Mark Sanford: 20 Questions (or maybe 13)

What we wonder:

– Who was waterboarding Mark Sanford and forcing him to keep giving interviews to reporters?

– Is it possible that the continual string of embarrassing interviews was related to the campaign- and media-savvy Jenny Sanford having kicked her husband out of the house?

– How long will it take before the rest of us can announce plans to hike the Appalachian Trail without provoking snickers or eye-rolling?

– How long since Sanford was actually on the Appalachian Trail in mid-June – a spot about as secluded as Myrtle Beach on Fourth of July weekend?

– Who clings more tightly, a drowning man to a raft or a besmirched public official to a job?

– Which shows worse character – having meaningless anonymous sex, or only having sex with someone you love?

– Which shows worse character – having meaningless anonymous extramarital sex or having extramarital sex with someone you love?

– Is “crossed lines” anything akin to “hiking on the Appalachian Trail”?

– How much difference is there between having sex and lying about it if you’re Bill Clinton, and having sex and lying about it if you’re Mark Sanford?

– Is there a “sex line” and if so, where – really – is it?

– Might Cabarrus County commissioner Coy Privette have some tips to share?

– Has Jenny Sanford called Bill Diehl yet?

– What does it say that carrying two pooping piglets into the State House was only your second goofiest moment as governor?

– Posted by Mary Newsom (with an assist from Lew Powell)