Posted on 05/07/2013 6:12:57 PM PDT by servo1969
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Former Republican South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford revived a scandal-scarred political career by winning back his old congressional seat Tuesday in a district that hasn't elected a Democrat in three decades.
The comeback was complete when he defeated Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of political satirist Stephen Colbert. With 87 percent of the precincts reporting, Sanford had 54 percent of the vote.
Sanford, who turns 53 later this month, has never lost a race in three runs for Congress and two for governor. And he said before the votes were counted Tuesday that if he lost this race, he wouldn't run for office again.
"I think you can go back in and you can ask for a second chance in a political sense once," he said Tuesday after voting in the special election.
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LOL....great post.
So the can the 'Rats possibly call the voters in the district "racists"? / (Sarc.)
Electing immoral Democrats to show our disgust with immoral Republicans isn't a ticket to success.
“Hell hath no fury...”
If Sanford’s last name was ‘Kennedy’ he’d be thrown out of the family for lack of criminal activity. If he votes the right way, I couldn’t give a sh*t about any trumped up bilge the ex-wife throws about.
Megan “irma fan” McCain: No thanks for the mammaries. She represents the ultimate in throwaway slam pieces.
The neo-confederates too.
I’ve been trying to have them banned for years. Used to have some nut on here who claimed he was a member of a southern heritage “third party”, but he would never reveal what party that happened to be, and 90% of his activities on FR consisting of gloating when Democrats defeated Republicans.
This just in, Jenny Sanford dropped the charges in exchange for Mark paying 5K of her court fees.
So it was a shake down. Piece of sh*t.
Did Pelosi cause C-B to lose?
It’s sounds to me that these are the costs she incurred by bringing the charges to family court so she just backed off but made him pay the fees for her.
Yes, it is a House seat...then the House Dem’s vote yes to send things over to Harry.
Gee, a politician is a slimeball. Alert the media.
Fact is, he won because outside of his personal issues, he’s well-known, generally reliable vote (when not AWOL), and he ran on issues, not character assassination like his opponent did.
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