Posted on 06/24/2009 5:26:19 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
I don’t think you will see Freepers attacking her — at least not most Freepers... I know the Bots will go after her even stronger now. I see Rich Lowry alreay wrote at NRO that this all helps Romney. I sent him an email and told him his elite media group at NRO, etc., may think he is the cats meow, but in fly over country Palin looks better and better and we don’t care that she didn’t go to Harvard.
I have. You don’t like the answer. I’m sorry if I don’t lay back and take the attacks of liars, bullies and thugs and beg for more. I’ve got the scars for standing my ground when it was the right thing to do. But to those whom have credibility here for whom I may have been brusque with in this thread, once the truth was out, I did offer an apology at once, and they appeared to accept it and moved on. Why won’t you ? It included you, too.
“Now I am confused, are you saying that all his positions and actions were phony.”
I probably wouldn’t say all, no, but you have to admit his credibility has taken a huge hit today which would cause one to question Sanford’s convictions.
Don’t misunderstand me, I am not defending Sanford, Ensign, or any of the others. I do think they ALL had better come clean because if they don’t Rahmbo will do it for them one way or the other.
Yes, he has not had a lot of spark as long as I can remember... now we know why.
In your desire to defend this loser, you are being intentionally dense.
The SW troll types will here, they were attempting to start a flamewar against me in this thread to try to take me down over a 3-year old grudge.
I have to admit I remain shellshocked. I still don’t know what Sanford should do. Part of me thinks he should resign, but that would leave the state in the hands of someone who is the epitome of the statist Democrat-lite RINO establishment. His first obligation is to his family. He may be in too broken a shape to complete his term, unfortunately. If he’s able to mend the damage with his family, he might be able to do so with the people of SC and conclude his term with some level of honor intact. At least he was man enough to not lie about it to our faces like a certain ex-President. The lie is worse than the sin itself.
You never once apologized for your nasty name calling. Show me where you did. You only apologized for being wrong about Sanford but you never addressed how you treated your fellow FReepers.
I’m sorry if I don’t lay back and take the attacks of liars, bullies and thugs and beg for more.
Now, how odd is this? You have just described your posts over the last two days.
Same here — we do know why. I feel so sorry for his boys to have to go through this.
Someone said on Hannity that his youngest child is 8 years old, this means he started this relationship right around the time this child was born.
It has been going on for 8 years and he still ran for Governor? How dumb is that?
I think Sanford is going to have to decide what is best for him, his family, his state... we all need to try and unemotionally invest in these men and women and look at them all with a honest, or as honest as possible, eye.
Yes. You were wrong and I take no joy in that. He let alot of us down...not just you. But what you did to ALOT of fellow freepers on this thread was absolutely unconscionable.
He tried to say it didn’t get serious until last year. I still think he is either lying to the people or to himself or both, his body language was very telling...
I'm done with this.
Who knows? Anyway, in this case Sanford was dirty, although I argued with people who made the claim before we had facts to prove it.
We're going in circles here. What you want me to apologize for is rightfully criticizing people for jumping the gun and condemning and lynching a man, a respected man, an accomplished Conservative, before he had a chance to DEFEND and explain himself. You won't ever get an apology for that. I was wrong about his conduct, but I was not wrong for chastising that lynch mob mentality. You all should've known better than to behave like a pack of hyenas and jackals. That was beneath the dignity of this website, and you know that it was.
I’ve tried to do that. A lot of folks mistook my passion for being a defender of ANYTHING that he does, and that’s not the case. As you can see, people are still angry at me because I dared stare them down when they sought to convict and lynch him before we knew the facts. I thought Conservatives behaved better than that.
My post #897 explains my position. The man was owed basic respect and common courtesy until we knew what happened as it came from his mouth. That’s what separates us from the savages. I’d offer that same defense of anyone that had earned that respect. It’s unfortunate some here don’t understand that and still wish to attack me on that point.
“Actually....as a “representative” of the people of his state....it is their business. And as a person that has dipped his toe into National Politics...it becomes our business also”
I agree with you but would like to expound on your point. Extramarital sex is nothing new, you can see that personally and quit often in family histories, it has ripped many families apart, that is the harm and the “sin”.
Duty and honor affects colleges and constituents more directly but it all reflects on the character of the person, their ability to doing their job but also if they subject to “pressure” because of their secrets. That is why clearances and vetting are so important.
I don’t know how Governors Sanford’s “outing” came about, we may never know, but I would suspect (looking at it now) that it was known and he refused to submit to pressure (which I would respect) or his outing was more important that what could be gained (not so much respect). I think the latter was the case with Newt Gingrich. These issues need to be dealt with reasonably and based on factual information. It that had been the case there would have been one tread with 50-100 replies which would have covered what was known.
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