Don’t ever, and I mean ever, underestimate the nastiness of the Chicago machine, along with the willing members of the press, to take down their opponents.
..meanwhile Kate from Jon and Kate + Eight asks how could her 15 minutes be over so quick....
Who will the next train wreck be? any guesses?
I don’t, but in order to believe that the Chicago machine was able to do this, and to choose to do it this week, you have to believe that they either manipulated Sanford into going to Argentina or that they have so much dirt on so many opponents that they can find someone who is misbehaving that particular week any time they want.
The conspiracy theory also has to include the Republican state senator who started asking questions on Monday and the Republican Lt. Governor who fed the fire.
This isn’t even the Chicago machine. This was two Republicans—Sanford’s own lieutenant governor and a senior state senator—who first started publicizing that he’d disappeared and nobody knew where he was. Did they know about the affair? Maybe, maybe not. But they were the ones that first got the story into the media eye locally in Columbia, and then it got picked up nationally.
I wonder if Andre Bauer and Jake Knotts are sitting back watching that presser and saying “whoa, he did WHAT?”
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