Sanford: I will not resign from office

Source: MSNBC

From NBC's Mark Potter
In an interview with NBC News this morning, Gov. Mark Sanford (R) said categorically he will not resign as governor of South Carolina.

He said he intends to spend the last 18 months of his term improving his approach to proposing legislation.

He says he has consulted with a number of friends and spiritual advisers. All encouraged him to stay in office, which he says now he will do.

Read more: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/06/29/1981599.aspx

they usually fail to do the right thing.

Oh well, bring on the circus!

1 sided power is where we're at now & it's the wrong side, I consider them maladroit.

...he was facing potential criminal charges, and the Republican State Senate (for reasons having to do with the 2008 election) would have impeached him.

You might think that, in this context, if spirituality has any meaning it's about what's best for the people you serve. But no: Republican spirituality is about what's best for yourself. Hence the uncanny fact that their god always seems to tell them to do exactly what they already wanted to do.

and their hands in the cookie jar.

What makes this sick, is this asshole called for Clinton to resign over a simple blow job while he was using state resources to dip is wick.

he was completely irresponsible in his actions regarding leaving the state without proper chain of command and he did use taxpayers money. I don't care about his dalliances - he should resign or be impeached because he acted totally irresponsible.

because he failed to perform his duties as a Governor of a State! TS he doesn't LIKE his Lt. Gov. A quick call to the Lt. Gov. office, turning over responsibilities to him, and simply saying "Im taking a few days off and my be unreachable." would have sufficed. Instead he created havoc by just disappearing!

If ANY employee of any corporation or institution would have done that...they'd be GONE!

I'm packing my bags.

hang around for as long as you want. In fact, why not get Edwards and have a 'talking truths' American tour. Ugh.

They stayed and now it's all water under the bridge. He should be impeached or fired now.

you never know when it will come back to bite them.

What a man.

Another example of Republican family values--cheat on your wife, lie about it, steal money from your state, and then cling to power.

At least it doesn't give another Republican a chance to take over the governorship and do a better job, thereby making HIM "presidential timber".

If so-called serious journalists can ask Gingrich, in all seriousness, about running for the presidency in 2012, without a preamble which includes something along the lines of "in light of your abandonment of family values, adultery, lying to everyone - urging others who have committed similar sins to QUIT (I think you get my drift, people)", then Sanford is a typical shoo-in as far as the republicans are concerned.

*sigh*

welcome to DU.

:hi:

Honestly, it's almost as painful-funny as watching "Borat," to observe the GOP these days.

appreciatively,
Bright

let alone "governor".

Files his love letters to his mistress where his wife can find them??? :rofl:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090626/us-sc-governor-wife/

How does he put together enough brain cells to breath?

THe longer he stays, the longer we can make fun of him.

Another GOP idiot stays in the news.

Works for me.

...he is a devout Christian family man who has nothing more important in life that to faithfully fulfill his duties to serve his state.

Oh yea...there's that failed marriage and disintegrating family problem...

Nevermind...

never mind legislation. :P

Holding themselves to a different, more lenient standard, than he holds other people, especially Democrats, to.

Hmm, maybe he would do better to improve his approach to vetoing legislation. ;-)

And his trail hiking could take a bit of touch up, too. First rule of trail hiking: don't board a plane to Argentina.

As for his 'spiritual advisers,' did any of them encourage him using a pitchfork?

Well, look at it this way: every day he doesn't resign is a gift to SC Democrats.

He isn't saying...and nobody is asking....I bet he is.

tell anyone where he is, or leave anyone in charge, is an incompetent, irresponsible fool.

A real leader would resign.

Politically speaking, having a mistress is the least of his character flaws.

And he couldn't answer. Since there was no "NO", we have to figure it means "yes". I hope Jenny and her daddy whoop him good in divorce court.

...it looks like your wife is gonna kick up enough mud and sympathy that the good voters may get rid of you.

all went on in Argentina with the cover story?

The Argentina Stimulus Package that substituted for the US Federal Government Stimulus from the Obama admin makes him the latest gop hypocrite to splash the front pages this century.

Okay, then show your ugly face around and be the poster boy for gop hypocricy, you fucking twit.

The time to ask for spiritual advice is BEFORE you go out to screw around.

If you didn't care what they thought before, why care now?

republicans -- by definition -- never do the right thing.

This may be his current plan but if public opinion in S.C. swings strongly against him he will be singing a different song. Personally I think the best thing for him and his family would be to step down.

He can hardly continue as an effective chief executive at a time when S.C. has one of the highest unemployment and foreclosure rates, etc. The people of S.C. deserve an executive that can be focused on their best interests.

Mark, "Can't Keep My Willy Contained" Sanford, should be concerned about his wife and children. That should be his first priority. But the state deserves someone who places them first as well.

Remember Nixon's famous statement "I am not a crook". It wasn't that much later he resigned in disgrace.

Could have been a helluva mess if a hurricane had hit SC while Sanford was off having his member polished.

the effort they put into bullshitting people is almost humorous if it didn't have such a dire impact on our country.