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


Who is the hypocrite?
Gov. Sanford, who paraded his family values publicly, attacked Clinton and demanded his resignation, flies off to Argentina to make nice with some hottie he met down there. Doesn’t that make HIM a hypocrite? Doesn’t that make all of you who defend him, or at best damn him with faint praise (he’s not as bad as (blank)….hypocrites?
Great Letter William!
Sanford/Palin could make a fantastic ticket for the 22% in 2012.
Palin could drag her children back into the election and Mark could flaunt his hottie from Argentina. What a party!
In all fairness though, I must say thank God that John Edwards did not win the democratic nomination and then have his affair come out publically. At least Edwards did not run on family values or anti gay marriage as Sanford did. Sanford wins for biggiest hypocrite.
But we all know it is Obama’s fault that Sandford stepped out on his wife.
Just ask the Rightous Rush and his ditto-heads.
Dr.De-Bunkster,
Leave Juanita alone you arrogant sexist piece of crap!
You bring out the worst in good people with your condescending remarks in which you talk down to any woman on this site. Do you treat all woman this way or only those that do not see life through your pea-brained mentality?
Is there a Mrs. De-Bunk, Mrs. Iconclastic Sage, or a Mrs. Gamecock9999?
If so, how can she stand you?
-I’ve repeatedly called Sanford an idiot, if that helps.
-Moral relativism is what liberals do.
-They generally have no core beliefs in religion, yet use religion as a hammer against those who are less than perfect, [Which no man is].
-Believers generally cower in humility, repent, and ask for forgiveness.
-The issue here according to Klopfenstein is lack of foreign-policy experience, not a word about the mistress. What was Obama’s experience?
-Seems like a good question in the context of the “piece”.
“You bring out the worst in good people with your condescending remarks in which you talk down to any woman on this site.”-debra-
-Not true! I talk down to plenty of idiot boys too.
“Is there a Mrs. De-Bunk…?”
-Yes, sorry Debra, am spoken for.
“…how can she stand you?”
-She tolerates me…do most of my cigar-smoking at the cabin. Plus she likes my foot-rubs and hot-oil massages.
“They [liberals] generally have no core beliefs in religion, yet use religion as a hammer against those who are less than perfect, [Which no man is].” ~debunk
Gov. Sanford’s extramarital sexual affairs are the concern of himself and his wife only. This liberal will continue to treat the subject in that manner. But Sanford’s hypocrisy is fair game. Sanford placed himself in the crosshairs by taking positions of moral superiority. In the parliance of my down home kin, Sanford is just “gettin his comeuppance”. Whether it’s Sanford or some televangelist on sex or Rush Limbaugh on drug abuse, those who preach and condemn loudly and publicly from their holier than thou pulpits deserve particularly loud and public condemnation when they themselves are shown to be participants in the same vice.
moon bat,
–Like I said…Moral relativism is what liberals do.
His actual comments on what Clinton did weren’t directed at the diddling of the intern as much as the overall abuse of the office. There is quite a bit of difference, don’t you think?
If you say being a christian is grounds for extra ridicule when men fall short,[which we all do, in our own ways] then you prove my point. That is moral relativism or equivalency, however you want to put it.
In your paradigm, liberals can’t be ridiculed for anti-social behavior, since they have no moral compass to begin with. Am I correct?
I’m scratching my head on this one…..
I personally never heard of Sanford until about 2 weeks ago when he went missing. Sure I heard his name in passing but didn’t know enough about him to hear him preaching family values and morals. Did you folks witness this or is it just that he’s a Republican so he must have ran on the moral/value ticket?
I guess I understand the excitement it causes when the disliked party gets caught doing wrong. I don’t understand how some justify the dems that get caught as ok because they don’t “preach” the moral code.
Nobody said, to use slick willie as the example, that he gets a free pass for his Bimbo Eruptions (love that phrase). However, there is a certain sense of poetic justice when someone who has been railing against some behavior or other gets caught doing the very thing he (most often it IS he) was making noise against.
Personally, I think Eliot Spitzer was just as big an idiot as Sanford.
Dr. Debunk: I take exception to your characterization of liberals as having no moral compass. Add to it the characterization of having no religious belief themselves suggests to ME that you don’t know very many. Now, the fact that many of the most vocal liberals out on the fringe espouse some of those traits doesn’t make the overall generalization any more true than if I was to say that All Conservatives are bible-thumping Pat Robertson wanna be’s. (Which I know is NOT true).
“Dr. Debunk: I take exception to your characterization of liberals as having no moral compass.”-hs-
–I take exception to the fact that you are putting words in my mouth and trying to distort the argument. Was responding to an analogy put forth by a poster who made that premise.
–My response was in the form of a question, idiot. Which I’m still waiting for the answer.
“If you say being a christian is grounds for extra ridicule when men fall short,[which we all do, in our own ways] then you prove my point. That is moral relativism or equivalency, however you want to put it.” ~Amazed
That is not what I said. Extra ridicule is due not because one is a christian rather it is due one who loudly, piously, publicly and self righteously condemns his fellow man for sins he too is guilty of at that very same time. That is not moral relativism that is the man getting his comeuppance.