Something stinks and it smells a lot worse than a mere sex scandal.

[Bjorn Against]

So Mark Sanford tells us that he was having an affair with a woman in Argentina. He wants us to believe that he was so deeply in love that he abandoned his state for nearly a week without telling anyone where he was going just so he could spend a final few days with the woman he loved. He wants us to believe that he spent the last days crying at her side because he had to leave her. He wants us to believe that this affair was what his whole trip to Argentina was all about. Well I don't buy it for a minute.

When Sanford came back from Argentina this morning he had to have a cover story, his staffers had just told us that he was on a hike on the Appalachian Trail and it was obvious to all that this was a lie. There is no way that Sanford could have spun this story in a positive way, if he had tried no one would have believed him and people would be digging very deeply into his story. And so Mark Sanford “came clean” and admitted to an affair. But did he really come clean? How do we know that he is telling the truth about the affair? Is it possible that he may have been involved in something much worse than he is letting on but is trying to distract us? Why should we believe that this woman was so important to him that he would risk his political career to travel to another hemisphere to be with her? If he wanted to be with her so badly why didn't he fly her to this country where he would have been much less likely to get caught? Is there a reason that she couldn't have traveled here? Or perhaps more importantly is there a reason that Mark Sanford had to go to Argentina, and if so how do we know the reason he had to go down there was solely about this woman?

There are some serious questions that need to be asked here. First we need to find out if this woman even exists, because as of right now I have seen no direct evidence that she does. If she does exist then who is she? What financial connections does she have? Does Sanford have any financial interests in Argentina? What was Sanford doing on his trade mission last year?

We know that Sanford referenced Argentina in many speeches that he has given in the past, he obviously had an interest in Argentina's economy and I want to know why. We need to look beyond the sex scandal and try to get to the bottom of what really happened because this story stinks, and I don't think it is about sex I think it is about money.