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RE: SANFORD.
Alexandra and Dana make good points. I'd add this: It took an admittedly sensational story about Gov. Mark Sanford's personal life to get the national press to converge on South Carolina and declare his political career "over" due to "values" issues. (Whatever, he wouldn't be the first Southern governor to be a comeback kid after marital infidelity.) But when he attempted to deny much needed unemployment funding to people suffering under the recession while cutting school funding and the social safety net, in the name of an economically baseless austerity policy that involved telling his his weakest constituents to effectively drop dead, well, those decisions didn't threaten his political career or reflect on his values. That made him a "star" in the GOP. Priorities, priorities.
-- Tim Fernholz
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Amen. As a nonresident native South Carolinian, I've long been appalled at his behavior [as have a bipartisan heap of resident South Carolinians]. But I think the basic problem here is that political reporters use the major parties as vetting systems to determine what is and is not debatable in American politics. Sanford's governing behavior was certified by the Republican party and his own elected status, so the national media had to treat him as the spokesman for a respectable position. Because no one has any interest in certifying this behavior as respectable, the national media can pounce.
Posted by: David in Nashville | June 24, 2009 3:35 PM
I second that Amen!
Plus: Hey man, my grandparents live in SC. Don't disappear. They might need you!
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