I thought I'd heard he had died. I guess it was just his brain. Not that anyone would notice that.

It's not even news. Anyone with two eyes and a working brain could see right through Palin from day one. She was never qualified, and never will be. Not that being incapable or narcissistic ever hurt a Republican candidate's chances with "the base".

Oh... and to the dry drunk with the liberal abortion inanity: I'm a filthy commie and I didn't abort my children. In fact, I raised them to be good little commies like their father.

This crap out of the tin hat birthers here is so nonsensical that I, too, am becoming convinced that the posts are coming from laughing copy editors deep in the bowels of Salon.com Central, doing their best to build up page view counts.

NOBODY is as insane as stinky and heavenstomurgatroid and still NOT committed.

Honestly... I've run into blithering, pants wetting, street winos on lower Burnside who had a more coherent attachment to reality than these poor, sad mental cases.

@Atlgymguy

You want Sanford to "just go away?" Then, how about if Spitzer, Clinton and Blogojavich just "go away, too?" That would suit a lot of us just fine. See, Dems do it, too!

Can't get news where you are, buddy?

Just to bring you up to speed.... Clinton has been out of office eight and half years, Spitzer was immediately forced out, as was Blogo.

you're welcome

It would be interesting to know what the average government employee pays for health insurance, also.

For single plus one (myself and my spouse), per month, I pay $966.88, of which $109.40 comes directly out of my pocket, and $857.48 of which is paid for me in lieu of wages. (these figures don't include the $5 copay that I pay for everything). This is Kaiser Permanente coverage in the Pacific northwest.

I am ACTUALLY "paying" ALL of this amount, since the cost of my "benefit" is part of my compensation. Were the vast educational bureaucracy, in the belly of which I labor, to be freed of the obligation to contribute this portion of my employment costs, I would fully expect to receive the amount they are NOW putting into medical insurance for me as WAGES. They don't "give" me ANYTHING... I EARN it all. My actual "wages" are about 75% of what I would be compensated (and have been) in the "real world", outside, thus my "benefit" package.

IF single payer can beat or even match this, I would GLADLY transfer my coverage to "government run" health care insurance.

While I get very good care from Kaiser for things like my open heart surgery two years ago, there are LONG waits to see the doctor for routine high blood pressure care (for example), or to get into the dentist. A herniated disc took 18 months to diagnose, and then I just got a dose of dope and physical therapy for it. Thankfully, there were exercises that have controlled that, but it still took a LONG time to diagnose, with many long waits between appointments with specialists. So, yes, even paying nearly $12,000 a year for coverage, I am "rationed".

Hope that helps the discussion

... to save them.

Yeah.... we've heard this before.

Yeah, the guy cheated on his wife. Last time I heard, that's not a crime in any jurisdiction in America.

Yeah, he didn't tell anyone where he was going. Does the governor (more than anyone else) have to tell everyone where he's headed? Did he have no vacation time accrued? Was`there an urgent matter that HAD to be dealt with? Does a public official have NO individual rights?

We need to stop putting politicians on some holier-than-thou pedestal that somehow raises them above everyone else.

1. Adultery IS illegal in SC. - even if the law is rarely, if ever, enforced. $500 fine, year in jail.

2. When you run for a high public office, you accept that you will be responsible for everything the position you're seeking entails. Sure, you can go on vacation, but you can't simply run away and disappear from the responsibilities that YOU seek to take on, whenever you please. Whether an "urgent matter" came up or not during this disappearance has no bearing. It's the abdication of responsibility to either a) be reachable, or b) pass off YOUR authority and responsibilities to the lt. gov. WHILE you're "disappeared" that is the issue.

3. Sanford put HIMSELF on a "holier-than-thou pedestal". His entire career and positions on many, many things - like MANY sanctimonious, so called "conservatives" - was based on his supposed religion based "moral superiority". No body cares if the atheist plumber fixing your pipes is cheating on his wife. When you run for office and then use that office to beat up on "morally inferior" people, well then schadenfreude is certainly the least you can expect from those whom you've excoriated for the very same behavior.

He should have died long ago at the end of a rope.

Or at least forgotten in a dank, dark prison cell.

Hell gained another resident today.

@underanothername.... Bible Spice isn't any more respected or "welcome" on the West Coast than she would be on the other side of the continent. Most of us westerners saw right through her act from the very beginning.