Jenny Sanford appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday, saying Gov. Mark Sanford has not introduced their four children to the woman he's called his soul mate.

Gov. Sanford disappeared for five days in June 2009 and told no one where he was going. The governor came back to South Carolina and admitted to a yearlong affair with Maria Belen Chapur.

Mark Sanford said in May he spent several days in Florida with Chapur to see if they could restart their relationship. He has refused to talk about her since.

A call to Sanford's spokesman was not immediately returned Tuesday.

See video of Jenny Sanford's appearance on "Good Morning America" here:

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Folks, a creepy, self-promoting weirdo who nonetheless has presented evidence of, at the least, a close personal relationship with Haley, has been under relentless attack from the Haley campaign and her supporters since he went public with his claim a week before the primary election.

Haley came in first in the primary, but still faces a runoff with Gresham Barrett.

Why is Folks endorsing the candidate whose candidacy he seemingly attempted to derail, and who responded by viciously attacking him? Because "Haley would vote the right way on the S.C. Budget and Control Board" and she might cut taxes.

And her opponent is also a real piece of work:

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Members of Congress who live in the C Street House pay $950/month for private rooms in a $1.8 million townhouse, steps from the Capitol, with maid service and laundry included. How can the building's owner afford such a deal? Easy -- the C Street house is classified as a church.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint in April. The OCE's job is to vet complaints and refer cases to the appropriate ethics committee.

Congressmen who live in the house have been downplaying the unusual nature of the situation ever since the John Ensign and Mark Sanford scandals thrust the house into the limelight. The OCE investigation could be abandoned within 30 days or go on for three months before its taken up by the ethics committee.

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Larry Marchant, a local lobbyist and former strategist for Haley opponent (and dim-bulb bigot) Andre Bauer, says he had a one-night stand with Haley at a "school choice convention" in 2008. The local Fox affiliate applied the polygraph. The results: inconclusive:

"I can tell you if I was going to bet my next paycheck as to whether or not he was telling the truth about the allegations he has made, I would bet that sooner or later he would pass that test successfully," says the second licensed examiner, Joseph Gallimore.

Polygraph scores range from negative to positive based on whether a subject appears to be lying or telling the truth, said Davis. A score of +4 is required to "pass" a polygraph test. Marchant scored +3 on the question of whether he had sex with Nikki Haley during a trip to Salt Lake City, as he has publicly claimed.

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It's one thing to just refuse to dignify rumors of sexual misconduct with a response. It's another to deny them but then announce that you will resign the post you have not yet been elected to if, despite your denial, they turn out to be true. That is kind of weird. That's also Nikki Haley's new position:

Cohen: "If something comes out after you win the primary, or after you win the general election become South Carolina's next governor, if something were to come out that validates the claims that have been made against you -- in terms of stepping out on your husband and on your marriage -- would you resign as governor because basically the way you've handled it has been an absolute, 100 percent denial? Would you resign or would it be dragged out?
Haley: "Yes."
Cohen: "Yes you would resign?"
Haley: "Yes."

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FITS also published this photo of Haley, Folks and disgraced Gov. Mark Sanford. It obviously doesn't prove anything, but it is really funny.

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The blogger, former Sanford spokesman Will Folks, is annoyingly short on details, but he says he "had an inappropriate physical relationship with Nikki" some years before he was married. (But presumably while she was married.) He also says Haley is his preferred candidate for governor, and that "at least one story based upon this information will be published this week." (Now it will be considerably more than one story.)

Haley has already called the claim a "disgraceful smear" and "quite simply South Carolina politics at its worst." It seems more like South Carolina politics at its most usual.

In case you're wondering about Folks' credibility, the Associated Press wrote a hilarious description of his blog (and 75 percent of political blogs in general):

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Attorney General Henry McMaster said the governor's use of pricey airline tickets, travel to personal and political events on state aircraft and questionable campaign reimbursements had not risen to a criminal level.

"Those punishments are sufficient," McMaster said Monday, referring to Sanford's civil ethics charges and censure by state lawmakers. "The time has come for our state to put this controversy behind us and move on."

Sanford said he hoped the state could now move on from what he admitted were his own shortcomings.

"While I've acknowledged repeatedly my own moral failing in this matter, we feel confirmed in our consistent belief that this administration has always been a stalwart defender of the taxpayer," Sanford said in a statement.

McMaster for months had been reviewing a probe by the State Ethics Commission that started after a series of Associated Press investigations were published about Sanford's use of state, private and commercial planes. The state probe led to 37 charges and $74,000 in civil fines that Sanford paid in March.

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Family Court Judge Jocelyn Cate said Friday she plans to OK Jenny Sanford's request to split from her husband of 20 years. The divorce will become official in mid-March.

Jenny Sanford attended the 20-minute hearing without her husband. Afterward, she said she considers it "the beginning of a new chapter for me and for our children."

She filed for divorce in December on the grounds of adultery, saying reconciliation efforts with her husband had been unsuccessful.

"The dissolution of a 20-year marriage is not a cause for celebration," she said Friday.

Mark Sanford had told his staff he was going hiking along the Appalachian Trail and disappeared for five days last summer, returning to publicly confess he had been in Argentina visiting Maria Belen Chapur, his mistress for a year.

Even after the publication of passionate e-mail exchanges between her husband and Chapur, and an Associated Press interview in which Mark Sanford called Chapur his "soul mate" and admitted "crossing the line" with other women, Jenny Sanford said she was willing to reconcile with the two-term governor.

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Yes, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford had stopped by.

Sanford, a Republican who was censured by the state's GOP-controlled House last month for his bizarre jaunt to Argentina (by way of, according to what he had aides say, the Appalachian Trail), was in Washington for the National Governors Association's annual meeting. When Politico's Jonathan Martin, CNN's Peter Hamby and I chased him down on his way out, he told us he was just at the conference to visit a friend. That was about as newsy as the exchange got. Sanford did say he wants to stay in South Carolina once his term is up, but he has no plans for what he'll do. "I'll figure it out when I get there," he said.

Watch here:

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The vote, which went 102-11 against the governor after only about 20 minutes, expressed the chamber's disapproval of Sanford's actions. But there's no consequence for Sanford in the resolution, no legal weight to it.

According to the State, a South Carolina newspaper, most votes against the censure came from Democrats who wanted to impeach the governor instead.

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The 240-page "Staying True" goes on sale Feb. 5, according to the Web site for Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House Inc.

The book was to have been published in May and neither Sanford nor the publisher immediately returned calls about the change in release date.

Jenny Sanford filed for divorce from Gov. Mark Sanford last month and a final hearing on the petition is scheduled for late February.

The governor, once a rising star in the Republican Party and a possible 2012 presidential contender, disappeared for five days last summer and returned to publicly confess an affair with an Argentine woman. His staff told reporters he was hiking the Appalachian Trail, but he was actually in Argentina.

The publisher's Web site says the memoir will reveal Jenny Sanford's private ordeal over her husband's public betrayal. The book, which has a portrait of the first lady sitting by the beach on its cover, will tell how she learned just a day ahead of the public that her husband had not ended his affair with the woman he later called his soul mate.

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The full statement, with a hat-tip to GOP 12:

While it is not the course I would have hoped for, or would choose, I want to take full responsibility for the moral failure that led us to this tragic point. Jenny is a great person, and has been a remarkable wife, mother and First Lady. She has been more than gracious these last six months and gone above and beyond in her patience and commitment to put the needs of others in front of her own. While our family structure may change, I know that we will both work earnestly to be the best mom and dad we can be to four of the finest boys on earth.

I will join with her in asking the press to respect our shared desire for privacy as we quietly move forward. We respectively ask for your prayers.

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"[T]he dissolution of any marriage is a sad and painful process," Jenny Sanford said in a statement. "This came after many unsuccessful efforts at reconciliation, yet I am still dedicated to keeping the process that lies ahead peaceful for our family. I remain thankful to so many across this state and nation for their words of encouragement and prayers during this difficult time. Please know the boys and I are doing well and are blessed with the incredible support of friends and family and bolstered by our faith and the unfailing love of our God above."

Just a couple days ago, Gov. Sanford had said he still hoped to reconcile. The couple had been living apart since the governor announced early this summer that he'd been having an affair with an Argentine woman.

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The vote doesn't guarantee that Sanford will escape impeachment, but it makes that result very likely.

The news wasn't all good for the governor, though: The subcommittee did vote unanimously in favor of censure.

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Add in to the mix the psychological truth that few Americans are better suited to laud Ayn Rand's cult of the individual than a man who betrayed his responsibilities to an entire state out of aN undeniable passion to tango in Argentina, and you've got a clear winner. And since, as my colleague Alex Koppelman observes, no one in South Carolina is paying any attention to what Sanford says or does anymore, the governor obviously had plenty of time to read the two hefty biographies.

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Adding to Sanford's long list of woes right now -- both the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the state House have called for his resignation -- two-thirds of the executive committee voted in a conference call Thursday afternoon to ask the governor to step down.

CNN's Peter Hamby notes that this is a particularly tough blow for Sanford; he'd always fought with other South Carolina lawmakers, even fellow Republicans, so losing their support didn't hurt so bad. But these are party activists, long Sanford's base, and they'd been sticking by him. Not anymore.

Still, if he hasn't resigned yet, Sanford isn't likely to do so now. In fact, earlier in the day he'd held a contentious press conference at which he declared his intention to remain in office. And in a statement after the vote, he said, "South Carolinians are ready to move beyond this political circus and media-driven distraction."

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Now, Bobby Harrell, the speaker of South Carolina's House, has added his voice to the chorus.

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