A lot of respectable media outlets seem averse to saying this explicitly, but I’ll break the taboo and say the obvious—the thing about South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s mystery trip to Argentina is that it raises suspicions he was conducting an affair of some kind.
Meanwhile, this is clever reporting from ABC:
ABC’s Joe Goldman reports that a US embassy official in Buenos Aires tells him that the embassy had “absolutely no idea” that Sanford was in Argentina. The embassy official added that this comes “from out of left field — it would be extremely odd that a US governor would not check in with the embassy.
Obviously, a lot of this hinges on how odd it really is for a governor to travel abroad without alerting the embassy. That’s not something I have any independent information about, but it tends to support the idea that Sanford was up to something unsavory that he wanted kept secret.
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