The governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, just up and disappeared for six days. No one could find him. Foul play was suspected. Then he turned up. He said he was getting away from it all by hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Then the story changed. He said he was in Argentina. Now we know that he was in Argentina having an extramarital affair. Another Republican supporter of family values is caught not having any. Adultery compounded by hypocrisy. Add to those moral transgressions a complete lack of discretion or common sense. He thought the governor of a state could vanish for six days and no one would look into the matter? I suppose Republicans will need to clean house of their corrupt members before they can be taken seriously as a party worthy of governing. Although I hasten to say that one can believe in moral absolutes without living by them, as none of us can fully, this being something the world cannot understand. The governor sounds repentant. But that doesn’t take away from the consequences of what he has done.