“„Taking off my Sanford hat for a minute and looking at this from a crisis communications role, this will definitely cause considerable short-term public relations damage, but this will eventually fade into the background. While a handful of questions remain outstanding, this only festers and continues to worsen if there’s some remaining issue of malfeasance, and I believe Sanford put that to rest in his press conference. The media storm will be painful to weather in the short term, but it will pass. What the Governor has to do now is show that he is a steady-hand at the wheel when it comes to his official duties and start working on repairing his home life.