April 03, 2013
— Ace And he'll face Steven Colbert's sister (no, really) in the general.
Although everyone believes his press conference admitting the affair was super-weird n' stuff, I think it was weird primarily for two closely-related reasons.
1, he was being honest, not continuing to lie about. The oddest thing was his candor about it-- which felt strange, because we're not used to seeing candor after a political affair. We know how these things are supposed to go. There is A Script. A, I have sinned, B, I am working on it with my wife, C, I'm talking to ministers and stuff about God and Jesus. We are so used to a fake ritual of feigned, poll-tested remorse (the remorse of someone primarily sorry he got caught) it's strange to see an honest discussion about it.
2, and the weirdest thing was that Sanford included only small nods to point B, "I'm working on it with my wife." He did mention that aspect of it, but it was a strange sort of "working on it with my wife," because he seemed to make it pretty clear he was leaving his wife for this other woman, and "working on it with my wife" seemed to mean "we're trying to figure out a way where everyone's okay with this." He repeatedly mentioned the woman he had an affair with as being among the people he hurt by his actions -- mentioning her before his wife.
The usual script calls for the politician to claim he's willing to do anything to have his wife's trust back again; Sanford's press conference didn't.
I think part of the weirdness was caused by this event happening (due to his being caught away from South Carolina) three-quarters of the way to a decision to leave his wife, and not quite wanting to say that in a nationally-televised broadcast.
Does it matter that he's engaged to the woman he had an affair with now? I've always thought this was an interesting question: Was his bigger sin that he had a sexual affair or that he fell in love with the woman he had an affair with?
I think it's the latter, actually. Partly because such a thing is more of a danger to the spurned wife -- a casual affair might be terrible, but at the end of the day, the decision of whether or not to continue the marriage still remains with the woman. In Sanford's case, that decision didn't lie with Jenny Sanford alone. It's one thing to have a cheap sexual affair; it's another thing to decide the affair is worth leaving your wife over.
And partly because many would say that at Sanford's age, such a thing -- the juvenile excitement of "new love" -- is childish and unseemly. At his age, the thinking goes (I think), he ought to be wise enough to know that the sort of "love" sung about in songs is an intense but ephemeral thing.
And therefore it's unseemlier, even, than an entirely emotion-free sexual affair, like a Clinton-style bejeer in the Oval Office, or a session with a prostitute. It's sometimes a little strange what people will deem as forgivable and unforgivable.
That was the really weird thing in the press conference -- his refusal to throw the woman he had an affair with under the bus and say it was "just a weakness" and that it's all over now and he'll never do it again. He was supposed to say that; it's in the script. He refused to.
Well, he's our guy now. I wouldn't have risked a seat on him (assuming he had any decent competitors), but that's the bet the party has made.
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Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 03, 2013 08:08 AM (fsH2r)
Posted by: AmishDude at April 03, 2013 08:09 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 03, 2013 08:09 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 03, 2013 08:09 AM (F3nFt)
*straps on helmet and waits for the circular firing squad*
Posted by: Kinley Ardal at April 03, 2013 08:10 AM (5SJfP)
Posted by: Dr Spank at April 03, 2013 08:10 AM (4cRnj)
Posted by: joncelli at April 03, 2013 08:11 AM (RD7QR)
Mark Sanford will personally sexify the Latina population into become Republicans.
Sanford's mighty meat bat is our only hope!
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 03, 2013 12:09 PM (ZPrif)
And this is why I always look away from the screen when drinking any kind of beverage. I call it the AoSHQ Screen Saver rule.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to see if any of that brain bleach is left in stock...
Posted by: Kinley Ardal at April 03, 2013 08:11 AM (5SJfP)
Fire away.
Posted by: real joe at April 03, 2013 08:11 AM (5X+/S)
Posted by: AmishDude at April 03, 2013 08:12 AM (T0NGe)
Right, Average Joe?
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 03, 2013 08:12 AM (mN8D3)
"And partly because many would say that at Sanford's age, such a thing -- the juvenile excitement of "new love" -- is childish and unseemly. At his age, the thinking goes (I think), he ought to be wise enough to know that the sort of "love" sung about in songs is an intense but ephemeral thing."
I'm in the opposite camp. For once it wasn't just cheap tawdry sex, the usual script, and that was refreshing because it's actually quite common in the real world: people cheat on their spouses with their next spouse. Doesn't make it right, and doesn't make it right that Sanford got to do it on the government dime, but it's rare to see something so common IRL but uncommon in the political world occur in the public view. For the record, I've known several people who did this sort of thing, and contrary to the expectation, their second marriages lasted as long if not longer than their first- "once a cheater always a cheater" seems to me more applicable to those who cheat for casual sex than those who cheat for love.
Posted by: Regulus at April 03, 2013 08:12 AM (d4ZzM)
Posted by: RiverC at April 03, 2013 08:14 AM (El+h4)
Posted by: DangerGirl at April 03, 2013 08:14 AM (TLokJ)
Posted by: Dianna at April 03, 2013 08:15 AM (DV/Ik)
The amnesty news has thoroughly deprssed me. Slow motion train wreck about to happen, and no one will listen to us.
Time to buy more ammo and supplies...
Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 03, 2013 08:15 AM (uhftQ)
I was always able to defend the Republican Party from the scandals of their politicians based on the Republican electorate's past shunning of these guys.
With the reelection of Senator Vitter and now Mark Sanford, I have no leg to stand on.
Posted by: polynikes at April 03, 2013 08:15 AM (m2CN7)
Posted by: shillelagh at April 03, 2013 08:16 AM (hRzu2)
Posted by: AmishDude at April 03, 2013 08:16 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Hopeless at April 03, 2013 08:16 AM (qHQCW)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 08:16 AM (HDgX3)
Posted by: DangerGirl at April 03, 2013 12:14 PM (TLokJ)
Yes, no and Kinda.
His real name is "Steven Colbert" but apparently it's pronounced "Coal-Bert" and "Coal-Bear" is the stage name.
His brother is some kind of high-profile patent attorney or something.
The worst part is that Colbert will use his celebrity to raise huge sums (probably from out of state) for his sister.
You know, what the dems hated walker for doing in WI.
Posted by: tsrblke at April 03, 2013 08:17 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: Ook? at April 03, 2013 08:18 AM (OQpzc)
On the Republican side, a guy has an affair and Republicans have a moral debate with themselves if the candidate is worthy of their vote.
This is why they win and we lose most of the time.
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 08:18 AM (HDgX3)
Posted by: mallfly at April 03, 2013 08:18 AM (bJm7W)
Hell.. half the population of married couples get divorced, and a lot of it is because they tire of each other and/or find someone else. So, hey.. whatever.
And as an aside, all this talk about letting homosexuals get married because it would ruin the institution of marriage.. well, geez, I think heteros have already pissed on marriage as an institution enough already.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 03, 2013 08:18 AM (f9c2L)
My biggest concern about the whole thing was the dereliction of duty part, the marriage was between him, his wife and GOD.
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at April 03, 2013 08:18 AM (44PWr)
Posted by: Paladin at April 03, 2013 08:18 AM (+Wvn3)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 12:16 PM (HDgX3)
This is where I cut in and say "I hope he fails".
Just because the man has a damned "R" next to his name does NOT make him a good choice, or even a superior choice. >_>
Posted by: Kinley Ardal at April 03, 2013 08:19 AM (5SJfP)
Posted by: AmishDude at April 03, 2013 08:19 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at April 03, 2013 12:18 PM (44PWr)
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Dude, he was governor of a state. It's not like NC was about to invade and he was out of town and the SC national guard didn't have its CIC directing the war. I mean come on. A governor could leave the state for a month without anyone knowing and it wouldn't make a difference.
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 08:20 AM (HDgX3)
Posted by: Walknot at April 03, 2013 08:21 AM (vo2je)
Posted by: ace at April 03, 2013 08:21 AM (LCRYB)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2013 08:22 AM (B/VB5)
He lets them feel okay about feeling that way, too.
Posted by: RiverC at April 03, 2013 08:22 AM (El+h4)
At this time, in this country, in the overwhelming majority of cases...
Yeah, it does.
Posted by: real joe at April 03, 2013 08:22 AM (5X+/S)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 03, 2013 08:22 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: t-bird at April 03, 2013 08:23 AM (oJQ+J)
I recognized his whole crazy-in-love thing. When it comes late in life, it's "unseemly" because people are supposed to be beyond "follish" behavior when they're in middle age. That's not true, since middle-aged men and women often make fools of themselves. It's only public figures that have to deal with this kind of coverage.
I appreciate his honesty, but my personal feeling is that he ruined his professional life. If he actually wins this election, good for him. And if he doesn't, he should think about giving up politics.
Posted by: disa at April 03, 2013 08:23 AM (R+h7Q)
I also think that it's funny that a DC madam manages to release only one name and it just so happens to be a Republican.
Yeah...no.
Posted by: AmishDude at April 03, 2013 12:19 PM (T0NGe)
No Vitter was worse because he did a Bill Clinton finger pointing during his first run. He not only denied the allegations, he attacked and disparged his Republican opponents in Louisiana who had the nerve to call him out on this matter.
Posted by: polynikes at April 03, 2013 08:23 AM (m2CN7)
Posted by: Shoot Me at April 03, 2013 08:23 AM (qiXMt)
You left out one small detail that more or less demonstrates that Sanford is, indeed, an idiot. When he started his new election campaign, he asked his wife to work as his campaign manager. I think that right there indicates that there's something seriously wrong with Sanford.
Also, I'm still of the opinion that the whole thing was horribly mishandled. He'd already been caught (by his wife) with this woman once before, and he'd promised that he'd keep clear of her. He should have ended his marriage *first* before restarting the sexual relations with the new woman. Instead, we've got some pretty clear indications that the man's word means little, if anything.
Posted by: junior at April 03, 2013 08:23 AM (UWFpX)
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Thanks for some perspective.. "dereliction of duty"? Not so much.. but you would htink he woulda been able to come up with some "official" reason to visit South America..
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 03, 2013 08:24 AM (f9c2L)
Posted by: Kinley Ardal at April 03, 2013 12:19 PM (5SJfP)
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Once again, this type of thinking is why we lose and they win. It's a big part of why Romeny lost too. He wasn't perfect so TruCons stayed home. Well great, instead of getting a fiscal conservative who had an affair, you'll get a moonbat Democrat. But you'll show him!!
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 08:24 AM (HDgX3)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 03, 2013 08:24 AM (9eDbm)
Posted by: AmishDude at April 03, 2013 08:24 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: zsasz at April 03, 2013 08:24 AM (MMC8r)
At this time, in this country, in the overwhelming majority of cases...
Yeah, it does.
Posted by: real joe at April 03, 2013 12:22 PM (5X+/S)
That went real far with Scott Brown, now didn't it?
I'm certain that you'd be just tickled pink at the idea of Christie 2016 as well.
No, it doesn't.
Posted by: Kinley Ardal at April 03, 2013 08:24 AM (5SJfP)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 12:20 PM (HDgX3)
Governors don't direct natural disaster response?
I mean they aren't great about it here in MO, but I'd hate to have an F-5 pass through a city and not have one around.
Posted by: tsrblke at April 03, 2013 08:25 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at April 03, 2013 08:25 AM (epxV4)
Simply put. If he can not remain faithful in his oath to his wife, he can not remain faithful in his oath to his constituents.
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Only if there is some other younger hotter state out there. If SC will give him the love he needs, he won't go looking for it over the border.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at April 03, 2013 08:25 AM (SO2Q8)
Posted by: zsasz at April 03, 2013 08:25 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2013 08:25 AM (uff2W)
Unless he does something else stupid he will win this race in a walk. The only problem is the North Charleston area is heavy Dem territory. The rest of the district is all Republican.
Posted by: Vic at April 03, 2013 08:25 AM (53z96)
Once again, this type of thinking is why we lose and they win. It's a big part of why Romeny lost too. He wasn't perfect so TruCons stayed home. Well great, instead of getting a fiscal conservative who had an affair, you'll get a moonbat Democrat. But you'll show him!!
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 12:24 PM (HDgX3)
How many friggin times is this bullshit going to have to be debunked? Do you even give a damn, or are you a Democrat, just sticking to a narrative, and damn the torpedoes?
Posted by: Kinley Ardal at April 03, 2013 08:26 AM (5SJfP)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 03, 2013 08:26 AM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 03, 2013 08:26 AM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 03, 2013 08:26 AM (jucos)
Posted by: Mark Sanford at April 03, 2013 12:24 PM (4cRnj)
don't forget the Val-U-Rite. Oh and throw in a couple Russian hookers.
Did someone just yell "PARTY!?"
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 08:26 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: ace at April 03, 2013 08:26 AM (LCRYB)
Are you going to correct Malor or not? A number of us seem to care about his deceptive and absurd wording on the headline comments for today; I know you were talking about the use of language and such... doesn't this qualify?
Posted by: RiverC at April 03, 2013 08:26 AM (El+h4)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp whose marriage was a mockery at April 03, 2013 08:27 AM (DGIjM)
Posted by: AmishDude at April 03, 2013 08:27 AM (T0NGe)
I'm pessimistic enough to think that all we're doing at this point is whistling on our way to the gallows so I certainly understand the LIB crowd but I'm stubborn enough to try to fight it on the way down.
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at April 03, 2013 08:27 AM (44PWr)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 03, 2013 12:26 PM (jucos)
Gay and lesbian folks are no more or less committal than the rest of us. It's a non-point.
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 08:28 AM (x3YFz)
To create two new extra kinds of marriage (?)
This is dream logic. You know, to get the paper, you have to eat the banana.
Posted by: RiverC at April 03, 2013 08:28 AM (El+h4)
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 03, 2013 08:28 AM (fsH2r)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 12:16 PM
I hate the left to the point where I don't care if a repub pistol whips his wife in a fucking stained wife beater. We are up against the slime of humanity, so morals mean nothing to me at this point.
Posted by: Berserker at April 03, 2013 08:28 AM (FMbng)
"At his age, the thinking goes (I think), he ought to be wise enough to know that the sort of "love" sung about in songs is an intense but ephemeral thing."
Let me tell you this: it does not have to be an ephemeral thing. My second marriage is going on 7 years, and we love each other even more than at the outset, which was staggerlingly intense. True that the emotional intensity has levelled off (i.e. we don't cry with joy very often now, which we used to do quite often), but it's even stronger, now that we have a foundation of daily life to build on. We enjoy listening to love songs from our youth, then say to each other "Now I know what they were singing about!"
I wish this for each of you, simultaneously knowing how rare and precious it is.
Posted by: disa at April 03, 2013 08:28 AM (R+h7Q)
The answer is adding a second girl to the mix.
Posted by: Mark Sanford at April 03, 2013 12:24 PM (4cRnj)
And video equipment. Can't forget that.
Posted by: joncelli at April 03, 2013 08:28 AM (RD7QR)
I'm certain that you'd be just tickled pink at the idea of Christie 2016 as well.
I would have voted for Brown over Fauxcahontas; I would take Christie over Obama. Neither is perfect, but both are better than the alternative.
You stay home and bask in your purity. The Dems thank you for that.
Posted by: real joe at April 03, 2013 08:28 AM (5X+/S)
Did you know that Colberts were from a family of 11 kids?
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, FLLDFC Gangstette Wily Wench at April 03, 2013 08:28 AM (kXoT0)
Posted by: ace at April 03, 2013 12:26 PM (LCRYB)
Yeah, if I every say that and it's not about my wife (current wife, not any future wife) she has every right to shoot me.
Either I've found my soul mate, or I've proven I can't be trusted with the choice at all there's really not much middle ground on this one.
(I suppose there's the possibility that my wife goes before I do, given my health that's unlikely, but anyway, in which case the whole experience changes my entire outlook on life and shit, but barring that it's a stupid statement.)
Posted by: tsrblke at April 03, 2013 08:29 AM (GaqMa)
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What bullshit. Show me any Christian congregation in this country that doesn't have its share of divorces. Traditionalists? They're traditionalists until the day the want to get unhitched.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 03, 2013 08:29 AM (f9c2L)
No, I think you have it wrong.
The Left sets up both sides of this debate. The first (their real position) is the strong side: "Away with all ideals!" The second, the weak side (provided for us) is "well, it's complicated."
Small surprise which side wins.
Posted by: RiverC at April 03, 2013 08:29 AM (El+h4)
Posted by: Joejm65 at April 03, 2013 08:30 AM (+ygda)
He'll have a fair shot if Stephen Colbert remains neutral on his show...
Posted by: t-bird
Oh, you are just adorable!
Colbert Report: http://tinyurl.com/arp8bcu
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 03, 2013 08:30 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: wooga at April 03, 2013 08:30 AM (mi68K)
Posted by: ace at April 03, 2013 08:31 AM (LCRYB)
I hope I'm wrong, but I see Sanford losing.
He'll probably get just as many votes as any republican would be expected to get in a special election in a +14 district, but the democrat vote is going to be big.
That's just the way liberals think. If Colbert's sister is running, it will be fun to vote.
Sanford will probably get the seat back in 2014, but this one is going down.
Posted by: jwest at April 03, 2013 08:31 AM (u2a4R)
Gotta say Ace, I don't get your line of thinking at all.
At what age do men stop being capable of falling in love? Is it always phony, or just after 40?
Jeez, the guy dumped one dame for another. It happens ALL THE TIME. Just most of the time it's not somebody running for elective office. If that's what you were having trouble getting, I would be on board with you, but you seem to think this is some sort of man bites dog thing.
It's not.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 03, 2013 08:31 AM (TOk1P)
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 03, 2013 08:31 AM (6zgse)
Posted by: AmishDude at April 03, 2013 08:32 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: robtr at April 03, 2013 08:32 AM (rTgOf)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 03, 2013 12:30 PM (kdS6q)
Perhaps I'm overly hopeful but that could totally backfire as well.
Posted by: tsrblke at April 03, 2013 08:32 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at April 03, 2013 12:25 PM (epxV4)
Nope, she has a real resume. Lots of business background and accomplishments. That is not to say I hope she wins, I don't. However, I would not dismiss her as an Ashley Judd.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, FLLDFC Gangstette Wily Wench at April 03, 2013 08:32 AM (kXoT0)
Posted by: Waldo Truth at April 03, 2013 08:32 AM (TE8aX)
Posted by: RiverC at April 03, 2013 08:32 AM (El+h4)
Posted by: Gay Marriage, 24/7 Baby!!! at April 03, 2013 08:33 AM (ynTB7)
Posted by: Baldy at April 03, 2013 08:33 AM (opS9C)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 03, 2013 08:33 AM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 03, 2013 08:33 AM (fsH2r)
This is the Post Clinton Era... the only thing which will make this an Issue... is if those on the RIGHT make it an issue.
If a Lefty brings it up??? Just say...'Bill, and Hillary'
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2013 08:33 AM (lZBBB)
"quality when it counts"...
sounds like they're selling Sigma-6...
Posted by: Harlekwin15-Emergency back Up Angst ID at April 03, 2013 08:33 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 03, 2013 12:18 PM (f9c2L)
Odd thing. The longer I'm with my wife, the more I pat myself on the back for roping her in. She isn't perfect, but she's a damn sight closer to perfect than anything else I've run across in the last 15 years.
Not to get mushy ::getting mushy:: but you can parade tight little bodies past me all day long. I'll look, but like the big trout in the lake who doesn't get caught, I will never bite.
You just have to marry the right one. Until you find the right one, don't get married. It ain't rocket surgery.
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 08:33 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2013 08:34 AM (ZgBZU)
Posted by: The Puffy Hat at April 03, 2013 08:34 AM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 03, 2013 08:35 AM (6zgse)
Posted by: zsasz at April 03, 2013 08:35 AM (MMC8r)
I would have voted for Brown over Fauxcahontas; I would take Christie over Obama. Neither is perfect, but both are better than the alternative.
You stay home and bask in your purity. The Dems thank you for that.
Posted by: real joe at April 03, 2013 12:28 PM (5X+/S)
We have to run the mildest, most non-boat-rocking candidate possible at all times or face the annihilation of the country. Well, we are indeed facing the annihilation of the country, but it is actually because of the constant slew of non-boat-rocking candidates that our 'FisCon' wing keeps trotting out.
Half the idea behind LiB is allowing the populace, a nation of shortsighted pleasure-seekers, to feel the consequences of their decisions and do an about-face before it is well and truly too late to do any good.
That's never going to happen, though, because you, and those like you, enable the Dems by forestalling the day of pain with your constant battlecry of We Have No Choice in every successive election I have seen since I began paying attention to politics. 0.o Roundabout twelve years, I was fifteen. This has been going on for a long friggin' time.
If you want to know why the Left is winning, you need only stare hard at the man you see in the mirror before you take your rest tonight.
THAT MAN enables the Left, and doubles down on it by projecting his fault onto others who see more clearly than he. >_>
Posted by: Kinley Ardal at April 03, 2013 08:36 AM (5SJfP)
if you're getting tired of spouse you're probably doing things wrong y'know?
I am fond of mine, can't imagine slowing down with anyone else.
Posted by: Harlekwin15-Emergency back Up Angst ID at April 03, 2013 08:36 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Beagle at April 03, 2013 08:36 AM (sOtz/)
Posted by: ace at April 03, 2013 12:31 PM (LCRYB)
I'd add that this doesn't strike me as a conservative evangelism (in the non-religious sense) blog.
Let the RNC and Co pimp Sanford, that's their job, the advertising wing of the party We're pretty much all members of the fold arguing over the direction to take things next.
When you redevelop your product (whatever it is) you're marketing team has to still sell the original until the new one comes out on the market, their job should not effect the design team whose job it is to criticize everything.
We're not the marketing team. I don't begrudge anyone one it, but it's not us, if someone want's that they should go join that particular team.
Posted by: tsrblke at April 03, 2013 08:36 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at April 03, 2013 08:36 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 03, 2013 12:35 PM (6zgse)
Exactly, Pelosi and Reid are faithful spouses with marriages in the 50+ year range and I would not trust either one of them with a leftover hard boiled Easter egg.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, FLLDFC Gangstette Wily Wench at April 03, 2013 08:36 AM (kXoT0)
http://www.thestate.com/
Yes, like a screen door.
Posted by: Vic at April 03, 2013 12:27 PM (53z96)
Ok, I realize as a woman I may not see 'it'....but I ain't seeing it. Mildly attractive....very mildly. They kinda look like siblings....
Posted by: Tami[/i] at April 03, 2013 08:36 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: Baldy at April 03, 2013 08:37 AM (opS9C)
Posted by: Waldo Truth at April 03, 2013 08:37 AM (TE8aX)
you'll show him!!
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 12:24 PM (HDgX3)
Um... really? At least you're not calling him perfect...
I'd rather be pimping this guy Sanford instead of acknowledging and rehashing his faults. That's what the Left does and they can make red and purple turn blue.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2013 12:25 PM (uff2W)
Really? Ok.
Clearly I'm not understanding.
1) People have set patterns of behavior... someone who steals in the past will likely steal in the future... an aggressive abusing jerk now will be an aggressive abusive jerk in the future... right?
2) Sanford decided to violate his word, his promises, his oath (marriage) for his own personal gain with no concern for who he screwed over... THAT is his behavior isn't it? What part of that in inaccurate?
So we need more congress people who will be on the lookout only for their selfish gains while giving less than a damn about the people who trusted them and got them into office?
I must be missing something; how does getting another self-centered self-absorbed douche looking out only for himself help Conservatives of any stripe?
Oh wait, you believe he's changed, he won't possibly do this again; he "loves" you, he'll be good for you... sure he's been a cad in the past but it's really going to be different this time... right?
When he sells you out for his personal benefit; don't come crying to me.
Unless you're really looking for someone to tell you "I F***ING TOLD YOU SO YOU DAMN STUPID IDIOT". Then go ahead and come to me.
Posted by: gekkobear at April 03, 2013 08:37 AM (X0NX1)
A lot of marriages are entered into for all kinds of wrong reasons. That's really the problem with marriage.
Marriage isn't broken, people just aren't doing it right.
Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2013 08:37 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 03, 2013 08:37 AM (jucos)
Posted by: real joe at April 03, 2013 08:37 AM (5X+/S)
Posted by: Y-not at April 03, 2013 08:37 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Hopeless at April 03, 2013 12:16 PM (qHQCW)
I dated a screaming hot model (if you ettes get J.Jill catalogs, she's one of the models). We had a chat about Clinton and this topic of faithfulness and how it indicates character. She didn't get it. Couldn't make the connection. Comm major from Columbia (right? wtf was I thinking?).
Told her to go pound sand a month later.
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 08:37 AM (x3YFz)
As far as I can tell, none of this was illegal, yes?
This doesn't mean pimp him because he's 'better than a democrat' but rather, don't throw him under the bus because of some of his flaws; you need to look at the whole picture.
For example, Barky has probably never even thought of cheating on his wife. Does that make him worthy of a senate seat, much less a presidency?
Of course, what he did is wrong; but as one economist said, without a freedom to fail, a system becomes fragile.
Posted by: RiverC at April 03, 2013 08:38 AM (El+h4)
Posted by: AmishDude at April 03, 2013 08:38 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: tsrblke at April 03, 2013 12:25 PM (GaqMa)
_____________
For fuck's sake. The choice is this guy or Stephen Colbert's sister. And you're debating whether or not to vote for him because had a tornado ripped through his state he wouldn't have been around to direct the response.
REALLY?
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 08:38 AM (HDgX3)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp whose marriage was a mockery at April 03, 2013 08:39 AM (DGIjM)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 03, 2013 08:39 AM (RIPnD)
Posted by: RWC at April 03, 2013 08:39 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 03, 2013 12:37 PM (jucos)
you and me both brother! I spend most of my days wide-eyed.
(the first one that says "bushy tailed" gets throat punched)
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 08:39 AM (x3YFz)
Well I thought she was hawt. But I am an old fart.
Posted by: Vic at April 03, 2013 08:40 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Frank Rich, Theater majeur at April 03, 2013 08:40 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at April 03, 2013 08:40 AM (gWdNj)
You are moving the goal posts. I didn't want Romney, Christie or Brown, but when the general election comes, I see no other choice. I will not sit out the election.
Again, go bask in your purity while the country burns.
Posted by: real joe at April 03, 2013 08:40 AM (5X+/S)
Posted by: Augustus Caesar at April 03, 2013 08:40 AM (A71EA)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2013 08:41 AM (hNqVf)
Posted by: tasker at April 03, 2013 08:41 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp whose marriage was a mockery at April 03, 2013 12:39 PM (DGIjM)
He was probably the best governor we have ever had. At least as long as I have lived in this State.
Posted by: Vic at April 03, 2013 08:41 AM (53z96)
Posted by: ace at April 03, 2013 08:41 AM (LCRYB)
As mentioned if he was a dem, he would be celebrated for his actions. To tell the truth, it seems he actually fell in love with the gal, rather than just getting a lewinsky so seems to me much better although he should have went for the divorce first.
But as the lesser of two evils, SC should vote for him because giving another seat to the unmitigated evil of the dem party is just crazy, but they will choose their poison. I hope they know she would vote straight-line pelosi.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 03, 2013 08:41 AM (IY7Ir)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 12:38 PM (HDgX3)
Uhh well I don't live in SC, so no.
But if I did, also no. The primary hashed out you get what you get. Any decision I would have made against him would have been in the primary stage.
After that it's "Lesser two evils" time.
Posted by: tsrblke at April 03, 2013 08:42 AM (GaqMa)
I would say he's not trustworthy. But that seems to be a positive quality with the current crop of voters. Maybe loathsome? Nah, that seems to be a popular fad also.
He will lose because it plays to the Republican Parties greatest weakness- divisiveness.
Overtly religious people won't vote for him due to moral issues.
Women won't largely vote for him due to his wife's predicament.
Voters will once again show apathy is genetically a Republican disease.
So just like the buffoon sitting in the White House, the opposition wins by Republican default. Because we'd rather eat our young, then watch them grow up.
Posted by: Marcus at April 03, 2013 08:42 AM (GGCsk)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 03, 2013 08:42 AM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Fritz at April 03, 2013 08:42 AM (UzPAd)
Posted by: Y-not at April 03, 2013 08:43 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Marcus at April 03, 2013 08:43 AM (GGCsk)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at April 03, 2013 08:43 AM (feFL6)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp whose marriage was a mockery at April 03, 2013 08:43 AM (DGIjM)
Posted by: Shoot Me at April 03, 2013 08:44 AM (qiXMt)
Posted by: Waldo Truth at April 03, 2013 08:44 AM (TE8aX)
Right?
Yes, I know that "that's the way things are" but what marriage used to give was at least a measure of material security in society to children and to wives in the face of fickle emotion. It doesn't do that any more. Fickle emotion rules. Huzzah!
Our "feelings" give us the right to screw up our children's lives and destroy our spouses finances because nothing is more important than being in love. Because screwing up children's lives and destroying the ex financially is what a loving person does. Right?
So, yay, Sanford is in love. Whoop-de-doo.
Reminds me (as this sort of thing often does) of staying with a lady when I came back from the Philippines (I was briefly "homeless" and a kind stranger took me in while I found a house at my new PCS) who's husband had been on an unaccompanied tour in the PI and got himself a girlfriend (yeah, happens). He didn't understand (according to her) why none of his children were speaking to him (after all, it was between him and his *wife*) and had asked his wife not to do anything because... this is the kicker... HE hadn't decided yet. Like, somehow, it was up to him?
I've got no sympathy, even if I can find some empathy for the human condition. It's easy to empathize... we really shouldn't sympathize or excuse or stop at least promoting the ideal of responsibility, faithfulness, and selfless virtues.
Posted by: Synova at April 03, 2013 08:44 AM (xyWmb)
Posted by: tasker at April 03, 2013 08:44 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Beagle at April 03, 2013 08:44 AM (sOtz/)
As far as I can tell, none of this was illegal, yes?
Posted by: RiverC
The 37 ethics violations he plead no contest to, as well as the associated 100k+ fine, would argue otherwise.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 03, 2013 08:44 AM (kdS6q)
Hah... misread that and thought it said "GAY or Stephen..."
was reaching for the gay button.
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 08:44 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: zsasz at April 03, 2013 08:45 AM (MMC8r)
I. will. not. stop.
Posted by: RiverC at April 03, 2013 08:45 AM (El+h4)
Relax. It's "bright-eyed and bushy tailed" not wide-eyed.
But are you like...deer-in-the-headlights-wide-eyed?
::: runs ::::
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 08:45 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Ampersand Shogun at April 03, 2013 08:45 AM (fMiHM)
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 03, 2013 08:46 AM (6zgse)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 03, 2013 08:46 AM (jucos)
Then you'll be mocked relentlessly.
Enjoy.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 08:46 AM (sbV1u)
It would seem that way, yes, but when you've been banging the same piece of tail for decades and a new one comes along, you just somehow make room in your heart.
The Heart wants what the Heart wants.....and by "Heart", I mean "penis".
Posted by: Kasper Hauser at April 03, 2013 08:46 AM (HqpV0)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 03, 2013 08:46 AM (RIPnD)
Republicans throw darts at their candidates. They pick apart their lives like they're some contestant on 'Idol". Then they don't show up to vote. Coup de grace? They blame everyone else and lament how the world isn't fair or something.
Posted by: Marcus at April 03, 2013 08:46 AM (GGCsk)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 03, 2013 08:46 AM (mN8D3)
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 03, 2013 12:46 PM (6zgse)
We should make C.S. Lewis's "The Four Loves" required reading in high school 
.
Posted by: tsrblke at April 03, 2013 08:47 AM (GaqMa)
Why even give the Democrats/MSM a chance to beat us up? Whatever the guy's ideology, he would have had 99% the same voting record as his opponent, but we've now given a great big opening for Democrats. I'm sure female voters will take another look the GOP after nominating the guy that ran off with some Spring Break hookup. And let's not forget the incredible judgement this guy showed being a sitting Governor and leaving the country without telling anyone.
Way to go.
Posted by: McAdams at April 03, 2013 08:47 AM (bhmq1)
Posted by: tasker at April 03, 2013 08:47 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at April 03, 2013 08:47 AM (feFL6)
143 -
That's why I'm not going to listen to a word of this silliness, because I don't want to hear ANYBODY talk about their love and soul mates and all the rest of that tommyrot.
So put me on the list as voting for falling in love at any age, and wanting adults to be mature about it... which of course INCLUDES not giving press conferences on the topic.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 03, 2013 08:47 AM (TOk1P)
I was going to come in with some variant of the this gripe.
The electorate of South Carolina decided, they had a choice.
Posted by: Frank Rich, Theater majeur at April 03, 2013 12:40 PM (r2PLg)
Yeah... funny how a 'Party' which is says it is for State Rights, and Self Determination, tries to make EVERY political choice National.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2013 08:48 AM (lZBBB)
I've really been feeling the mocking, let me tell you.
Let me go turn up the A/C, it's getting unseasonably hot in here.
Really everything Bowden said was true. Normal conservatives really just want to give in. You just have to peel away the layer of rationalization and outrage.
We going to see some consistency, or just complaints about consistency?
Posted by: RiverC at April 03, 2013 08:48 AM (El+h4)
A marriage can survive anything, anything at all, with only one exception.
Contempt.
Let that creep in on the part of either party, and it will end. It's only a matter of time before all the dominoes fall.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 08:48 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 03, 2013 08:48 AM (ZshNr)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 03, 2013 08:48 AM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 03, 2013 12:46 PM (RIPnD)
Sadly the time to take care of that is passed.
The choice now is not "Is Olympia Snow acceptable" it's "is this other guy worse"
(To continue your comparison.)
Posted by: tsrblke at April 03, 2013 08:48 AM (GaqMa)
A dumbass bet like the party of stoopid always makes. Sure he's human garbage but he's our human garbage. What could go wrong with that?
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 03, 2013 08:48 AM (DZSFY)
::: runs ::::
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 12:45 PM (sbV1u)
Generally? yes. I've found people let you go to the front of the line when you do that.
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 08:48 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: AmishDude at April 03, 2013 08:49 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: zsasz at April 03, 2013 08:49 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Marcus at April 03, 2013 08:49 AM (GGCsk)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at April 03, 2013 08:49 AM (xAtAj)
I stand by my original observation....but again, as a woman I may not get it.
http://tinyurl.com/bns9xmq
Posted by: Tami[/i] at April 03, 2013 08:50 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 03, 2013 12:46 PM (6zgse)
Yeah... amazing how many divorces there are right AFTER the kids grow up.... and that reason to stay together, is gone.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2013 08:51 AM (lZBBB)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at April 03, 2013 12:49 PM (xAtAj)
Plus Ace has made it abundantly clear that he doesn't adjust other Cob-Log's writings. It's that simple.
This blog isn't a messaging board, if you've got a problem take it up with Gabe.
Posted by: tsrblke at April 03, 2013 08:51 AM (GaqMa)
Contempt.
Excellent point Sean. Once the sarcasm starts it's all over but the shouting.
Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2013 08:51 AM (KXm42)
LMFAO.
I too married well, well above my station. Every morning I look at her and think, "And she married ME! :::: pause :::: Why?"
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 08:51 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: tasker at April 03, 2013 08:51 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at April 03, 2013 08:52 AM (xAtAj)
Been there. Done that.
It sucks.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 08:52 AM (sbV1u)
My personal feelings and sympathies for Mrs. Sanford aside, I am not willing to have to force our candidates to live up to the standards set for us by the democrats, while they themselves have NO standards except winning.
In a less stressful age before we realized that we had a president and a party who were determined to destroy the country, I might have been outrged at Sanford's running.
Now? Shove him in their faces. Elect him, and take no crap about adultery when we have Robert Menendez PAYING for sex with underage Dominican hookers with illegally donated money from a crony who got government contracts.
I cannot imagine under any circumstances that he will not do a better job that the sister of a smirky Hollywood semi-comedian.
Posted by: Miss Marple at April 03, 2013 08:52 AM (GoIUi)
Let It Fucking Burn. It needs to at this point.
Posted by: GMan at April 03, 2013 08:52 AM (sxq57)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2013 08:52 AM (0w+w3)
Posted by: AmishDude at April 03, 2013 08:52 AM (T0NGe)
http://www.wltx.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=85249
Posted by: Vic at April 03, 2013 08:52 AM (53z96)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 03, 2013 08:52 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 03, 2013 08:53 AM (6zgse)
201 -
Frankly, I'd rather have the shouting. I've seen couples that work on perfecting their contempt for each other for years and years.
Please, someobody punch the other one so we can be put out of OUR misery.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 03, 2013 08:53 AM (TOk1P)
I stand by my original observation....but again, as a woman I may not get it.
http://tinyurl.com/bns9xmq
Posted by: Tami at April 03, 2013 12:50 PM (X6akg)
--You didn't see the string bikini pics, did you?
(Mind you, I'm not at all condoning his betraying his wife, just making a call on the other chick's looks.)
Posted by: logprof at April 03, 2013 08:53 AM (+iA5G)
Posted by: zsasz at April 03, 2013 08:53 AM (MMC8r)
PROS: The Horde in my pocket. CONS: I'm on this ancient and incredibly cheap plan so if I change I'm looking at a big jump in costs. PROS: Shiiiiinnnyyy. CONS: I might need two hands to hold it. I shall continue to ponder.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Tea. at April 03, 2013 08:53 AM (VtjlW)
That's the bet the registered party members in the district he seeks to represent have made.
(Am I the only person who resents people who live eight states away telling me who I can or can't have represent me?)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 03, 2013 08:53 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: tasker at April 03, 2013 08:54 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at April 03, 2013 08:54 AM (feFL6)
Posted by: Y-not at April 03, 2013 08:54 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Waldo Truth at April 03, 2013 08:54 AM (TE8aX)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at April 03, 2013 12:52 PM (xAtAj)
Just to be clear, that wasn't directed at you HoboJerky, it was a follow-up to your comment! An addendum if you will.
Posted by: tsrblke at April 03, 2013 08:54 AM (GaqMa)
Which is exactly my point. Haven't you figured it out? We complain in one thread about language being used against us; Language is used against us in another thread by 'one of our own', and three threads later we forgot it even happened; no correction, no one wants to be 'that guy', the one that gets ostracized for making a locally political point about a very basic level of message consistency on the level the language itself;
Fortunately I'm not a conservative. I don't mind being demonized or mocked, it's no big deal, but Gabe is full of it and using his position here to advance an agenda that is against all of our best interests, even those of us who support homosexual partnerships.
But it 'doesn't matter' because, according to Sean Bannion, essentially no one wants to be mocked by a bunch of silly sockpuppets.
This is the spine of the Republican party. This is the top conservative blog. Didn't think the Tories still lived on these shores, maybe I was wrong?
Posted by: RiverC at April 03, 2013 08:54 AM (El+h4)
As if that's a substitute for reasoning.
I am a little sick of the self-righteousness.
Posted by: Marcus at April 03, 2013 08:54 AM (GGCsk)
“I look forward to a vigorous campaign that focuses on creating jobs, balancing our country’s budget and choosing an independent-minded leader who shares the values of the great people of South Carolina,” said Colbert Busch.
Bingo, Putting San the Man up lets the Democrat run as the "Kinder, Kuche, Kirche" canidate in a conservative state. There's 10 points right there.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 03, 2013 08:55 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Waldo Truth at April 03, 2013 08:55 AM (TE8aX)
Israel is just sitting there minding its own business trying to live and let live and then BOOM! an explosion courtesy of Gaza Palestinians.
Then Israel says hey knock it off and the Palestinians and their supporters scream why are you so anti-Palestinian, you haters?!?!
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2013 12:52 PM (0w+w3)
--I believe it was Jonah Goldberg who made the point that as much as they piss and moan about it, it's always liberals who re-ignite the culture wars.
Posted by: logprof at April 03, 2013 08:55 AM (+iA5G)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 08:55 AM (HDgX3)
Posted by: Kasper Hauser at April 03, 2013 12:46 PM
Well my mom died almost 2 years ago. My father met a new women and is acting like a teenager at 74, and even lets her carry his balls in her purse. There is no fucking age limit on stupidity.
Posted by: Berserker at April 03, 2013 08:55 AM (FMbng)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at April 03, 2013 08:55 AM (xAtAj)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 12:51 PM (sbV1u)
we should stop talking about fight club. I married a woman with more degrees than a thermometer, is so screaming hot that when I look at her I see a girl in a bikini walking out of a river with a "come get me, throw me in your truck and let's go get this thing stuck" look. Every day.
Nothing short of a miracle.
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 08:56 AM (x3YFz)
Your "concern" has been duly noted.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 08:56 AM (sbV1u)
Kind of like abortions or STDs, eh?
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 03, 2013 08:56 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 03, 2013 08:56 AM (6zgse)
Posted by: CitizenEgg at April 03, 2013 08:56 AM (RB0el)
True dat! The real statistic is 50% of marriages end in a brutal murder with an assault weapon, or a pistol with more than 7 shots in the magazine. Source: The Obama gun control team.
Posted by: An Observation at April 03, 2013 08:56 AM (ylhEn)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 03, 2013 08:56 AM (RIPnD)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 03, 2013 08:57 AM (4Mv1T)
And if she really believed that, she wouldn't be running for Congress, she'd be in a kitchen somewhere.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 03, 2013 08:57 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Tea. at April 03, 2013 12:53 PM (VtjlW)
AtC, I've got a Nokia Lumnia 920 and I like it a lot. Thing is quite durable. And it comes in shiny colors.
Posted by: tsrblke at April 03, 2013 08:58 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: Misophonia Sufferer / Serious Cat at April 03, 2013 08:58 AM (UypUQ)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 03, 2013 08:58 AM (jucos)
The problem is that when the Dems loose, they simply have to put off the advance of socialism by an election or two - they have lost nothing.
When a GOPer looses, what they and we have lost will likely be permanent.
Unfair, but such is life.
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 03, 2013 12:42 PM (Vk2pI)
Yes sir, that being my point about having to feel the consequences at some point or other.
In a sense, we're already here. >_> The situation isn't ideal, but we are indeed beginning to feel the consequences of our decisions. Whether it is in time to awaken the populace at large is anyone's guess. LiB.
Posted by: Kinley Ardal, LiB at April 03, 2013 08:58 AM (5SJfP)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at April 03, 2013 08:58 AM (xAtAj)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at April 03, 2013 08:58 AM (feFL6)
Posted by: Y-not at April 03, 2013 08:58 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 12:55 PM (HDgX3)
stats, numbers and links or it didn't happen.
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 08:58 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Dark Helmet at April 03, 2013 08:59 AM (OFKz5)
Is your wife my wife's sister? I married a professional dancer who is finishing her PhD.
Bro! Christmas at your house next year!
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 08:59 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 03, 2013 08:59 AM (ZshNr)
“I look forward to a vigorous campaign that focuses on creating jobs, balancing our country’s budget and choosing an independent-minded leader who shares the values of the great people of South Carolina,” said Colbert Busch.
When I read that, this is what I see:
"I look forward to words that every politician says during a campaign, regardless of party or ideology, because people will listen to anything and most are too stupid to bother looking past the words to examine actions. So blah, blah, blah, great people of South Carolina."
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 03, 2013 08:59 AM (4df7R)
____________
I told my wife if I croak before her, I don't want in her in a perpetual state of mourning. I'm gone. Take a little time to be sad. Then go live the rest of your life. I died, not you.
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 09:00 AM (HDgX3)
Is she in 'favor of marriage'?
Posted by: LeBron Steinman at April 03, 2013 09:00 AM (jfWE9)
Posted by: Y-not at April 03, 2013 09:00 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 03, 2013 12:56 PM (RIPnD)
Or Put differently "market place of ideas do you speak it Mother Fucker!" (because we do here.)
I too hate Gabe's constant moral superiority about this shit, I've learned just not to read his posts
.
Posted by: tsrblke at April 03, 2013 09:01 AM (GaqMa)
(Mind you, I'm not at all condoning his betraying his wife, just making a call on the other chick's looks.)
Posted by: logprof at April 03, 2013 12:53 PM (+iA5G)
I saw one pic from a distance of her sitting on the side of a boat and one from the side/back of her and him sitting on the beach? Those?
Posted by: Tami[/i] at April 03, 2013 09:01 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at April 03, 2013 09:01 AM (xAtAj)
Posted by: Ook? at April 03, 2013 09:01 AM (OQpzc)
For example, I don't agree with Let it Burn. To me, that is surrender and I am not yet ready to give up. It's burning anyway, but I still want to fight.
Posted by: real joe at April 03, 2013 09:02 AM (5X+/S)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Tea. at April 03, 2013 09:02 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Waldo Truth at April 03, 2013 09:03 AM (TE8aX)
Bro! Christmas at your house next year!
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 12:59 PM (sbV1u)
2 PhD womenz that are hot? (mine is a retired military officer, so... kit up accordingly). Your safety is not guaranteed.
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 09:03 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Beagle at April 03, 2013 09:03 AM (sOtz/)
Precisely.
Sea Salt Caramel Brownie?
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 09:04 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 03, 2013 09:04 AM (RIPnD)
Meanwhile, in Egypt...
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo shut down its Twitter feed Wednesday following a public fight with the Egyptian Presidency and the Muslim Brotherhood over the arrest of an Egyptian television star.
Foreign Policy: http://tiny.cc/pn5yuw
Gee, remember last time the US Embassy in Cairo had a Twitter fracas? I seem to recall it happening sometime last September.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at April 03, 2013 09:04 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: tasker at April 03, 2013 09:04 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 12:58 PM (x3YFz)
____________
http://tinyurl.com/c2jb3zm
Link to the census
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 09:04 AM (HDgX3)
Posted by: Waldo Truth at April 03, 2013 01:03 PM (TE8aX)
Also I'm still not entirely sure that the Occam's Razor answer to this is "gabe is a miserable copy editor."
It's not the first time he's written an sentence riddled with typos. (And if that's the case, but him on twitter.)
Posted by: tsrblke at April 03, 2013 09:04 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp still cant find the gay button at April 03, 2013 09:04 AM (DGIjM)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Tea. at April 03, 2013 09:05 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Waldo Truth at April 03, 2013 01:03 PM (TE8aX)
I've tangled with Gabe. He's good people.
as far as offensive language? put on your big kid pants and quit being a pussy.
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 09:05 AM (x3YFz)
This is the top conservative blog.
So why are you here? No mocking, just wondering, seems odd.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 03, 2013 09:05 AM (IY7Ir)
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2013 09:05 AM (0nyYS)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 03, 2013 12:53 PM (/kI1Q)
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For local / state offices, you're right. For national offices, you're damn right I will try to influence you. When a Democrat senator or congressman from the other 49 states vote it affects me as much as it affects you.
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 09:05 AM (HDgX3)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 03, 2013 01:04 PM (RIPnD)
I read these things then have to square them with that mushy ass video on your blog. It makes the shtick far less enjoyable
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Posted by: tsrblke at April 03, 2013 09:06 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: ace at April 03, 2013 09:06 AM (LCRYB)
Posted by: naturalfake at April 03, 2013 09:06 AM (j2lYi)
What's her secret? Mine only took one kid to go from 0 to 2.
I'm gonna be keepin' 'dat pimp hand strong when I get home tonight, yo!
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 09:06 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Tea. at April 03, 2013 01:05 PM (VtjlW)
oh, my sexy little critter, I'll just send you some heels.
You'll be fine 
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 09:06 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 03, 2013 09:07 AM (XYSwB)
Posted by: Y-not at April 03, 2013 12:58 PM (5H6zj)
I'll say flat out... unless there is some great financial benefit to to doing so... I'll never marry again.
Getting the Law involved in a relationship... getting the State to condone it... isn't needed.... if my Word is not good enough, no law will make the relationship last... if my vow to God does not help me remain faithful... no piece of paper will...
Legal Marriage today has become a way to penalize Men on break up... even though women constantly SCREAM about equality under the law... (and I say this as a Man who was a Full Time Single Parent of twins, from the time they were 1.5 years old, to adult).
So... I just will not play that game... and.... go my own way...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2013 09:07 AM (lZBBB)
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 03, 2013 09:07 AM (fsH2r)
I already talked to Malor about this, that would only have the possible effect of therapy; i.e. making me less angry about something I should be angry about; I have no power to make Gabriel change this wording that he is, in bad faith, committed to.
I think it's a serious issue and I should need to use a chain of expletives to make the point.
Posted by: RiverC at April 03, 2013 09:07 AM (El+h4)
The young people who watch will vote for her, cause he asked them to vote for her.
Did democrats vote in the primary?
Posted by: Caustic at April 03, 2013 09:07 AM (/b8+5)
heh. words to die by.
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 09:08 AM (x3YFz)
I also have a fondness for racktastic gingers. Ask mpfs.
Jus' sayin'
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 09:08 AM (sbV1u)
Ha Ha! Think globally, act locally, Comrade Alex!
Posted by: Dem Victory Campaign Credit Card Verification Center at April 03, 2013 09:08 AM (HjPtV)
Continuing to see that person, making excuses to communicate with that person, will lead to the place it always does.
Posted by: ace at April 03, 2013 01:06 PM
This is what's gonna fuck up the military's bullshit "wymen uber alles" clause. It's been bad enough on short tours. Combat is gonna be brutal.
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at April 03, 2013 09:09 AM (0It32)
"It's women's health care. Why do you want women to not have health care?"
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 03, 2013 09:09 AM (/kI1Q)
But, whatever. The sense of the phrase remains in the absence of the proper negative modifier.
Posted by: RiverC at April 03, 2013 09:10 AM (El+h4)
You would have been better off with a Javelin, 4 pallets of ammo, and a lemon bar.
Something tells me I am going to have to go fetch the flamethrowers now.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 09:11 AM (sbV1u)
I think it's a serious issue and I should need to use a chain of expletives to make the point.
Posted by: RiverC at April 03, 2013 01:07 PM (El+h4)
I take it you folks don't frequent the anti-idiotarian rottie site. You would melt the fuck down.
Lighten up Francis' (shout out to sean). ya'll need to be worried about 54987 other things over Gabe's creative application of language.
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 09:11 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 01:04 PM (HDgX3)
wait a sec.... how can the marriage and divorce rates be THAT different between men and women???
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2013 09:11 AM (lZBBB)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp still cant find the gay button at April 03, 2013 09:12 AM (DGIjM)
Posted by: Caustic at April 03, 2013 01:07 PM (/b8+5)
They had their own primary with only 2 candidates.
Posted by: Vic at April 03, 2013 09:12 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Y-not at April 03, 2013 09:12 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 03, 2013 09:12 AM (6zgse)
yeah thats my biggest fear, him marrying this CHUD. What pissed me off the most is that about 6 months after mom died I swear I thought I was going to see him on a beer commercial. He was going out with his friends 5 nights a week and coming home at 1-2am, he had all kinds of women around him, was talking about playing guitar in a band again. I updated all his guitars, got him new gear, got him ready, and poof, he meets jabba and it all went out the window. He went from the most interesting man in the world to a fucking lap dog.
Stupidity knows no age. He was married 52 years and has less freedom now than when he was married. I think that generation loves going from the frying pan into the blast furnace.
Posted by: Berserker at April 03, 2013 09:12 AM (FMbng)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 01:11 PM (sbV1u)
Not at all. Alex is good people. Known her from DPUD. Just wave some leather calf length stompy boots in front of her and she's yours for life.
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 09:13 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Waldo Truth at April 03, 2013 09:14 AM (TE8aX)
At least he's pre-disastered on the mistress thing. So, that won't be a worry in the future.
Posted by: Ook
Sanford admitted to other affairs during his marriage, but claimed they didn't count because some undefined sexual-line wasn't crossed.
Ticking time bomb, Gloria Allred.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 03, 2013 09:14 AM (kdS6q)
No, it's that my wife had low standards.
Seriously, the series of events that conspired to bring us together were ridiculous and improbable in the extreme. It surely was not by design. I'm a very, very lucky guy.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 09:15 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 03, 2013 09:15 AM (6zgse)
For every real problem that could use fixing, there's some guy saying, "chill out," while the fences rot and the rabbits get in.
In this analogy, that guy is you, tango.
The fact that it is a small problem means that it is an easy one. When did you last weed your garden? "Oh, chill out, those are tiny tearthumb sprouts. That kudzu? Small."
Better to tackle the huge problems we can't do anything about.
/sarc
Posted by: RiverC at April 03, 2013 09:16 AM (El+h4)
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ® at April 03, 2013 09:16 AM (1hM1d)
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at April 03, 2013 12:46 PM (6zgse)
There is much wisdom in what you write as an outsider.
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 03, 2013 09:16 AM (DZSFY)
Posted by: Waldo Truth at April 03, 2013 01:14 PM (TE8aX)
huh. Your little panties *are* all wadded up aren't they?
Pro Tip: stop while you're behind.
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 09:17 AM (x3YFz)
Better get busy then, Sisyphus.
Just leave the rest of us out of it.
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 09:17 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Y-not at April 03, 2013 09:18 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ® at April 03, 2013 09:18 AM (1hM1d)
Posted by: RiverC at April 03, 2013 01:16 PM (El+h4)
You do realize the problem you have in mind is correcting someone else's thinking
It's more like "that guy's lawn across the street is starting to look bad so I'm going to seize his home."
You want a lockstep blog, go find one, this sure as hell ain't it.
Posted by: tsrblke at April 03, 2013 09:18 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: sexypig at April 03, 2013 09:19 AM (dZQh7)
Posted by: Beagle at April 03, 2013 09:19 AM (sOtz/)
This is a bad thing?
Scheiße!!
Posted by: Der Kommissar at April 03, 2013 09:20 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2013 09:20 AM (B/VB5)
Posted by: deadrody at April 03, 2013 09:21 AM (b2D8X)
A wise NCO once said to me: the worst enemy isn't the enemy, it's a hot head. Experience has proven that over and over. Slow is fast, fast is slow.
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 09:21 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Y-not at April 03, 2013 09:21 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp still cant find the gay button at April 03, 2013 09:23 AM (DGIjM)
I got the same theme, different verse.
"There you go again, Lieutenant. Thinkin' "
- 1SG Larry R. Howell Ft. Riley, KS 1986
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 09:23 AM (sbV1u)
As a Charleston native, IÂ’m truly ashamed that my hometown managed to beclown itself by electing this guy. You think people would know better.
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The voter turnout was pathetic, which makes this Sanford victory even worse. IÂ’d be willing to bet my paycheck that my family members down there didnÂ’t even vote.
Posted by: ICBMMan at April 03, 2013 09:23 AM (SRlAF)
Posted by: ICBMMan at April 03, 2013 09:24 AM (SRlAF)
Posted by: sexypig at April 03, 2013 09:26 AM (dZQh7)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp still cant find the gay button at April 03, 2013 09:26 AM (DGIjM)
- 1SG Larry R. Howell Ft. Riley, KS 1986
Posted by: Sean Bannion at April 03, 2013 01:23 PM (sbV1u)
I laughed. Still laughing as I type...
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 09:26 AM (x3YFz)
Way to go guys!
Posted by: GMan at April 03, 2013 09:26 AM (sxq57)
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 03, 2013 09:29 AM (fsH2r)
Posted by: Iblis at April 03, 2013 09:33 AM (9221z)
Way to go guys!
Posted by: GMan at April 03, 2013 01:26 PM (sxq57)
You idiots are picking a fight over a missing word in a blog post.
Pause. Really think about the ramifications of picking the fight.
Then unfuck yourself. Tell us when you're done.
Posted by: tangonine at April 03, 2013 09:33 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 03, 2013 09:38 AM (fsH2r)
Posted by: sexypig at April 03, 2013 09:38 AM (dZQh7)
Posted by: sexypig at April 03, 2013 09:39 AM (dZQh7)
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 03, 2013 09:39 AM (fsH2r)
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Posted by: Brown Line at April 03, 2013 09:43 AM (VrNoa)
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Posted by: waldo at April 03, 2013 09:51 AM (TE8aX)
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Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 03, 2013 09:52 AM (fsH2r)
Posted by: Vic at April 03, 2013 09:57 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 03, 2013 10:01 AM (fsH2r)
Posted by: Y-not at April 03, 2013 10:08 AM (5H6zj)
Posted by: RiverC at April 03, 2013 10:20 AM (El+h4)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 03, 2013 12:24 PM (HDgX3)***
This myth has been exploded. They lost because of minority women. Move on, idiot.
Posted by: Klawnet at April 03, 2013 10:23 AM (ePxxX)
As someone said previously how can you trust a guy to adhere to an oath of office when he's proven unable to adhere to a vow of marriage? When he lied repeatedly to his wife but also his staff and the people of SC?
But hey.. it's ok. We have to beat the DEMS at all cost, right? If he wins and turns out to be just another turncoat RINO will that be ok too? At least we beat the DEMS.
"If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything." Learn it. Love it. Live it. My.02
Posted by: Really Fat Guy at April 03, 2013 10:25 AM (Je/il)
THIS.
Democrats wouldn't care about this stuff. See Gavin Newsome.
Clinton is now an honored statesman.
Posted by: sexypig at April 03, 2013 01:26 PM (dZQh7)***
Because they're Democrats. Go thou and be likewise, if that suits your standards.
Posted by: Klawnet at April 03, 2013 10:29 AM (ePxxX)
Both men lived in the district for most of their lives. Their professional lives were there, their community activities long before either was in politics. But out of state bloggers have a hard time believing that the people in the district know more about both of the candidates than they do.
Some bloggers heard Curtic Bostic's name for the first time EVER at 8:00 Wednesday morning two weeks ago, and endorsed him at 8:05. But why oh why don't those dumb hicks in SC listen to meeeeeee?
Sanford has a track record of budget cutting, fighting and vetoing spending, and reform. Yeah, he's got the adultery thing against him, which every voter was well aware of. You think we should have sent the big spender instead? Then who would whine about Bostic being too establishment, too squishy?
Mark my words, the special election won't be close. You would never suspect that if you get your news from Politico or Roll Call or National Journal, but remember they work for Obama and the last thing they want is a smart reformer in Congress.
Posted by: Adjoran at April 03, 2013 10:33 AM (9uOra)
Well, he won and the regime candidate lost.
We shall see what the people in his district have to say soon enough, and if the state party will support him. Personally? I regard him as a liability at this point, but I don't know if that is how he is veiwed by his constituants.
Posted by: Gmac - Waiting for the revolution at April 03, 2013 10:54 AM (IanLz)
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 03, 2013 02:01 PM (fsH2r)
I've wanted to believe this but after voting for the JEF and Sherrod Brown twice, that state can't be called conservative.
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 03, 2013 11:01 AM (DZSFY)
Posted by: Vic at April 03, 2013 11:01 AM (53z96)
Posted by: Captain Hate at April 03, 2013 03:01 PM (DZSFY)
I think that was snark.
Posted by: Vic at April 03, 2013 11:02 AM (53z96)
355-Churchill did opium, Eisenhower porked his secretary and John F. Kennedy (founder of modern Special Forces) made his secretary give one of his pals a blowjob.
If Mark Sanford is willing to lower spending and isn't in the pocket of the corrupt GOP establishment, the I don't give a good goddamn about his Latina hussy. I have never looked at politicians for moral guidance. All I care about is that they don't fuck everything up and respect our freedoms-that's it.
Posted by: Danny at April 03, 2013 11:21 AM (n5iOS)
@6: "We won't get anywhere in defeating the Left by electing adulterers, liars, and cheats."
Didn't get too far with a squeaky-clean, proper, loyal-to-his-family guy, either.
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at April 03, 2013 12:35 PM (FsqHK)
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