'Bimbo Eruptions'

Thom Serafin explains how South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s career-crippling affair with a woman in Argentina is atypical for an extramarital affair by a high-ranking public official. Most affairs, such as those of President Bill Clinton, were “bimbo eruptions,” Serafin explains. But in the case of Sanford, Serafin explains “you actually have a real love affair.”

When Sanford held his news conference to disclose his affair with the mistress over Father’s Day weekend, leaving his wife and four boys and the rest of South Carolina in the dark about his whereabouts, “He was so honest and so humble – that doesn’t excuse him – but you saw a man just completely falling apart over love,” Serafin said.