You know, I was actually concerned about the weird disappearance of Mark Sanford, governor of South Carolina. The guy apparently up and disappeared with no word to his staff. His lieutenant governor doesn't know where he is, and more importantly did not know whether he's empowered to act in case of an emergency. His family alleged not to know where he was. There were weird stories about "off hiking the Appalachian Trail."

I thought the guy might have actually been having some problems. Of the mental variety. At first there was some hinting around about a breakdown. So I tried to be nice. I made no "Where's Waldo" jokes. I smiled at Rachel's report last night on the "missing Kent Jones," but thought, "Oh, that's not nice."

And finally today we know. No illness. Just another Republican having an extramarital affair while extolling the virtues of (white Christian heterosexual) family values.

When does the hypocrisy end?

Update: Chris Cilizza at The Fix thinks the press conference showed Sanford is in the middle of some sort of breakdown.