Fox News’ Chris Wallace delved into some personal details today with Mark Sanford, days after his victory over Elizabeth Colbert Busch in the race to fill the open seat in South Carolina’s first congressional district. 
 
 “You are now engaged to the woman with whom you had the affair,” Wallace noted, “and she made an appearance at your victory party, which raised some eyebrows. Question: what did your boys think of that, your four boys, and have they accepted her?” Sanford declined to answer the question, but Wallace pressed forged ahead, asking whether he and his mistress-turned-fiance, Maria Belen-Chapur, have set a wedding date and whether she will follow him to Washington. 
 
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 “I feel like I’m the National Enquirer,” Wallace conceded. “Exactly, is this Fox News, or the National Enquirer?” Sanford shot back. 
 
 He again declined to answer, but managed to keep a smile on his face throughout the uncomfortable exchange. 
 
 Sanford on Tuesday emerged from the special election to fill Tim Scott’s House seat with a comfortable margin of victory, defeating Colbert Bush by nine points, 54-45 percent. ||||| Sanford puts past behind him 
 
 Rep-elect Mark Sanford says he'll put the past behind him and work with fellow Republicans in Congress, even though the GOP establishment deserted him weeks before the special election in South Carolina. 
 
 “I’m a Republican who has always had an independent streak that would be the best way to define it. The past is the past,” Sanford said on “Fox News Sunday.” “I look forward to working with the Republican team.” 
 
 Sanford also said he has learned a lot in the past few years since his affair with a woman from Argentina while serving as governor. 
 
 “You probably learn more from the valleys of life than you do from the mountain tops,” he said. 
 
 “I learned a lot about judgment. I learned a lot about forgiveness," Sanford said. "I could go down a litany of things. I’ll boil it down this way: Our minister gave a great sermon a few months back and his point was, ‘Do the events in our life refine or define your life?' In politics, people want to take an event and make it definitional to your life. I think in any of these valleys or bumps can be refining points.” 
 
 Sanford defeated Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District special election last Tuesday.
– South Carolina's soon-to-be-congressman, Mark Sanford, hit Fox News Sunday this morning, telling Chris Wallace that "the past is the past" and that he's looking "forward to working with the Republican team," reports Politico. “You probably learn more from the valleys of life than you do from the mountain tops,” he said. But Wallace wasn't quite ready to skip off into the future, notes the National Review, asking Sanford if his four sons have accepted fiance Maria Belen Chapur, if the pair had set a date, and if she would join him in Washington. The awkward line of questioning, and Sanford's refusal to engage, eventually led to Wallace saying, "I feel like I'm the National Enquirer." Responded Sanford, "Exactly, is this Fox News or the National Enquirer?"