GOP Sen.: Sanford’s political future will be resolved in next week
Published: July 1, 2009
Updated 7 months ago
South Carolina’s senior Senator believes that Gov. Mark Sanford’s future as Governor will be resolved in the next week. However, Sen. Jim DeMint stopped short of predicting Sanford would resign.
“Obviously I’m concerned of whether or not he is in a position that he can continue to lead the state and a number of us are talking to him quietly and hopefully it will be resolved,” said DeMint, during an appearance on Fox and Friends Wednesday morning.
“I think I’m going to stay out of predicting but I think we will see some resolution in the next week,” DeMint told Fox News’ Steve Doocy.
Wednesday’s Washington Post reports, “With every word South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) utters about his extramarital affair, his would-be successor leaps closer to a job that he wants dearly but that many leaders in the state’s fractured Republican Party have been scheming to keep from him.”
The Post notes that Lt. Gov. André Bauer (R) ” has become known as much for his personal behavior as for his political record.”
In 2003, he was charged with driving 60 mph and running two red lights in downtown Columbia. When pulled over, Bauer was so aggressive that a police officer pulled a gun on him.
In 2006, Bauer was stopped by a state trooper who clocked him driving 101 mph on an interstate highway. He used his state-issued radio to tell the officer he was “S.C. 2″ — the code for lieutenant governor — and was not ticketed. Then, weeks later, Bauer was injured when the single-engine airplane he was piloting crashed and burned.
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“South Carolina’s senior Senator believes that Gov. Mark Sanford’s future as Governor will be resolved in the next week. However, Sen. Jim DeMint stopped short of predicting Sanford would resign.”
Lindsey Graham is the senior senator from South Carolina.
At the end of that clip Sen. DeMint says, “There are a lot of politicians who probably wouldn’t even be hurt by this sort of thing, but when you’re a conservative and you talk about ‘family values,’ it’s a different story.”
No, it’s not! Just look at conservative ‘family values’ superstars like Sen. David Vitter and Sen. John Ensign. They’re both still in the Senate. In fact, they both received “loud, standing ovations” and pats on the back when they returned following their extra-marital daliances.
On the other hand, Gov. Eliot Spitzer and former-Sen. John Edwards are finished politically for life.
The fun thing about being a “Christian” conservative is that you can confess your “very serious sin” and ask “forgiveness” and start all over again.
If the Goppie “family values” conservatives were serious about what they say, then why is Newt Gingrich still a respected leader of their party? Why was Rudy Giuliani even in the running for the GOP nomination? Both of those guys are serial adulterers.
Gingrich was cheating on his second wife with a much younger staffer who would later become his third wife at the same time that he was leading the drive to impeach Bill Clinton. John McCain was banging a much younger, extremely wealthy beer princess while still married to his first wife.
Marital infidelity has never been a problem for Goppie “family values” politicians.
Hey at least he wasn’t on teevee talking about michael jackson.
Translation: we’re putting the screws on this turkey; he has caused our party yet another national embarrassment and he’s lucky we don’t take out a contract on him.
taint nobody from the GOP got the scrupples to step aside after such goins on down theyuh?
the o boy is termed out, the ligilators are in recess til janyou-aireeeee…the guys is trokin the dog for a paycheck is all, jes a sittin on the porch witha mint julip in the rockuh….things iizzzzz goood down heyuh?
ya’ll heyuh?
DeMint’s going to make Sanford King of South Carolina? Perhaps give him a Medal of Freedom?
Like every other repuglicunt out there, Sanford’s too much of a selfish fuck to resign. He’s just following Vitter, Craig, blah, blah, blah.
Hey Sanford, the lieing, cheating, and stealing that you have been allowed to do, because you were ‘entitled’ to do them all of these years, isn’t going to cut it anymore. Every one of your boon coons that know what you did and how you did it, are about the business of covering for themselves, and you are out the picture.