{"id":460,"date":"2013-03-21T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/21\/pulling-for-mark-sanford-sure-why-not"},"modified":"2013-03-21T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T13:46:00","slug":"pulling-for-mark-sanford-sure-why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Pulling for Mark Sanford? Sure, why not?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A part of me wants Mark Sanford to win the Republican Party primary contest for Congress in South Carolina. <\/p>\n

It might be that his Democratic opponent later this year, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, is such an appealing candidate that Sanford would make the perfect foil.<\/p>\n

And not for Busch, but instead for her brother, comedian Stephen Colbert.<\/p>\n

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No wonder national Republicans are worried about what a Sanford candidacy will do the party\u2019s already-damaged brand.<\/p>\n

Sanford once served in the House of Representatives. Then he became governor of the Palmetto State. In 2009, though, Gov. Sanford got caught doing something very, very wrong. He cheated on his wife, but he did so in a creative way. He put the word out that he was \u201chiking on the Appalachian Trail,\u201d but instead was in Argentina frolicking with his mistress, to whom he is now engaged to be married.<\/p>\n

What made the story so bizarre \u2013 even more than just the infidelity of a man who campaigned as a \u201cfamily values\u201d Republican \u2013 was how he disappeared from the public radar completely, even though as governor he\u2019s never not<\/em> the governor, supposedly.<\/p>\n

Now he\u2019s seeking political redemption. He finished first in the GOP primary in South Carolina with 37 percent of the vote. The other two candidates in that primary finished so close to each other that they\u2019re aiming for a recount of the votes to see which one of them will challenge Sanford in the party runoff. The bickering and dickering over the votes bodes well for the GOP frontrunner.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m pulling for him to run against the sister of one of the funniest men in America. Stephen Colbert is going to have a field day with this one.<\/p>\n

And what would it do to Sanford\u2019s family? The damage has been done already \u2013 humiliation and embarrassment \u2013 with Sanford\u2019s fling with his Latin American lover.<\/p>\n

Go, Mark, go!<\/p>\n\n

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A part of me wants Mark Sanford to win the Republican Party primary contest for Congress in South Carolina. It might be that his Democratic opponent later this year, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, is such an appealing candidate that Sanford would make the perfect foil. And not for Busch, but instead for her brother, comedian Stephen … Continue reading Pulling for Mark Sanford? Sure, why not?<\/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-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","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=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}