Sanford and Sins

[yeahwho]

Of all the fucked up hypocritical bullshit, another high profile politician from the "Family Values Party" has an affair. Mark Sanford has been creating quite a ruckus, his babbling teary eyed confession is hardly as bizarre as his outsourcing of adultery (http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/gop-governor-outsources-adultery/).

Gail Collins of the NYTimes wrote a wonderful piece today called "The Love Party (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/opinion/25collins.html?_r=1)",

On behalf of the people of Illinois and New York, I’d like to thank South Carolina for giving us Mark (“I’ve been unfaithful to my wife”) Sanford. Finally, a governor who’s weirder than Rod Blagojevich and less responsible than Eliot Spitzer.

This is just another in a long line of crazy fucked up people who put the higher moral ground label on other politicians only to succumb to their own superior douchieness.

LMAO.

[RobMoney$]

The party leaders are asking him to step down,
so you gotta give them that at least.

[yeahwho]

The party leaders are asking him to step down,
so you gotta give them that at least.

I haven't seen that yet, put a link up.

[yeahwho]

PS; you know Rob you're missing the chance to jump on the bandwagon and blame Obama for this, like the conservatives fearless leader has. Limbaugh suggests Obama may be catalyst for Sanford's affair (http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200906250024)

[yeahwho]

The party leaders are asking him to step down,
so you gotta give them that at least.

I haven't seen that yet, put a link up.

Found it (http://news.aol.com/article/sanford-argentina-scandal/538741), I really like his wife's stand....

Sanford's wife, Jenny, said in a statement Wednesday that she had kicked him out two weeks ago and asked him not to speak to her while she came to terms with his infidelity, but spokesman Joel Sawyer said they were together at the family's beach house Thursday. The Sanfords have four sons.

That is refreshing.

[RobMoney$]

PS; you know Rob you're missing the chance to jump on the bandwagon and blame Obama for this, like the conservatives fearless leader has. Limbaugh suggests Obama may be catalyst for Sanford's affair

Dude, I don't listen to limbaugh, hannity, stewart, maher, colbert, or any of the other national talking heads on either side.

I usually rip on people here for even quoting someone like that for being a sheep.

Don't associate me with anyone like that.

[yeahwho]

Dude, I don't listen to limbaugh, hannity, stewart, maher, colbert, or any of the other national talking heads on either side.

I usually rip on people here for even quoting someone like that for being a sheep.

Don't associate me with anyone like that.

You claim your a conservative and you trash everyone, except Bill Clinton. Which is absurd, just trying to figure out your angle. Plus you have nothing but contempt for President Obama. Which pretty much sums up your viewpoint to be very close to Limbaugh and Hannity.

Perhaps your unaware of how you are perceived? Because it isn't at all as a moderate. I thought for sure you claimed you were a republican.

[RobMoney$]

So everyone who doesn't worship at the alter of Obama must be like Limbaugh?



That's some seriously narrow-minded type shit there, holmes.
Kinda like saying all blacks/ jews/ gays/ whatever are all alike.

[yeahwho]

So everyone who doesn't worship at the alter of Obama must be like Limbaugh?



That's some seriously narrow-minded type shit there, holmes.
Kinda like saying all blacks/ jews/ gays/ whatever are all alike.

Here's the thing that I'm going to tell you now, I along with several other posters on here have told you in clear written English that we do not "worship at the alter of Obama".

The points you have been trying to make are vague, usually not funny and not provocative. You are predictable. You feel as if you have a higher level of intelligence than most everyone you converse with on this site and when things start to get uncomfortable you easily go to plan B, insults.

Why? I feel as if everybody here is more than smart enough to get their opinion across without being full of animosity.

Back on topic, seeings how you really liked Bill Clinton doesn't it give you a little bit of satisfaction that one of the Republicans who called for his impeachment is now in the same position as Clinton? The "Family Values" Governor was outsourcing adultery, sort of a karmic kind of feeling.

I know it makes me extremely happy, because lets face it, he is a hypocrite of the highest degree.

[yeahwho]

This Sanford guy is political gold. I guess with all the media focused on Michael Jackson he's figuring to maneuver in the back pages a little, you know just sort of pretend it's cool to fly out of the Country, have affairs then fly back and apologize.

S.C. Gov. Sanford Meets With Cabinet, Rejects Calls to Resign (S.C. Gov. Sanford Meets With Cabinet, Rejects Calls to Resign)

Sanford apologized to members of his Cabinet for "letting you down."

Perhaps this is the new Republican face. Sins of the past and immoral acts are forgiven. Philandering is fine if you proclaim to be a "Family Values Republican". Obama may be driving the Republicans to this stage of change. According to Rush Limbaugh.

[kaiser soze]

Yeah you gotta love Repubs rejecting calls...like Rove somehow worming his way out of a subpoena. How do they do it?

Have you heard about FOX news identifying him as a Democrat (as they and many other news outlets have done for scandalous repubs before)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/24/fox-news-identifies-sanfo_n_220377.html

Update: Fox News has apologized for identifying Sanford as a Democrat. Read that apology here.

Additional Reporting By Sahil Kapur

When does an embattled Republican suddenly become an embattled Democrat? When Fox News is covering him, of course.

The network known for its conservative leaning ran footage of Mark Sanford admitting to an extramarital affair on Wednesday with a Chyron identifying the South Carolina Republican -- near tears -- as a D, for Democrat.

Here's a bunch of other political affiliation "fuck ups"

http://intershame.com/on/Fox_News

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/24/746456/-Fox-has-mislabeled-Republican-scandals-before,-more-picts

[yeahwho]

Scandal, religion and the base, this LATimes article looks at the Mark Sanford extramarital affair from a different light,

Will scandals inspire evangelicals to stray from Republican Party? (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gop-sanford28-2009jun28,0,443985.story)

"Episode after episode like this makes it relatively difficult for Republicans to say with a straight face that they're a party that stands on moral issues that evangelicals care about," said Dale Kuehne, an associate political science professor at Saint Anselm College and a pastor in Nashua, N.H. "You look at Mark Sanford and Larry Craig and say, 'Is there anyone we can trust?' "

Margaret Feinberg, for one, has grown increasingly skeptical of all politicians. The thirtysomething evangelical author from Colorado doesn't differentiate between parties; she's turned off by all of the seamy revelations of low-life behavior in high-flown places.

"The . . . rumors and sexual details make me want to avoid the voting booth altogether," Feinberg said. "My head says that every vote counts, but my heart aches at the impropriety. How can I trust someone to uphold the laws of the land when they can't uphold their marriage vows?"

[yeahwho]

Watching this story unfold has been great. Alec Baldwin wrote a column saying everyone should just leave poor Mr. Sanford alone but Alec Baldwin is pretty much a moron who just wanted some of that spotlight getting hogged out by much more interesting people.

The main problem is Governor Sanford loves to ramble on and on and on and on on and on and on and on about his personal affairs, as if he cannot get enough of spouting out what a Romeo he is, a torrid hot lover that also happens to be the Governor of South Carolina.

Nearly two dozen GOP lawmakers called on Sanford to step down, saying he has lost credibility, in part by making such personal comments to the Associated Press, some of which contradicted earlier statements.

"What we saw in that interview was just him being irrational," state Sen. Larry A. Martin (R) said in an interview. "The very idea that he would be that candid, that frank, that brutally honest about his feelings for the woman in Argentina versus his wife versus the other girlfriends, I just find that incredible. Rational people don't do that."

"He doesn't need to be talking to reporters," Martin added. "He needs to go find him some professional help. That's just the facts."

S.C. Governor Resists Pressure to Resign
washingtonpost.com (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/01/AR2009070101801.html?hpid=moreheadlines)

This guy is impossible to ignore.