Al Kamen's Take on Politician Hanky Panky

He calls it “Naked Patriotism.” And it involves politicians blaming their, er, desire and passion to help the country as one of many excuses to why they screwed up their marriages and their political careers. He calls former S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford‘s reasoning the “dreamy excuse” that involved a “forbidden” and “tragic” love story. But still he called it “weird.”