I know there are more important issues to deal with, but I’m of two minds on Mark Sanford.
For the most part, I’m infuriated because I was a huge fan of his. Most of us were. He was one of my standard blog posts (along with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan) where whenever he said or wrote anything aboot anything, I made it a point to blog aboot it, usually concluding with Romney/Sanford ’12. He was the real deal, a fiscal conservative (with a touch of libertarianism) who actually expected other fiscal conservatives to behave like fiscal conservatives (go figure). He was also uniquely qualified to speak out against Dear Leaders reckless spending, since he had no ties to the Bush Administration’s reckless spending.
We were all counting on him, which is why the instant and justifiable reaction was that, “You’re under the bus now. Thanks a lot asshole.” But a part of me actually feels a little sorry for him…
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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.
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.
