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June 24, 2009

ZOMG Sanford!

I love the Republicans, really. They are just so full of big-league win.

When the chief executive of one of the fifty freakin' states of the US of A simply vanishes for a few days, nobody hears about it until he turns up with a BS excuse.

Then, in one of the few truly shining moments in American investigative journalism, he turns up coming into Atlanta's Hartfield International Airport … in a futile attempt to evade his hometown media … from Argentina. From where he was conducting a torrid affair, in the torrid zone.

Wow.

I've got to say before I go any farther that my hero for the week is South Carolina's largest pape and the capital city's own The State, which by either getting a good tip, dogged investigation, or just being freaking awesome, managed to meet Gov. Sanford at the Atlanta 'port, which is where he tried to sneak back into the US, reasoning incorrectly that nobody would think he would do that.

More bad Republican judgment.

But seriously, I know it's been asked so many times that it's become trite, but can we please stop treating the Republican party as though they have any credibility on matters of family values and morality? Like tenpins these creeps keep coming up in flagrante screwing around on their wives and deserting their children, but our media keeps accepting them as the sanctimonious authority on moral behavior with a completely straight face.

Now, I don't actually hold politicians any more pure or saintly than myself. But I'm beginning to be a whole less naive about the fact that someone who would lead a life contrary to the statements they make doesn't also extend their bad judgment into other areas.

And it doesn't really have to concern sex. That's just the transgression we usually see. The tip ('scuse) of the iceberg. Republican after Republican after Republican. Ensign, then Sanford. And while Sanford has resigned from the Republican Governors Association, he's not resigning from the SC Gubnership, which is what he'd do if he paid more than lip service to moral principles.

Are you paying attention, America? Yet?

Posted by The Chinuk at June 24, 2009 11:52 AM