I say the Republican Party's loyalty to and defense of this man, regardless of how laughable it makes them to seem to the small-minded majority, is laudable. And they should stay the course.

They should keep trying to present this as a Christian soap opera and redemption narrative, and holding out the suspenseful hope his wife will return to him. They should keep talking of this exactly as they have been, spend all their energies upon it.

As many Republicans as possible should speak up, on live TV, at length in his favor. They should bet whatever remains of their credibility and dignity on saving Governor Mark Sanford.

Please, GOP. Do this for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwBirf4BWew

Twister, obviously. Chee.

...that would also be very human.

Well, or very weasel.

You're that guy with the "Free Mumia" sign at every rally who makes his(or her) cause look stupid by turning it into an irritant brought up apropo of nothing, aren't you?

>>If we're going to get comfortable using this as a political tool - hunting out sexual impropriety among our legislators and then trapping them in the impossible task of explaining their actions without lying - We'll ruin 70 or 80% of our representatives...

Um, welcome back to Earth. I see you've been gone for some time.

Seriously, you haven't been paying attention since at least 1996, have you?

Between this and now openly, publicly wishing for Bin Laden to attack. No, I don't mean Cheney. I mean this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auQJVhNH99c

God is real, and He loves us very, very frigging much.

And let him keep talking about Maria, please. Particularly leading up to the midterms. Go on, GOP, play him up as a rising star and keep him visible. It's beautiful.

Please, GOP! Keep him there! Stick with him! Let him keep talking to the press! This is the best thing ever for people who aren't Republicans!

...the way former hippies get that way over Woodstock.

It's "surrogate." And if you're going to define motherhood this loosely, consider this: except one single factor, the carrying of the children, in every single other respect most MEN are as much the mother as Rowe is.

This was a business transaction, nothing else. It has nothing to do with moral condemnation of Rowe. And as far as anything to do with the Jacksonsphere: good riddance and a plague on all their houses.

Other woman. Even that would be better. The use of "mistress" seems actually rather dated.

That is all I have to say.

Well, a couple things. One was paying for his ever-more-numerous excursions with taxpayer money pretending to do the people's business. You could probably also argue that constitutes dereliction of duty.

And when you consider he loudly refused the stimulus money meant to help the poorest school in SC(and that's saying something), it's perverse.

To all those trying to defend him on the basis that sex scandals shouldn't matter: pick your battles. There's plenty more reasons to get rid of him. This has just brought them all out in stark relief.

Should have been "schoolS."

To quote the Simpsons:

"Just don't look, just don't look."

If you don't, I promise, he WILL go away.

To quote the Simpsons:

"Just don't look, just don't look."

If you don't, I promise, he WILL go away.

and strange. Sorry for the double post.

Friday dump.

Five bucks says that.

(and btw, I too am in Seattle)

According to SC law, technically, YES, he broke the law:

http://www.slate.com/id/2221854/

Oopsy!

Great that you have 'em.

Don't care to know otherwise.

We cool then?

Then you're prepared for things that aren't your decision as well.

...why the Thorn Birds was so popular in Charleston.

I wonder no more.

...for all of you I may have made deaf when I exploded with laughter at this news.

...then here's two things to do, Palin:

GO AWAY and SHUT UP.

Now FIX THE DAMN ECONOMY.

It's not precisely China, although China would rather people thought of it that way. It's an occupied "autonomous region," like Tibet but under tighter control.

Also a fairly sparsely populated region, very far from Beijing.

No argument this time. I agree with all you say here.

I'm still pissed about "I Am Not Neda" though.

In a sea of napalm, forever. LBJ was there to welcome him to the barbecue, as demonic dogs sodomize him while jerking hard on his ears. They walked in on the stretched, living, salted skin of Nixon's face.

If not for this man, I might know what it is to have a family. My father and over 58,000 other Americans and countless Vietnamese rest a mite easier now.

I do not care whether he was sorry. He should have been sorry. He should have been haunted. When you commit mass murder, what there is of your soul should be crushed by it. Fuck "good grace."

After a certain death and damage count, it's too late for forgiveness of any kind. Some things only God can forgive, and if there is one, I'd like to think he wouldn't. It's great that he was so honest about it, though. The words of the damned are good warnings. And future leaders will look at his damned face and think twice before taking a step toward being that. One hopes. But he's damned.

I don't know whether they do, but I do.

They were props, just like they've been from the start. She and Kate Gosselin seem to be in an insensitive-mom contest. Are you on crack or something nameless only Hunter S. Thompson did before?

Tell me. Does this fellow seem to care about his children, or spouse for that matter?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72ZO6w0rl6Y

No? Then tell me how this is different.

I know Salon wants to appear to be balanced but this is weak.