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Jenny Sanford makes clear whom her husband humiliated

Ruth Marcus is an editorial writer for The Washington Post, where this first appeared. Finally, a new model for the wronged political spouse. It's about time. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's let-it-all-hang-out news conference last week was a different approach, too. But a better one? Pick your poison: staged declaration of politically requisite contrition or meandering mooning of a love-struck...

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