South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford seems to be the new GOP flavour of the moment right now, which is fine by me because I’m a fan. Any guy who shows up to the legislature with two pigs to protest their “pork barrel politics,” that’s some change I can believe in right there; I don’t care what you say.
Of course being flavour of the moment means increased attacks from the Democrat Party because he dare questioned Dear Leader (and offense that open minded and tolerant progressives like Stephanie Miller has insinuated should be punished by death), but that’s that game.
Where Mark Sanford really scores with those of us that have a (R-State) is that, in a time where the Republican Party is looking to “get back to its roots,” Sanford has a degree of credibility other’s don’t because he never drifted from those roots in the first place. I give you Reihan Salam from a recent Forbes Magazine article…
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I think as soon as you saw Lil’ Timmy Turbo Tax being mocked on Saturday Night Live (which politically I feel has been hee-sterical lately, something you haven’t been able to say aboot SNL since 1993), you knew the wheels were starting to come off. With two days, there were rumors that Steve Rattner was named “car czar” just in case Lil’ Timmy decided to “resign,” they would have someone in place.
Republican whip and conservative debutante Eric “Yes We” Cantor was on “Meet the Press” Sunday, with what I thought was a great interview. We have our share of snark at the expense of liberal media bias here at JBdotC (they give us a lot to work with), but I feel David Gregory has been doing an outstanding job as the new host.
For as much as I criticize 2012 speculation, I just can’t resist 2012 speculation. Especially when two of our favourite “speculative stocks” are going to be hanging out together, raising money, and having people like me wonder “is this the ticket?”
