Governor's Should Disappear More Often

Not sure I get all the hay the Left is making over this story. I spent years in New Jersey wishing this or that governor would disappear, but they never did. What are they so worried about, that the Russians were going to blow through Georgia and march into South Carolina, for heaven's sake? If there's anything to it, I suspect it'll be clear when he returns. Andrew Sullivan will be returning to his medical practice to study the bags under Sanford's eyes and any facial lines, no doubt. Cassandra snarks on the hyperventilating going on.

"I apologize for taking so long to send this update, and was waiting to see if a more definitive idea of what part of the trail he was on before we did so," said Joel Sawyer, the Republican governor's spokesman. Sawyer added that he will update the public on Sanford's specific whereabouts as soon as he knows them.

Comments

[joeb]

When I was in college in the 1960s there was a Southern Governor(un named)who used to hide out in a room behind the projection booth of a drive in movie theater. He liked to get drunk there out of the spot light. I know this because I had a friend who was the projectionist at that drive in theater.

[Joseph Brown]

As a native born S Carolinian and reasonably aquainted with the thieves, liars and con artists in our legislature, I don't blame him a bit!

[mark l.]

trying to wiegh the left's right to know on sanford, with the right's request for the visitation logs at the wh.
one actually has a legal argument to go with it. the left made that point with the bush admin.

in these cases, I would defend the wh's right to keep the visitation log private as I would sanford's right to privacy.

[Rob Crawford]

There's nothing to it beyond the fact that he took a principled stand against the porkulus money and thereby gained some national prominence. As soon as that happened, well, the left was determined to destroy him. Turning a break from the public eye into a dramatic locked-room mystery and oh-so-carefully slanting the reporting to build the anticipation of something criminal or immoral is apparently the first opportunity they've had.

[Manix]

Drop this flake off of any national political ambition list!

[tim maguire]

So everybody is just assuming he wasn't a crime victim? Is that an assumption we would make in almost any other context?

BTW, mark l., while I personally don't care much about the White House visitor's list, it is obviously public property.

[mark l.]

i'm sympathetic to the 'public property' thing, but the relevance is only essential to conspiracy nuts.

[SacTownMan]

The first thing I thought of was Bipolar disorder.

Ernest Hemingway would disappear for weeks on end and then suddenly show up again. He would go off into the woods and return like it was no big deal!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway

It was either that or he was smoking crack with Barry at the WH!

[Peter]

He should have gone out for frozen custard. Then everything would have been fine.

[mark l.]

a nod to the stm bipolar theory...
lithium should have cleared him in three days, though.

[Rob Crawford]

And "Manix" and mark l. demonstrate my point.

[mark l.]

rob-i respect sanford and what he as done.

but if he can't survive some "brush back pitches" in the hinterland of SC, he should rethink stepping up to the major league.

[Magic Dog]

So, my little wingnuts, what will you say when your lost sheep turns out to be in a rehab clinic somewhere?

[Rob Crawford]

Mark, it wasn't the SC press going after him, it was the national press. We have to realize that we have a Ministry of Lies controlling political reporting in the US, and neither let them control the message nor be the sole determiners of who is worthy of running for national office.

If you let them destroy Sanford this easily, you've let the Democrats effortlessly pick off a promising Republican. It will be that much easier for them to destroy the next one.

[Rob Crawford]

Dunno, Magic Dog, when will Obama get treatment for his cocaine habit?