Mark Sanford–World’s Luckiest Man?

Not unlike President Obama releasing the 10 year budget with escalating defict numbers or the investigations of the CIA on the weekend with wheels down in Martha’s Vineyard.

President Obama policies live for another day.

The answer Amy is yes, emphatically. What’s surprising is that so many on the right support Sanford, just because he’s a Republican and refuse to hold him accountable for his hypocrisy. However, if anything good comes out of this it will be that some in the religious right community are beginning to question this political relationship with Republican office holders and the C Street Family. Apparently, they think it is distinctly not compatible with their Christian values.
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So perhaps those like freeinpa, who seem to resent holding any Republican accountable for their actions and immediately try to shift the focus back to Democrats, will recognize that Sanford, Ensign, Coburn are all engaging a supposedly Christian sect that is rejected by the religious right community and teaches them that they are not accountable to their constituents.
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How anyone on either side of the aisle would put up with a politician who believes that they do not have to live by the same moral codes as everyone else and sees nothing wrong with Sanford’s behavior other than it brings unwanted attention on their secret society is beyond me. It’s one thing to support your team, but you don’t see Democrats rallying to defend John Edwards and his likely illegitimate child. We resent that the hubris it takes to do this and run for the presidency or the cowardice it takes not to man up and acknowledge your child.
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Oh by the way Amy, as Time’s religious reporter, where are you on this Family C Street Story?

AS would appear to offer us this takeaway: the practitioners of her profession are either incompetent or irresponsible, and possibly both.

The old-timey response to this revelation would be “Stop the presses!”

Amy-I think it would fair to note that the Lt Gov’s call for Sanford to resign has very little to do with the governor’s affair. If you are going to blog about it you owed to your readers to put this into context. Your post makes it seem as if all Sanford’s troubles are because of his affair.

David Vitter danced around in adult diapers with prostitutes and he is still a Senator that still gets called conservative by people in your business. Sanford is the worlds second luckiest man.

I thought there was a local South Carolinian here who commented that the Lt Gov was even worse than Sanford.

Anyone else read or hear that?

That was me. Choosing between Sanford and Bauer is like choosing between living in raw sewage or the grease bucket outside your local Mexican eatery.

[...] Amy Sullivan in Swampland in Time: In other news…South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer is calling for Mark Sanford’s resignation right now at a press conference in Columbia. If you’ll remember, Sanford’s tearful, rambling confession of infidelity in June dominated the news for less than 24 hours before Michael Jackson died and dominated every airwave and headline. The past few months haven’t been exactly smooth for the South Carolina governor, but he’s remained strangely committed to staying in office, resisting advice from friends who are telling him his time is up and remaining in Columbia while his wife and sons relocate to Charleston. [...]

Are you kidding? Or just delirious?

“What’s surprising is that so many on the right support Sanford, just because he’s a Republican and refuse to hold him accountable for his hypocrisy.

Tell me which of the following did the left hold accountable:

Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Charles Rangel, Roy Jefferson, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Kennedy (your choice pick one), Mel Reynolds, Gerry Studds, Gus Savage, Sandy Berger, Bob Torrecelli, Marion Barry etc etc

Thanks for the local context billiecat.

While it may be true that the timing diverts attention from Sanford, to ask if he’s “the world’s luckiest man” because Kennedy died just now is inexcusably cynical.
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I’ll choose to believe that the cable news penchant for obsessing about one story to the exclusion of all else doesn’t always govern people’s decisions. Besides, since a lot of Sanford’s constituents probably watch Fox they aren’t actually getting all that much coverage of Kennedy’s death.

I suspect that if Sanford were a Dem, the freeper crazies like kattest and QH/Hula would be implicating him in the deaths of Jackson and Kennedy.

[...] Not a big fan of Amy Sullivan, but she’s right about this: [...]

SC Republicans – who are ready to impeach Sanford – don;t care a lick about teddy Kennedy. Sanford isn”t so lucky after all…

http://www.political-buzz.com/

Matt, buddy, can you take a rest from the blog-whoring? These little tidbits you drop here amount to fecal nuggets. The ellipsis, whoa boy, really tempts us to venture to your CW-production facility.

Escalating deficit numbers? Where have you been the last eight years, or 30 years for that matter? It looks to me from this Treasury site that Bush the second added 4.9 trillion dollars to the national debt during what was reported to be excellent economic times. Don’t take my word for it. What do your sources/calculations tell you?
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It’s nice that the Republicans have moved away from Cheney’s statement that “Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter” now that they are out of power. The time to repudiate Cheney was eight years ago.

If Sanford is the luckiest then Dominick Dunne is the unluckiest.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2009/08/dominick-dunne-obituary.html

P.S. jcapan we are off to see YOUR Orioles play MY Twins tonight. Please take it easy on us.