DeMint Not Ready to Force Sanford to Resign

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Sometimes I think there's hope for places like South Carolina, and sometimes...
My goodness, Rachel. It's OK to pull people over for DWH (Driving While Hispanic) because some Hispanics are here illegally?
I'd love to see the shoe on the other foot -
"What's the problem, officer? I wasn't speeding or anything."
"Well, Miss 'Rachel', if that really is your name, you were going three miles an hour over the limit. Between you and me, though, we did some checking and 75% of crimes in our town are committed by white people, so we're pulling over every white person we don't recognize as a precaution. Now get out of the car, put your hands on the hood, and spread your feet while my partner pats you down. It's OK if I search your car and your purse, isn't it?"
Sound like fun?

jimatmadison of WI 10:07PM June 29, 2009

Maybe you need to worry more about the people of this state and what they think, Demint, rather than you're ideaology. you can be canned too. Call a spade a spade, quit being a hypocrite, and holier than thou. Your buddy has done NOTHING in 8 yrs but make excuses, he's no leader, no uniter. people are sick of it!
He's embarrassed our state, has no economic plan, no vision for this state, only excuses, and time to run around for his won selfish reasons. It's all about him, and his "maverick" BS image and all the hyperbole and no substance.
The gop needs to quit protecting the flag of a defunct nation, raise the tobacco tax, care about public education and actually set foot in the schools (unlike your buddy), have an economic plan and get this state moving or you'll continue to lose support while you implode.

ajk of SC 10:48PM June 28, 2009

Yes Mark Sanford was caught cheating. He is only human and like so many politicians, Democrats and Republicans thinks he can get away with anything. I have always been a supporter of Mark Sanford. What he was trying to do with the stimulus money to pay down our state debt made sense. I am unemployed by the way. How will we pay for all of these things when the stimulus money is gone? South Carolia has had Democratic govenors before and our education system has always been bad. Remember Dick Riley? And about the Hispanics being stopped by law enforcement, if they would buy insurance, get drivers license and pay taxes like the blacks and whites do, then they would not have a problem.
I did not like what Govenor Sanford did to his family. The people of SC our secondary to that. I think he can still govern. He only has a year left. Then he can fly off to Argentina.
Jenny Sanford is a remarkable woman. She has grace and dignity and did not lie about her husbands whearabouts. She did have a pretty good idea where he was. Thank goodness she did not stand by his side at the press conference. Good for her she is not concerned with his career! Maybe she should take over for as govenor of SC,

Rachel of SC 9:35AM June 28, 2009

Take a message Maria
Address it to my wife
Say I won't be coming home
Gotta start a new life
He said he was walking the Appalachian Trail, but he meant he was stalking Argentinean tail.
What does DeMint mean in the article when he says "that it's not the people that I'm here to support, it's the principles". Maybe he needs to resign also!
What kind of people are running SC? Mr. Holier than Thou, Lindsay Graham wants everyone to be the most conservative Bible carrier and he supports Sanford???? Give me a break. Wake up people of SC, you're poor, in need of good schools, have high unemployment, you don't need to vote republican anymore!

Candy Cole of TN 8:16AM June 28, 2009

When these guys get into circle-the-wagons mode you have to wonder what's really going on. Who's covering whose what? And why?
Jim DeMint, like John Ensign, Sam Brownback,and a number of others, is resident of the C Street Fellowship house that Governor Sanford referred to in his first rambling apology presser.
C Street was founded by Abraham Vereide after God appeared to him in "a vision" in 1935 and revealed where Christianity had gone wrong: they had been preoccupied with the poor and the needy.
C Street's mission is to correct that, and to help those with power obtain more so that they can bring about God's Kingdom. They openly admire the methods of Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, and Mao as models of effective power consolidation.
Christian groups generally want to share their beliefs with everyone so as to spread Christ's message. It's pretty obvious why this nominally "Christian" organization is so secretive.
This is a very frightening group, and there's far, far more going on under the surface than we're being told.

jimatmadison of WI 8:40AM June 27, 2009

well he had a good time in Argentine, why not come back and have a good time with the woman who had his FOUR SONS, absent for FATHER'S DAY, I would thank he would want to have a good, after living it up, at TAX PAYING EXPENSE, that creep, stealing poor tax payers money, for a foreign woman, while wife lied to the public
SANFORD NEED TO GO, RESIGN, WE DON'T NEED STEALERS, HE REFUSING THE MONEY TO HELP UNEMPLOY, PEOPLE LOSING THEIR HOME, CANNOT PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE, AND HE GOT THE NERVE TO FLY CROSS TO ARGENTINE, TO PROVIDE FOR ANOTHER WOMAN WITH TAX PAYER MONEY
MAKE HIM SANFORD RESIGN, SO WE CAN GET ON WITH OUR BUSINESS

wangordon of TX 8:58PM June 26, 2009

a hispanic can't drive thru s. carolina without being pulled over and harrassed by police, they don't like hispanic men but they don't mind hispanic women, how about that ----

a. garcia of TX 7:38PM June 26, 2009

If I spent state money on a boondoggle and than was caught later on it, I would be fired and put in jail and have to pay the state back with a penalty. This is exactly what Sanford did. He says oops I got caught, so I will just pay the state back and everything will be hunky dorky.

rosie of FL 5:57PM June 26, 2009

So, disrupt 'em, already!

Muser of NM 5:30PM June 26, 2009

Funny, none of these Republicans had a problem with voting to impeach Clinton and have an investigation that was detrimental to the US and our government. I guess now that the shoe is on the other foot, they have a change of heart.
One can not say HYPOCRITES fast enough or loud enough! The Republican Party is the party of immorality and non-family morals.

Tree Hugger of CO 2:16PM June 26, 2009