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Should We Admire Sanford's Honesty?

Slate’s Will Saletan has a provocative defense of Sanford today:

I feel awful for Sanford's wife and kids. But compared with all the cheaters who have gone before him, I don't think less of him for genuinely loving the other woman or for admitting it. It beats the hell out of seducing somebody, kicking her to the curb, and pretending she was nothing to you—or really meaning it.

I suppose there is some honesty in that. But let’s remember that he was doing it at a press conference ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)