Big deal, a man has an affair. Read about Ben Franklin who probably slept with 100 different women in his life....
You couple predisposiion with weakness and opportunity and some people will cheat on their spouses. That's between him and his wife and family.
But abandoning his responsibilities, as he did, makes him unfit to serve as governonr in my view.
Oh, that's right. That was a lie.
After Clinton, this seems terribly mild by comparison.
Reposting from another thread:
>> For ME — the MORE Conservative, the better — rock on Sanford.
But looking at this SHORT list:
Republican politicians that have had extra-marital affairs:
- Newt Gingrich
- John McCain (first wife)
- Rudy Giuliani
- David Vitter
- Larry Craig
- Henry Hyde
- etc.
Democrat politician that have had extra-marital affairs:
- Kennedy (take your pick)
- Bill Clinton
- James McGreevey
- Jon Corzine
- Eliot Spitzer
- John Edwards
- etc. <<
Maybe the Ancient Chinese were on to something when they made their rulers eunuchs. I would bet that any politician willing to loose their manhood to serve the public good would have enough “cajones” to actually make the right decisions.
I never heard Sanford proclaim himslef as a holy man, so I don’t feel he’s betrayed me. He’s certainly acted as though his political career is’t that important to him.
He should have said he had set up a homosexual sex ring in his basement, and then he would have gotten a pass from the press, and demonrat party....ask Barney Frank.
Deeply tragic that Sanford exhibited the primary fault of humanity--he is fallen and 'prone to wander.' For those who believe he is deserving of capital punishment, feel free to pick up those stones and hurl them (assuming you are without sin, yourself.)
A man having a mistress...especially a powerful man...is also unremarkable.
What is remarkable and intolerable is we have US pols who steal our liberty and livelihoods daily.... we have elected a man who is working to DEFEAT the United States of America, and we are doing nothing about it!
O! The beams in your own eyes.
I hated Sanford for the “everybody who wants Obama to fail is an idiot” remark. But now I just feel sorry for him. Best to him and his family. Kind of pissed that he further sullied the GOP brand but...fine. No point kicking a guy when he’s down.
“these days?”
So do you think this behavior is new?
we haven’t come to accepting it....we are at the point where we are expecting it.
there are good men and women capable of these powerful positions and we can and do proudly elect them. this one, sad to say, is clueless from using too much viagra!
Maybe he met his new flame at the recent Bilderberger meeting,which he attended?
we as conservatives stand for something...yep it ain’t fair but egen dumbassed wal mart shoppers know there is a difference
Sanfords’s political instincts are unfit
start taking these key Republicans that defame and disgrace the Party out to a tall oak tree and hang them .
I am sick of hearing their lame excuses .
Set all the morals aside; from the pragmatic point of view this is still an outrage. Men who lie to and cheat on their wives will treat their constituents at least as poorly. Moreover they are at risk for blackmail. They must not be allowed to hold ANY political office. I wouldn’t hire one either.
Be realistic. It could be worse. He could have kept it under wraps, never dealt with it, never tried to make things right with his family, and never tried to face the public in the process just as many politicans are doing at this moment. People who are really down on him need to understand that he is human and humans make mistakes. Before you judge him, ask yourself if you had the power to do what he did and not get caught, would you do it?
SAUL ALINSKY’S RULES FOR RADICALS
Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.
Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”
Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”
Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.
Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”
Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”
How many Democrats do you think will no longer support Sanford now?
Wake up, the media makes a big fuss over our people's trangressions because they know that we will cast them out, we will do their work for them and rid ourselves of potentially strong players over what is actually a personal matter between Sanford and his family.