Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Why Liberals Should Thank South Carolina

South Carolina just elected Mark Sanford to Congress; A guy who got caught cheating on his wife and using taxpayer money to visit his mistress because you know… 

Republicans are the party of strong Family Values and Fiscal Responsibility. 

This is actually a HUGE win for liberals across the country, and I’ll explain why:

Mark Sanford is going to be the poster child for GOP Hypocrisy in 2014. If you look at the way Republicans across the country seem to run their campaigns not against their opponents, but instead against Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama – turnabout would be fair play. How can Republicans ever complain about sexual transgressions ever again? How are we as a nation not supposed to laugh in your face when you mention the cost of Barack Obama’s trips now? They just elected a man who was drummed out of office for ethics violations while using taxpayer money to disappear for days while leaving the country to cheat on his wife with his Argentinian mistress. Need to go deeper into the hypocritical rabbit hole? Sanford voted to impeach President Clinton for lying about his alleged affair.

But… Mark Sanford had this to say in regards to lying about an affair:

“The issue of lying is probably the biggest harm, if you will, to the system of Democratic government, representative government, because it undermines trust. And if you undermine trust in our system, you undermine everything.”

Maybe it’s time for him to apologize to Bill Clinton and LGBT couples everywhere for his views on the institution of marriage.

So thank you, South Carolina. It’s typically very tough to frame such a strong argument against your entire party, and your entire platform in one easy-to-understand symbol. The only thing that could have made it better is if Sanford forced his wife and mistress to get abortions. Wait… Am I getting my hypocritical Republican politicians mixed up?

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