The kerfuffle over South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s slipping the media (and his partisan critics’ leash) doesn’t show any signs of abating as of yet. Skimming of the commentary has been an interesting lesson because if one scrapes away the partisanship the other bit of hysteria centers around Sanford as husband.
Cassandra covers this in her usual pithy style concerning a commenter that attacks Sanford’s wife for being “unconcerned”
[commenter] Really? Not concerned? Your husband just picks up and leaves, without telling you anything, and that’s fine with you? His phones are off, he’s gone for several days, over Father’s Day weekend, and you’re not worried at all?Control issues, anyone? We’ve heard rumors of wives who don’t remove their husbands’ testicles before they let them out of the house each day, but frankly we don’t believe them.
Ace finds it “weird” that Jenny Sanford told the Associated Press she didn’t know where her husband was but maybe he should consider two things, first the AP didn’t give an exact quote from her and maybe she was lying to the press in order to protect her husband’s privacy. I know there has been many a time that I’ve told some pushy telemarketer “No, my husband is not available right now and I have no idea when he is getting back.” If I were in Mrs. Sanford’s position I would demur from setting the dogs on my husband, too.
Good marriages are not only great partnerships but they also long endure when each person respects the other’s desires for “me” time in addition to the usual “we” time. And neither partner should be the Parent (“Mommy, may I?”) in the relationship.
Go back and re-read Cassie’s entry; she’s been adding to it all day. Are she and I married to the only real men left in the entire freakin’ country? Do we only want Momma’s boys or Daddy’s girls in the White House from here on out? Teddy Roosevelt is doing backflips in his grave right now: apparently no one is allowed to go on a writing retreat, take a road trip, or hike, hunt, or fish if they have any political ambitions at all. Unbelievable.
Yep, looks that way … well, at least for any politician with an “R” after their name.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 8:23 am #
Argentina?
When Teddy almost killed himself exploring the Amazon, he took his son with him and he told his wife where he was going.
The hyenas of the media love to cut an up and coming Republican from the herd and evicerate him or her, I get that Darleen. But this handling of the matter by the Governor’s staff has been hamfisted and has made this story have legs now.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 8:30 am #
Darleen, I am all for going on an adventure when it suits you. And I do not think the Governor need brief everyone on his travel itinerary. But when he returned after the thing became a story, you don’t make up fake stories to the media. That is like trying to calm down piranahs with buckets of blood.
How about saying it is none of your business? Then let them spin their wheels. This appears to have been handled in a hamfisted manner.
Comment by SarahW on 6/24 @ 8:45 am #
Oh, the dissembling to nosy inquiry is possible. So there is a possibility he isn’t a total flake, with regards to his respect for his family members.
But assuming the worst, there’s no excuse for taking off and being unavailable in parts unknown to your own spouse. That’s not “manliness” is jerkiness. I wouldn’t stand for it. My husband wouldnt have to ask my permission to take time for himself, but he would have show some respect for my feelings.
Comment by Log Cabin on 6/24 @ 8:46 am #
Gosh, you don’t think Sanford being a potential challenger to the messiah has anything to do with this dustup, do you?
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 8:48 am #
It is possible he told his wife where he was going and this is about not wishing to discuss details with the press. I get that. A state governor is not the President, he should be able to get a little alone time if he needs it. But if this was just about taking an adventure, don’t create a quasi scandal by having your staff lie about it to the press. That is just stupid.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 8:49 am #
Log Cabin, of course it does. Which is all the more reason for Sanford’s staff not to BS about it to the press.
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 8:52 am #
Oh, for the sake of fuck. A hamfisted manner? The media and the Left went apeshit – conspiracy theories, oh whatever will we do hysteria, and all sorts of other shit – just because a guy wanted to go hike the AT, and did not get clearance with the media prior to doing so. Good fucking lord. Hamfisted? Bzzzzzzttttttt. Wrong.
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 8:53 am #
I am going to go take a shit. I will be incommunicado for several minutes. Should you try to reach me, if will not be answering the phone. Should that make you hysterical, if you call my Better Half, she will not know my exact location, which should send you right over the edge.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 8:53 am #
WHERES WALDO?
CAPS off
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 8:55 am #
Did he tell his staff to lie about it? Or did they make something up because they did not know?
Comment by Brock on 6/24 @ 8:58 am #
I prefer the honest approach. Such as “Yes, my wife is home, but you’re an unwelcome telemarketer and will not be speaking with her. Goodbye.”
Frankly, as a husband, I’d be very worried if my wife just disappeared for five days without saying where she’s going. She’s not on a leash by any means, but I love her and am concerned for her safety. I think it would be weird if she really didn’t know. I suspect she just lied because she’s not as confrontational as I am (my answer would have been “He’s off camping. No, I’m not going to tell you where. It’s a private activity and none of your business.”)
Comment by maggie katzen on 6/24 @ 9:01 am #
Hey, has anyone seen JD? he’s not answering his phone.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 9:01 am #
I would of said
Sarah Palins giving him outdoor lessons
Comment by Matt on 6/24 @ 9:02 am #
I’ve sorta been in the same situation his staff was in – ie covering for a boss who you know is doing something kinda crazy but telling the client what he is actually doing may end badly so you lie. IE its the day before trial and the boss is off playing golf- the client calls wanting to talk to him – now if I tell the client “he’s playing golf” not only will the client likely fire my firm, my boss would then fire me, even though I was telling the truth and I had not been told to lie. Hiking in the US sounds a little better then “well he’s disappeared out of the country”, I guess.
Sanford should know better- I don’t think he did anything wrong but perception is everything and for a presidential hopeful, its the only thing. Public servants are held to a higher standard and the gov. of a state probably shouldn’t be in the habit of picking up and going out a weeklong excursion without taking precautions (like planning ahead).
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 9:02 am #
AWOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Call the media.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 6/24 @ 9:03 am #
Joe, you do seem to be jumping to conclusions and the press is leading you to them.
This guy just went up a few notches in my estimation. Any time you can fuck with the media, go for it. And of course his wife knew where he was. Or not. If that’s there thing, it’s their thing. Go get em’ Gov Sandford.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 9:03 am #
JD, having an R after your name does not mean you have your staff say you are hiking in Georgia and then go, oopps, he really was in Argentina. This story was nothing and Sanfords idiot staff made it into something. Hamfisted? Yeah. That is exactly what it was.
We can rail how the press and Sanfords enemies are mendacious, but it does not help things when Sanford does self inflicted injury by not getting in front of this BS story from the get.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 9:04 am #
” outdoor lessons”
much better!
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 9:05 am #
Oh for the sake of fuck. Hiking the AT for 5 days is not doing something crazy, Matt. It is essentially walking along a dirt path, a not too uncommon activity.
My Better Half would have said the exact same thing in the same situation.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 9:06 am #
What Sanford should have said: Fuck you, it is none of your business. That would have raised him a few notches for fucking with the media.
Frankly, I was with you yesterday when it came out he was hiking. But when the story changed to him being in Argentina? That just feeds the press frenzy. It is stupid.
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 9:06 am #
Fuck that, Joe. Take it up with his staff. How was he supposed to get in front of the fucking story while on the AT?
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 9:08 am #
Hiking the AT is great. I have done it myself. Going to Argentina is great too (I have not done it yet, but I want to do so).
But when you are a Governor, with an R after your name making you a target, and you tell the press you were hiking the AT and then switch to, oh I was really in Argentina, alone, and suggest his wife did not know where he was (which may or may not be true), that is not the way to handle the media.
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 9:09 am #
This whole thing is really just a bunch of media people acting hysterical. It is silly beyond all belief. If I was Sanford, I would hold a press conference every time I left the room, every time I had to go to the bathroom, and anytime I needed to change locations.
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 9:09 am #
I see Joe has bought in to the media narrative.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 9:10 am #
JD that is the whole point, he was not on the Applicachian Trail, Sanford was in Argentina. You are 24 hours behind this story. Catch up.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 9:11 am #
he is the news cycle..
tell the media to fluff off..
i wish someone would take them on [media)
my mom says I think I’m sick of being a coward…
but she just wants me to “graduate” to big boy pants..
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 9:13 am #
Fuck you, Joe. He could have been in Timbuktu for all I fucking care.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 9:14 am #
i think a ‘lil story mite be he don’t want obamas money that
comes with strings..and things…
thats a theme i’ve noticed in the state run media…
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 9:14 am #
The media can all go fuck themselves. This is not about the media anymore, I do not care about their narrative, this was a non story that Sanfords enemies were just churning. It was nothing and a competent staff could have slapped it away like a fly. Yet Sanford’s staff managed to make it into a frenzy by not knowing where he was, then claiming he was hiking the Applicachian Trail, then saying opps, he was really down Argentina way…alone.
I like Sanford. But this is a self inflicted injury.
Comment by SDN on 6/24 @ 9:14 am #
Let the “Palinization” begin….
and continue until the next hack to run with this kind of crap encounters half a dozen “New Sons of Liberty”, a barrel of hot tar, and a sack of turkey feathers in a dark alley….
My sense of humor with this junk has been out for a smoke for quite a while.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 9:15 am #
Fuck you too JD. Try to keep up you slow motherfucker.
Comment by SmokeVanThorn on 6/24 @ 9:17 am #
All this moaning about worrying about “perception” and “giving the story legs” sounds an awful lot like the pussified hand wringing about Rush’s “I hope he fails” comment.
Fuck the MSM – it’s well past the time to stop acting like victims of abuse who blame themselves and make excuses for their abusers.
Comment by sdferr on 6/24 @ 9:17 am #
The President of the United States is a moron who lies openly (“I have been consistent”) about his policy in a press conference with regard to an ongoing potential world historical revolution for freedom at the heart of Khomeini’s Islamic tyranny and isn’t immediately called on it and hammered to the ground. The President of the United States has Jimmy Carter out playing footsie with the declared terror organization Hamas on his behalf, promising god only knows what to them in the name your government, but the Governor of South Carolina goes to Argentina instead of hiking in his neighboring state of Georgia and this is important?
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 9:17 am #
The media are mendacious fuckwads. I expect candidates like Palin, Jindal and Sanford not to let them get the best of them. You can wring your hands and play victim all you want and cry like little girls how unfair it is, but that just makes you a victim.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 9:19 am #
And my advice to Sanford is get in front of this story, tell the press to kiss his ass and fuck off, and be done with this nonsense. But don’t make up BS stories and get caught doing it. That is what was stupid, not going to Argentina.
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 9:21 am #
Joe bought into the media narrative. Check.
This is a big fucking joke.
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 9:23 am #
So, which BS story did Sanford tell?
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 9:23 am #
Seriously JD, are you mentally challenged?
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 9:24 am #
Joe was right about one thing, I missed the whole in Argentina part. That is all. He is a douchebag about everything else, as normal. He will probably go post my comments at another site and want to know what they think about it. My pre-emptive response is, you are a douchebag.
Comment by Danger on 6/24 @ 9:26 am #
“(deleted) you too JD. Try to keep up you slow (deleted as well)”
Joe,
Is that really necessary? I am sure you know the saying about debates and name calling.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 9:26 am #
His staff told the press yesterday he was hiking the AT in Georgia. Then today it is disclosed he was really in Argentina. That is the BS story.
I am not buying into any media crap. I could care less if Sanford takes a vacation. I think this a non story that Sanfords staff managed to let the press make into a story.
That is what is stupid about it.
Comment by Pablo on 6/24 @ 9:28 am #
Fuck the press. And if Sanford says just that, I’ll applaud.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 9:29 am #
Danger.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 9:29 am #
Pablo, I agree.
Comment by Scribe of Slog on 6/24 @ 9:30 am #
I live in Georgia.
At this moment I do not know where my state’s Governor is.
At this moment I do not know whether my state’s Governor’s staff knows where he is.
At this moment I do not know whether my state’s Governor’s wife knows where he is.
I have a life.
Joe, get one.
Comment by BJTexs on 6/24 @ 9:30 am #
So, Joe, you are suggesting that said Rethuglicans need to kowtow to media sensibilities in order to insure fairness and decency?
Yea, that’ll happen.
Here’s a thought: If the Governor of South Carolina, irregardless of his party affiliation, decides to travel to an Aleutian Island to hobnob with the Inuits without telling his staff and his staff elects to suggest that he’s actually building log homes in the Adirondack … so what? The media will be “fuckwads” as you put it regardless of full transparency or some small misdirection. It’s entirely within their nature. By suggesting that those ‘Thugs need to frame their actions, in every circumstance, to avoid roiling the media waters strikes me as no different from watching our “language” in a vain attempt to curry something less than a total press beat down.
Who does it harm? You? Me? JD’s “giant movement?”
Really, not only do I not care a whit I’m somewhat annoyed that, again, one of my ideological brethren needs to remind me about how “careful” we all need to act and speak in the Age of Hopenchange.
Um, Joe? Fuck that! (not you, ‘that’.)
Let the press have their hysteria and move on. It just ain’t worth the angst.
Comment by Scribe of Slog on 6/24 @ 9:31 am #
Then why are you so obsessed with this story? Get a life.
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 9:32 am #
Joe – Are you slow? I asked what Sanford lied about, not what his staff did.
Comment by sdferr on 6/24 @ 9:32 am #
JD, evidently it is extremely important that you and I know every detail about the recent whereabouts of the Gov of South Carolina. That either of us should have missed those details only demonstrates how uncaring and poorly informed on the most important issues of the day we can be. May I suggest an auto-da-fe for us that we might get right with the godly narrative of the day? A public flogging in front of the Washington Post offices might suffice I’d guess.
Comment by Danger on 6/24 @ 9:33 am #
Joe,
I saw JD’s comment but you did not have to elevate it and besides that when do two wrongs make a right?
Comment by Pablo on 6/24 @ 9:33 am #
Hey, that totally works! Ask President McCain.
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 9:37 am #
danger – you are right. I let my history with Joe get in the way of any civility I should have had.
Comment by BJTexs on 6/24 @ 9:37 am #
Joe: Try to see it in terms of the fundamental difference between manufactured perception and real harm.
Seriously, what’s the harm here? The press got to chew a raw bone for a couple of days? The press finds ways to chew the bones of Republicans just by twisting their words into Gumby figurines. This is no big deal and will fall so far down the memory holes as to end up in a parallel universe.
Go buy yourself an ice cream on me.
Comment by BJTexs on 6/24 @ 9:38 am #
JD you are denounced and must now give all details of your “giant movement” … or not.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 9:40 am #
can i say Gamecock without sounding fey?
i’d rather play quarterback ..
not that i can touch a mans ass…
but that i can touch a dudes butt with two [count them)
two hands!
which has absolutely nothing to do with this thread..
i denounce myself!
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 9:41 am #
I dropped the hugest Joe of my life, BJ.
Comment by C on 6/24 @ 9:43 am #
I’m here in SC, and have to tell you – it’s not the media who started this. It’s the Republicans in the State Government. Sanford has totally wrecked our state, and the only people who don’t know that are the ones trumpeting him as a rising star. Well, he’s a rising Death Star….
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 9:44 am #
Sanford refused the money…
that’s my take..
that’s the nut
and he’s a white
Comment by BJTexs on 6/24 @ 9:47 am #
Exactly how is your state “ruined” C? Like California “ruined.?” Michigan “ruined?” Arizona “ruined?”
Do tell…
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 9:48 am #
please be more specific..
wrecked ur state?
? how long has he not been hiking
? dem/ or repub legislature
?illegal aliens? [ thought i’d throw that in!)
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 9:48 am #
BJ – C is going to hit us with some knowledge here. Just wait …
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 9:51 am #
Does SC still even exist? Their Gov. was gone for 5 whole fucking days, and it did not fall into the ocean, or disintegrate?
Comment by BJTexs on 6/24 @ 9:52 am #
JD: I’m going to look out my window in east PA. and see if I can spot the curling column of smoke from the ruined State of South Carolina.
Although I’m pretty sure that “ruined” doesn’t mean what C thinks it means …
Oh, well … !O!
Comment by Sammy on 6/24 @ 9:53 am #
JD, you are, how you say, having your ass handed to you. By your own crowd, none the less.
There is hope… there is hope…
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/24 @ 9:53 am #
Regardless of where the Governor was, he obviously wanted to do “whatever” discreetly…
What’s most amusing is folks in the media and the blogosphere whipping themselves up into a frenzy over this. “Why, the nerve of Sanford to go somewhere without telling all of us!”…
Have we gotten so used to politicians like O!, and blowhards like Al Gore, traveling around with their own media entourage that to not wish to do so is considered less than sane?
If Sanford had the confidence in the abilities of his staff and Lieutenant Governor to do take a few days off, under the radar so to speak, then that’s his prerogative.
Whether he was on the appalachian trail or in Argentina; who cares? It’s none of our buisness what anyone else does unless they make it so. And if he was in Argentina?; who cares? What is the implication if he was, that he’s another eeeeevolll RethugliKKKan making deals or getting pointers from old Nazis, or Peronistas…
Any South Carolinian who doesn’t like it can choose to vote for his opponent in the next gubernatorial election…
And as for his Wife? I applaud the lady. She reminds me of my own wife in that she understood her husbands wishes, honored his desire for discretion, and restrained herself from getting more involved in the media circus surrounding this episode. She most likely knew where he was anyway…
I guess that we’ve become so used to seeing disfunctional marriages, and ones of convenience, in the public eye for so long that we are all shocked, Shocked!, when as a society we come across one that seems to actually honor the vows they took before God and their families…
Comment by BJTexs on 6/24 @ 9:54 am #
If a governor leaves a state for five days and a smoking ruin results … does he have to pay a carbon tax?
INQUIRING MINDS!!
Comment by maggie katzen on 6/24 @ 9:54 am #
ISTR that they do have one of the higher unemployment rates in the U.S.
Comment by Curmudgeon on 6/24 @ 9:54 am #
The Commiecrat Smear Machine, bored with Sarah Palin, is moving on. Governor Sanford is the next target.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 9:55 am #
a rising death star?
obama talk is cheap
Comment by BJTexs on 6/24 @ 9:58 am #
Sammy: I’m sorry, you misread. JD was in the head handing over a giant movement.
No need to thank me.
And color me shocked that you think Joe’s take is a big deal.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 9:58 am #
tim pawlenty…
we’re objectively looking at you…
don’t hike
run!
Comment by geoffb on 6/24 @ 10:05 am #
It just doesn’t matter.
It just doesn’t matter.
It just doesn’t matter.
It just doesn’t matter.
Even if you live the life of a saint,
even if you put your every thought every movement on Twitter.
It just doesn’t matter.
Because with the (R) after your name the mendacious press will just make something up out of thin air.
So it just doesn’t matter.
It just doesn’t matter.
It just doesn’t matter.
It just doesn’t matter.
Comment by geoffb on 6/24 @ 10:11 am #
In the world of the Left, no one can even breathe without the “Dear Leader’s” help and permission. My god man, all of SC could have disappeared in those 5 days. Life without our “Dear Leader” is just too scary. SCARY!!!
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 10:12 am #
Interesting.
The reactionary left going ape shit crazy over the Governor taking a few days off are the ones who believe that government is the be all and end all of existence.
Comment by Pablo on 6/24 @ 10:13 am #
Meanwhile, in news that actually matters:
Fucking bastards.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 10:13 am #
geoffb, you are a GENIUS!
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 10:14 am #
get in their face
deny their narritive..
personally i like “Whoa Whoa Whoa {and 4 bobby orr)
a fourth Whoa…{pause)
then a “wait a minute ”
of course.. i’m kinda delusional..
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 10:15 am #
Excuse me. I took a Joe earlier, but wasn’t quite done. I went back and let out a huge heaping sammah.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 10:17 am #
could be a plus?
let’s hike on it!
let’s hike on it!
has a certain ring-a ding
i’m delusional
Comment by Grammatiknazi on 6/24 @ 10:17 am #
If I were in Mrs. Sanford’s position I would demure from setting the dogs on my husband, too.
Excellent use of the subjunctive “were”, but “demure”? It isn’t even a verb with if it has the “e” on the end.
Comment by sdferr on 6/24 @ 10:18 am #
This right here can’t possibly compete for column inches with the Sanford story. It wouldn’t be right. After all, we need them for negotiating partners, and all those extra hotdogs are already in the refrigerators at Embassies around the world. we wouldn’t want them to go to waste.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 10:20 am #
i don’t smoke when i’m hiking…
unless downhill..
and my kids are asleep
Comment by thor on 6/24 @ 10:21 am #
It’s a Chick Fight!!!!!!
Comment by Pablo on 6/24 @ 10:27 am #
Yeah, notice the lead story on the CNN homepage. Sanford. And that’s while they’ve got this video. Their exclusive. Unfuckingbelievable.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/24 @ 10:28 am #
thor,
Don’t chap your hands rubbing them together with glee…
Let’s just say Joe marches to the beat of his own unique drum, know what I mean Hoss?
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 10:28 am #
hot dogs{sing song voice)
armor hot dogs…
bullet dodging kids love armor
and hot dogs..
shot kids..
tortured kids..
even kids who rap…
tall kids..
skinny kids…
short kids who take a dirt nap..
hot dogs..
armor hot dogs..
the kind..kids.. like.. to.. bite
Comment by mcgruder on 6/24 @ 10:31 am #
This is a great story and has been well-handled by the media. Very, very few things make me wish I was still in MSM, and I cannot recall ever having been interested in being a political reporter–they are broadly considered the most unlucky SOB’s in every newsroom and are, too sadly, the least inquisitive of the reporter species–but this story is the exception.
Sanford and his wife, who is assuredly lying, screwed up big time. The governor of a state is an exceptionally important position and just “peacing out” is absurd.
meta take away–Sanford aint running for diddly in ‘12. I was sort of a fan, but no longer. We need a grown up on Pennsylvania avenue. Its been awhile.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 10:33 am #
what do u call an Iranian hiker?
a refugee!
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 10:34 am #
This is all about intent. My intent is not to criticize Mark Sanford for taking a few days off. Nor is it my intent to carry water for the press and media. They are mendacious and their intent is to attack any up and coming governor or republican challenger to their demigod Obama.
But Sanford is a public figure and politician. Frankly yesterday listening to Ingraham speak about this whole non-story, I thought about the same as most of you. What a complete load of chickenshit (or as I like to call it JD). Joel Sawyer, the governor’s spokesman, told the press yesterday that the Governor hiking the Appalachian Trail. South Carolina will still be there with or without its governor, hell the state might be better off if more of its politicians took more time off.
But then it turns out Sanford was in Argentina.
So rather than some non story about a friggin vacation, the story is now about why did the Governor’s staff not know where he was, then say he was hiking in Georgia, then switch to him being in Argentina? It is incompetence on the Governor’s staff part in making a media storm out of nothing.
So JD, do not tell me what my intent was. The proper response from Joel Sawyer should have been, the Governor is on vacation and beyond that it is none of your business. Or Fuck Off. I would have been good with either.
And BJTexas, you shove that ice cream of yours up your ass.
Comment by sdferr on 6/24 @ 10:35 am #
Yeah magruder, it’s an awfully good thing we don’t have a President who would omit and obfuscate his past associations and actions and then get a free pass from the press on all of that history, isn’t it?
Comment by thor on 6/24 @ 10:37 am #
We all await the inevitable sad revelation that for the coming days the sticky remains of several homosexual Argentinian males will slowly seep from the buttocks of Republican Gov. Mark Sanford.
You damn Republicans are sick, I tell ya.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 10:39 am #
JD you have spending too much time diddling thor to think straight anymore.
Comment by Carin on 6/24 @ 10:39 am #
I wanna know if Jenny Granholm could disappear for a few days. Shit, it couldn’t hurt.
Oh, and Maggie one the thread way up there on the top.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/24 @ 10:40 am #
Point scored by sdferr!
Comment by Scott Lassiter on 6/24 @ 10:41 am #
I live in S. Carolina and they are always after Sanford, and no he hasn’t wrecked the state. He’s been trying to do the right thing and keep the budget under control. I even work for the state and the money would likely benefit me. He knows that taking the money means loss of control for our lives later….a sort of selling of the soul. Unfortunately he will be right.
Comment by Sammy on 6/24 @ 10:41 am #
Just any old normal Governor’s vacation, and there goes the MSM again.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 10:43 am #
Remember what Jeff was saying about Letterman’s joke about Palin?
This was a missed opportunity. Sanfords’ staff had a chance to knock it out of the park and fucked it up. So Sanford needs to get in front of this nonstory today.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 10:45 am #
Damn straight. And we need to remind them of that every chance we get.
Comment by maggie katzen on 6/24 @ 10:46 am #
W007!
Comment by Swordfish on 6/24 @ 10:48 am #
I’m tired of your cheating ways. We’re through, JD!
Comment by mcgruder on 6/24 @ 10:48 am #
SDFerr,
we know Obama lied through his teeth on his past associations with leftists. We also lost that fight, sadly.
This has nothing to do with that.
The governor of a state isnt allowed to just, well, “peace out.” Just walk away because its all a little much. Sorry, that’s just not in the cards, right or left, if you are a governor. His staff screwed up and his wife lied. Im not even certain how to handle Sanford’s state of mind.
You CAN make an argument that it is being overplayed and that Iran is way more important; Id agree. But any news org. has to move what sells, and what gets eyeballs is a governor with larger aspirations just evaporating into thin air whose staff likely lied for him.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/24 @ 10:48 am #
mcgruder,
With all due respect, and like I noted in #65, as long as Gov Sanford had confidence in the abilities of his staff and Lieutenant Governor, what does it matter that he took off on a private vacation? If South Carolinians disapprove thay can register that sentiment at the ballot box…
Once again, have we become so used to the rock-star persona of politicians, traveling with huge press entourages and publicized itineraries, that for one to do something discreetly becomes either proof of insanity, poor judgement, or nefarious activity?
And, while I’m sure your this episode stimulates your mewsman’s instinct, I really don’t think it will damage his chances should he choose to try for the RethugliKKKan nomination in 2012. And as far as this leading to the opening act of the “Palinization” of Sanford? Being a veteran, I think he would do much better with Gobson, Couric, et al than Governer Palin did; being that she was fresh out of the gate…
Best Wishes
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 10:48 am #
Comment by thor on 6/24 @ 10:37 am #
All coprophilia, all the time.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 10:48 am #
JD asks: Did he tell his staff to lie about it? Or did they make something up because they did not know?
I assume the latter and I would call that hamfisted. Or incompetent. Making shit up will generally back fire on you as a press spokesperson.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 10:50 am #
President Lincoln used to walk over to the War Department.
Alone.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 6/24 @ 10:53 am #
How did he screw up mcgruder? How is he not a grown up? Expound, please.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/24 @ 10:53 am #
“Palinization”; an adjective referring to the biased treatment Palin recieved by the MSM in their desperate effort to deflate her public persona, is much like how “Borking” was used as a euphamism for the Democrats employing the politics of personal destruction in modern times…
I wonder if it’ll catch on? Y’all remember where you heard it first!
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/24 @ 10:55 am #
Harry Truman used to walk to the Capitol from the White house…Alone…
zOMG!!1!1!eleventy WHAT NO REPORTERS!1!!1!
Comment by sdferr on 6/24 @ 10:55 am #
No doubt the newsmedia loves to catch out politicians in lies when they commit them, the better to inform the public of the character of their political leaders. That’s precisely why when Pres. Obama said yesterday that his Iran policy has not changed and that he is being entirely consistent from the beginning to this very moment, the reporters in the room pressed him and pressed him, never letting up, insisting that they get a straight answer to an obvious falsehood told straight to their faces, even at the possible cost of publicly embarrassing the most powerful man in the world! Oh, wait.
Comment by Salt Lick on 6/24 @ 10:56 am #
I think this a non story that Sanfords staff managed to let the press make into a story.
That is what is stupid about it.
So now I’m determined to make a story out of a non-story that Stanford’s staff let the press make a story. That’s my story. And I’m sticking to it.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 10:57 am #
mmm..?
let’s hike on it!
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 10:58 am #
Of course this is Palinization. Of course the motivation is not anything to do with the safety of South Carolina, but destroying a Republican challenger. Meanwhile Team Obama are lying, flat out lying and slandering, a public servant because he discovered corruption of public funds by a friend of Michelle.
Oh, and Iran is fucked up too.
So yeah, I am annoyed that this is nonstory is robbing oxygen from those stories that really do matter.
Comment by Pablo on 6/24 @ 10:58 am #
Bubba used to ditch his SS detail too. Jogging, I think. Or burgers. or getting his knob polished. Or something.
Comment by thor on 6/24 @ 11:01 am #
If Sanford wants to meet up with other Log Cabin Republicans over a long weekend on the Appalachian Trail, it’s no big deal, outside of it was Father’s Day weekend and he probably should have been home with his heterosexual family out of respect for the facade. I would find it truly disturbing if was off doing the reverse tango with underage Argentinian boys.
He’s CiC of the South Carolina National Guard. His actions have answered the don’t-ask question and his resignation should be tendered immediately.
Are all Republicans gay, that’s the question.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 11:02 am #
Salt Lick. I did not do this post. I did not create the story. But it is a story now, even though at its heart it is a nonstory (unless Sanford was doing more than tangoing down Argentina way). The mendacious media did that, helped in large part by an incompetent press secretary who did not have the common sense to tell those jackals to go fuck themselves.
Comment by mcgruder on 6/24 @ 11:02 am #
Having worked with CNN in the past, i think their decision probably presages what is going to be a media walkdown of the revolt. Eventually, the crackdown will win, if I may be so bold. The Iranian government has more guns and more of an appetite for blood than the protesters do. It is ugly, but true.
they are going to win, and win going away. The free peoples of the world, or their elected governments, are not going to lift a finger in any material sense (although the CIA is likely working hard to foment the rebellion with local “hires”); no guns, no money, no lofty rhetoric.
they didnt in 1956, 1968, nor in 1989. Diplomats, and the staffs of full-timers who control them, despise uncertainty and change. they loved the corrupt thug Sadat, they quiver with glee when Mubarrak looks our way. He mostly does what we want, and trust me, I know for a fact he has been a big old hand in GWOT. There’s just not a whole lot of Frontline type exposes looking into how the Egyptian state police handle AQ, or potential AQ members. Hell, they’re only doing what we ask, when we ask it.
At CIA and State, this Iranian shit is a big karma bummer.
So its really nice Instapundit has a green top stripe. The dissidents are going to lose, people are no longer watching hours uninterrupted of Iranian protests and all that blood….and in the middle of the work day.
Thus the Sanford story plays well. Sometimes the news Gods do shine on you, even in Columbus circle in a rainy June, when September cutbacks are looming.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 11:03 am #
Pablo: In regards to Bubba, getting his knob polished is the answer. They would make him burgers in the White House. Whenever he wanted. They took his intern away, however.
Comment by Danger on 6/24 @ 11:04 am #
So yeah, I am annoyed that this is nonstory is robbing oxygen from those stories that really do matter.
Joe,
I am with ya on that point but the MSM surely would have found another “distraction” if they did not have Sanford
Comment by Carin on 6/24 @ 11:05 am #
This isn’t a story. It just fucking isn’t. Cap and trade. Healthcare. Iran. North Korea.
Comment by sdferr on 6/24 @ 11:07 am #
Khomeini’s tyranny has already lost, its remaining lever-pullers just don’t realize it yet.
Comment by sdferr on 6/24 @ 11:09 am #
Oh, and you can include Obama along with the remaining lever-pullers who don’t know what’s actually going on.
Comment by Pablo on 6/24 @ 11:12 am #
The free peoples of the world didn’t depose the Shah either. Meanwhile, when the clerics and the politicos start peeling off, the regime has a problem. Having all the guns is nice, but if you don’t have enough people willing to use them on their countrymen, it doesn’t much matter.
Comment by maggie katzen on 6/24 @ 11:12 am #
oh yeah? he’s seriously considering disinviting them to the 4th of July weenie roast. That.will.show.them.
ain’t no party like an Obama party!
Comment by mcgruder on 6/24 @ 11:12 am #
OI, the governor of a state has a pretty clear command and control function on a lot of levels, both politically/legislatively and from a public safety and order perspective.
It is unusually poor judgement to just leave, with a fairly uncertain story as your cover.
This is actively discouraged in the private sector and is likely a firing or disciplinary offense. In the public sector, as an elected official, one has more room to come and go. Still, it indicates poor judgement to leave the state C/C function in an uncertain state. Moreover, from a leadership perspective, real leaders simply dont up and leave in a scattershot fashion.
lets be clear: You wouldnt have a problem if say Corzine of NJ or Granholm of Michigan just walked away? I’d be happy to see them neutralized from more bad decision making, Ill grant you that, but Id definitely criticize them.
Comment by maggie katzen on 6/24 @ 11:13 am #
I think Carin already answered this.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 11:14 am #
You are absolutely right Carin. Cap and trade may be close to passing the House.
And Danger, yep. The MSM is always looking for a scandal. The biggest kudos are for those who break the story. My point, from the begining, was this was an unforced error in helping the MSM create a story out of nothing.
Comment by mcgruder on 6/24 @ 11:14 am #
Carin, youre half-right.
It is a story and a yummy one.
It’s just less important than the others you cite.
Human nature, when confronted with danger, does appreciate some distraction.
Comment by mcgruder on 6/24 @ 11:15 am #
maggie, she did.
But she also would likely criticize her too, because it shows some pretty serious leadership flaws.
If she wouldn’t, then most of us would.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 11:18 am #
Patterico has how Team Obama handles criticism and attacks.
Comment by sdferr on 6/24 @ 11:19 am #
Merely commenting that it would be a good thing were Granholm to take time away from gov. is already in itself a criticism for crying out loud. Saying “it’s good she’s gone” is a criticism as it is tantamount to saying “it’s bad she’s working here now”.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/24 @ 11:19 am #
“You wouldnt have a problem if say Corzine of NJ or Granholm of Michigan just walked away?”
I can honestly say I wouldn’t; as long as they had confidence in their staff to take care of business, what business of mine is it how or where they vacation…
I don’t care for the politics of either of the folks you mentioned, but wouldn’t deny them the same level of privacy I feel I should be afforded…
Comment by SDN on 6/24 @ 11:21 am #
#107: As long as you remember who said it here first… 8-)
Comment by BJTexs on 6/24 @ 11:22 am #
A missed opportunity for what, Joe? And I never really intended to buy you an ice cream.
You have an annoying tendency to pick up on some relatively unimportant issue and beat it like the Iranian Militia in Tehran. mcgruder is just in time to tell us that Sanford is not a “grownup.”
Good, allah, guys, go watch Jon and Kate Plus Eight and get some perspective. A week from now no one will remember anything from this non-story except for you two and Sammy. What does that say?
In the meantime, that audio of the woman describing the beatings going on in Tehran is one of the most heartbreaking and infuriating recordings I have ever heard. But hey, no matter! SANFORD WAS IN ARGENTINA!!11!ELEVENTY!!11
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 11:23 am #
I would love it if Corzine of NJ or Granholm of Michigan walked away. Corzine right into the Atlantic. Granholm right into the lake. Don’t stop once you get there.
Comment by sdferr on 6/24 @ 11:24 am #
BJT, post a link to the audio please.
Comment by Jim in KC on 6/24 @ 11:24 am #
What his staff should have said in the first place was, “If he was up your butt you’d know.”
Comment by mcgruder on 6/24 @ 11:27 am #
Bob,
They have every right to the privacy you are afforded, except, to be honest, they dont. When you went for your most recent job, there was no public discussion of your finances, personal decisions such as how many times you were married, any “lapses in judgement” from the student years nor parsing of your public statements.
Governors and candidates for governor do regularly undergo what i described, and more.
I salute a solitary writing/hunting/fishing/swimming break.
Just leaving though?
bad form.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 11:27 am #
How about Sanford’s press secretary responding to inquiries with: “The Governor is on vacation. Beyond that it is none of your business.”
Beyond that no comment.
And it is just not me thinking Sanford’s staff handled this badly. Drew at Ace had this post:
And I do not want that ice cream after it has been in your ass.
But you and JD love playing the victim. How’s that working out for you?
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 11:30 am #
Jim in KC, that works too.
Comment by Pablo on 6/24 @ 11:30 am #
sdferr, it’s at the link in my #84. Scroll down to the CNN vid.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 11:32 am #
My post at #138 was directed to my icecream buddy BJTexs.
I agree the attention should be in Iran. But hell, even PW is not posting on that.
Comment by sdferr on 6/24 @ 11:33 am #
Pablo, that link yields a story about Walpin by Jessica Yellin. Nothing to do with Iran.
Comment by Letitbeme on 6/24 @ 11:36 am #
“The dissidents are going to lose, people are no longer watching hours uninterrupted of Iranian protests and all that blood….and in the middle of the work day.”
mcgruder, are you aware of the peak times for CNN.com readership/viewership?
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 11:37 am #
Sdferr, I think this is the link Pablo was referring to. It is audio from Iran of regime thugs attacking and killing protestors.
Comment by sdferr on 6/24 @ 11:38 am #
Yep, Joe, that’s the same useless link I just referred to.
Comment by Carin on 6/24 @ 11:38 am #
Carin, youre half-right.
It is a story and a yummy one.
It’s just less important than the others you cite.
Human nature, when confronted with danger, does appreciate some distraction.
I’s a story I’m completely uninterested in. It’s a sidenote. It’s an aside. It’s about as important as the Letterman story.
The breathless reporters on teevee talking about this … all have more important things to be discussing.
Comment by DCLex on 6/24 @ 11:40 am #
I’m from SC as well. Our Gov Sanford is one of the most libertarian Republicans you’ll find. He’s in his 2nd (last) term as governor
and we’d all be really surprised if he does run for President. Even if Ms Jenny (wife) lets him run – she wasn’t too keen on leaving the coast
and living in Columbia as the state’s First Lady. I sincerely doubt she’d be willing to move to DC and put up with the idiots there.
The SC Govs office is not a ’strong’ office and we have the most Good Ole Boy legislature around. Most of the blame for the current situation
in this state can be seated squarely in the legislature’s lap.
Keep in mind too that this is not the first time Sanford’s gone walkabout, so to speak. But it IS amazing how this time it’s such a big deal….
WILL NO ONE QUESTION THE TIMING!!!11!1!
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 11:41 am #
Click on the CNN video and you get the audio. Did it not work? It is audio from a protestor calling in to CNN about being attacked by the regime goon squad.
Meanwhile Rahm and Team O engage in their own stagecraft at the White House.
Comment by Carin on 6/24 @ 11:41 am #
maggie, she did.
But she also would likely criticize her too, because it shows some pretty serious leadership flaws.
If she wouldn’t, then most of us would.
I don’t “need” Jenny to disappear for me to criticize. See, ’cause I have actual real reasons to criticize her non-leadership.
As for her being MIA … well, “people” may have known her physical location, but she’s been mia on a LOT of major Michigan issues.
Shit, she went to Traverse City in order to avoid the Tea Part on her front lawn in Lansing.
Comment by Jim in KC on 6/24 @ 11:43 am #
Actually, what would be really funny would be if it was all a put-up job and Sanford holds a press conference in a couple of days to say, “Actually, I was at home catching up on my sleep. Thanks for proving my point that you idiots will believe anything. No wonder you’re all in the bag for that flim-flam artist Obama.”
Comment by Pablo on 6/24 @ 11:44 am #
sdferr, it’s working for me. But, go to Hot Air, and see the post entitled “Massacre near Iran’s Parliament? Audio: Eyewitness describes massacre” It’s currently the second post in the Top Picks section. Left column, just under the Headlines.
I’d link to it at CNN, but there’s no direct URL for it.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 11:45 am #
Jim in KC–that would be brilliant if true. That would be…Outlaw.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 11:48 am #
Look at this, a little mendacious buzz from the WaPo. Of course the Media have an agenda.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 11:51 am #
Romney Rising?
Comment by Matt on 6/24 @ 11:54 am #
*Hiking the AT for 5 days is not doing something crazy, Matt*
No I agree and I wasn’t saying it was. Jetting off to another country without either telling your staff where you are going or giving them a viable cover story is what I considered a little more unusual. Hiking in the AT’s was actually a more viable story, given the circumstances- less access to cells, computers, etc.
Anyway, I do agree the media is getting hysterical about this and I think it is silly – but unfortunately, when the opposition controls the press, anything, no matter how small, can be blown up and out of proportion. If Sanford wants to be president, if I was his advisor, I’d advise taking any more spur of the moment junkets out of the country.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 12:02 pm #
Matt, I would advise Sanford to train his press secretary to deal with the press (like you would deal with a rabid raccoon).
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 12:07 pm #
Talking about the mendacious media and intent, looks like Rush is being proven right on Obama’s epic fail by one of Obama’s supporters and by his friends at MSNBC. Will the White House claim he is senile too?
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 12:10 pm #
The MSNBC link.
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 12:18 pm #
Matt, I would advise Sanford to train his press secretary to deal with the press (like you would deal with a rabid raccoon).
Sanford should order his press secretary to shoot members of the press?
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 12:20 pm #
BMoe, I thought that was permissable in South Carolina.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 12:22 pm #
BMoe, Okay, maybe shooting the press is OTT. How about just beating the press with big sticks? Obama’s friends do that and he is even inviting them to a wiener roast.
Comment by geoffb on 6/24 @ 12:22 pm #
sdferr this is the flv file for the video. If you have the ability to convert it to a MPG you can grab it and then convert it to view.
Comment by Pablo on 6/24 @ 12:31 pm #
Ah. Sanford was getting some Argentinian tail. Bye, guvnah!
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 12:33 pm #
This does not look good:
Oh shit, he did not go to Argentina for the steaks…
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 6/24 @ 12:34 pm #
Thanks for the reply, mcgruder. Nah, I wouldn’t care one iota if Corzine or Granholm left for a few days. I just wouldn’t. Shit like this does not interest me in the slightest. It’s their policy. Their ideology. Those are the things that interest me in regards to politicians. I agree, it does seem a bit odd, but I bet there is a good explanation for it. One, that quite honestly, is not needed.
Comment by sdferr on 6/24 @ 12:35 pm #
Thks geoffb.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 6/24 @ 12:36 pm #
Oh well, I hardly knew ya, Gov! And I did like his potential.
Comment by alppuccino on 6/24 @ 12:36 pm #
pussy’ll ruin a man
Comment by Shake Tiller on 6/24 @ 12:38 pm #
Sanford…Uh Oh…Cheated With A “Dear, Dear Friend In Argentinaâ€
Nothing to be ashamed of, political whup is just fine. It’s that literary whup you got to watch out for.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 12:38 pm #
Let’s just hope it was pussy. I don’t want to encourage thor with more gay republicans. It gets him all excited.
Comment by Molon Labe on 6/24 @ 12:38 pm #
Please can we ditch this party? Independence Party 2010. Fiscal cons and classical libs. Easily a majority.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 6/24 @ 12:40 pm #
Could we at least see a picture of the señorita?
Comment by Scribe of Slog on 6/24 @ 12:41 pm #
Cheating on his wife, that’s wrong. If he assigned his staff to lie to cover for him, that is also wrong and on a different, betrayal-of-public-trust level.
That part is worthy of comment and condemnation. Now that I know about it. Before that, not so much.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 12:43 pm #
For Governor Sanford.
Comment by BJTexs on 6/24 @ 12:44 pm #
Oh, great! Things just keep getting better and better in Iran.
Neda Soltan Family ‘forced out of home’ by Iranian Authorities.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 12:47 pm #
12 26- joe called it…
the balloon bursts…
btw / Palin- Dear Sarah…
’tis not an affair
if we hike naked…
by we..
i mean you…
Comment by Sammy on 6/24 @ 12:48 pm #
Oh please lets hope so. Romney/Palin 2012!!!
That would be awesome… for the Democrats.
Comment by geoffb on 6/24 @ 12:49 pm #
Well he has now given the MSM a reason not to cover (as if they needed one and would make up one if they did) all the failure coming out of the O!’s doings. Shoved off to page 14 section d oblivion will the the O! failures.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/24 @ 12:50 pm #
Oh well, looks like the Gov abused the trust of his wife, and all around him…
While it’s still no one’s buisness what he chose to do, his seeming admission shows that there was ill intent motivating his actions…
And sure making himself look like a fool in the process; just wait for the whole “Hypocrisy!” meme to be trotted out, once again, by the left…
Even though, you know, O!’s policy evolutions, broken promises, couting of lobbyists-who he proclaimed eeeeeevolll, firing of an inconvenient IG-violating a bill he himself signed, flip-flops as with campaign finance, as well as straight out BS, all brought to you by the most Ethical! administration EVAH!, don’t register on the hypocrisy meter one bit…
Oh well, he made his own bed on this, since he’s not Billy Jeff or Obama, what he does in private will matter…
It ain’t fair, but it is what it is…
Comment by BJTexs on 6/24 @ 12:50 pm #
SC Gov. Mark Sanford says he’s had an affair
Now we have a story worthy of headlines and head shaking. What is it with Republicans these days, what with the shooting themselves in the foot and such?
Comment by mojo on 6/24 @ 12:50 pm #
Sneakin’ off for a shot of strange? You can only get away with that shit if you’re a Democrat (see: Clinton, William Jefferson). Nobody expects a Donk to have any morals or ethics, you see.
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 12:51 pm #
Another 3 years of Obamanomics and the Republicans will be able to get just about anybody elected.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 12:55 pm #
well- on the bright side…
i don’t have to watch tv tonite
i predict….Sanford…
24 Sanford…
the Sanford channel…
Sanford takes News cycle for a hike…
ABC kicked to the curb..
by hiking boots!
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 12:56 pm #
puss’n'boots
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 12:57 pm #
If it makes you feel better BJTexs and JD, I am not happy there was fire with this smoke. I just assumed Sanford’s press secretary was an idiot. Personally I do not care Sanford was getting some strange, but that does hurt (if not destroy) his ability to run for President. mojo is right, only Dems get away with that because it is presumed they have no morals.
Comment by geoffb on 6/24 @ 12:58 pm #
Sorry Sammy, as I said last night…
Palin/CheneyII
Obama, quakes and shivers
That ticket has legs
Those ladies will kick O!’s ass and do it with style and grace.
Comment by Sammy on 6/24 @ 12:58 pm #
A day in the life of Sanford Apologists:
http://www.newwaveinstruments.com/humor/misc/computer_grief.htm
Comment by Scott Lassiter on 6/24 @ 12:59 pm #
Well now that we know more…….Tried to be a good governor, but failed as a husband. So sad. He probably should just resign.
Comment by Curmudgeon on 6/24 @ 1:01 pm #
Bummer. More news out. I liked Sanford, and even though Argentine women are often hotties, this was beyond stupid and will tank him. Frankly, Republicans should *never* do this sort of thing, because of that guilty conscience. If you are on the Left and have *no* conscience whatsoever, this is much easier. See Frank, Barney and Clinton, Billy Jeff.
Comment by geoffb on 6/24 @ 1:01 pm #
Sammy dips deep into his world of cartoon enemies, he reaches, almost there, almost there………….. fail.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 1:03 pm #
So where is Jeff btw?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 1:03 pm #
Once again:
“The reason any conservative’s failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy is the only sin that really inflames them. Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people for failing to meet the standards that liberals simply renounce. It’s an intriguing strategy. By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites.”
-Ann Coulter
Comment by Sammy on 6/24 @ 1:05 pm #
Man, that would own… for Democrats. The Cheney name is such a stellar brand, esp with independents.
http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001821/
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 1:05 pm #
I thought you guys were all about foreign diplomacy, Sammy?
Comment by BJTexs on 6/24 @ 1:06 pm #
Joe, I never was the least bit emotionally invested in this story (unlike you and JD) and, now, I’m only attached by my sadness and sympathy for his family and frustration with Republicans who show promise and then trip all over themselves. Nor did I ever play the victim card in anything that I wrote, contrary to your characterization.
The fact that this turned out to be a far bigger story than we thought does not in any way invalidate my previous contention that you were making a Jupiter out of a nerf ball.
So kindly take your ice cream and faux victimization and snort it like a football field size line of coke. With respect, of course.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 1:09 pm #
“The Cheney name is such a stellar brand, esp with independents.”
She’s got more balls than O!bama, that’s for sure.
And can talk without a teleprompter.
Comment by Sammy on 6/24 @ 1:11 pm #
“When you see a Republican, all red-faced, pounding the podium from atop his sanctimonious high horse, and railing against the declining family values, you can assume that the source of his passion is thoughts of poking the pool boy as soon as no one’s watching.”
- Sammy
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 1:12 pm #
anyone have a punchline along the lines of…
Lamon tu Big Dummy?
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 1:14 pm #
BJTexs. What you failed to grasp, and still fail to grasp, is I not that I thought Sanford’s unannounced vacation was a story, but that I thought his press secretary screwed up in handling the press.
But appears the press smelled real fear, pressed the story, and Sanford’s press secretary made a half assed attempt to save his boss’ career.
So take your soiled underwear (from that ice cream that melted in your ass along with the regular skid marks), let it soak for a while in a five gallon bucket of water, and drink it down. Sweet BJTexs Tea. Save some for JD too. With all due respect.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 1:14 pm #
ur a liar sammy..
u know it…
project much?
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 1:14 pm #
“When you see a Sammy, all pin-headed, pounding the keyboard from atop his sanctimonious high horse, and railing against the declining Republican Party, you can assume that the source of his passion is thoughts of poking the family poodle as soon as no one’s watching.â€
That is kind of fun, Sammy.
Comment by BJTexs on 6/24 @ 1:14 pm #
“When you see
a RepublicanSammy, all red-faced, pounding the podium from atop his sanctimonious high horse, and railing againstthe declining family valuesa disgraced Republican politician, you can assume that the source of his passion is thoughts ofpoking the pool boyrubbing one off as soon as no one’s watching.â€FTFY
- Sammy
Comment by Curmudgeon on 6/24 @ 1:14 pm #
When you see a Republican, all red-faced, pounding the podium from atop his sanctimonious high horse, and railing against the declining family values, you can assume that the source of his passion is thoughts of poking the pool boy as soon as no one’s watching.â€
Sammy dupe, he was poking a chick. If anyone has been sanctimonious here, it is you lefty trolls.
Comment by Sammy on 6/24 @ 1:16 pm #
Ah ha ha ha (wheeze) Ah ha ha ha ha. Oh that teleprompter joke! (slaps knee) That one floors me every time. Ah ha ha ha.
Let’s just hope Mr. Cheney can spend a lot of time out on the campaign trail with her. And Bush too – you know, the guy who couldn’t speak even with a teleprompter.
Comment by BJTexs on 6/24 @ 1:16 pm #
Damn you and your typing skilz, BMoe!
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 1:16 pm #
I share this observation with you BJTexs: “I’m only attached by my sadness and sympathy for his family and frustration with Republicans who show promise and then trip all over themselves”
I never wanted this story to be anything, but unfortunately it was.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 1:20 pm #
More Media Hypocrisy:
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 1:21 pm #
Bj – I was not invested in this story. I was invested in a pot stirring provocateur being a douchenozzle. Sammah is just being sammah, it cannot help it.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/24 @ 1:23 pm #
Wwll Sammy,
How about Obama taking about how we need to stop running up these horrible deficits; unless of course, it’s to pay for one of his redistrbutionist schemes?
Or, How lobbyists would not be allowed in his administration; unless of course of he felt like hiring them?
Or, how Obama would bring a new era of Transparency!, Ethics!, and Integrity! to DC; and not only has he broken the “every bill will be posted in advance of sighning” pledge, the “no signing statements!” pledge, but he has also mysteriously fired an 2 IG’s-one in direct violation to an act he signed prohibiting the manner in which he did so…
Or, The Brilliance!, and Judgement! that we heard so much about?; why are they cancelling missle defense, proven to work much better than the naysayers will ever admit, when that is precisely the threat that we face emerging in Iran and N Korea?
And, we just won’t talk about the “evolution” of Obama’s stance over the recent events in Iran…
It’s just another waypoint along the continuum of Obama’s ever evolving positions in everything!
Our “betters” would like to call it pragmatism; me, I think it’s just old lack of principle and courage of your convictions…
So Sammy, what about Obama’s secularly sanctimonious proclamations and that many were “just words!”?
Seems kinda hypocritical to me. And it effects more people than Sanfords did, that’s for sure…
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 1:26 pm #
No JD, you just had the facts wrong, totally misconstrued my intent and spun your own narrative, and basically acted thorlike. Enjoy some BJTexs Tea.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 1:26 pm #
i like repubs cuz they beat down the baddies
check out ur talk sqwuak
all denonce
that makes me feel myself better…
yeah
i said it!
Comment by LTC John on 6/24 @ 1:27 pm #
Argentina? What happened to the Elliot Spitzer style love condo? SC too small for that stuff? Meh – kind of boring story for me, but thenagain, if I was in SC it might well be riveting. Our Governors have more entertaining problems here in IL…
Comment by BJTexs on 6/24 @ 1:27 pm #
Joe, I got that the first five hundred and fifty five times you posted it. My point was that you were elevating that into a faux paux of Clintonian proportions, evidenced by the five hundred and fifty five times you posted.
Or the press were just making a big deal of a little story and got lucky. Unless, of course, you could divine the odor of fear through your monitor.
Well, after the brain freeze from your snort has caused your lobes to die, feel free to pry open your head and search real hard for the outrage of fumbled press secretaries and lying spouses and mix that with some salt, basil and oregano and bake yourself a sanctimonious quiche. Be sure to enjoy it with a tall glass of kiss my ass.
HUGZ AND KISSEZ
Comment by mcgruder on 6/24 @ 1:27 pm #
its a story now.
oh well.
still not nearly as important as the eventual crushing of the Iranian revolt, nor whatever the NorK’s are up to, but good to know I have the reporter’s instincts.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/24 @ 1:30 pm #
mcgruder,
I’ll admit your instincts were right, and agree about the magnitude…
But, this story may have gotten a lot bigger; at least for the next cycle or so…
Best Wishes
Comment by psycho... on 6/24 @ 1:30 pm #
Always with this.
Hell no. Story is, she’s known what was up for a long time. So she stayed for the servants and carriages. That’s way the fuck worse than what he did.
Dick-swinging politicians are assholes. Their wives are depraved.
…if they stay. And they do, until the castle crumbles.
Comment by sdferr on 6/24 @ 1:31 pm #
Not a important as the death throes of a tyranny either.
Comment by BJTexs on 6/24 @ 1:33 pm #
Heh! Treacher on Twitter:
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 1:34 pm #
Credit where credit is due BJTexs, that recipe you propose sounds downright nasty! You are like the Emril of hell. An excellent scathing comeback!
You deserve a hand for that.
Comment by geoffb on 6/24 @ 1:34 pm #
The world of cartoons envelopes Sammy again.
Sarah/Liz 2012 and yes they have more balls than the whole Obama Machine. Speak without the O’prompter too. They don’t need the “duhhhhhhhhhh”s, “ummmmmmm”s, and “ahhhhhhhhhhh”s edited out either.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 1:36 pm #
chubby checker had two/
mmm
three songs…
No 1
the twist
No2 let’s twist again…
No 3…?
how low can u go?
Comment by JeffJJ on 6/24 @ 1:36 pm #
What Imagine that…another Republican loser who can’t handle the power of office….when will they every learn? I’m sure this LOSER is also against gay marriage as well…oh the hypocrisy…fight against gay people who WANT to be in a committed, legal relationship but all the while destroy your own! HYPOCRITE!!! Sanctity of marriage? I think not…oh, guess you didn’t really mean that part of the marriage vows—so glad you are upholding the institute of marriage so honorably. Yet another painfully obvious reason why the GOP is in the toilet and losing more and more respect with the American people every day.
Comment by Sammy on 6/24 @ 1:36 pm #
Oh, I didn’t realize that Sanford was Chair Of GOP Governors’ Association.
There is one slight difference between Bill and Mark. Mark is currently the Gov of a state, and no one could get a hold of him, or knew where he was, for 5 days, leaving his own Lt. Gov saying, “WTF!”. But hey, he’s a Republican, so absolutely no problem there. It’s just the MSM again.
Who gives a shit where Bill is? And people probably knew where Bill was and how to get a hold of him, not that he really needs to be contacted for anything other than his foundation.
Really, you guys see these as exactly the same thing? Worthy of equal investigation?
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 1:38 pm #
i’m down with a no balls camp
palin cheney…
but i’m delusional…
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 1:42 pm #
the first lezbo marriage ended in divorce..
in mass…
so heralded…
butt
they divorce records be sealed…
y?
i’ll blow ur clit iffn u play by the rules…
no?
fluff u!
Comment by BJTexs on 6/24 @ 1:42 pm #
JeffJJ: I’m fascinated by your politcal acumen, your singularly razor sharp pulse taking of the American people and your bitchin’ use of CAPSLOCKS!
May I subscribe to your etch-a-sketch? I promise not to shake it!
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 1:43 pm #
Sammy, your comment at 223 is telling. Because this story was about catching the Governor in a scandal. It was never really about him keeping in contact with his office. The Press was hoping something would come of their suspicions, and apparently they got lucky. Political reporting has merged with TMZ. And this is what the media does.
Now that the husband of the Secretary of State, a former President, is handing with strippers in Argentina… that is a story too. TMZ quality. Granted we know Billy C. is a horndog. But that does not mean the story is not newsworthy.
But they are not pursuing that one. Why is that?
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 1:44 pm #
let’s hike on it!
{sorry)
Comment by alppuccino on 6/24 @ 1:47 pm #
Wow. Sammy watches Obama watch himself watching the slaughter of young Iranians, and laps it up like ball sweat, not saying a word. But then Sanford pops a hottie and Sammy is absolutely animated.
That’s so Sammy.
Comment by maggie katzen on 6/24 @ 1:49 pm #
well, al, most guys only want one thing.
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 1:50 pm #
I will defer to BJ. That was epic. Sammah is pushing this, as they do not want to talk about Teh One. That little jeffjj drive-by was absolutely 110% predictable. They are practically dancing with glee, like they were with Tiller. If they had spent 1/100th of this coverage on Edwards when he was actually running for President … Nah. Silly.
What they do not want to talk about tells us all we need to know about them. Let the Iranians die, so long as Teh One can lie to their faces and say he has not changed his position. Hell, invite them over for a BBQ, on the freakin 4th. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Oh, Joe, I am going to take the high road and quit calling you a douchenozzle and a fucking provocateur that doesn’t know his ass from a gerbil cave.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 1:50 pm #
Sarah hikes this day..
just to keep her figure fit
and she brings back meat!
Comment by geoffb on 6/24 @ 1:51 pm #
What should be instructive from this is how the Republicans deal with it as compared to how the Democrats deal with their own scandals. How the press deals with each also. That is the real scandal of our politics.
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 1:52 pm #
Where did Obama’s squeeze get exiled? Wasn’t that Argentina or some such?
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 1:54 pm #
Thanks JD, I will quit saying you are a moronic mouthbreather, whose head is so full of fresh chickenshit and that it ooses out of your ears.
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 1:54 pm #
There is one slight difference between Bill and Mark.
You mean besides Bill was exploiting an intern young enough to be his daughter?
Comment by alppuccino on 6/24 @ 1:54 pm #
single tear
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 1:55 pm #
BMoe – Maybe the Guv was getting some strange with Teh One’s squeeze. Wouldn’t that be rich?
Comment by maggie katzen on 6/24 @ 1:57 pm #
I think it was a carribean island.
Comment by JFH on 6/24 @ 1:57 pm #
“Hell no. Story is, she’s known what was up for a long time. So she stayed for the servants and carriages. That’s way the fuck worse than what he did.”
Bullcrap, Jenny has all the money in the marriage not Mark, hell, without her money he’d have no career.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 1:58 pm #
Sarah must keep logs..
she pisses off the left blogs..
she’s a coming..dog!
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 2:01 pm #
i tattoed my face
with an address/ just in case..
i might need a ride..?
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 2:03 pm #
Our Governors have more entertaining problems here in IL…
But there is no hypocrisy in being a crooked Democrat…
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 2:05 pm #
u know whats fun?
pretending ur salma hayeks couisin
si’
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 2:07 pm #
BMoe, Bill Clinton blamed it all on this.
Comment by Adriane on 6/24 @ 2:11 pm #
What scares me most is that the press’ success on this story will only encourage excitable Andrew on his …
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 2:14 pm #
Pleasant surprise?
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 2:17 pm #
now/ iffn i was running a party
i’d be fluff him..
and fluff u medya 4 even bringing ur slant..
then i’d point out
loudly!
but…
i’m delusionl
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 2:21 pm #
“When you see a Republican, all red-faced, pounding the podium from atop his sanctimonious high horse, and railing against the declining family values, you can assume that the source of his passion is thoughts of poking the pool boy as soon as no one’s watching.â€
- Sammy
But it’s fine for reactionary leftists to “poke the pool boy” ala Bawney Fwank, right, toady?
Comment by Ric Locke on 6/24 @ 2:35 pm #
In the most cheerful tones possible:
They’re rioting in Africa (doot dooty dooty doo doo)
There’s fighting in Spain
There’s hurricanes in Florida
And Texas needs rain
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls
The French hate the Germans
The Germans hate the Poles
Italians hate Yugoslavs
South Africans hate the Dutch
And I don’t like anybody very much.
They’re rioting in Africa (doot dooty dooty doo doo)
There’s strife in Iran
What Nature doesn’t do to us
Will be done by our fellow man
Comment by Ric Locke on 6/24 @ 2:39 pm #
Good one, Bob.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by mcgruder on 6/24 @ 2:51 pm #
mewsman?
meant to flag you on it, bob.
didnt catch the meaning of that.
Comment by Sammy on 6/24 @ 2:54 pm #
We, for me personally, the story is entirely about being out of contact with his office. The fact that we has out of the country exacerbates that issue. The fact that he was hanging out with some Argentinian hottie is (to me) utterly irrelevant. Granted, that’s the focus of the media, but that’s not why this story actually matters.
So exactly how would you stop Iran? Or would you just draw as much attention as possible to the fact that (barring 400,000 boots on the ground within Iran proper (a.k.a declaring War on Iran, something the people we’re supporting would vociferously oppose)) we can’t actually do jack about it?
I think Edwards dropped out about 1ms after admitting the affair, so he quickly became irrelevant. He probably could have generated more buzz if he had completely vanished for 5 days, leaving the campaign running around saying “Where is he? No one knows! No one knows!”
I said “is” not “was”. You can Bill’s current trip to Argentina covered with the same detail as a sitting Gov. The other story was covered in all the gory detail one could possibly imagine.
You have some problem with an openly gay Senator? You see that as equal to a Governor flat out disappearing (and leaving the country) for 5 days, with no contact possible between him and his office?
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/24 @ 2:59 pm #
Sorry mcgruder, it was a typo. I meant newsman…
No offense intended…
Comment by ccoffer on 6/24 @ 3:10 pm #
SAmmy,
Exactly how would you stop Sanford from screwing the President of Argentina?
You should shut the fuck up then. KnowhutImean?
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/24 @ 3:12 pm #
Sammy,
What Sanford did is indefensible…
Just like Barney Frank’s partner running a gay escort/prostitution service out of his/their Capitol Hill townhouse…
I was living in DC at the time; it got a bit of play in the local media, but virtually none nationally. And, there were no ethics repercussions either…
I’ll bet money that Sanford will step down quickly; probably within a week-unlike Blago…Otherwise, the legislature in SC will impeach him for dereliction of duty…
‘Cuz you see, for all the whinneying about The Hypocrisy!, conservatives don’t typically circle the wagons to protect their own; unlike the left, which plies every excuse imaginable or fantastic in their efforts to protect their own-regardless of circumstances.
I do respect the fact that you’re not hitting him on the adultery thing, although you did play the hypocrisy card earlier, and instead are being critical of his dereliction of duty.
That said, I wish you would acknowledge Obama’s hypocrisy on many of his campaign pontifications, and especially, as of late, on fiscal issues…
Comment by sdferr on 6/24 @ 3:14 pm #
A wise president would not have invited Iranian diplomats to US embassy July 4 celebrations in the first place and therefore wouldn’t have to embarrass himself by rescinding the invitation. He would have been able to differentiate a committed tyrannical enemy from a potential negotiating partner. He would rhetorically support seekers of freedom against the tyrants who murder them from the moment those freedom seekers showed their will. He would do everything in his power to de-legitimize the tyrant and nothing to prop the tyrant up. Certainly he would not want to show himself to be an enemy of freedom in the eyes of the men and women who put their lives on the line to gain freedom from the tyrant.
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/24 @ 3:26 pm #
poo’s a funny word
kinda..
until it sits on your toilet seat..
then it’s reality
so say I
Comment by Rusty on 6/24 @ 3:44 pm #
#253
for me personally, the story is entirely about being out of contact with his office. The fact that we has out of the country exacerbates that issue.
So what you’re saying is that this is on par with Bill Clinton getting BJs in the oval office when he should have been doing his job.
OK
So exactly how would you stop Iran? Or would you just draw as much attention as possible to the fact that (barring 400,000 boots on the ground within Iran proper (a.k.a declaring War on Iran, something the people we’re supporting would vociferously oppose)) we can’t actually do jack about it?
Like apartheid was stopped in South Africa. Keep it in the public light. Let the regime know that they are being scrutinized. If you know the name of a jailed dissedent, Call and write the Iranian embassy or consulate and ask after their health. It just may keep them alive. “we can’t actually do jack about it?” Which means we do nothing at all?
53% Unfucking believable.
Comment by JohnRJ08 on 6/24 @ 3:45 pm #
If the Republican Party had hired an Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter, they couldn’t have come up with a more telling tale about the state of their party and the hypocrisy of their strident tone. The Democratic Party has never tried to position itself as the party for American Family Values and it certainly has made itself the guardian of the institution of marriage. On just about every level, the GOP is an utter catastrophe, and it’s biggest problem is that many of its members fail to recognize that.
Comment by Salt Lick on 6/24 @ 3:57 pm #
What Nature doesn’t do to us
Will be done by our fellow man
Jovial old billionaire fart and Obama supporter Warren Buffet says economy is in a shambles and no recovery in sight.
Comment by cranky-d on 6/24 @ 3:58 pm #
I hope you feel better, Jo-jo, now that you’ve got that out of your system. We’re here to help.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 6/24 @ 4:03 pm #
Jesus, Marimba, and goatshit.
Why is it every time a GOPer gets caught with his dick in a piece of strange I have to listen to a bunch of you wearisome assholes thumping the table like Kruschev at the UN, fulsomely shouting about the HYPOCRISY and the END OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. You all sound like every smug self-satisfied Godbothering preacher that you claim to hate, and if I didn’t know better, I would swear you’re all fapping yourselves sore over it.
Sanford fucked up huge. Dereliction of duty and pure dishonesty. He’s done, and he deserves to be done. The rest is you lot pleasuring yourselves to drown out Obama’s slowly caving poll numbers. You’re not fooling anyone.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 4:09 pm #
What does this mean JohnRJ08 : “The Democratic Party has never tried to position itself as the party for American Family Values and it certainly has made itself the guardian of the institution of marriage.” It does not make any sense.
I tell you what here is my compromise:
The GOP goes federalist on marriage (traditional, gay, etc.) and leave the issue to state legislatures and gays stop trying to create rights through the Courts.
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 4:10 pm #
The Democratic Party has never tried to position itself as the party for any kind of values what-so-ever…
FTFY
Comment by JD on 6/24 @ 4:14 pm #
JRJ08 – Thanks for puking you sanctimonious little prick.
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 4:14 pm #
Let me explain this word hypocrisy to you. Being a hypocrite is to espouse one principle and live by another, the fact Republicans are outraged about this is exactly the opposite of hypocritical. They ask people to honor their oaths, and if they don’t they hold them accountable.
Making transparency and honesty, and running against a “culture of corruption” a primary plank in your parties platform, then looking the other way and even actively covering up corrupt and crooked politicians, that right there is hypocrisy.
Comment by geoffb on 6/24 @ 4:17 pm #
I would like to thank our press for their help. Outing the combination of stupidity and arrogance in public officials with an (R) after their name is a positive in the evolutionary sense. Your tireless efforts have resulted in smarter, more reasonable politicians on the right. The dumbing down of the left side is working quite well. I salute you.
If the nation can survive just a few more years the left will be led by the drooling class. The effect is noticeable already by the quality of the trolls. Your help in this has been invaluable. Good work men, keep it up.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 4:19 pm #
Gereghty reports:
Apparently Sanford’s wife threw him out two weeks ago. It is pathetically stupid. In a way, I am glad the GOP took this shot now. Better to get it over with.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 4:20 pm #
geoffb, you sound almost Charles Johnsonian with that post above.
Comment by meya on 6/24 @ 4:20 pm #
“Outing the combination of stupidity and arrogance in public officials with an (R) after their name is a positive in the evolutionary sense. Your tireless efforts have resulted in smarter, more reasonable politicians on the right.”
Pretty soon we’ll be left with the cream of the crop: Palin / Bachmann 2012.
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 4:21 pm #
Absolutely. I mean, what if Obama had started shelling Fort Sumter, for God’s sake?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 4:23 pm #
“Comment by JohnRJ08 on 6/24 @ 3:45 pm #
If the Republican Party had hired an Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter, they couldn’t have come up with a more telling tale about the state of their party and the hypocrisy of their strident tone.”
FOAD, moron.
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 4:23 pm #
Only a fucking lefy could make fun of someone for holding their politicians to some sort of standard of behavior.
You people really are fucking retarded, you know that? In the truest sense of the word.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 4:24 pm #
See my Ann Coulter quote above.
The one that gave hammy coniptions.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 4:26 pm #
” On just about every level, the GOP is an utter catastrophe, and it’s biggest problem is that many of its members fail to recognize that.”
AH.
You’ve never been here before, then.
Explains a lot.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 4:27 pm #
“You all sound like every smug self-satisfied Godbothering preacher that you claim to hate,…”
That’s because reactionary leftism IS a religion.
Comment by Ted Nugent's Soul Patch on 6/24 @ 4:35 pm #
“You have some problem with an openly gay Senator?”
Barney Frank’s a representative, not a Senator.
Do I have a problem with him being openly gay? Not at all. He’s more honest about that then Larry Craig, at least.
An openly gay representative who was banging a board member of the company the government is supposed to have oversight for, and then proceeded to use his seniority to stonewall every attempt at strict oversight on said company for the last few years? That I have a problem with.
Of course, this is a Democrat we’re talking about, so the conflict of interest doesn’t bother you at all. The Left, good little Alinskyites that they are, has never worried about the people on their own side following such standards.
Comment by newrouter on 6/24 @ 4:39 pm #
i wish obama would vacation in argentina for the next 4 years
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 4:39 pm #
That is a pretty low bar to shoot for, you have to admit.
Comment by newrouter on 6/24 @ 4:40 pm #
palin/liz cheney 2012
Comment by thor on 6/24 @ 4:49 pm #
Excuse me, but that’s simply more fantasy. Stop the fantasy!
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 4:49 pm #
palin/liz cheney 2012
I’ll be in my cot.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 4:50 pm #
“Excuse me, but that’s simply more fantasy. Stop the fantasy!”
Ah, the ignorant dung beetle speaks.
Comment by dAVID dEE on 6/24 @ 4:51 pm #
Hypocrite, hypocrite, hypocrite! This man called for the resignation of President Bill Clinton. Clinton didn’t abandon the ship of state during his tryst He was there for the country. Sanford was with his squeeze while S.C. burned and didn’t respond for 5 days.
People want the Repugnicas to return to power? You morons are nuts.
Comment by thor on 6/24 @ 4:54 pm #
Excuse me, but it was Barney Frank who announced his relationship with the gentleman at FNMA to the media so as to avoid any conflict of interest.
Helps to know the facts, d-bag.
Just makin’ shit up, that’s the Republican way.
Comment by happyfeet on 6/24 @ 5:00 pm #
Mark Sanford’s wife should run for his seat. So far she’s shown a lot of actual class unlike that Darlene Ensign loser what loves her weak-assed piece of shit husband so much she lets him fuck dirty dirty whores. Practically encourages it, really. Low self esteem I guess. I bet though if he’d fucked a brown dirty dirty whore from the South America that would have been the last straw for ole Darlene. Standards.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 5:00 pm #
“Clinton didn’t abandon the ship of state during his tryst”
He got HIS bjs in the Oval Office, moron.
And, yes, that IS abandoning the ship of state.
Comment by thor on 6/24 @ 5:01 pm #
FTFY!
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 5:01 pm #
“Excuse me, but it was Barney Frank who announced his relationship with the gentleman at FNMA to the media so as to avoid any conflict of interest.”
Was tht the one running the gay whorehouse, whore?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 5:02 pm #
Look, the dung beetle tried to make a funny!
Didn’t work.
Comment by thor on 6/24 @ 5:03 pm #
Wouldn’t surprise me if you used that D.C. dial-a-boy service, P’brain.
Comment by sdferr on 6/24 @ 5:05 pm #
First the shouts were Marg bar Dictator. Death to the dictator.
Then they became Marg bar Khamenei. Death to Khamenei.
Now they shout Marg bar Jomhuri-ye IslÄmi-ye. Death to the Islamic Republic.
Words? Just words, Obama? Just speeches? Don’t tell me words don’t matter.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 5:06 pm #
Nope, still nothing, dung beetle.
C’mon, make a shit joke.
They ain’t funny, either, but we can all laugh at how pathetic you are.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 5:07 pm #
Oh, and boys are your thing, dung beetle.
C’mon, don’t deny it.
Comment by thor on 6/24 @ 5:10 pm #
Earth to noisy moron, Cuba has higher favorability ratings than the Republican party.
Communist Coo-bah!
Comment by newrouter on 6/24 @ 5:13 pm #
how much to send all of elected washington to argentina for 2 years?
Comment by thor on 6/24 @ 5:14 pm #
It isn’t a Communist practice to breath through your nose. Try it.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 5:14 pm #
Oh, a communist dung beetle.
A self admitted thief, then.
Comment by thor on 6/24 @ 5:15 pm #
tres hombres!
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 5:16 pm #
Comment by thor on 6/24 @ 5:14 pm #
Was that another attempt to be funny, dungy?
I NEVER breathe through my nose when you’re around, dung beetle.
The smell, you know.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 5:16 pm #
Getting on to bigger and better things, Freidman solves the Iranian crisis.
Team Obama is sure to jump all over this one.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 5:18 pm #
Boy, that’s thor level stooopid, Joe.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 5:22 pm #
In no way was I endorsing that. That is not a parody of Tom Friedman.
Comment by geoffb on 6/24 @ 5:24 pm #
Nah, I’m one of those godbothering Christians he abhors. One whose god uses/designed evolution to make the best possible world.
What you subsidize you get more of and what you tax you get less. The press subsidizes stupidity, arrogance, and sociopathological behavior on the left and taxes it on the right. It makes the right pay a price in the short run but the left pays in the long term, with interest, compounded.
Comment by Sam Hall on 6/24 @ 5:26 pm #
Seems to me Friedman’s premise would lead him to advocate for more domestic oil production. After all if the problem “we need their oil too much for our own good”, the simplest answer is to use our own oil.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 5:26 pm #
Talking about stupid, John Kerry chimes in with some Palin humor over Sanford’s disappearing act.
No wonder Andrew Excitable Sullivan likes him.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/24 @ 5:26 pm #
thor,
“Stephen Gobie never did write his tell-all book, Capitol Offenses, but he still has a juicy story to tell. A male gigolo, in 1985 he placed an solicitous ad in Washington, D.C.’s weekly gay paper, the Washington Blade: “Exceptionally good-looking, personable, muscular athlete is available. Hot bottom plus large endowment equals a good time.” That was all that U.S. Representative Barney Frank needed to hear. A powerful Democratic representative from Massachusetts and one of the few openly gay politicians at the time, Frank met with the hunky Gobie on April Fools’ Day, 1985…
…Over the next few months, he ran a prostitution ring from the congressman’s home. In 1987, the Washington Post broke the story. An attempt to expel Frank from the House of Representatives failed on a vote of 390-38, but he was censured with a vote of 408-18. Happily, Frank’s political career has survived and he still serves in the House of Representatives.”
From: http://tiny.cc/RHuG8
Hardly a winger political assasination rag…
Oh, and read the whole thing, especially the part where Fwank had the sherrif give Gobie special treatment, and told Gobie’s probation officer that he worked for Fwank as an, ahem, aide…
Sorry about the stubborn facts and inconvenient truth, mi droog…
Comment by geoffb on 6/24 @ 5:28 pm #
Makes my case. Thank you MSM. See what you have wrought.
Comment by Joe on 6/24 @ 5:29 pm #
Sam Hall, domestic oil production…is that even possible? Democrats just scratch their heads and talk about Sarah and Todd Palin capturing and eating polar bears (alive) if ANWR was ever opened up.
Comment by geoffb on 6/24 @ 5:30 pm #
The evidence just keeps piling up.
Comment by thor on 6/24 @ 5:32 pm #
But wait, it was hardly mentioned in the national media!
There’s your fantasy.
And your failure to even mention Barney Frank’s rather reasonable explanation.
You’re no Barney Frank, my man.
Comment by Sam Hall on 6/24 @ 5:37 pm #
Sam Hall, domestic oil production…is that even possible?
It’s slightly more possible than powering the country with unicorn farts, which is what the whole “Green Economy” idea is all about.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 5:37 pm #
Ooof.
That’s…..embarasing.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/24 @ 5:41 pm #
Pardon moi thor,
I wasn’t specific enough, forgive me; I was speaking of broadcast media, you know, the one that reaches the largest audience, and “informs” uninformed opinion…
C’mon, semantics arguments are below someone like you! Let’s have a game changer, like Sanfords Evita is a COMMUNIST!1!!1!eleventy
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/24 @ 5:58 pm #
Here’s a handy guide for any of those watching the Obama infomercial tonight…
http://is.gd/1crOd
Me, I’m not…
Comment by SDN on 6/24 @ 5:58 pm #
Ted, in my accounting classes, banging a top officer of a public company you are supposed to be exercising auditing oversight of for years before confessing just ahead of the papers was called “breach of fiduciary duty” and resulted in you getting fired, losing your CPA license, and then having the defrauded shareholders and the SEC and the US Attorney take turns using you as their round-bottomed doll. For years. Of course, Barney (and thor) wouldn’t have regarded that as a punishment…..
You would think that a certified financial genius like thor would know that.
Comment by SDN on 6/24 @ 5:59 pm #
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 6:04 pm #
The relationship doesn’t have to be clandestine to be a conflict of interest. It is a conflict of interest no matter who knows it.
Comment by Proud Liberal Fascist on 6/24 @ 6:05 pm #
ACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by newrouter on 6/24 @ 6:06 pm #
there’s only one “banking queen” thor
Comment by geoffb on 6/24 @ 6:06 pm #
Perhaps she is a swallow.
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 6:07 pm #
It’s COI now, 321. Get with the pogrom.
Comment by newrouter on 6/24 @ 6:07 pm #
figures a lf would blow up the sw
Comment by thor on 6/24 @ 6:22 pm #
I’m sorry but the first step in resolving your fantasy addiction is to admit you have a problem.
The national media didn’t cover that story? That’s pure projected fantasy. Please slap yourself.
This comes straight from memory recall, didn’t Barney Frank begin dating the ex-FNMA officer who only later become appointed to some sort of FNMA board? Hence Barney and partner’s need to be official in declaration of relationship, sort’a like knowing Wendy Gramm is Phil Gramm’s husband!
Like I said, you’re no Barney Frank. He is an ethical man.
Comment by thor on 6/24 @ 6:23 pm #
beoome = became
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 6:24 pm #
I heard a rumor that John Edwards was having an affair, wonder if his wife knows where he is?
Probably just a rumor anyway.
Comment by geoffb on 6/24 @ 6:24 pm #
OT: Report of protesters thrown off bridge in Tehran.
Comment by B Moe on 6/24 @ 6:25 pm #
That’s easy for you to say.
Comment by geoffb on 6/24 @ 6:29 pm #
They cover everything. Some get 24/7 for weeks and on the front page of every paper and news magazine. Others get mentioned once on page 32, bottom left. Both would be considered “covered”.
Comment by newrouter on 6/24 @ 6:37 pm #
they weren’t thrown under the bus though
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 6:43 pm #
“I’m sorry but the first step in resolving your fantasy addiction is to admit you have a problem.”
Let’s see, your problems are lying, stealing, coprophilia, an addiction to little boys underwear and being an all areound dick.
Start there, dung beetle.
Comment by serr8d on 6/24 @ 6:43 pm #
Sanford is a dumbass, and didn’t deserve to have a running in 2012. I’m glad he’s out.
Jon Kyl.
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Comment by Geo Walsh on 6/24 @ 7:02 pm #
Well, if Sanford’s wife did throw him out a few weeks ago, and I haven’t clicked that link someone provided to confirm that, then she was not lying when she said she did not know where he was and she was not concerned.
I feel for her sons. But for their sake, at least the Gov did not run off with Barney Frank. (Eeewwwww!)
Comment by cynn on 6/24 @ 8:31 pm #
Funny beyond measure. Your ox is so gored; when is the barbeque?
Comment by Pablo on 6/24 @ 8:36 pm #
It’s already over, cynn. You missed it. The Republicans move pretty quick on this sort of thing.
Comment by cynn on 6/24 @ 8:39 pm #
What do you mean, PablO!?
Comment by Pablo on 6/24 @ 8:44 pm #
I mean the goose is cooked. And the ox too.
Comment by cynn on 6/24 @ 8:52 pm #
I don’t look at it your way, sorry.
Comment by quintsPen on 6/24 @ 9:10 pm #
Here lies the body of Mary Lee;
Died at the age of a hunnert and three.
For fifteen years she kept her virginity;
Not a bad record for this vicinity.
Comment by Pablo on 6/24 @ 9:25 pm #
Sanford ‘12. eh cynn?
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 6/25 @ 6:45 am #
Earth to noisy moron, Cuba has higher favorability ratings than the Republican party
Uh-huh. ‘Cording to whom?
Cause according to Rasmussen, the generic congressional ballot is within the margin of error for a dead heat, and two weeks ago was a dead heat: http://tinyurl.com/genball
And Obama’s approval ratings have been bleeding away for some time: http://tinyurl.com/preztrack
And the blameshifting for the economy away from Bush and towards Golden Boy has already begun: http://tinyurl.com/RR0293
But don’t let me interrupt your Little Red Fevre Dream. Nothing like the passion of a useful idiot.
Comment by JohnRJ08 on 6/25 @ 9:28 am #
Now that I’ve read through this blog, I have to go take a hot shower and scrub all the grime off me. Then, I have to delete the link to this schoolyard, where fat little toads sit bravely in front of the computer monitor and throw their excrement at anybody who posts a word using more than three syllables. This guy “JD” should go live in Afghanistan or Pakistan for a year or so and learn some manners. And whoever is moderating this site should go back to primary school and learn how to read so that they can identify pointless, obscene comments and delete them before they infect the whole blog. Come to think of it, forget it. It’s too late for this blog. Too many monkeys throwing shit at each other.
Comment by maggie katzen on 6/25 @ 9:30 am #
aw, whatever happened to personal responsibility?
Comment by B Moe on 6/25 @ 12:36 pm #
This guy “JD†should go live in Afghanistan or Pakistan for a year or so and learn some manners. And whoever is moderating this site should go back to primary school and learn how to read so that they can identify pointless, obscene comments and delete them before they infect the whole blog.
STONE THEM!!!! STONE THE HERETICS!!!!!!!
No wonder you fuck wads are so confused by what is happening in Iran.
Comment by guinsPen on 6/25 @ 5:02 pm #
moderating
Yo, 8.
Think fast!
Comment by guinsPen on 6/25 @ 6:24 pm #
And as always, proper nouns don’t count.
Comment by Rusty on 6/25 @ 7:18 pm #
#337
Not my ox. I don’t care what the governor of N carolina does. My governor sold his office. Now THAT’S corruption!
Comment by pdbuttons on 6/26 @ 11:05 pm #
thor.. u be such a chore..
name..one.. song..
film..
we give u books
authoors and such..
but,,,
ha!
not mucho!
oh puh lease..
tan me!