Posted on 04/18/2013 9:51:28 AM PDT by JerseyanExile
Following revelations that his ex-wife accused him of trespassing on her property earlier this year, former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford (R) has lost the support of his national party.
The news comes as controversy continues to swirl around Sanford and his personal life — a process that began with his well-publicized 2009 affair but was inflamed, the Washington Post has learned, when one of the Sanfords’ sons met Mark Sanford’s former mistress for the first time the night he won the GOP nomination.
The National Republican Congressional Committee on Wednesday took the unusual step of telegraphing that it will not spend money on his special election campaign. “Mark Sanford has proven he knows what it takes to win elections. At this time, the NRCC will not be engaged in this special election,” the NRCC said in a statement, which was first reported by Politico.
The committee has spent very little on the race so far, but Sanford’s problems have put a conservative district in jeopardy for the Republicans. And the report Tuesday of the trespassing complaint seems to assure that he wouldn’t sail to victory.
A Republican familiar with the NRCC’s decision criticized Sanford’s lackluster response to the report about his ex-wife’s trespassing complaint and said it would be “foolish” for anybody to spend money on him.
“It’s not out of the realm of possibility for him to win – stranger things have happened in special elections,” the Republican said. “But the fact that he wasted precious time and money rehabilitating his image only to squander that makes it very foolish for outside groups to commit resources.”
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Very surprising that a capable candidate wasn’t available to take him out in the primary.
Now, I’d like to know who financed this tool’s campaign. Can we please know?
One was. I suspect dirty tricks. Please, someone find out who paid for Sanford’s campaign.
“he self-destructed with spectacular speed”
Nonsense. He’ll still win.
Go to the state elections office online or the FEC and look for yourself. Don’t ask for something you can do yourself with relative ease. Are you a member of the dependent class? I don’t think so...hope not anyway.
Oh, go pound sand. Do you run around on FR and play thread nazi? I suspect that the Democrats maneuvered this primary, and they’re not likely to be obvious on a filing.
The national GOP is still a bunch of amateurs. If they were on the ball, they would have found out about these issues and disclosed them during the primary. It really does amaze me how bad the national GOP is when it comes to spotting issues and getting on top of them for elections.
Pound sand yourself, you lazy SOB. I just told you where you could find the information you WANT SOMEONE ELSE to provide you. You should be ashamed. Obviously you’re computer literate or you wouldn’t be here. Lazy you are...just like many here who are what I call CYBERCOWBABIES. Think pounding out a few pithy remarks or in your case begging for information rather than making things happen for yourself. You should be ashamed.
Ping!
So, the GOPe is willing to forgive him for cheating on and very publicly humiliating his wife leading to his high-profile resignation as a Governor, but throws him overboard for an unproven charge of trespassing? Do I have that clear?
GOPe is assembling a circular firing squad. Again.
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20130418/PC16/130419202/1177/conservative-women-x2019-s-group-considers-anti-sanford-write-in
He was promoted up with help from those who planned and hoped in the long run it would hurt the republicans. He should do the right thing and withdraw his name so we can replace him with another candidate.
Well, he self-destructed with spectacular speed.
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You folks do know that the original linked article was from the Washington Post, don’t you? Yes, that Washington Post that is such a good friend of conservatives and Republicans. They couldn’t possibly be trying to promote a Republican defeat—could they? And, if they were trying to engineer such a Republican defeat in a special election they wouldn’t be able to find any Useful Idiots here on Free Republic, would they?
Seriously, I supported Bostic (small donation—I’m not in SC so couldn’t vote) in the Republican runoff. But, since Sanford won the run-off, I’ll support Sanford in the general election of this special election.
I didn’t think that Sanford would need any of my small financial help, but after seeing the Washington Post (along with some apparent members of the GOPe) get on the anti-Sanford warpath, I’ll have to reconsider that assumption and donate to the Sanford campaign. I hope that those of you who are not supporting the Democrat candidate will consider donating also to this non-GOPe conservative Republican.
This guy is obviously guilty of serial poor judgement. Why pick him out of many other eligble candidates who have moral compasses to represent SC in the Congress? I don’t get it.
Yikes... how likely is it that the democRAT (Stephen Colbert’s sister) will win this election?
Looking through the comments I see a number of folks are interested in electing another Democrat to Congress—althought they’ll try to convince you their motives are pure. I know better and so should all true conservatives.
Looking through the comments I see a number of folks are interested in electing another Democrat to Congress—althought they’ll try to convince you their motives are pure. I know better and so should all true conservatives.
This guy is a walking disaster. His excuse for going into his wife’s house, he wanted to watch the Super Bowl with his 14 year old son. Why not call the son up ahead of time and bring him back to his own residence? Well that would avoid all the drama and Mark is all about the drama.
If he is such a devoted father he wouldn’t have skipped out of the country on Father’s Day 2009 to spend time with his mistress in South America.
And what a classy way to have his sons meet his former mistress/now fiancee. with the camera there to capture every uncomfortably moment for public viewing.
All I need to know about this creep is to listen to that impromptu press conference where he gushed over his mistress and their adolescent affair. He had all the emotion stability of an emo 14 year old who shows up the first day for all the Twilight movies and stalks Justin Bieber on Twitter.
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