David Didn't Resign Over Bathsheba; So Why Should Sanford?
I can't think of a single reason.
After all, like David, Mark Sanford was chosen by God to lead his people. Like David, he had dozens of concubines and wives. Like David, and John Ashcroft, too, he was anointed with oil. Like Solomon, Mark Sanford rejected all worldly goods offered him by God and asked for wisdom instead.
The worst example of religious political hypocrisy I've ever seen--and I've seen plenty. On a side note, it appears that Maria's job and its connection to South Carolina's business interests, however distant, reminds me nothing so much as Roy Blunt Jr destroying HIS marriage by becoming lovers with a TOBACCO LOBBYIST.
This tobacco lobbyist is his wife today. And yet the incredibly red 7th Congressional District of Missouri keeps voting this hypocrite back into office.
Those Republican family values, and the pretzel logic that goes with them. Pure comedy GOLD, baby!
After all, like David, Mark Sanford was chosen by God to lead his people. Like David, he had dozens of concubines and wives. Like David, and John Ashcroft, too, he was anointed with oil. Like Solomon, Mark Sanford rejected all worldly goods offered him by God and asked for wisdom instead.
The worst example of religious political hypocrisy I've ever seen--and I've seen plenty. On a side note, it appears that Maria's job and its connection to South Carolina's business interests, however distant, reminds me nothing so much as Roy Blunt Jr destroying HIS marriage by becoming lovers with a TOBACCO LOBBYIST.
This tobacco lobbyist is his wife today. And yet the incredibly red 7th Congressional District of Missouri keeps voting this hypocrite back into office.
Those Republican family values, and the pretzel logic that goes with them. Pure comedy GOLD, baby!
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Now that Sanford is using the Bible as a 'get out of trouble free card' I am appealing for some stolid Republican to relate about the courageous acts of compassion Mr. Sanford took to improve the lives of folks in South Carolina, in his job as Congressman or as Governor.
The stakes have been raised, we need evidence Sanford acted in an almost Biblical fashion to improve life in his state (please, not just 'he cut taxes').
June 26, 2009 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well...do you know if he was still in Congress when the AUMF passed? Did he vote for it?
That would be some Olde-Tyme Religion, as in Isaac versus Ishmael...
June 26, 2009 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sanford was in Congress up until 2000 only. His Wikipedia page says:
Sanford was a staunch conservative....opposing gay civil unions and adoption (of course!)....He was known for voting against bills that otherwise got unanimous support. For example, he voted against a bill that preserved sites linked to the Underground Railroad. He voted against 'pork projects' even when they benefited his own district; in 1997 he voted against a defense appropriations bill that included funds for Charleston's harbor.
June 26, 2009 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink