thanks a bunch, mark ... you've just handed your loyal patriotic base another much-needed crisis in leadership.
anybody else worried that every candidate who shows up on the radar screen is put under a microscope (O’s watching!).
sarah palin
john ensign
mark sanford
republicans need to unite against “the one” just look how he wiped out hillary when he wasn’t even on the map 2 years before 2008...
no, we do not need to "unite against 'the one'". we need to unite FOR a qualified, responsible, and electable candidate. that rules out palin, ensign, and sanford.
democrats united FOR "the one", and that's how he got elected. "the one" did his part too, in that he didn't have his immediate family behaving like trailer trash, didn't get caught having an affair with blackmail and job favors involved, and didn't disappear without explanation while serving in the us senate.
like mark davis said yesterday on rush, if sanford doesn’t have a logical, reasonable explanation for his disappearance, he’s toast as far as a run for the presidency goes. now, if he were a democrat, the media would be celebrating his sense of independence and adventure and how he’s going to bring new ideas and energy to his role as governor of the great state of SC.
he’s toast already. disappearing for a few days without letting your staff or wife know where you are or how to reach you or at least what they’re supposed to say about your absence, and then resurfacing several days lateer saying “what’s the big deal?” is not career-ending behavior for a pop singer or sociology professor, but it most certainly IS career-ending behavior for a state governor and would-be republican POTUS nominee. we republicans are into the personal responsibility thing.
... especially when we're castigating everybody else for lacking it!
and another romney supporter spins more drivel. get a life. as though you have any idea at all about the details of that situation. oh yeah, you got your copy of people magazine, they summarized it all for you, so now you’re an authority.
also, when the details of sanford’s trip to argentina come out, i want to see you back on here too, so i can hammer on your misinformed, knee-jerk criticisms as relate to him too.
trust me, there's rational, upstanding and patriotic explanation for all this ...
maybe he needed a break! his wife probably knew and was asked to please keep it quiet...they may have problems...he may need to get a spiritual, physical or emotional break.....so what! i think its healthy...you are buying into the media frenzy. isnt anyone entitled to a little privacy?
... well, hopefully just a rational explanation.
republicans should not have affairs with married staff members or take mystery trips to argentina without informing wife or staff. and, they need to do a better job of pointing hypocrisy of the rich wall-street dems from goldman sachs and citigroup who are destroying this country!
republicans have to be squeaky clean because they are expected to be. they must be articulate because so many of our candidates in the past have not been, and well, we all know how GWB was about less govt.
i haven’t seen the GOP candidate that can do all that yet. it’s not sanford (not a lot of charisma and this disappearing act isn’t good) palin (more of a joke now on the national stage) or jindal (again with the speaking on a national level ) and no one in congress seems to want less govt. isn’t there someone else out there who can go toe to toe with obama?
the whole problem is the dems send in thier best teams of smarmy hacks, and the pubbies can’t do that because the best are usally running a buisness or 2 or 3.
yes, because republicans are just too damn clean and hardworking for their own good ...
time to throw my support to haley barbour, i guess.
now there's a ringing endorsement.
frankly, i am so sick and tired of the ridiculous standards that somehow must apply to our candidates/leaders, when nowhere near the scrutiny comes to those on the other side. we have too many on OUR side who have bought into this bs. i would just as soon have the truck driver at the local bar become president or senator, because we would likely get better leadership from someone like that.
and to all romney supporters, go stick it.
here's an idea: we could try nominating somebody we'd rather have a beer with ...
just because he didn't tell you, doesn't mean he didn't tell his wife or staff. maybe they don't want everyone in the world to know. all of the folks who are making a huge deal out of this (including some national and SC "republicans" with their own aspirations) have agendas to pursue, and some of you folks on this forum are playing right into their hands.
maybe he's being "alinksy'ed" for all you know. there are a lot of people who will do anything to marginalize sanford for the same reasons they want to marginalize palin. because he's a great Conservative ("big C") leader and they're scared of him. expect to see the same sort of thing about many others in the next 4 years.
southern people (especially GRITS, and in particular the wives of our governors) are raised to be gracious when obnoxious people (like ny-based reporters???) corner them and ask stupid and rude questions. maybe "oh, i don't know" is just a nicer way of saying "it's really none of your business, you ill-mannered, obnoxious asshole" to some abrasive media flack with a partisan axe to grind.
he's been a great governor for SC, but he upset the apple cart for an entrenched orthodoxy in columbia. that makes him a target for the inflated, faux outrage of a lot of specious political characters. the way i see it, the more he pisses off the leftist idiots and the traitorous, ersatz "republican moderates" in his own party, the better i like him. unless and until i'm proven otherwise, i'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
'cause when you've ended up in a headspinner this big, you must be doing something right!!
this is way beyond something where the media latches on to a misstep or a family member or a misspeaking of a word. this is about strange internal demons and being out of touch with reality.
i think this was his way of telling us that he didn't want to go any further in leadership.
that was awful kind of him, wasn't it? after all, he could have waited til 2012 ...
doesn’t rule out palin at all! sarah 2012!!!
and don't forget: this iz grate nooz fer john mccain!!!!!!!!!!
update: maybe this isn't such grate nooz ...
i seriously am feeling sick. i am very depressed. fieldmarshaldj had me look at sanford and i actually did and really like him. this is so disappointing. i sincerely am sorry fieldmarshaldj for this...seriously!!!
well good old fieldmarshal spent the morning villainizing those of us with the temerity to question sanford when there was a distinct whiff of adultery in the air. ready to apology fieldmarshal?
"fieldmarshal" responds:
he let a lot of us down, and seeing the spectacle on tv... just very sad. i spent this entire morning defending the man to the hilt and hearing what is pouring out of his mouth... no words.
so is jindal the one I have to default to for ‘12 now?
at this rate we're gonna be defaulting to some unknown state senator.
and the guy didn’t even buy american.
sorry, but this guy is half a bubble off. getting on the plane for nooky?
make me sick.
well, another one of sarah’s oppnents goes down the tubers.
next, we find out that mitt’s hairpiece is phony.
jesus, they’re falling like tenpins.
no. this is really pathetic. especially watching him hide behind the bible. you don’t go into republican politics if you can’t hide john thomas in your pants. you don’t cheat on the mrs. you just don’t. if you do, the D’s will find out about it and kill you.
STUPID, STUPID, STUPID.
so, I wonder how much rahm paid the girl to flip on him?