You know what’s way, WAY more important, and more ominous, than how the governor spent his weekend? It’s this:
Jenny Sanford to Hit Campaign Trail with Nikki Haley Friday
Friends,
Exciting news! Former South Carolina First Lady Jenny Sanford will be hitting the campaign trail with Nikki on Friday.
Jenny and Nikki will make stops along the South Carolina coast – Charleston, Beaufort County, and Myrtle Beach – and hold free, open-to-the-public town hall events in both Charleston and Myrtle Beach. They will also appear at private receptions in both Charleston and Beaufort County.
Below are the details of the events – if you’re on the coast, we hope to see you there! …
We all like to admire Jenny in the one and only sympathetic and admirable character in this past year’s melodrama, but as voters we need to be hard-nosed and remember this: She did more than anyone else to bring us the disaster that is GOVERNOR Mark Sanford, and she wants to do it again, which is why she’s pulling out the stops for Nikki.
And South Carolina just can’t handle any more of that.
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and she’s apparently very good at selling us a bill of goods…
Be afraid. Be very very afraid.
“We all like to admire Jenny”
Who is “We”? I can’t stand the sight of the woman.
Mark Sanford has nothing to do with whatever problems South Carolina may have and never has. It’s the term-unlimited legislators who own whatever problems exist.
That’s why its naive to think that Vincent Shaheen will make any difference.
No, actually, someone like Vincent — a smart guy who wants to do the right things — actually DOES have the potential to make a difference, because he actually knows how to talk to those legislators. He wouldn’t treat them as members of another species, which is a start toward having a positive influence.
Actually, I think the most “naive” thing in the world — in terms of being innocent of understanding of how the world works, and what is possible — is to be always cynical, and never take a chance on being disillusioned.
Here’s a question–what HASN’T Mark Sanford vetoed? Is his only function to throw a monkey wrench in the works?
and I disagree with term limits—an artificial constraint on the free market of voting. If someone is doing a great job (Dick Riley, Joe Riley) we should be able to keep them on–if someone is lousy, the voters need to t’row da bum out. The fact that so many fail to do so, is not justification for taking away that choice.
Personally, if it weren’t for the negative vibes from fifty years ago, some kind of test of voter literacy would suit me just fine.
Sure, Brad.. any day now we’ll get a savior in the Governor’s office who will fix everything. Just like… um.. just like.. Oh, yeah, Dick Riley who turned South Carolina into a booming utopia.
It’s not cynicism if the evidence proves you right.
Do you really think Harrell and Leatherman are waiting anxiously for Shaheen to be elected so they can start doing all the things Vincent wants to do? Really?
Doug,
Doesn’t make much difference who is elected. As long as Leatherman is in Columbia as the shadow governor, nothing will change. The real power lies not with Sanford or whoever is in the governor’s mansion, it lies with Harrell and Leatherman.
“Do you really think Harrell and Leatherman are waiting anxiously for Shaheen to be elected so they can start doing all the things Vincent wants to do? Really?”
Now, c’mon, Doug…you don’t have to set up exaggerated straw men…
Of course the Powers That Be aren’t dying to see ANYONE they don’t control elected governor, but that doesn’t mean that whoever gets elected won’t be able, in varying degrees, to work with them.
Sanford was a total fail in working with others (we’ve found he wasn’t so bad at playing with others). Other guvs have been able to make some things happen.
Kathryn,
Please explain how Sanford failed? Which of his initiatives were implemented and failed? What did he stop the legislature from doing that would have improved south Carolina?
No school vouchers. No tax reform. His fingerprints are not on any spending bill. What did he do except try to do the things he said he would do when he was elected and reelected?
He accomplished nothing, Doug, because he went out of his way at every possible opportunity to flip off the people who would be necessary to work with to accomplish anything.
And no, that didn’t make him “principled.” It made him ineffective — which in some ways was a bad thing, in other ways a good thing. But there’s no question he was a failure.
He accomplished being ineffective – which is what he set out to do.
Aside from his major personal failings, Sanford failed only at overcoming the good old boys who run the state. He was reelected. Don’t forget that. The people of this state were glad to see him shine a light on the dark corridors of the state house.
Hodges failed. Beasley failed. Sanford just didn’t do enough to crush the people who run the state as their personal piggy bank.
Anybody get the idea that compared to Governor Doug (who wants to “crush” the legislative branch), Gov. Sanford would be remembered as one who played well with others?
By the way, folks, this post is old hat now. Now, we have Sarah Palin coming to campaign with Nikki…
The same people, pretty much, elected Andre twice,too. So?
And I believe there was ample evidence that Sanford viewed the state as his personal airline….
“And I believe there was ample evidence that Sanford viewed the state as his personal airline….”
That’s the best you can do to demonstrate Sanford’s failings as a governor for eight years?
All I’m asking for is one program that Sanford implemented or eliminated that can be viewed as a failure.
Did he champion Innovista? No. Failure.
Did he get any of his education policies implemented? No. Continued failure. Jim Rex can try and deflect the blame but he has done NOTHING to improve education in his tenure. ZIP.
Did he get any of his tax policies implemented that he believed would have helped grow jobs in the state? No. Failure.