{"id":248,"date":"2013-05-08T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/08\/welcome-back-and-good-luck-mr-sanford"},"modified":"2013-05-08T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T18:49:00","slug":"welcome-back-and-good-luck-mr-sanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back and good luck, Mr. Sanford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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All right, the South Carolina First Congressional District election Tuesday didn\u2019t turn out the way I would have wanted.<\/p>\n

But since I don\u2019t live there, I didn\u2019t have a direct say in who the voters would send to Congress to represent them. I\u2019m just a silly ol\u2019 blogger out here in Flyover Country who thinks Republican Rep.-elect Mark Sanford is a terminal narcissist who doesn\u2019t give a hoot about anyone other than himself.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s just me thinking out loud.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/house-races\/298415-sanford-victory-could-spell-trouble-for-house-gop-leadership<\/a><\/p>\n

Sanford is going to have some challenges ahead as he takes his seat after defeating Democratic opponent Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a special election to fill the seat once held by Sen. Tim Scott, who was appointed to the Senate after Jim DeMint left to lead the Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n

The House leadership turned its back on Sanford. It didn\u2019t help him with campaign cash or appearances by the speaker of the House. Why? Because Sanford is a seriously flawed guy. He cheated on his wife and then lied to his constituents about his whereabouts on Mothers Day weekend of 2009. He put the word out he was hiking in the woods when he was actually in Argentina frolicking with his girlfriend, who he now plans to marry.<\/p>\n

Character ought to matter. Oh sure, both houses of Congress are full of scoundrels who wear both party labels. But when given the chance to elect someone who wasn\u2019t toting the baggage draped around Sanford\u2019s shoulders, they went with this clown anyway.<\/p>\n

One social media comment noted that now Sanford can get out of South Carolina, head back Washington and he\u2019ll somehow be out of his constituents\u2019 hair. Not exactly. He\u2019ll still be making decisions on their behalf. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ll just need to watch him like a hawk to ensure he\u2019s actually doing what they\u2019re paying him to do. <\/p>\n\n

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All right, the South Carolina First Congressional District election Tuesday didn\u2019t turn out the way I would have wanted. But since I don\u2019t live there, I didn\u2019t have a direct say in who the voters would send to Congress to represent them. I\u2019m just a silly ol\u2019 blogger out here in Flyover Country who thinks … Continue reading Welcome back and good luck, Mr. Sanford<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}