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South Carolina GOP votes to censure Sanford
News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Jul 7, 2009 8:35 AM EDT
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After nearly four hours of deliberation and multiple rounds of balloting, the South Carolina Republican Party voted Monday night to censure Mark Sanford for traveling overseas to visit his mistress -- but stopped short of calling on the governor to resign.
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 | State e-mails detail SC gov's Argentina trip plans | Associated Press | Fri Jul 3 | 6 |
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{"commentId":8071575,"authorDomain":"killfile"}
Censure... yes... because that's what Sanford was calling for when the shoe was on the other foot and it was Clinton who was cheating on his spouse.
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#1 - Tue Jul 7, 2009 8:47 AM EDT{"commentId":8072082,"authorDomain":"mstburns"}
Sorry, not good enough. He should be tossed out in disgrace.
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- 5 votes
#2 - Tue Jul 7, 2009 9:26 AM EDT{"commentId":8072621,"authorDomain":"carefactor0"}
I agree, not good enough!
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":8072537,"authorDomain":"notsanta"}
So what do you need to do to get fired in the republican party?
{"commentId":8072537,"threadId":"621072","contentId":"3004287","authorDomain":"notsanta"}
- 6 votes
#3 - Tue Jul 7, 2009 9:53 AM EDT{"commentId":8072712,"authorDomain":"killfile"}
Well, if Newt is any indication, leaving your wife while she's basically on her death bed with cancer so you can go be with a younger woman isn't enough... so Sanford's probably ok in that respect.
Of course, if you're a Democrat you'd better be the damn Pope.
{"commentId":8072712,"threadId":"621072","contentId":"3004287","authorDomain":"killfile"}
- 8 votes
{"commentId":8073416,"authorDomain":"lunartick"}
Well, if Newt is any indication, leaving your wife while she's basically on her death bed with cancer...
I believe that's called having "family values".
{"commentId":8073416,"threadId":"621072","contentId":"3004287","authorDomain":"lunartick"}
- 7 votes
{"commentId":8073811,"authorDomain":"phillips-brian"}
"family values".
Yeah, Newt determined that his dying wife had little value, and it was time to re-invest in a more lucrative venture.
But don't let Newt catch you doing the same......Sinner!
{"commentId":8073811,"threadId":"621072","contentId":"3004287","authorDomain":"phillips-brian"}
- 5 votes
{"commentId":8073881,"authorDomain":"mad13142000"}
Family Values...<snort>
This is the guy who left his wife and kids on Father's Day to go get nookie in South America...
{"commentId":8073881,"threadId":"621072","contentId":"3004287","authorDomain":"mad13142000"}
- 7 votes
{"commentId":8076765,"authorDomain":"danny-soapbox"}
In the Republican party...apparently you need to get caught with your --ck in a baby...say, TWICE...to merit removal from office.
The party of family values...do as I say...not who I do.
{"commentId":8076765,"threadId":"621072","contentId":"3004287","authorDomain":"danny-soapbox"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":8083702,"authorDomain":"geejay"}
This is the guy who left his wife and kids on Father's Day to go get nookie in South America...
Now now, according to some here (including Dems), Sanford wasn't there on Father's Day because his mean old wife kicked him out of the house and poor Sanford had nowhere to go but Argentina (talk about making excuses for someone).
{"commentId":8083702,"threadId":"621072","contentId":"3004287","authorDomain":"geejay"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":8072905,"authorDomain":"snotrag-dave"}
You know what I find most interesting (from the article)?
There also were party members who opposed taking any action against the governor.
Let's have some names. I would like to know who in South Carolina Republican circles thinks that Sanford's exotic AWOL experience -- his dereliction of duty -- is not deserving of some form of chastisement?
{"commentId":8072905,"threadId":"621072","contentId":"3004287","authorDomain":"snotrag-dave"}
- 9 votes
#4 - Tue Jul 7, 2009 10:16 AM EDT{"commentId":8073653,"authorDomain":"stuartline"}
Sanford is such an arrogant a$$hole that he will only view the censure as penance and, it's over. They should run his butt out of the state and back to Argentina.
I think his wife is publicly being "forgiving" only for political reasons. She has more sense than to actually fall for his false remorse. She most likely enjoys the gov. perks and is a politician herself.
{"commentId":8073653,"threadId":"621072","contentId":"3004287","authorDomain":"stuartline"}
- 4 votes
#5 - Tue Jul 7, 2009 10:59 AM EDT{"commentId":8074178,"authorDomain":"nforbes101"}
..Censure? That's all? No comments or suggestions for him to step down when he and Ensign have been singing for Clinton to resign?
No responsibility...shame. Ask the people of South Carolina what they want to do with this bastard.
{"commentId":8074178,"threadId":"621072","contentId":"3004287","authorDomain":"nforbes101"}
- 4 votes
#6 - Tue Jul 7, 2009 11:25 AM EDT{"commentId":8075743,"authorDomain":"alexcroley"}
I've said it before and I'll say it again, it doesn't matter if the guy had an affair. That's a personal problem that should be resolved at home.
The issue should have always been the fact that he left office for a week with no one in charge. If someone with a job that was supposed to be responsible did something like that, normally, they would be canned by their employer.
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- 2 votes
#7 - Tue Jul 7, 2009 12:38 PM EDT{"commentId":8076534,"authorDomain":"notsanta"}
Were tax dollars used?
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":8077442,"authorDomain":"carefactor0"}
I've said it before and I'll say it again, it doesn't matter if the guy had an affair. That's a personal problem that should be resolved at home.
That's what I thought about Clinton's affair, but the republicans wouldn't let it go. Then in 2000 the republican party ran on family values and said they wanted to bring integrity back to the oval office, yea right! Integrity = Lying and sending our sons and daughters overseas to get killed in an unjust war is okay, but a BJ is out of the question?
I'm all for affairs to be dealt with strictly between the couple, but the re-pugs continuously hold the other political party to a different standard. To me, that's not integrity at all, practice what you preach!
{"commentId":8077442,"threadId":"621072","contentId":"3004287","authorDomain":"carefactor0"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":8077787,"authorDomain":"alexcroley"}
When it comes to most politicians (both sides) there is a line in the movie "Hunt for the Red October" that rings in my ears (which probably makes me a cynic but its been proved to me):
"I'm a politician which means that if I'm not kissing babies I'm stealing their lollipops."
This means I'm forced to gauge them by their actions (past and present) and not what they are toutting.
{"commentId":8077787,"threadId":"621072","contentId":"3004287","authorDomain":"alexcroley"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":8080187,"authorDomain":"carefactor0"}
One of my favorite movies of all time.
He also says, "You lost another submarine!" LOL
{"commentId":8080187,"threadId":"621072","contentId":"3004287","authorDomain":"carefactor0"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":8077080,"authorDomain":"notsanta"}
So the bible stuff he spouts is BS, Ya it is.
{"commentId":8077080,"threadId":"621072","contentId":"3004287","authorDomain":"notsanta"}
- 2 votes
#8 - Tue Jul 7, 2009 1:38 PM EDT{"commentId":8077509,"authorDomain":"notsanta"}
He needs to go!
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- 1 vote
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