Mark Sanford: Version AuH20
I have a buddy of mine who you would say is one of them “liberals.” I used to refer to him as the Colmes to my Hannity until he went apeshit on my one day, and while the Richard Cohen to my Joe Scarborough might be more accurate, it doesn’t quite roll off the tongue. Bottom line he’s someone I disagree with regularly, and one of the few I enjoy talking to.
He showed me an article where someone in Vega$ placed odds on who the Republican nominee in 2012 will be, and wanted to know who I thought. My feeling is that before we look forward four years, we should remember that four years ago the two nominees were going to be Hillary and Rudy, a guy named George Allen was the second coming of Ronald Reagan, and Obama was the guy we were hunting in Afghanistan. I think it’s silly to talk aboot who is going to be the future leader…except of course when I’m looking for something to blog aboot, or holding a straw poll with the YRs.
But for the sake of argument (and having twenty minutes before the movie started), I said 2012 depends on how successful the Obama Administration turns out to be. That will determine if we run a “Ronald Reagan” (Mitt Romney), or a “Walter Mondale” (most likely Tim Pawlenty). I think I’d like to add a third, a “Barry Goldwater” role, which I can see going to South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford.
The “Myth of Goldwater” has grown to the point where I think some people believe he was eight feet tall and killed LBJ with his bare hands. In a nutshell, he was a principled conservative who got the nomination in 1964, and while he only had regional appeal and got trounced in the election, many credit the Goldwater to be what started the movement that eventually led us to Ronald Reagan.
This is where I can see Mark Sanford coming in, who has been the most vocal opponent on the national stage speaking out against the all things related to Obamonomics. His fiscal conservative bona fides are near flawless (look up the story of him letting two pigs run loose in the S.C. legislature), and when you consider that one of the strongest voices we have speaking out is from the BRITISH PARLIAMENT, the field is wide open for Sanford to really step up.
I definitely prefer Sanford as the second half of a Romney-Sanford ticket, because while I can see him picking up a few states that McCain lost, I can’t see him winning. If Obama’s popularity doesn’t kill him nationally, his southern accent will. Plus it’s near impossible for a candidate to win nationally by just preaching to the choir.
However “preaching to the choir” is how you get them to sing…
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I am glad Sanford is getting the credit he deserves. I think Sanford at the bottom of a ticket would do us a great disservice. It needs to be Sanford 2012….we’ll figure out the VP later.