Posted on 08/26/2009 6:55:19 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford rebuffed his lieutenant governor's call to resign Wednesday, two months after he admitted an affair, saying he will not be "railroaded" out of office.
Sanford returned from a nearly weeklong disappearance in June to reveal he had been in Argentina to visit his mistress, a disclosure that led to questions about the legality of his travel on state, private and commercial planes.
At a news conference hours after fellow Republican Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer called for him to step down, Sanford said the people of South Carolina want to move past the scandals and that he will finish the last 16 months of his term.
"I'm not going to be railroaded out of this office by political opponents or folks who were never fans of mine in the first place," Sanford said. "A lot of what is going on now is pure politics, plain and simple."
Bauer and Sanford have served two terms together but were elected separately and have never been friends.
Some Republicans have been reluctant to seek Sanford's resignation or impeachment because they do not want to give Bauer what would amount to a long-term tryout for the job.
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go where?
Serve out his term, and hopefully be WH budget director in a Palin administration.
Well those Republicans are wrong. Period. They are political cowards.
Are you smoking crack rock? Sanford is radioactive and politically dead. A Ron Paul administration wouldn’t tap him.
Or the other possible reason, they would end up being called on to resign themselves for their own infidelities.
Sanford is as delusional in his own way as the man currently occupying the White House.
If I was in South Carolina, I’d be figuring out a way to impeach this loon.
Indeed he is a loon.
Asking his wife if he could go visit his mistress? Idiot.
“Indeed he is a loon.
Asking his wife if he could go visit his mistress? Idiot.”
Whether or not he is sleeping in the same house as his wife, Sanford should be sleeping with one eye open. I heard that Mrs. Sanford is being advised by Lorena Bobbit to help her through this ordeal. /sarc.
Why impeach Sanford? We can’t be holier than though all the time.
When a sitting governor slips his security and disappears and then a statewide manhunt turns into a national manhunt and then after missing for almost a week it is discovered that the governor has left the country for a secret personal escape to Argentina without passing command of state decisions over to someone else, in fact no one knew where he was including his staff that he had told he was hiking, then we are talking about a Grade A, big time nut case.
This was a serious story to SC state government before the public heard about it on that Monday afternoon.
I don’t know. SC always been big on small government. However, I do get your point on that if he was away for an extended period of time, he should had left Lt. Governor in charge.
What a stinking TURD Sanford is.
Your sentence is not clear!
No, I prefer meth.
Sanford is radioactive and politically dead.
Says who? The state cleared him of any wrongdoing. Anything else is between him and his family. The guy's just going through a mid-life crisis, sheesh!
A Ron Paul administration wouldn’t tap him.
I said Palin, not Paul.
But as long as he didn't violate any laws he's just as good as gold.
Now that doesn't mean I'll support him if he runs for President, but I won't knock him either and let the voters decide. And he'd be a great addition in an advisory or cabinet role.
Why defend him? This is quite obviously not a case of some trumped-up Democrat/media feeding frenzy against someone who didn't actually do anything wrong.
I think his actions--both during his Argentina escapade and subsequently, are incredibly bizarre and disturbing. The thought of someone with the power of a state governor exhibiting that behavior bothers me greatly.
Hell, I'd be cutting off a friend who had done the stuff, and said the stuff that this guy has. I see no need to try to further enable his behavior.
If you want to do so, that's your choice of course.
“The state cleared him of any wrongdoing.”
Who? The GOP-controlled legislature? And of course it has nothing to do with some guy named Bauer. The man’s behaviour was erratic to say the least. He snuck out of the country without state authorities having knowledge of his whereabouts. I would call him grossly irresponsible.
“The guy’s just going through a mid-life crisis, sheesh!”
He’s governor of the state for crying out loud. If he wants to have a mid-life crisis he should resign and go through it on his own dime.
“I said Palin, not Paul.”
So you think Palin is more kooky than Paul? Ok.
Sanford is a political zombie. He’s toast, finished, done - it’s OVER. Dump the chump. What are you holding onto this clown for?
“But as long as he didn’t violate any laws he’s just as good as gold.”
I mean this: you are delusional. Perception is everything in politics. Trust me, that turkey is TOAST.
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