Good gracious, what will it take??

What does it take to be asked to resign as governor of South Carolina? OK, they give him a pass on that "breaking the marriage vows" thing. But he stole money from the state--he used state money to fly to Argentina to visit his mistress, and hoped nobody would notice. They did. He left the state, lied about where he was going, and left nobody in charge. That's not impeachable? Geez, even if the local high school principal did that, he/she would be fired, let alone the governor of the state!!


I guess it's time for the citizens of the state to show up with their torches and pitchforks and demand some accountability, because the state officials are sure as heck not going to do it.

The state GOP of South Carolina, in a display of absolutely no backbone, voted to reprimand Gov. Mark Sanford, instead of asking him to resign.

You know, Sanford would be the first to ask for his resignation....um....if he wasn't him:

"While serving as a U.S. congressman, Sanford was incredibly critical of his colleagues’ marital misdeeds, including the affairs of former congressman Bob Livingston and President Bill Clinton:

“The bottom line, though, is I am sure there will be a lot of legalistic explanations pointing out that the president lied under oath. His situation was not under oath. The bottom line, though, is he still lied. He lied under a different oath, and that is the oath to his wife. So it’s got to be taken very, very seriously.” [Sanford on Livingston, CNN, 12/18/98]
"We ought to ask questions…rather than circle the wagons for one of our tribe.”
[Sanford on how the GOP reacts to affairs, New York Post, 12/20/98]
“I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he’d be gone.”
[Sanford on Clinton, The Post and Courier, 9/12/98]
"The issue of lying is probably the biggest harm, if you will, to the system of Democratic government, representatives government, because it undermines trust. And if you undermine trust in our system, you undermine everything.”
[Sanford on Clinton, CNN, 2/16/99]"

Does this man know that when he's quoted, those quotes are actually written down, and will come back to bite him??

I really do get it--there has been a long tradition in the Republican Party of looking the other way when the "moral values" they hold so dearly are violated by a member of their own party. When are they going to learn that, if they remove their conservative religious beliefs from the POLITICAL arena, they will be far less hypocritical than they are now. AND, maybe, just maybe, it won't be so embarrassing when one of theirs, running on a "Family Values" platform, "strays from the fold".

I feel so sorry for the citizens of South Carolina--I'm tempted to take them some matches.