I won’t be shocked at all if even after all the mistakes and all the piling on Mark Sanford manages to win his special election against Elizabeth Colbert-Busch in South Carolina next Tuesday. The DCCC just sent me a panicked email that said a new poll found the race tied. They’re probably just trolling for money, but the race isn’t over. Truthfully, I don’t really care who wins. I like Stephen Colbert, so I’d like to see his sister win, but we won’t get much out of it even if she does. It will cost us a fortune to hold the seat, and we’ll probably fail in the effort. And, while it will be nice to see the good people of South Carolina’s First District show some decent moral judgment, a Mark Sanford in Congress would be a gift that keeps on giving. Such is the depressing state of play in U.S. politics.
If Sanford does lose, which I still see as likely, it will follow in the recent mold of the Republican base nominating flawed candidates and losing otherwise winnable seats. But, this time, it won’t be some pissed off used car salesman or Tea Party witch that lost them the seat. It will be a former governor. Think about that.
I’d love to win the seat. But my experience in running as a moderate Dem in a moderate district is that party identification is important, and often trumps scumbaggery, sleaze, and total crapitude in the candidate. Thus, I strongly expect that Sanford will win.
If Sanford does not win, we will hold the seat until Nov, 2014, because there is no way that this seat will stay D.
Not sure it couldn’t be held in 2014. The GOP base will say it was because Sanford wasn’t conservative enough and nominate a real nut bag who could probably win in other areas of SC but probably not in this part. Plus incumbency does have advantages.
Not saying she would hold on in 2014, but I wouldn’t dismiss it as a lost cause.
If Sanford does not win, we will hold the seat until Nov, 2014, because there is no way that this seat will stay D.
Why? Colbert-Busch has the Blue Dog schtick down cold already? She’s stated she’s proud to live in a Right-to-work-for-less state. She was bashing the NLRB for intervening against Boenig, when the NLRB was right(Remember, the CEO openly stated, repeatedly, they moved some operations there specifically to avoid unions).
Any chance she said this in the same way her brother would have said it — “I’m proud to live in a right-to-work-for-less state”?
The interesting question here is do these fine South Conservalinans hate a Dem more than they dislike a disgraced, power-drunk, egomaniacal conservative white male scalliwag who treats them, the law and public service with absolute contempt, yet apparently couldn’t imagine being employed anywhere but parasitical gub’mint.
Does a SC majority hate gub’mint (and themselves) so much that it simply doesn’t matter what Santurd is and does? We’ll soon see.
As we all know, in Conservative Christian country, nothing plays better than a story of redemption. It doesn’t have to be legitimate. There just needs to be the proper public contrition and references to god’s forgiveness.
Sanford appears to have skipped this:
Or maybe just redefined it into “she’s my soul mate and god said, “okay then.”
Hey, there’s always the standard fallback explanation. “Everything happens for a reason. When god closes a door, he always opens a window.”
Yes, it’s quite a wonderful environment for scamsters, scalliwags and sociopaths. Sort of like cheese for mold.
Amen indeed, Santurd. Hallelujah! Also, too, Hosanna!
Credulous boneheads. God helps those that help themselves…