SC Secretary Of State Declares Sanford Winner.

[Texacon]

WTH is a slave state?! What does that mean?  Are there master states over them?

KC

[jukin]

Response to onehandle (Original post)Tue May 7, 2013, 09:56 PM
Martak Sarno (5 posts)
69. Where was Obama?

Remember when a President actually took the time to do a little help out for a candidate for his own party? How many times did Obama visit South Carolina?

I'm sure his excuse will be he was concerned he might hurt her chances in a Red State. Uh huh!
Just like many of the Democratic candidates in 2010 he didn't campaign for.

So far 0bama is 0 and whomever he has tried to help. By 0 not being there is was a far closer race.

[DLR Pyro]

WTH is a slave state?! What does that mean? 

dems are sore losers

[Skul]

Interesting that you mention this part.

Well, anything is better than a democrat win, but they'll try their best with their partners in the media to make this embarrassing douchebag the face of the party.

At the very best, it's a damaging Pyrrhic victory.

Wandering around the DUmp, I found this....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022813475

Wed May 8, 2013, 03:13 AM

 Are_grits_groceries (12,508 posts)

The silver lining with Sanford's win

 The SC GOP and the GOP as a whole now have a walking and talking hot mess on their hands.
 
Sanford will be catnip to the media so his face and antics will be news. Along with him will be his fiancé. That should make quite the picture at social gatherings. That will serve as a constant reminder to gawd and everybody about his prior shenanigans.
 
He is truly a wild card and crazier than a s***house mouse. Sanford will now believe that every idea he has should be made known and acted upon.
 
The SC Congressional Delegation members are gritting their teeth. They now automatically take a backseat to Markie.
 
As Sanford proves to be the latest poster child for the GOP, they know he will not be judged nearly as kindly by a national audience. He will suck up their oxygen right at a time when they are tryng to get away from his ilk.
 
They wanted him. They got him. Here's hoping he puts everybody on blast and is the gift that keeps on giving to his opponents.

[txradioguy]

Safe bet--golfing.

Safer bet...he was asked to stay away.

[JohnnyReb]

Sorry that the good folks in that district couldn't have sent you any better but things are what they are.....hey, Tim Scott did hold that seat...and he was black before he became a republican.

[miskie]

I'm not sure that Sanford will be much of an 'embarrassment' regardless of how hard the media tries. Regardless of what I think about his behavior,  the simple truth is about half of marriages crash and burn.

If this doesn't become a habit with Sanford, I suspect it will be forgotten about by everyone save for his detractors.

[Tucker]

Response to onehandle (Original post)Tue May 7, 2013, 09:56 PM
Martak Sarno (5 posts)
69. Where was Obama?

Remember when a President actually took the time to do a little help out for a candidate for his own party? How many times did Obama visit South Carolina?

I'm sure his excuse will be he was concerned he might hurt her chances in a Red State. Uh huh!
Just like many of the Democratic candidates in 2010 he didn't campaign for.

Maybe he was afraid that he would be put in chains by slave masters.

[AprilRazz]

BlueStater (2,951 posts)
5. This says more about the asshole voters in SC than anything else.

The rest of the country laughs at them. They now have a disgraced, hypocritical adulterer as one of their congressmen and once again have shown their own hypocrisy and stupidity. They must be so proud.

But it is OK when something like that happens in a lib area.

This guys groupies picked him up from prison with much fanfare and reelected him mayor.
But it is ok if a dim is smoking crack, with a hooker, on camera, in a city with a huge crack problem at the time. I am pretty sure his wife was ok with it. But he is a black dim so we all know that there is nothing to see here.

[Karin]

^^^ Good point. 

Sanford will be catnip to the media so his face and antics will be news.

No, I don't think there are going to be any "antics."  I think he'll keep a low, quiet profile.  He's not going to get any choice committee assignments.  He'll be as bland as my own congressman, who's nearly invisible. 

Yay for the Dem loss. 

[Mr Mannn]

No, I don't think there are going to be any "antics."  I think he'll keep a low, quiet profile.  He's not going to get any choice committee assignments.  He'll be as bland as my own congressman, who's nearly invisible. 

Yay for the Dem loss. 

I agree.
But. The fact that Sanford with all his baggage still won by nearly 10% is very telling about the mood of the country. Normally a scandal like his would destroy a politician. When the voters saw the democrat alternative, Sanford won in a landslide. The more Obamacare bites, 1000+ page amnesty bills, gun grabbing, and 2nd term arrogance....maybe people are beginning to wake up. I hope so.

For me, I will chalk this vote up as a bright ray of hope.

[67 Rover]

I am sure they will feel the same way when Wiener runs for Mayor of N.Y. right?

[Chris_]

Someone else isn't happy about Sanford.

[A7X_foREVer]

I am sure they will feel the same way when Wiener runs for Mayor of N.Y. right?

My thoughts too

[Tucker]

I am sure they will feel the same way when Wiener runs for Mayor of N.Y. right?

Their reasoning will be that Wiener has never advocated for fidelity whereas Conservatives believe in family unity. They will point out that Sanford is hypocritical while Wiener is not.

Convoluted reasoning is how they get from A to Z with nothing in between.

[Ballygrl]

Megan McCain took a verbal smackdown at Twitchy, again she had to delete a Tweet

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I'm happy that the Democrats got beat and Stephen Colbert got a smackdown.

http://twitchy.com/2013/05/08/lib-celebs-meghan/

Meghan McCain ✔ @MeghanMcCain

Really republicans? We're gonna get behind Mark Sanford and claim gay couples will ruin marriage. This is why young people don't vote GOP!!!

Kristin Chenoweth ✔ @KChenoweth

@MeghanMcCain youre right MM!!

Meghan McCain ✔ @MeghanMcCain

@KChenoweth thanks girl, I'm so over this.

Kristin Chenoweth ✔ @KChenoweth

@meghanMcCain me too. We have to stick together! u rock.

Oooooops

Jennifer Weber @JennyPennifer

@MeghanMcCain @KChenoweth Yeah because we know the McCains (John 'n Cindy) are such shining examples of marital fidelity. #Not

YOUR DADDY WAS AN ADULTERER MEGHAN: Meghan McCain: 'Any Republican who voted for Sanford but is against gay marriage bit.ly/YtdLr6—
Mary Forbes (@MaryForbes14)

http://twitchy.com/2013/05/07/meghan-mccain-any-republican-who-voted-for-sanford-but-is-against-gay-marriage-is-a-hypocrite/

Hawk @HawkinsUSA

Right on @MeghanMcCain! I agree, we need less politicians who would have an affair then marry and more people like John McCai... oh wait...

A. J. Delgado @missADelgado

.@meghanmcain -- the product of one man leaving his wife for a younger woman -- complains about Sanford. Who's the hypocrite now, Meghan?

David Burge @iowahawkblog

@MeghanMcCain if it wasn't for politicians cheating on their wives, you wouldn't exist.

Meghan McCain ✔ @MeghanMcCain

That's right, go apeshit on my feed, right wing extremists.

Eric Kohn @iEricKohn

Hey, remember when @MeghanMcCain wrote "Forgive Mark Sanford"? Here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/06/29/forgive-mark-sanford.html … cc: @EWErickson

Meghan McCain ✔ @MeghanMcCain

My beliefs and opinions are always fluid and I often change my opinion as I grow and get older. Unlike people that never question anything.

[Ballygrl]

Someone else isn't happy about Sanford.

I just posted that too!

[Rebel]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/06/29/forgive-mark-sanford.html

Meghan McCain ✔ @MeghanMcCain

My beliefs and opinions are always fluid and I often change my opinion as I grow and get older. Unlike people that never question anything.

That's because you lack political conviction.

[98ZJUSMC]

It's amazing that they choose to forget the gerrymandering that the democrat party has did in california. It's possible that they will never be another Republican elected to national office in that state.

It's a (D)Umbocrat invention.  What the hell are they talking about?  I can think of 5-6 (at least) (D)Umbocrats who are barely qualified to flip my burgers,  much less hold political office.

and why isn't historian Blob correcting these factually challenged (D)Ummies (BIRM)?

[98ZJUSMC]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/06/29/forgive-mark-sanford.html

That's because you lack political conviction.

Among other things.



Iowahawk rocks.

[txradioguy]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/06/29/forgive-mark-sanford.html

That's because you lack political conviction a brain.

Fixed.  

Oh and MM...it's not "extremists" going wild on your twitter feed...it's people with more than a 15 second attention span remembering what you've said in the past.  That is called accountbility.  AND the fact you lack that or refuse to be held to it..is a decidely Libtard trait.

[wasp69]

Someone else isn't happy about Sanford.

 

[Ptarmigan]

SC Dem Candidate Colbert-Busch Already Has an Arrest Record
http://www.independentsentinel.com/2013/05/sc-dem-candidate-colbert-busch-already-has-an-arrest-record/

It was either an adulterer or someone with a criminal record. Though adultery is illegal in some states, it is rarely enforced.


The truth about the Sanford victory
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/05/08/truth-about-sanford-victory/

Just as a Republican could never win Nancy Pelosi’s district, Nancy Pelosi helped Mark Sanford rally conservatives to his side in a very Republican district.

Elizabeth Colbert-Busch showed her shallowness on a number of issues, including not recognizing what “Toomey-Manchin” is in a very Second Amendment state.  (If Ms. Colbert-Busch is reading this, that would be the gun control measure that failed in the United States Senate)  

Sanford, for all his personal faults, is a master of retail politics.  He opted for large, wooden, spray-painted campaign signs put in the front windows of local shops and the side of roads.  

He toured the district aggressively while the Democrat held meet-and-greets with rich donors.  

They opposed Sanford, a strident fiscal conservative, in the primary and did not help him against the Democrats.  

[Ballygrl]

From Twitchy:

And dear ol’ dad not only cheated on wife number one, but Sen. John McCain opposes gay marriage and his PAC reportedly sent $2,500 to Sanford for Congress.

[Ptarmigan]

Donna Brazile on Mark Sanford victory: ‘Women lose’
http://twitchy.com/2013/05/07/donna-brazile-on-mark-sanford-victory-women-lose/

Donna Brazile        ✔
@donnabrazile

Sanford wins. Women lose.
8:14 PM - 7 May 2013

Playing the gender card.