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Secret Agent Man

Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) muses about the mysteries of life and love, again, aloud in public, for our edification:

Everybody is assigned their own secret-agent mission in life. At times the tricky part, the hard part, is finding out what that secret-agent mission is. Some of us do it early, some of us do it later in life.

I’m not even sure what that means, but it’s consistent with the limply religious and pseudo-New Agey adages he’s in the habit of mistaking for wisdom. His last book deal fell through, but there’s got to be a market — in the humor category maybe? — for the Gov. Mark Sanford Book of Koans.

David Kurtz

David Kurtz is Managing Editor and Washington Bureau Chief of Talking Points Memo where he oversees the news operations of TPM and its sister sites.

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