{"id":38075,"date":"2019-07-22T23:18:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T23:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38075"},"modified":"2019-07-22T23:18:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T23:18:27","slug":"former-gov-rep-sanford-proves-that-standards-have-lowered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38075","title":{"rendered":"Former Gov.\/Rep. Sanford proves that standards have lowered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23MarkSanford%20%23POTUS%20%232020election%20%23GOP&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mark-Sanford.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38076\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mark-Sanford-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mark-Sanford-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mark-Sanford-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mark-Sanford.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you want proof that Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency has lowered the bar for the behavior of our elected officials?<\/p>\n<p>Try this one on for size: Former South Carolina Gov. and U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford is considering challenging the president in the 2020 Republican Party primary.<\/p>\n<p>You remember Sanford. This is the guy who when he was governor of South Carolina decided to travel to Argentina to cavort with a paramour, all the while instructing his gubernatorial staff to tell the media that he was &#8220;hiking along the Appalachian Trail.&#8221; Yes, the governor ordered his staff to lie about where he was and what he was doing.<\/p>\n<p>The word got out. The media found Sanford in South America where he was taking a tumble with his girlfriend. Sanford&#8217;s wife, Jennifer, divorced him. He resigned the governorship, then ran for Congress, only to lose his re-election bid in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Now he is considering whether to challenge Trump&#8217;s re-election next year. Give me a break.<\/p>\n<p>I only can presume that Sanford has calculated that if Donald Trump can be nominated and then elected president &#8212; given his own sordid history of lewd and lascivious behavior &#8212; then all bets are off.<\/p>\n<p>Weird.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23MarkSanford%20%23POTUS%20%232020election%20%23GOP&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want proof that Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency has lowered the bar for the behavior of our elected officials? Try this one on for size: Former South Carolina Gov. and U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford is considering challenging the president in the 2020 Republican Party primary. You remember Sanford. This is the guy who when he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38075\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Gov.\/Rep. 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