Should Mark Sanford Resign?
Some are saying the Governor should:
(CNN) — A day after Mark Sanford admitted to an extramarital affair, one South Carolina newspaper is calling on the state’s governor to resign.
“Mark Sanford cannot navigate a deep and painful personal crisis and lead the state through its economic crisis at the same time,” read an editorial printed in The Spartanburg Herald-Journal. “This kind of personal issue is consuming. It will be more than a distraction from his duties as governor, it will be a higher priority.”
I think Sanford should resign for three reasons:
1) He betrayed his wife and family. If he can’t even keep his promises to them, why should the citizens of South Carolina trust him?
2) He apparently took taxpayer-funded trips to Argentina to visit his mistress. That is a betrayal of his limited government ideology.
3) He left his state leaderless for days, with nobody able to get in touch with him, while he was diddling his mistress. That is not the action of someone fit to be chief executive of a state.
