South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s extramarital affair has 60 percent of South Carolinians ready for his resignation, according to a SurveyUSA poll. Larger majorities thought he had no right to disappear without informing the public (63 percent) or his staff (77 percent) of his whereabouts. The Charlotte Observer editorialized: “If you’re a governor, you do not go off without staying in touch with your office — whether you’re backpacking on the trail or bawling in Buenos Aires.” The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C., stopped short of calling for Sanford’s resignation but called it “inexcusable” that he left the state vulnerable by refusing to “take the simple step of turning his authority temporarily over to the lieutenant governor while he was out of the country.”
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Well he is not going to resign.
Well, unless you get that Argentinian chick to ask him to. That might do it.
Meanwhile, fat mouth Rush says Sanford did it because of President Obama! Give us a thread about that.
Sounds like Mark Sanford’s wife is being unreasonable and vindictive in this matter. Sanford better take the first plane back to Buenos Aires.
Could a tall gringo from South Carolina blend into Argentina politics?
Of course, fat mouth Limbaugh forgot.
Sanford’s cyber relationship with a married with children Argentine woman began 8 years ago.
What else was going on 8 years ago?
Oh YEAH, the incompetent george bush had been given the Presidency! Well THAT might have got him singing…
Fairy tales can come true it could happen to you..
A comprehensive list of political sex scandals here –
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/06/24/1976721.aspx
(Don’t worry, CONs. There are plenty of Democrats on the list.)
Wanna read some absolutely, sickeningly silly second-adolescence e-mails from Sanford to his Argentine girlfriend?
http://www.thestate.com/sanford/story/839350.html
From the South Carolina Code of Laws –
“Section 16-15-60. Adultery or Fornication.
Any man or woman who shall be guilty of the crime of adultery or fornication shall be liable to indictment and, on conviction, shall be severally punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than one year or by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
Welcome, governor.
Here’s bubba, your new girlfriend.
This is rich.
You couldn’t make it up.
Mark Sanford has announced he will reimburse the taxpayers of South Carolina “…for the Argentina leg of the trip.”
As if driving the state’s SUV to the Columbia airport and the Columbia-to-Atlanta flight to catch the Booty-Call Express to Buenos Aires was “official government business?!”
No wonder this kook was a rising star in the Repubic Party.
He did say he’d reimburse the state for the all expense paid trip to Argentina, the trip he took to better International relations and copulation, er I mean cooperation!
Should Sanford really take a hike now?
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Yes, get to steppin’.
Jed
Posted June 26, 2009 at 7:48 am | Permalink
Wanna read some absolutely, sickeningly silly second-adolescence e-mails from Sanford to his Argentine girlfriend?
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No, not really.
BJ you’re hilarious.
You know more about what Rush Limbaugh says than anyone on here.
You hate him so much stop listening. He may just go off the air!
My my. Color me shocked. The Libs have nose trouble. This is the governor of South Carolina. Elected by the people of South Carolina. But you people can’t keep your nose out of his and/or South Carolina’s business. Go figure.
I won’t quibble, take a hike Governor and keep moving.
“Regular” –
It was “hiking the Appalachian Trail” that got him in trouble in the first place.
Your “…take a hike…” advice still isn’t working.
“South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford sat in her oceanfront living room Friday, recalling how her husband repeatedly asked permission to visit his lover in the months after she discovered his affair.”
OOhhhhh please let me go “f” her. I loooove her.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090626/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_governor_wife
Christians disgust me. All of you. Including the moderates and liberals who won’t stand up to this perversion of the faith that will now have all the good Fundies “forgiving” Sanford for putting his wife and children through this heartbreak.
You make me sick. I know dozens of “Godless liberals” who are better human beings than you will ever be.
If this country follows your phoney “morality” we deserve every bit of destruction it will bring on us.
You make me sick.
Celtic I think you are being overly critical of Christians. I said from the beginning he was the lowest of the low for putting his family through this. The state should kick his butt out and let his wife take over the job. She was his official number one advisor.
Yeah, and you guys will be doing “politics as usual” in the pews this Sunday. Shame on you. God deserves better.
Celtic is just another low wattage thinker who takes the failures of an individual and applies it to a group.
Keep him on. A constant reminder of the hypocrisy of the right and their do as I say not as I do attitude towards everyone else is always good for a couple of good jokes on late night teevee. You know, for the comic value.