By ALEX ISENSTADT | 5/7/13 6:58 PM EDT Updated: 5/8/13 6:27 AM EDT
Republican Mark Sanford (click here) has defeated Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District special election. The victory caps a dramatic comeback by the scandal-tinged former governor, whose political career was left for dead four years ago when he was caught lying about an extramarital affair....
Look the 1st Congressional District was vacated so that Sanford could fill it. He had a track record of winning the seat before. The Senate seat vacated by Jim DeMint was filled with a safe choice for Haley. Sanford needed a job. He couldn't run for Governor again, so this was his seat for income. It was going to happen no matter how much he had to grovel. The more he groveled the more the white male voter bought it.
Elizabeth ran an honest campaign whereby she offered a better alternative to the "Shame of Sanford."
South Carolina has an unemployment rate above the national average of 8.4%. South Carolina needs an infusion of new leadership, but, based on the values expressed in this election, it isn't going to happen. Why put the same party back into office when they caused the problem in the first place? But, yet it happens all the time. Ideology matters when there is nothing else left to value.
Republican Mark Sanford (click here) has defeated Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District special election. The victory caps a dramatic comeback by the scandal-tinged former governor, whose political career was left for dead four years ago when he was caught lying about an extramarital affair....
Look the 1st Congressional District was vacated so that Sanford could fill it. He had a track record of winning the seat before. The Senate seat vacated by Jim DeMint was filled with a safe choice for Haley. Sanford needed a job. He couldn't run for Governor again, so this was his seat for income. It was going to happen no matter how much he had to grovel. The more he groveled the more the white male voter bought it.
Elizabeth ran an honest campaign whereby she offered a better alternative to the "Shame of Sanford."
South Carolina has an unemployment rate above the national average of 8.4%. South Carolina needs an infusion of new leadership, but, based on the values expressed in this election, it isn't going to happen. Why put the same party back into office when they caused the problem in the first place? But, yet it happens all the time. Ideology matters when there is nothing else left to value.
