A man of confused and sad nature

South Carolina (still, for now) Governor Mark Sanford, still nuts and still playing the sympathy card.

''This was a whole lot more than a simple affair, this was a love story,'' Sanford said. ''A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day.''

During more than three hours of interviews over two days at his Statehouse office, Sanford said he is trying to fall back in love with his wife even as he grapples with his deep feelings for Chapur.

Creepier and creepier, even more pathetic than the emails.

And then this:

Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina disclosed on Tuesday that he had had casual encounters with several other women before starting an affair last year with an Argentinian woman.

Well, at least he didn't just lust in his heart like Jimmy Carter. Sanford is a real man.

I assume those sympathetic bloggers will start changing their minds.

UPDATE: TPM, via David Kurtz, doesn't seem to be giving all that much sympathy to Sanford any more. I presume Josh is a little too embarrassed after his "don't judge him based on his worst day" thing to chime in yet (it was, I'm sure, a misplaced attempt to try to show a little class that the Republicans failed at with President Clinton). But, like I said the other day, it was all BS.