Mark Sanford: No Longer Missing. Will He Be Missed?

At DailyKos there is a screencap where Fox, once again, falsely identifies a disgraced pol as a Dem instead of a Republican.

"Don't cry for me, Argentina!...."

KT - I'm telling you this story blew up and overs way too fast. this guy is covering up something that is so much more devastating to himself and his family. The only way to protect himself is to stop you'll from digging and to do that he had to give you'll something that juicy enough to make you'll go away immediately.
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I know you might think my suspicion is driven by partisanship but it really comes from doing research about sex trafficking and discovering the prevalence of American men going overseas to indulge their sexual appetites. It's commonly referred to as sexual tourism others call it freaks on release -- I say somebody ought to get some proof that this mistress has actually reached the age of consent. And this so called confession isn't a cover-up for something far more sinister.

Why is it hard to imagine him running for president? I mean, other people with equally or more questionable backgrounds have been taken seriously at the national level. Sarah Palin? Gary Hart?

KT:
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Did you "know" this whole time, or are you unable even now to answer that question?

Further to my previous post: these scaliwags cry their crocodile tears on Fox, are granted absolution by Rush and Anne Coulter, and then proceed to the fast lane of high-level politics where they're greeted as "serious people."

[...] Swampland Blog calls Sanford “the TMI Governor.”  Karen Tumulty writes that the GOP will likely “put Sanford behind it” and try to move [...]

Let's see, Patterson, McGreevey and Spitzer--Dems seem to have the problem too. And don't forget about Kwame Kilpatrick and Mayor Villagairosa.
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And there was Stabenow's husband too.

But really, can Dems really say anything about GOP peccadilloes--last I checked, Janklow had to resign and Ted Kennedy is a lion.

"His picture-perfect family--a smart, pretty wife and four adorable sons--had been very much a part of his image."
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Open letter:
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It is time to retire the above myth. There is no such thing as picture-perfect. People are ordinary. We have ordinary feelings, emotions, problems and vices. All of us. We can not live up to a picture-perfect myth. And we need to stop pretending.

Americans on the other hand are free to talk all they want about politician's peccadilloes.
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Recasting it as an intraparty competition is actually a good example of trollery. It's so basic that children are taught it - two wrongs don't make a right.

vw, Ginsburg's lily-white clerkship classes are jarring when you consider that her view is that lily-white anything is automatically suspect.

Yeah, but PD, I am not pointing it out to defend Sanford, but to point out that your outrage is pretty party-specific. And that calls into question the weight to be given your comments. Come on, PD, certainly you can do better than that.

Krist,every thread is Groundhog's Day.

And PD, take a look at the first sentence of this post. Mentioning Dems who have gotten caught seems pretty germane under any standard. Dude, you're getting clowned.

u want some to, PNNTO? Come on. Pay your quarter and take me on. Read the first sentence of the post. That invites comments about all the Dems who have been caught recently for straying.

KT:
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Thanks for the honest answer; I really appreciate it.
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The list of items that "everybody knows" in political press corps circles (but of which we rubes in the sticks remain stupidly ignorant) keeps getting longer with every anonymously sourced quote.
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Please forgive me for my suspicious mind.

Where's Pirate Wench when we need her?

Whatever, FO, we're still waiting for you to explain how the states' power to disenfranchise criminals emanates from the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause. Consider yourself pwned.

This...
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His picture-perfect family--a smart, pretty wife and four adorable sons--had been very much a part of his image.
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...is why the government is filled with closeted gay people who vote against or work against civil equality.

Recasting it as an intraparty competition is actually a good example of trollery. It's so basic that children are taught it - two wrongs don't make a right.
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This is evident.

I not outaged because Sanford or anyone else had an affair. I'm am outraged because I have to listen to how marriage is an institution, how its between one man and woman from people who seemed to believe that its actually between one man, one woman and another woman. And these same people go out of their way to make sure that others they disagree with can't have the same rights as they take for granted constantly. That's outrageous. If you can't live by the same rules you opposed on others than have the common decency to STFU!

our outrage is pretty party-specific
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I have no outrage whatsoever. Another politician got caught with his pants down. BFD. The only reason I might care is that he's on record wanting to deny gay's the right to form families when he obviously has little to no concern over the health of his own.

Sorry need an editor.