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"  Sometimes I wonder why I keep doing this. Politics is nothing but an arena for abject disappointment. Former South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford said Monday she will not run for Congress. Sanford was on South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley&amp;#039;s short list of possible replacements for Republican Jim DeMint in the Senate. Haley appointed congressman Tim Scott, which created the House vacancy. Sanford had said she was going to look at possibly running in the special election to succeed Scott. She told the Associated Press on Monday that being a mother was more rewarding. Her popularity in South Carolina rose after it was revealed in 2009 that her husband, Mark, was having an affair with a woman from Argentina. Jenny Sanford&amp;#039;s decision avoids a potentially messy campaign against her ex-husband. The Weekly Standard reported last week that sources close to Mark Sanford said the former Republican governor will run for Scott&amp;#039;s seat, which he held from 1995 to 2001 before being elected governor. &amp;quot;Potentially messy&amp;quot;? How about, &amp;quot;potentially freaking awesome&amp;quot;? How about, &amp;quot;so potentially freaking awesome that Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner would come back from the freaking dead in order to write about it&amp;quot;? Alas, it is not to be. Now I have to get rid of all the advance research I&amp;#039;ve done.  I&amp;#039;m sorry. I think I have to be alone for a while. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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