South Carolina elects Mark Sanford to Congress

[carlfense]

Yeah, 2 & 3 required a little creativity based on past experience.

Meh. There are plenty of districts nationwide that would elect ANY Democratic candidate over a Republican. That particular issue isn't unique to either party.

[lo country]

Didn't Clinton have relations with and intern in the White House while our tax payers dollars paid his salary? Didn't our tax payers pay for the impeachment after he lied? I guess it depends what you define oral as.

 

My point being for either side to throw out improprieties by either party using tax dollars is crazy.

 

People vote party. Look at any election. Always have and always will.

 

Out of curiosity, have any of those posting lived in or currently live in the south? Cultural issues come into play in all elections.

 

Read a decent article on Drudge that said the special election really tells us nothing on the national political scales. Hard for Republicans outside of SC to call it a victory as the RNC did everything possible to not support him. Had the Dems won, they would have said it was a referendum on the Republican party when in reality, IMO, it would have been SC not giving the guy a second chance. He will probably be a pain in the a$$ o the "establishment Republicans".

 

As brutal as the R primary was, I am surprised he won.

 

You're tilting at windmills. NOBODY is defending Clinton.

Looking back, in retrospect, I actually think Clinton did a god job.

 

Some people comment about the actions of Sanford, I was pointing out that Clinton also had liaisons on the taxpayers dime. I can point out unnecessary travel by both parties as well as cabinet members, but was trying to compare apples to apples ie affair to affair.

 

Sanford is not the first politician to diddle on the taxpayers dime, nor will he be the last.

[OH HSKR FAN]

I think the elephant has its head up the donkeys rear end. Or is it the other way around?

[strigori]

Didn't Clinton have relations with and intern in the White House while our tax payers dollars paid his salary? Didn't our tax payers pay for the impeachment after he lied? I guess it depends what you define oral as.

 

My point being for either side to throw out improprieties by either party using tax dollars is crazy.

 

People vote party. Look at any election. Always have and always will.

 

Out of curiosity, have any of those posting lived in or currently live in the south? Cultural issues come into play in all elections.

 

Read a decent article on Drudge that said the special election really tells us nothing on the national political scales. Hard for Republicans outside of SC to call it a victory as the RNC did everything possible to not support him. Had the Dems won, they would have said it was a referendum on the Republican party when in reality, IMO, it would have been SC not giving the guy a second chance. He will probably be a pain in the a$$ o the "establishment Republicans".

 

As brutal as the R primary was, I am surprised he won.

 

You're tilting at windmills. NOBODY is defending Clinton.

Looking back, in retrospect, I actually think Clinton did a god job.

 

Some people comment about the actions of Sanford, I was pointing out that Clinton also had liaisons on the taxpayers dime. I can point out unnecessary travel by both parties as well as cabinet members, but was trying to compare apples to apples ie affair to affair.

 

Sanford is not the first politician to diddle on the taxpayers dime, nor will he be the last.

I think there should be a distinction between being 'on the clock' and actually spending taxpayer money.

 

And SC just gave a pass on a guy that should probably have been criminally charged with embezzlement.

[QMany]

Sanford had this affair and then ran and was elected under a platform of Renewing American Values to Build Healthy Families. Clinton and JFK didn't do that, to my knowledge.

[knapplc]

Looking back, in retrospect, I actually think Clinton did a god job.

 

Some people comment about the actions of Sanford, I was pointing out that Clinton also had liaisons on the taxpayers dime. I can point out unnecessary travel by both parties as well as cabinet members, but was trying to compare apples to apples ie affair to affair.

 

Sanford is not the first politician to diddle on the taxpayers dime, nor will he be the last.

 

I think Clinton benefited from presiding over a time when a new industry caused the economy to grow wildly. The 1990s are widely considered to have been a halcyon time in American history, but Clinton had little to do with it.

 

I've always thought he was a snake. I like him a little more now because of his charitable works, kinda like Carter, but as president both were rubbish.

[GSG]

Should Sanford pay back the state too?

 

http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/Sheehy-Pays-Back-500-for-Calls-206609071.html

[TGHusker]

In this thread we have Dems

 

Who are the "Dems" posting in this thread?

 

Here's who's posted:

 

knapplc (the thread starter - THE OP!!!!)

QMany

carlfense

Junior

Creighton Duke

BigRedBuster

 

I don't know if they're dems (at least 2 of the first 4 have denied it) or dem leaning, but the first 3 comments after your OP were skewed to this being a GOP issue. I guess when certain people constantly attack all things republican and conservative and stick up for most things liberal and dem, well, they're bound to get lumped in as dems whether or not they actually are. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck............around here it claims to be an independent. It really shouldn't seem out of line or unearned.

 

Just once it would be nice to see an example from either side of the aisle that isn't screwing the taxpayers in one way or another. Like a taxpayer funded liaison with his mistress is really any worse than a President having an affair with an intern in the oval office, or killing a girl in a drunken auto accident, or..or..or. This Sanford deal is the issue that we're supposed to get all up in arms about?

 

 

Are you happy Sanford, a guy who used taxpayer money to fund his liaisons with his Argentine mistress, is now back in politics as a US Congressman?

I'm not and I'm a conservative. It bothers me that the repubs didn't have a better candidate to offer - free of this big scandal. Maybe that is the real story - the state of the SC Rep party. Of course the dems couldn't offer a candidate that could beat him either - whats up with that.

[TGHusker]

Looking back, in retrospect, I actually think Clinton did a god job.

 

Some people comment about the actions of Sanford, I was pointing out that Clinton also had liaisons on the taxpayers dime. I can point out unnecessary travel by both parties as well as cabinet members, but was trying to compare apples to apples ie affair to affair.

 

Sanford is not the first politician to diddle on the taxpayers dime, nor will he be the last.

 

I think Clinton benefited from presiding over a time when a new industry caused the economy to grow wildly. The 1990s are widely considered to have been a halcyon time in American history, but Clinton had little to do with it.

 

I've always thought he was a snake. I like him a little more now because of his charitable works, kinda like Carter, but as president both were rubbish.

agreed