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Sanford should step down – he can't be trusted to do what's best for the State
Step Down Sanford!.

is Sanford saying palin took the easy way out.

[...] South Carolina GOP votes to censure Gov. Mark Sanford.  Yeah.  THAT'LL learn him!  (Hey, maybe he LIKES being degraded and [...]

[...] "It's difficult to tell whether the resolution will influence the governor, who continues to re....'" [...]

Mark Sanford doesn't deserve my time for anything. I have better things to do

with the GOP voting this way, the dems are not gonna disagree

he will not do the classy thing, so vote him out SC reps

Why would any self respecting woman have an affair with this joke and why isnt his wife filing divorce papers? These people are disgusting in the GOP! They make my skin crawl! You know what the differance between libs and neocons is though? None of these scumbags are in any danger from liberals. After reading some of the doom and gloom stuff posted on here and other right wing sites i am truly frightened for our president. It has become downrite ugly and racist. He is such a great man and a good person for anyone to see and feel but some of you are just to stupid or blinded by rightwing hate speech to see it! If anything happens to him every member of the GOP should be sent out into the Pacific Ocean on barges and sank! It would be treason on a level never seen and the whole republican or rightwing extremist party should be held accountable by paying the ultimate price! I pray that nothing like that happens but after hearing the things shouted at Palin trailor trash rallies it wouldnt suprise me. Sick disturbed evil people and people like Palin and Limbaugh get them worked up just like the Nazis did!

Yawn! Nobody cares! Sanford is yesterday's news!

The GOP is just grandstanding and being pretentious. Sanford is just a distraction. He is just being used as a scapegoat by his own party's inability to lead or to form a coherent plan. The GOP is being ignored not because of their moral hypocrisy, but because they have no plans. Their 'alternate' budget proposal was a 16 page outline with no numbers. NO NUMBERS in a BUDGET proposal? Their 'alternate' health care plan was a 3 page outline, also lacking any cost estimates, and 80% of the points were lifted near verbatim from the Obama plan. When the GOP stops whining and start thinking, and come up with plans (you know, like, doing the JOB our taxpayer dollars are paying them for) then we will pay attention. Until then, they don't deserve to be heard!

That's right GOP, totally ignore the people of SC who overwhelmlingly want Sanford out. Your party is in it's final death throes anyway, congratulations on accelerating the process.

Once again the Republican Party fails to do what is right. The GOP might not think that running away with your mistress while abandoning your constituents and using their Tax Payer money on your sexcapades is bad enough, well they also don't think Sarah Palin quitting on her constituents after serving half her term ain't bad either.

The GOP is like an alcoholic, the first step is to admit you have a problem and sadly the Republican party is not there yet.

Grounded? How sad for the Governor !

The vote seems like a half-measure. If they go so fars as to censure but will not call for resignation, they should have done nothing at all. To me, that shows a lack of will on their part...

I doubt this will be posted because none of mine are

Sounds like he broke the rules at a country club and is going to get punished. Baaad boy! tsk tsk!! Really, the south needs to grow up and drop their puritanical, hypocritical judgements on everyone. The arrogance of most of the present Republican Party members is like looking back to the 1700's. Get with it.

Governor Sanford resists taking the "easy way out."
We seem to have two governors who cannot seem to discriminate between what is good for them, and the obligations they have accepted as a condition of their offices.
Sanford and Palin may have a lot in common. Beginning with DSM-IV Diagnostic Code: 301.81 – Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It is not just all about what is good for them.

Whoopty doo. That'll teach him a lesson. Boy is Sanford in the right state.

New York's governor was gone before you could say "Not on the taxpayers dime". What happened to South Carolina?

[...] it took them that many hours to give a slight rap on the knuckles to the governor for abandoning the state I will never know, [...]

Republican Sen. John Ensign
Republican Sen. Larry Craig
Republican Sen. David Vitter
Republican Rep. Mark Foley

Of course Republican Gov. Mark Sanford won't resign.

I beg to differ that resigning is "the easy way out." In his case, resigning is the right, decent and honorable thing for Sanford to do based upon the standard he established with regard to adultery...but I guess this standard only applies to democratic adulterers.

With this minor slap on the wrist, the governor gets to have his cake and eat it too. I have lost all respect for leadership in South Carolina.

South Carolina republicans are hypocrits. Dumb Gov. sanford called for Clinton to resign for something he did at his then residence. Now this jerk goes out of the country over fathers day weekend to visit his mistress. WOW, the party of the Family Values should recognize ~ actions speak way louder than their words.