Until recently a top presidential prospect for the Republican party.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford used a team of state employees and U.S. Embassy officials to set up trade-related meetings for him in Buenos Aires in June 2008, but he repeatedly emphasized his desire to keep a ‘low-key’ and light schedule during his three days there.
Sanford (R), who recently acknowledged seeing his Argentine mistress during the trip, accompanied his state’s Brazil trade delegation for some dove hunting in Argentina’s countryside but asked his staff to arrange for him to visit Buenos Aires, according to internal staff e-mails and memos obtained by The Washington Post under the public records law.
You say that like it’s a bad thing, but for Mark Sanford it is but another grain of sand on a beach.
Wow; this guy really thought his position entitled him to do whatever the eff he wanted.
Why his wife thinks he’s worth another chance is just laughable.
She might want to reconsider when he suggests a great therapist he knows in Buenos Aires.
This is just getting crazier.
Did his parents try and pay her off like Ensign’s did?
“I was teaching them about geography”-Mark Sanford
Still not going to resign, huh? The S. Carolina legislature still not going to push for removal, huh? The good folks of SC are just gonna let him skate?
Let’s see: Using state employees to hook up with his mistress.
Paying off witnesses.
Refusing to do the honorable thing and resign.
Sounds sooo familiar…
I just can’t put my
Clintonfinger on it. Let me eat this impeach and I’ll get back to you. I was going to do some white water rafting, maybe pick a rose or two, if the law against it is not too firm. After all, I’m not RichWow.
What a slay, Frank.
You rule.
This just seems to be another fine example of money not being able to buy common sense. Really, thinking no one would care about using state funds on a mistress?!?
Refusing to do the honorable thing and resign
The standard set and demanded not by Democrats, but by…
Wait for it…
Sanford and Ensign!
But the standard was not set by Democrats for one of their own, and the standard was not met by … Guess Who?
It was Clinton who changed the standard to : “If you can’t convict me, then you can’t evict me “
We now approach the 13th anniversary of this reference, and a half decade of its irrelevance.
Yes, and it’s been 37 years since WaterGate, and 34 years since that helicopter left the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon. Yet we still think Republicans do dirty tricks, and call for a special prosecutor when one of them doesn’t pay a ticket.
And leftists still believe that we don’t fight wars to achieve military goals , but to show other countries we are in earnest. So, your point was ?
Yet we still think Republicans do dirty tricks
And it has nothing to do with Watergate. Bush has scandals all his own.
And leftists still believe that we don’t fight wars to achieve military goals , but to show other countries we are in earnest.
You mean like righties saying we invaded Iraq for Freedom(tm) and Democracy(tm).