement on David:

1. "The sword shall never depart from your house." Three of David's sons (Amnon, Absalom, and Adonijah) all died violent deaths.

2. "Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house." David's sons fought constantly among themselves, and inflicted much injury on each other and other members of the family. Absalom murdered Amnon, for example, after Amnon had raped Absalom's sister Tamar. And, of course, Absalom ultimately ended up leading an armed insurrection against David.

3. "I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun." Absalom's rebellion forced David to flee Jerusalem with all but 10 of his wives and concubines. Absalom publicly raped the 10 that were left behind in order to show his domination over the old man. (This, remember, was David's favorite son. Nice kid.)

4. "The child that will be born to you shall die."
And the baby that was conceived while Bathsheba was still married to Uriah became ill and died.

So sure, Mark. Be like that great guy David. Don't resign. Let your wife and your boys bear the constant public humiliation for the next couple of years. Shouldn't do them any harm, should it?

On the one hand: If we're going to go with the biblical analogy, then the Governor should man up and resign his post, and repent of his wrongdoings, before things get really nasty. He's already lost his family, and who knows what kind of relationship he's going to have with his children as a result of this; what else might God decide to take away from him as a result of his "wickedness"?

On the other hand: if we're going to go with his own standards, then he should either (as Cenk Uygur suggested in his broadcast) apologize for his previous calls for other officials to resign because of similar behavior, or he should just get the hell out of the public sector altogether.

What he shouldn't be doing is what he's doing now, which is acting like everything is hunky-dory, cuz it so obviously is not.

This just goes to show what a piker Vitter is. Why didn't HE think of this first? Same outcome, of course (not resigning).

Ah for love of lust and war.
King George may have to return for that pious pardon his lordship may now be expection.

He should resign because he abandoned his state in a clear dereliction of duty and because he stole from the state, having it, in part, pay for his "fall from grace".

I have a friend who works for the newspaper(The State) who busted him. There's more to this story to be coming out soon. The man has no shame and is hung up on his own claim to fame. The state GOP is aware of the "rest of the story" and will hear increase demands for his resignation. the sooner to be better!

Dear republicans and comnservatives: HAHAHAHA! Watching your pathetic attmepts to spin out of the ever widening revelation of your holier than thou hypocrisy and watching the ever quickening swirl of your entire philosophy and world view down the toilet of history is extremely gratifying to me. In fact it is the best thing to happen in American politics since LBJ enacted civil rights legislation. Maybe even since Lincoln freed the slaves.

He's just getting ready for his next analogy:

"Sanford: Jesus Didn't Resign After The Crucifixion, So Why Should I?"

and as for Jesus, He was only gone for 3 days.

This Biblical allusion totally Colbert Bait.

As a Grumpy Elder at my church (Warning: Mainline Protestant interpretation ahead), I would like to point out several parts of the Biblial story the Gov. seems to have forgotten and may not like:

-As punishment for David's contract killing of Uriah and adultery, (per the writers' not me) God kills David's first child with Bathsheba.

-David suffered, what appears to be a nervous breakdown, due to his adultery and the death of his child with Bathsheba.

-His second son, Absalom had his body guards kill the heir apparent, his older brother (don't wanna look up his name) under the pretext a year earlier his brother had raped their sister (What took you so long?)

-Absalom, attempted a coup that was nearly successful, David had to flee the palace, but he had the concubines provide intelligence to him and his right hand man killed his son in battle.

-David and Bathsheba's child, Solomon seized power in a program that, shall we say, makes Michael Corleone look like a choir boy.

This flawed sinner's understanding of the story of David is that no matter how powerful or influential someone becomes, we are all human and without God's guidance can become morally bankrupt as anyone, the important part of this story is David's acknowledgment of his sin and contrition. Something most pols don't seen to understand.

Gov. Sanford should be careful what he asks for, as ye sow so shall ye reap or as I like "Kara's a bitch (to people like Sanford)."

To be a tad hypocritical, as the late great Gov. Ann Richards said about some family related problem of her opponent (paraphrase) "That's a issue in their family and I'm not going to touch it with a ten foot pool. It's none of my business"

We've got way more ammunition against the Wingers, than a sorry sad story of a failed marriage. Let's move on to more important stuff, like defending the Constitution.

I have no idea if the David story is remotely true, but if it is, he and Sanford are both Class A shits.

Paying for sex from a professional is illegal, immoral and requires a (Democratic) governor to resign.

But exploiting the affections of someone else's wife? THAT's DIFFERENT!!!

I love the smell of Republican hypocrisy in the afternoon.

Bathsheba had some pretty snazzy tan lines too.