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A counter-intuitive thought for the day: Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina hints in a new interview that last year’s very public fallout from his extramarital affair may have been a plus when it came to governing.

Before the affair was disclosed, the name of Mr. Sanford, a two-term Republican now getting set to leave office, was being bandied about as a potential candidate for president in 2012. But in an interview with a South Carolina television station, Mr. Sanford intimates that he and members of the state legislature were able to have more substantive discussions once talk of national office died down.

“I think that a lot of people at times would push against certain things based on their fear that my political star was climbing,” said Mr. Sanford, who has said the scandal led him to consider resigning. (State lawmakers also contemplated impeaching him.)

“What became abundantly clear was the supposed stars on the rainbow weren’t there, and I think we were able to debate the issue at hand,” he added. “I was less the issue, and the issue was more the issue.”

As The Times’s Robbie Brown reported last month, some experts say that Mr. Sanford’s most important legislative term may have come after he came clean about his Argentine mistress.

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