39 trips for Sanford with no security in '09

[brooklynite]

Source: The State

Gov. Mark Sanford left the Governor’s Mansion without a security escort, 38 times in 2008. In the first six months of this year, he left the mansion without security, 39 times.

Those trips are about one-third of the 195 trips Sanford made from the mansion, with or without security, over that 18-month period.

The frequency with which the governor shed his security detail has fallen under scrutiny after his secret trip earlier this month to Argentina.


Read more: http://www.thestate.com/sanford/story/849446.html

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Sanford has to realize that every news outlet worth its salt is going to be going over his records with a fine tooth comb to locate anything juicy, and this is going to drag out for weeks.

[Berry Cool]

1. At the rate he's going, he'll keep supplying the juicy himself.

He seems to think that the more he "explains" about his feelings for Beautiful Maria Of My Soul, the better everyone will be able to understand and forgive him. Um, not so much.

[spooky3]

23. maybe it works with the white male wingnuts?

they're well known for having poetic souls.

[No Elephants]

33. Sure. Reminds them of when they fell collectively in love with Sarah Palin at first sight.

Bill Kristol is still in therapy over that one.

[spooky3]

41. LOL!

[Demeter]

2. He Went to the George "W" "Shrub" Bush School of Government Service, Evidently

[ixion]

3. well, 'w' is too much of a coward to travel w/o security

the fact that he felt the need to create a military zone around his neighborhood is case in point.

[MrModerate]

6. Well, wait a miniute. if you were W, would *you* travel without security?

He may be a fool, but he's no moron.

1) All ex-presidents are at some risk from crazies and 2) W is a notorious war criminal, and hence stirs up much more intense passions than Carter, Clinton, or Daddy ever did.

[Big Orange Jeff]

20. Shouldn't that be, "He may be a moron, but he's no fool"? :-)

It's hard to keep all of the applicable descriptors straight.

[MrModerate]

32. That's how I think we got it wrong for 8 years . . .

And by "we" I mean anyone who looked at GWBush and immediately suffered a bout of nausea.

He is, by reasonably reliable report, an OK-smart person. If you look at the debates he conducted during the Governor's race in 1998 or so, he's cogent (no shit!), able to speak a multi-clause sentence without swallowing his tongue, and even credible.

His actions as president, IMO, were driven by different deficiencies: lack of wisdom (foolishness), arrogance, pride, sociopathy, resentment, and an unhealthy dependence on the moral/macho certainty of others. He was simultaneously a complete tool and a chimp in a china shop.

And he may have begun some form of mental deterioration as the stress of the position began to wear him down, as it does with all presidents.

But I'm pretty sure he could complete the Houston Chronicle's daily Sudoku puzzle without too much difficulty.

[No Elephants]

36. Two thoughts:

A friend thinks Dummya, during his Presidency, was affected by a condition called dry drunk syndrome. That would explain a lot of things, including his trouble with words.

My son thinks the purpose of Bush's Presidency was to make certain rich people much richer. Viewed through that prism, he fulfiled his purpose beautifully.

[MrModerate]

38. Dry drunk, IMO, is just another form of stress disorder, so . . .

I'm in general agreement with your first thought.

And *of course* he was there expressly to enrich the already fabulously wealthy. They needed a key to unlock the lootable vaults and he was it. That's why his supporters groomed him for years.

[dothemath]

22. my take?

He is a fool AND a moran, and more, including scared shitless.
Hey, did I just spell republikkkan, or what?

[rocktivity]

4. No wonder he insisted on keeping these records "personal"

This guy is as gone as pet rocks, mood rings, and the macarena!


rocktivity

[GinaMaria]

5. Wow. this just keeps getting better

Keep talking guv. We can't get enough.

[zbdent]

7. "every news outlet worth its salt" ... pray tell ...

where are these? Are there any?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. Drag it out! Drag it out!

The more his hypocrisy stays in the news (and it will, because it is tabloid variety hypocrisy, which sells papers), the more people will perceive the GOP as the party of hypocrisy.

[catbyte]

9. Drip, drip, drip...lol! n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. This is better than any cheap romance novel. And it's free!

[hayu_lol]

13. For anyone fluent in Spanish...

here is your opportunity to contact all the newspapers and tabloids in BA, Argentina to see if they know how many entries and departures he was part of during his romantic travels. Ought to be really interesting to see who actually paid the bills for his travel.

[Christa]

11. Where in the world is Sanford?

He is sparking in South America

[boomerbust]

12. Wow

That must have been some fine poon, even for a morally superior man like Sanford.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. or poons....rememeber, he admitted to other women.

Wonder if his STD tests have come back????

[tblue37]

25. But he claims he never actually crossed the "sex line" with those

other women. In other words, he has said, "I did not have sex with those women!"

(I wonder if he wagged his finger while saying it.)

[No Elephants]

34. sexual relations. It was a defined term in the Paula Jones lawsuit and did not

include oral sex. Lawyers for both sides and the Judge had approved the definition.


(Have defended Bubba on that one on message board so many times, I can type that in my sleep.)

[tblue37]

42. I wasn't all that focused on Bubba--just on the ironic fact that this Republican

hypocrite who called for Clinton's resignation was essentially saying the same thing Clinton was so roundly condemned for.

[yellowcanine]

15. This, combined with the fact that he is refusing to release details of trips paid for by taxpayers

raises a lot of political - and legal - issues for the governor. Is there any doubt now that he has abused the public trust and thus should be impeached if he refuses to resign?

[Joanne98]

16. More proof that republicans are pathological liars!

[AlbertCat]

17. B-b-b-but I thought he was King David.

God loves him y'know....all is well....

[brooklynite]

21. ...who apparently had eight wives...

[abbeyco]

18. The "Lover-nator" -

gotta wonder what he was really up to? I just wonder when some of his other paramours will start coming forward.

After he rescinded the offer to open the records on his travel, methinks there's some backtracking going on.

I say he's out by mid-July!

[Javaman]

19. I'm waiting to hear that he's also a crack addict.

that's a lot of runs without security.

needing a fix mr. sanford?

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[Lerkfish]

26. well, he is officially getting more sex than me

I WISH I had sex 39 times thus far in 2009.
and I'm married -- (all the married men over 40 will commiserate with me, here)



(sorry to interject a little humor in this)

[Doctor_J]

27. amen brother

i should have married an argentine, i guess.

and humor is good

[Lerkfish]

30. LOL. well, I remember thinking as a single man...

"If I get married, I can have sex ANYTIME I WANT!"

ah, I was so delusional.

[Giant Robot]

28. So how often do governors go with/without security?

Honest question. How far off the norm is this? Or do they need security 24/7 like the POTUS?

[Lerkfish]

31. I think the answer would be how long do you think the security detail would stay employed

if they could not say where the governor was at any given time?

[UTUSN]

29. No wonder Cupid got so many arrows through to him!1 n/t

[No Elephants]

35. LOL

[SoCalDem]

37. Maria's trips might be interesting too. It would have been far easier for HER

to travel unnoticed, to meet him somewhere..

[AngryAmish]

39. He didn't even bring Grady along?

(and no, I will not stop this.)

[DebbieCDC]

40. 39???? Jeebus, this guy works about as much as der chimp did