07.01.2009 5:29 pm
Don’t count Sanford out yet
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I think that it is too early to eliminate Governor Mark Sanford from consideration as a possible Republican nominee for the presidency in 2012. I think that he can make a strong case for his qualifications. After all, although Governor Sarah Palin may be able to see Russia from her house, neither she nor any of the other often-mentioned potential candidates has Governor Sanford’s experience in foreign affairs!
William Klopfenstein
Edwardsville


Ha! Glad to see someone with a sense of humor on here. I don’t care if he had an affair…it’s just the hypocrisy of his voting record, and political stance (anti gay marriage b/c it isn’t moral) that is sickening. His wife is also a proponent of gay marriage. As if hers is superior? Bottom line…no one is to say, and no one should be judging what happens b/t 2 consenting adults. I would think the Republicans would agree with this.
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Did you not see the interview with Katie Couric when Palin actually said that?
Why does a satirical letter regarding a cheating Republican make the posters bash Obama?
stltransplant, because EVERYTHING makes them bash him. After all, Rush stated that Sanford’s affair was Obama’s fault. I thought that if a married man had an affair, it’s his own free choice to unzip, so HE is fundamentally at fault.
How many family values republicans have been brought down in sex scandals now? What about the proverb about living in glass houses?
Regardless of what one thinks about Sanford, you’ve got to appreciate his wife for NOT standing by her man.
Last night I saw that the Fox “News” channel, during it’s coverage of the scandal had a “D” next to Sanfords’ name. They did the same thing with Marc Foley (the lowest of the low ). The Fox watchers, who clain to be the most astute politically, surely realize this. Is this an inside joke? If so, I’ll continue to get my information from sources that do not run themselves like college fraternities.
If I ever want to host a kegger, I’ll consider Fox “News”!
To the sage, dr debunk, and others…See, many folks actually expect that their elected officials will actually LIVE the kind of life they say they support. So, in the case of Clinton or Ted K., the voters know or knew what they were getting, and voted anyway.
In the case of someone like Sanford, who goes out of his way to condemn the sexcapades of others, who is a staunch supporter of “family values” and “traditional families”, shouldn’t one expect him to keep it zipped except with the one he’s married to?
I know its been said before, but I am sure most republicans are just happy that the affair was with a consenting adult woman.
As I was checking, it was suggested that because Sanfords’ affair was with a woman of legal age, this automatically qualifies him as a Democrat, thus, Fox “News”s’ use of the “D” next to his name.
I heard that he “…Destroyed his own marriage before the gay marriage advocates could do it.”
“Why does a satirical letter regarding a cheating Republican make the posters bash Obama?”…
-Funny, on reading all the posts on this thread, don’t see one comment that has “bashed Obama”. Only the folks pointing out the hypocrisy of the useful-idiots attacking Sanford.
” So, in the case of Clinton or Ted K., the voters know or knew what they were getting…”
-For all to see, the hypocrisy in idiot form.
“There are some times when Obama does something that I don’t agree with and it makes me wonder if I made a mistake voting for him, then I see your mentally ill postings and it makes me realize just how right he is.
P.S. - Glenn Beck sucks a big mormon one.”–mr smith77
-Wow, with logical depth and reasoning power like that, bet your a big hit at the parties, as the butt of jokes.