Posted on 06/24/2009 5:26:19 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Brian on Fox and Friends now says the Governor took a Cruise...
This is getting weirder!!
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Well, I give a cr@p if Obama's admin is somehow behind this.
Note to Sanford: If you're into something up to your neck, grow a pair and come clean. It's your only chance.
There’s no way. A cruise ship can’t get to Argentina and back in five days.
People are overreacting on this story. We need to settle down and see what comes out of it.
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Conservatives need to cross this guy off the list of potential POTUS candidates for 2012 immediately. We have a pathetic excuse for a list as it is.
So did the Dems and look what happened.
I’m thinking so
I really like the guy’s political positions and he’s clearly bright enough (in some ways, anyway). But he’s charisma-challenged and this escapade may be enough of a warning signal to keep the Pubbies out of some sort of Edwards-like scandal on a national level.
Overreacting?
The government traced his cell phone and couldn’t find him.. his wife says she has no idea where he’s at.
Then a few days later she says he’s hiking.
Then a reporter finds him at the Atlanta airport and he says he’s been on a cruise.. and as you said.. there’s no way to get to Argentina and back in 5 days????
Maybe I missed something but isn’t the problem that OTHER people were speculating on where he was and now he’s cleared it up? Didn’t he have a communication path back to his office?
On MSNBC they are treating this like it’s as serious as John Edwards’ affair in terms of derailing a potential GOP candidate.
I admit it. I don’t understand why this is a “scandal.”
His state had an emergency and his decisions were overrode by the state supreme court.
I imagine since the state supreme court has assumed his responsibilities, he had quite a bit to consider about his future in government.
I agree, that’s the most obvious guess. Second most likely, I suppose, would be a boyfriend.
WTH is he hiding????
Yep. He is either being blackmailed a la Ensign or he is a full-on space cadet.
It's possible to fly to Argentina and take the cruise from there.
ok, DJ, we chatted about this yesterday and you were defending him. does this new twist to the story not shake your confidence even a bit??
His WH aspirations are over.
Ummmm..., reminds me of Aimee Semple McPherson... :-)
On May 18, 1926, McPherson went to Ocean Park Beach, north of Venice Beach, with her secretary, to go swimming. Soon after arrival, McPherson disappeared. It was generally assumed at the time that she had drowned.
According to PBS’ American Experience segment “Sister Aimee”, which aired on April 7, 2007, McPherson was scheduled to hold a service on the very day she vanished. McPherson’s mother appeared and preached at the service in her place, and at the end announced, “Sister is with Jesus”, sending parishioners into a tearful frenzy. Mourners crowded Venice Beach, and the commotion sparked days-long media coverage of the event, fueled in part by William Randolph Hearst’s Los Angeles Examiner, and even including a poem by Upton Sinclair commemorating the “tragedy”. Daily updates appeared in newspapers across the country, and parishioners held day-and-night seaside vigils. A futile search for the body resulted in one parishioner drowning and another diver dying from exposure.
Around the same time, Kenneth G. Ormiston, engineer for KFSG, also disappeared. According to American Experience, some believed McPherson and Ormiston, a married man with whom McPherson had developed a close friendship and had been having an affair, had run off together. About a month after the disappearance, McPherson’s mother, Minnie Kennedy, received a ransom note, signed by “The Avengers”, which demanded a half million dollars to ensure kidnappers would not sell McPherson into “white slavery”. Mrs. Kennedy later said she tossed the letter away, believing her daughter to be dead.
On June 23, 1926, just weeks after her disappearance, McPherson stumbled out of the desert in Agua Prieta, Sonora, a Mexican town just across the border from Douglas, Arizona. She claimed that she had been kidnapped, drugged, tortured, and held for ransom in a shack in Mexico, then had escaped and walked through the desert for about 13 hours to freedom.
Several problems were found with McPherson’s story. Her shoes showed no evidence of a 13-hour walk; they had grass stains on them after a supposed walk through the desert. The shack could not be found. McPherson showed up fully dressed while having disappeared wearing a bathing suit, and was wearing a wrist watch given to her by her mother, which she had not taken on her swimming trip. A grand jury convened on July 8, 1926, to investigate the matter, but adjourned 12 days later citing lack of evidence to proceed. However, several witnesses then came forward stating that they had seen McPherson and Ormiston at various hotels over the 32-day period.
There were five witnesses that claimed to have seen Aimee McPherson at a seaside cottage at Carmel-by-the-Sea, which was rented out by her former employee Kenneth G. Ormiston for himself and his mistress. Mr. Hersey claimed to have seen Mrs. McPherson on May 5 at this cottage, and then later went to see her preach on August 8 at Angelus Temple to confirm she was the woman he had seen at Carmel. His story was confirmed by Mrs. Parkes, a neighbor who lived next door to the Carmel cottage, by a Mrs. Bostick who rented the cottage to Mr. Ormiston under his false name “McIntyre”, by Ralph Swanson, a grocery clerk, and by Ernest Renkert, a Carmel fuel dealer who delivered wood to their cottage.
The grand jury re-convened on August 3, and received further testimony, corroborated by documents from hotels in McPherson’s handwriting. McPherson steadfastly stuck to her story that she was approached by a young couple at the beach who had asked her to come over and pray for their sick child, and that she was then shoved into a car and drugged with chloroform. However, when she was not forthcoming with answers regarding her relationship with Ormiston (who was recently estranged from his wife), Judge Samuel Blake charged McPherson and her mother with obstruction of justice. During this time, to combat the bad publicity in the newspapers, she refused to take an oath of secrecy and spoke freely about the court trials on her private radio station. This worried the district attorney who believed McPherson had the ability to shape public opinion and thus the direction of the trial.
Theories and innuendo abounded: she had run off with a lover; she had had an abortion; she was recovering from plastic surgery; she had staged the whole thing as a publicity stunt.[citation needed] No satisfactory answer was reached. Ironically, shortly after The Examiner erroneously reported that Los Angeles district attorney Asa Keyes had dropped all charges, Keyes did just that, on January 10, 1927, due to a lack of reliable and consistent evidence.
The tale inspired a satirical song, “The Ballad of Aimee McPherson”, popularized by Pete Seeger. The song explains that the kidnapping story was unlikely because a hotel love nest revealed that “the dents in the mattress fit Aimee’s caboose”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_McPherson
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Let’s hope that it doesn’t turn into this kind of a thing with the governor... LOL...
Brian K might have been just goofing around like he normally does.
Look at the articles that have been coming out. How many start with “sources said?” Sanford has enemies in the SC Republican Party and the state government, not least his own lieutenant governor and powerful Republican members of both houses of the General Assembly. They’ve been carefully fanning the flames of this story in the media ever since Monday.
Look, if he told his staff to lie about where he went and the “hiking the AT” story comes out to be a lie he asked his staff to tell, then yeah, he’s toast for 2012 and deservedly so. But I’m not going to push the panic button until then.
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so his staff has been lying to media (or alternatively, they did not know it either, which is even worse).
bizarre incident. Anybody wanting to be president should look what this weirdo is doing and learn what not to do..The image and perception of a leader is very important, and frankly, given the outright lies and changing explanations, this does not reflect well on him.
There is nothing wrong if the governor wants to take few days off, but he cannot just disappear and go abroad. Governor is not a private citizen. He has to be on call 24/7 or if not possible, a temporary transfer of power needs to be done. Since he went abroad and turned off his phone, transfer of power sound like the right thing to do.
I would be fired immediately if I just took off and my co-workers would try to unsuccessfully reach me for days..
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