Personally, it’s good to hear this story. For once, a guy decides to resign and make a comeback in Congress. So much for the idea that being a moral person is pathetic.
I didn’t really follow this race. Was gun-control an issue?
He’s got custody doesn’t he? I hear that Sanford and Son are moving to D.C..
Exactly! In the Clinton era we were incessently told that "it's just about sex, no big deal, has nothing to do with character". So, the Dems have now been foisted on their own talking point. How's that working out for ya?
Maybe, just maybe, the people of this district looked at the qualifications of each candidate and decided, for all his philandering, Mark Sanford had better experience and qualifications for this position than the sister of a so-called comedian.
He won every single county in our district. I was very surprised that he won Charleston county. A lot of poor, blacks and college students.
We know what we’re getting with Sanford. There is no bigger tight-a$$ with his own money (one of his bitter ex-wife’s biggest complaints about him in her book and interviews).
You know? I’m glad he’s not “beholdin’” to anyone except those real Americans that got out and elected him ( I am sure as Hell not talking about those ‘Colbert/Obama’ voters who made an ass out of themselves).
Likewise, as a ‘man-of-some-age’, I am not one necessarily to condemn him now because he (my assessment) came to a point in his life that status quo was not viable if he were to live his life to fullest, at least in his assessment.
Unlike many, many Democrats who hired lawyers, appropriated the most timely MSM underling, or some professor (think DKG), or just through their WH Press Secretary, this man (a Republican) came to a decision (my guess one that involved speaking to his new mate and knowing it was a lifelong decision) and stood behind it.
From what little I see, he isn’t some cad like Hillary’s Girlfriend’s Husband (Weiner?), he took the loss of job, the results with his wife, and stood on what he did and what he wants.
I say good.
The funniest part of this election was Rachel Maddow saying Sanford’s voters don’t mind adultery and lying. Did she ever say that about Clinton?
I'm not sure if that means that Republican voters have be come more forgiving than they have in the past, or if it means some people have come to realize that chasing shamed Republicans from office is a strategic error when the other side doesn't do that to their corrupt members.
Curious...
These, of course, are the same people that, if the results were reversed, would be crowing about how The Voice Of The People Has Been Heard.
One called Sanford an "odious immoral hypocrite who cheated on his wife and lied to the public"...and she's a HUGE Clinton fangirl.
Excuse me while I tinkle myself laughing.
Another said, "We really have no idea if they voted for Sanford or not. They make an input on computer screens, vulnerable-easily-hacked software runs, a result is reported. That result may be a tally of votes, or what some hacker/insider wanted it to be, or the effect of a programming bug -- no one knows or will ever know. There are no ballots to count or re-count -- it's an entirely faith-based. Any resemblance to democracy is purely cosmetic."
What I find especially interesting is (a) the US Justice Department monitored the voting in Charleston County, in which Sanford won, and most especially (b) this was the first election in SC in which one WAS REQUIRED TO SHOW I.D. TO VOTE.
~raises eyebrow~
Don't get me wrong - I've got no dog in this hunt. I'd prefer that our politicians were honest, moral, intelligent human beings. What I don't like is the amazing hypocrisy of the left.