If you decide to run for office and are blessed enough to be elected, please understand that your job is probably not a simple 9-5 gig. You are on call all the time. So it’s probably not okay to head off on a hike of the Appalachian Trail so you can get away from your four kids (and miss Father’s Day) and do some writing and NOT TELL ANYONE, including your wife, the lieutenant governor, your chief of staff or your boss — that is, the people who put you in office.

This is particularly true if you have aspirations to higher office, say the presidency, in the next few years.

Seriously, what were you thinking, Gov. Sandford?

Lisa