On Mark Sanford’s Oversharing

Matt Bai: “If you missed Mark Sanford’s tortured, meandering Facebook post about his various relationship and family troubles last weekend, I’m afraid you’re out of luck. The Republican Party’s Lord Byron apparently thought better of it and decided to take the post down.”

“Maybe Sanford’s sons impressed upon him that he had become the single most embarrassing parent in America. Or maybe Sanford suddenly realized that he wasn’t actually 15 and was under no compulsion to vent his conflicted emotions on social media… Or perhaps Sanford took down the post because it occurred to him, too late, that his digital soliloquy constituted a thoroughly reckless act — not just for himself or for his family, but also for all of Washington, where the last thing any of us really needed was to further erode the boundary between private lives and political careers.”