Posted on 06/24/2009 11:19:05 AM PDT by Chet 99
Sanford Press Conference: Live Thread
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Why would I be kidding? He’s term-limited anyway, he’s gone in January 2011. I don’t know whether they could make any impeachable charges stick on him. The guy who would take over for him isn’t exactly impressive (Andre Bauer, who was one of the two bigwigs pushing this story into the public eye). The General Assembly might try and impeach him, but I’d be surprised if they could convict and remove him. If he doesn’t want to go, I think he’s there until the end of his second term—damaged, lame-duck, and disgraced, certainly, but still there.
I’m not saying he shouldn’t resign, BTW. I’d just as soon he did.
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Reason enough to impeach him. Dereliction of duty, imcompetence.
The only reason this conservative Independent voted for that RINO McCain, was because of Sarah Palin; she is a conservative and she has a backbone!
I know about old; this old curmudgeon was born in 1930...;)
“I like Sanford, but it’s no longer an easy choice for 2012 if he runs, which I doubt will happen.”
WHAT?? It’s an easy, easy choice: he ain’t runnning (unless he’s delusional).
at least Letterman has some other Republican to make some jokes about for a while..
This is a big deal though as I had thought he was the favorite for 2012. He was a lock in SC, the state that always holds the key to the nomination.
Now, he’s out. It looks like it’ll come down to Romney, Huckabee, Pawlenty, and Palin. I don’t see anyone in the Senate running(McCain and Dole didn’t exactly work out with that route). Guys from the House simply don’t get it. So, it’s pretty much Governors, unless some outside figure like a Petraeus or Eisenhower or taht caliber runs.
It would seem that Huckabee will have the edge initially in IA and SC, and Romney in NH. Huckabee already won IA with basically no money and no recognition. Now, he’ll have both.
IA was 60% evangelical in 08. Now, if Huckabee doesn’t run, I think that opens things up for Palin a bit.
Romney will be the choice of the establishment and the east coast wing along with beltway conservatives. Unlike last time, they’ll get behind him much earlier.
Of course his downside is that 20,000 people won’t show up in a town that no one’s ever heard of in a state that hasn’t come close to going GOP since Reagan in 84 to see him walk down the street and say a few words about a state 4000 miles away.
In 08 IA was 56% male and 44% female. Palin’s strategy has to be to get a majority of women and she wins easily, even if she gets 40% she has a very good shot.
That’s how Hillary beat Obama in NH and OH and PA and TX and all those states. She owned the female vote at a 60%+ clip. Ironically, she LOST the female vote in IA to Obama. If she had worked harder on them and won them, she beats Obama in IA, and NH, and his campaign is finished by the end of the first week. I bet she has trouble sleeping at night when she thinks that all she had to do was get 40% of women in IA and she would have been President and she didn’t do it.
Now, IA has never elected a woman Sneator or Governor, so that would seem to be a problem. But the 60% evangelical would be a plus for Palin. So, her campaign would seem similar to Obama’s. She has to win in IA and that win pretty much sets the table for all that follows. IF she loses there, she’s in big trouble as Romney would win in NH and then she won’t have won any of the first two and taht pretty much ends things.
So, given a 60% evangelical base to start out with, a state where personal politics and retail politics matters, where a lot of money can go a long way, a state more rural and in tune with the “common man(or woman)”, a state that is mostly conservative and has few moderates or liberals or independents(only 12% in 08), there’d seem to be a big opening for her.
Huckabee is a key. If he runs and splits the evangelical vote, she’s in trouble. If he stays out, it’s all hers and she she should be in very good shape.
But the key will be for her to mine that female vote. If she can do that, perhaps even get some Clinton supporters to maybe switch registration and back her to bump the totals, she’ll be ok.
It was 56-44 male in 08. Interestingly, for the dems, it was the exact opposite at 57-43 female. Hillary only got 30% of the female vote to Obama’s 35%, her worst performance among women in any state. If she had gotten 40%+ she wins the caucus and is the President.
So, if Palin can get that 56-44 to say, even 54-46 and clear 40% of the female vote, she should win. She’ll be able to learn from Clinton’s mistake and focus on a target that should be workable. Given everything she has going for her and a whole 6 months plus to work on that assuming she announces no later than summer 2011, it would seem doable.
She wins IA and I think the train leaves the station as it did with Obama and the momentum is just too strong to overcome.
The other thing is that the media will realize that an Obama-Palin campaign will give them some of their highest ratings ever, not just for politics but likely overall TV as well. The debates would be like having 3 Super Bowls in 3 weeks. The convention would be a 4th. So they will push tha tto the hilt.
But Sanford being out and opening up SC clears a bunch of things up.
The same few Mittbotts will call critics 'haters' for daring pointing out all of Mitt's flip-flops over the years.
it is unbelievable and just simply insane. Sanford is just an idiot and he is incredibly weak.
We need strong people now with strong convictions and a solid moral base...
My head is still spinning over this...
Yes, I actually remembered your post when Sanford made his announcement. You sure hit it on the head. The lady in question might be a little older than 21 though, not that it matters a whole lot at this juncture, at least not for electability purposes.
These cheating threads need pictures of the parties involved to be worthwhile....
Thanks for your clarification. I’m trying to listen to Carr plus get a lot of other stuff done. The SC political insider did speak of liberals in SC who call themselves Republicans, but I obviously must have misunderstood the part where I thought he lumped Knotts into that category. Sorry. I’m sure that Knotts is the outer, though; Howie Carr mentioned multiple sources for that info.
Another government sleazeball is exposed.
The character of these people that get elected, and hold office within government at all levels, is just surreal.
What has Liz Cheney done to be a heartbeat away. The ticket would be derided, rightly or wrongly, as the most inexperienced ticket in history and it would likely stick.
And I'm from his "other" state so I know all about him.
Great news!
Psalm 113:8
It is better to trust in the Lord than put confidence in princes.
Psalm 146:3
Put not your trust in princes nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Which is why I don't know who I am backing in 2012. I know several people I won't support.
Sanford abandoned his responsibilities to the people of South Carolina for a piece of “Tail” I am glad we know about this sleeze bucket now and not in October 2012.
>> WHAT?? It’s an easy, easy choice: he ain’t runnning (unless he’s delusional).
Which is why I don’t know who I am backing in 2012. I know several people I won’t support. <<
Palin? Jindall?
Bueller, bueller?
NO F’ING WAY should he resign. You people gotta realize, we don’t have the luxury of giving up governor’s seats over what in the end is a minor personal peccadillo between two consenting adults. Let the recriminations be between him and his wife and his family. President? Probably not. But give up the seat over THIS? NO.
The rats don’t resign over affairs. The PRESIDENT didn’t resign over an affair. He needs to stand his ground.
It’s SEX people. It’s just a LITTLE SEX. People need to GET OVER IT and MOVE ON.
That's just wrong because Spitzer went around DESTROYING PEOPLE, anybody he didn't like. There is a WORLD of difference. And the religious fall to temptation just like the pagan.
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