Mark Sanford decisively defeated Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in the South Carolina Congressional District 1 election: 54/45%. He won a majority in each of the five counties. Sanford won by largely by nationalizing the election. At one point he staged a mock debate with a cardboard cutout of Nancy Pelosi. That worked pretty well in a district that Mitt Romney carried by 20 points.
As I would like the Republicans to retain the House of Representatives, I can't be too disappointed with this turn of events. I can be a little disappointed. Sanford achieved national fame by disappearing for six days while he was governor. It turned out he had jetted on public money to join an Argentine woman who was not the wife he had.
It does seem to me that there is something wrong when a public figure can win office after that kind of disgrace. I am guessing that a lot of Democrats would agree, but only because Sanford was guilty of SWR, which is to say, Sinning While Republican. They seem to think that Sanford was somehow worse that Bill Clinton because the former charged the public for his plane fare. How soon we forget that Bill used the Arkansas State Police to solicit babes for him. They weren't exactly acting pro bono.
The left undermined a lot when it circled the wagons around Bill Clinton, not the least of which was Bill Clinton. If Daschle had managed to lay down the law when the first bimbo eruption occurred during the campaign, Clinton might not have wasted so much of his presidency trying to weasel out of his many indiscretions. I am sorry to see Republicans doing the same thing in SC 1. Of course, they netted that seat. Maybe that's the only thing we care about anymore.
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