The Righteousness of Mark Sanford (Update)
It is my opinion that we need to step back as progressives and reevaluate Gov. Mark Sanford. Sure, his wife is kicking him out of the house. She’s also issued one of the most stinging rebukes of a public figure that any of us have ever heard from a wife. Yes, the governor also left his state without a chief executive for four or five days but what’s the big deal? If government is not supposed to work, then isn’t Mark Sanford perfect?
Watch this perfect parody of a video:
Update: On a more serious note, there has been a call for Governor Mark Sanford to resign on from the Greenville, South Carolina editorial page:
Gov. Mark Sanford should resign immediately and allow South Carolina to begin picking up the pieces. The two-term governor has destroyed any shred of credibility with his lies unnecessarily added on top of other lies. His ability to govern this state has been compromised so severely that he cannot fulfill the duties required of this state’s governor until a successor takes the oath of office in January 2011.
In a tearful, rambling press conference last Wednesday, one in which the governor described himself as a “bottom-line type” of guy, he painted a version of his extramarital affair with an Argentine woman that we now know simply wasn’t the whole truth. And that the governor wasn’t truthful then — and in a circumstance that did not demand the steamy particulars of the affair — undermines the last thing Mark Sanford had working in his favor: his character. (more… )
You Can’t fix STUPID!