Why isn't it possible for a gay guy to be conservative? SC apparently believed that Graham was conservative along with probably being gay. His sexuality was something that they didn't want to be their business.
South Carolinians are FAR more upset with Sanford for treating his wife and children so badly than they are with Lindsey Graham probably being homosexual.
Neither can be rehabilitated politically. However, they are furious with Graham on policy issues. They are more furious with Sanford for his humiliation of SC and his family.
Place is so corrupt - even the Republicans are corrupt.
Should they choose to secede, I'd let'em go - even waive their portion of the national debt!
See my last. Also, as one of the Founders pointed out, it requires virtue (as defined in Judeo-Christian tradition) to exercise the self-control needful for the successful exercise of citizenship in a successful, constitutionally-constrained representative democracy like ours ..... whereas the mental habits of vice, he pointed out, would quickly doom the entire enterprise, necessitating "other arrangements."