Will Mr. Sanford go to Washington? [Mark Sanford]

The American Conservative ^ | 2009-03-09

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“I remember the leadership would come and say, ‘This stuff is okay during the campaign, but we have to govern,’ and I thought it was govern toward a specific end, not just govern to govern,” Sanford recalls.

Sanford’s most notable accomplishment as governor may be eliminating an illegal $155 million budget deficit that was hidden by his predecessor. When trying to find the last $16 million, legislators suggested that he had done enough. Sanford replied, “I’m sworn to uphold the Constitution. It doesn’t say come close and declare victory.”

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But the governor edges closer to pure libertarianism at times.

/mark

[SolidWood]

[Huck]

Very interesting profile.

[MattinNJ]

I woud love to see a Sanford/Palin ticket in 2012. I saw him interviewed once where her name came up and it came across that he doesn’t like her. I wonder if that is true.

[alecqss]

If the promise of “hope” in the form of bailouts fails to revive the American economy

Promise... Obama seems to be incapable of taking obvious hints from the stock market!

[KansasGirl]

[Beyond his rare lapses in ideological or political judgment, Mark Sanford doesn’t seem to have the charisma that conservatives say their message needs. ]

By 2012, Americans are going to be sick of snakeoil sold with charisma.

[djsherin]

Hope for 2012?

[rbmillerjr]

Increasingly, I’m being drawn toward Sanford.

I’m wide open still. I like Sanford, Palin, Jindal(I’m not ruling him out because his speech sucked and the media savaged him) and and some others, but they are at the top of the list.

I was going to vote for McCain the RINO, because I knew how bad Obama would be. Palin, however activated me and spurred me on ton give financially and campaign.

Fair warning to GOP hierarchy on here...next election either is a conservative or I’m done.

[mek1959]

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[bamahead]

But the governor edges closer to pure libertarianism at times. He rolls his eyes at the Columbia sheriff’s department’s zeal in investigating Michael Phelps’s recreational pot use.

And he criticizes Alan Greenspan’s management of the “opaque” Federal Reserve. “If you take human nature out of a Fed, it might work,” he explains. “But you can’t. You can have these wise men. But who wants to turn off the spigot at a party that’s rolling?“



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[roamer_1]

I Like Sanford, I really do- unlike Palin and Jindal, he is very much the real deal- But I will not spare him (or you) the very same question I haunt the moderates with:

By his record, how can Sanford bring together the 3 pillars of Conservatism?

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[sweet_diane]

Wanna keep an eye on this guy.

"Mark Sanford doesn’t seem to have the charisma that conservatives say their message needs."

rut roh... I supported Fred Thompson so I KNOW how important bells and whistles are to many conservatives.

[sweet_diane]

"Fair warning to GOP hierarchy on here...next election either is a conservative or I’m done."

dittos

[Impy]

“unlike Palin and Jindal, he is very much the real deal”

Why aren’t they?

[Impy]

“But when staffers advised him to tacitly endorse primary challenges against the moderate GOP legislators who stymied his reformist agenda, Sanford played it safe and backed incumbents. There are limits even to his political will.”

Well that’s not good. RINOs and wimps and losers need to be primaried.

That aside Sanford would be excellent. As the best second term Governor he was the natural choice to run in 2008. (And Bush was not in 2000, I’m guessing Tommy Thompson was the best Veteran Governor, though his refusal to ever run for the Senate upsets me)

I look forward to choosing between Sanford and Palin and possibly other worthy candidates.

[roamer_1]

[roamer_1:] “unlike Palin and Jindal, he is very much the real deal”

Why aren’t they?

Look at their records and tell me how they are. Take either one you'd like, actual record, actual quotes, and I will knock them right into moderate-town.

And unlike Sanford, who would be very hard to beat in two of three pillars, Pallin (especially) and Jindal go down in three out of three.