Posted on 06/23/2009 5:25:58 PM PDT by pissant
This is what the WSJ reported today. 'South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Chief Reggie Lloyd, who oversees the governor’s security, raised alarms with high-ranking elected officials over the weekend, according to people familiar with the situation'
I totally agree. And I am perplexed at those who argue otherwise.
When stealing taxpayer’s money is involved, treachery is the rule.
It was taylor made by the media to give that impression.
As a group, voters in the US can be remarkably uninformed. But, let one whiff of crazy get in the air and it’s over. Any political junkie would tell you that.
It needs to be nipped in the bud before the impression sinks in.
How old is he ? you don’t think he’s to young to have Alzheimer’s ? Dementia ?
Not if I valued the ability to breathe.
You don’t suppose he had a mild stroke and didn’t realize he had one and effected his memory and cognition ability ?
I find this to be an incredibly bizarre story I ignored it most of yesterday assuming that it just couldn’t be true in this modern day, especially post 9/11 but by later yesterday I saw that no explanations were being presented and I started posting on it, today it only got worst.
For most of America this is our first close look at Governor Sanford the man and potential Commander in Chief and this story and the way it is not being handled by him is devastating to his image.
Tomorrow better be a heck of an appearance because at this moment this guy doesn’t seem like a rock of stability and responsibility in these days of Homeland Security and sudden catastrophes.
first, he is recharging, then he is writing something,
then he is hikeing
His wife doesn’t know where he is, then she does.
4 days
To many stories. If there is no there, there, why all the mystery and Sanford not up front from the get go.
4 days in his small state might not be a big deal but in other states this would not fly.
Maybe he is just too self absorbed and irresponsible, supposedly he is eccentric in his self indulgences of doing what he wants, when he wants.
This is a comment that needs to be addressed:
“Just how strange is too strange?”
I imagine that the surrender poodle, Jon Martin of Political, would find it strange that Col Moultrie stored nine and twelve pound cannons in his barn in 1775.
The surrender poodle Jon Martin would also find it “strange” that Col Moultrie turned back a British invasion fleet that attacked Chalston on June 29, 1776.
I’m sure that the wimp, Jon Martin, would be horrified that Col. Moultrie and the 1st and 2nd South Carolinia regiments battled for our freedom some 250 years ago and helped give us our freedom.
The sniveling coward Jon Martin would also be upset that the president of the South Carolina legislature - I believe it was John Rutledge, correct me if I’m wrong - awarded his sword to a member of the brave men who defended the harbor on Johnston Island.
I have the utmost respect for my South Carolinian friends, past and present.
I just don’t understand why he would not tell the “acting” governor that he will be out of pocket for a few days. This would have stopped all of this. I think at the very least he needed to speak with the Lieutenant Governor...like him or not I think that is your responsibility to do this.
DU: "We don't care what Rush and those RWaholes are saying about The O. They can take a flying leap off a tall building. "
Now if it was a Hollywood liberal screenwriter I'd be thinking of "Runaway Governor" starring Adam Sandler, release 2010 Holiday Season. Or/And possibly a TV series 2011/12 season
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cannot prove where he was born
has no friends from college
wrapped himself in Chicago-style politics
has no experience running a business
has no lengthy experience running a senate office
had no private sector experience as an employee to speak about
has to have everything scripted for him
And yet the media suck up to him every chance they get? I think THAT is strange.
The lieutenant governor is a political rival and has his hand in stirring up the whole thing, napscoordinator. If SC is like NC, the elections are separate. It’s entirely possible to have a governor and a lt. governor who are at each other’s throats, even if they’re from the same party, and they are from the same party.
I agree that they were not liked (or it appears so). They do have separate elections, but Sanford was done with his second term so he would not be running for Governor again. Now I totally understand being a political rival. I am sure that there are many many out there, but all Governor Sanford had to say was “I am out of town for four days. You are acting govenor until I get back”. We do this all the time in the military even when the CO/XO hate each other (yes that is the case more times than not...lol).
Or your top aide.
Heck, I'm just an analyst and I let my company know what I'm up to weekdays.
And then he decides Father's Day is the day to go disappear on his family.
You wanna be governor or president? You just can't go disappear in the woods for five days. Not in the modern age. This is really curious behavior.
As convoluted and strange as this whole situation is, Sanford would have had to make a public statement to that effect, in order to have avoided what has happened. His second in command is not being honest.
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