I hope it's ok that I don't give a shit where the gov of South Carolina or Idaho or Iowa

[RB TexLa]

is. And that I really don't care if an adult didn't tell people that they were going somewhere

[Oregone]

1. I condemn anyone who doesn't constantly Twitter me their every action

As long as I don't have to read over 140 characters about it, that is

[BlooInBloo]

2. (shrug) I care about elected officials abdicating their responsibilities for personal indulgence.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. To me it is funny...

and source of material for fiction... I mean he actually ditched his security detail... that has a John Grisham aspect to it.

[babylonsister]

5. As I type, someone is writing a book. This is 'gold'! nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. indeed, change a thing here a thing there to protect the guilty

and walla,

And I am sure somebody is pounding a script too

[RB TexLa]

6. He doesn't have to "ditch" them. He can order them to go away from him.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. I've had the honor of working around the fine folks of a presidential

detail.

Trust me, they don't listen to that order

When they lose their packet they also get VERY antsy...

Oh one ended up on pet detail.

But that is a story for another day.

[RB TexLa]

10. Oh damn, I missed him being elected president?

When did that happen????



:)

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. You think the Governor's security detail takes their job less seriously

No they don't

This is a VIP, a packet, they need to protect... after all we peasants might try to do some damage to them. Never mind that has happened historically, but no, they are not less serious about it than the SS. He plain out ditched them.

[RB TexLa]

25. Didn't say anything about how they treat their job. But governors are not required to accept their

provided protection. The people working that job do obey the law. The only two people who can't refuse protection are the President and the Vice-President while they are in office.


Hey, maybe he did "ditch" them, but he could have just as easily ordered them away.

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. The President and VEEP actually are not required by law either

it is tradition. I might add also a symbol of empire

But he ditched them. I am betting on it.

Not that they'd ever admit to it, pet detail and all that, but that is another story.

[saltpoint]

4. But most adults aren't governors.

Governors are supposed to, you know, do governing stuff.

[RB TexLa]

9. Show me in any state's constitution any requirement of a governor to work any amount of time.

Or for them to be at any place other than inside of the state for x number of continuous days to remain in their office.

[saltpoint]

11. Show me a husband who takes off for several days running without

telling his wife, or his kids, or the residents of his state, and I'll show you somebody who's either flgrantly irresponsible or utterly stupid, or both.

[RB TexLa]

12. My wife and I don't always tell each other before we are going somewhere

The spouse part is what I think really isn't a big deal.

[dave29]

13. for a week?

Really?

How many kids do you have?

[RB TexLa]

14. None

[saltpoint]

15. Good luck with that project in every household where it very certainly

IS a big deal.

Governors govern. When they take off without telling anybody where they're going or why, it undermines their authority as public servants.

Cleveland. Throat cancer. Secret operation so as not to alarm the populace.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

18. For four days?

When you have four young children, and you disappear over Father's Day weekend?

When you're a politician, and that holiday is a true photo op?

Really? You can split on each other for four days, and not think that's unusual? Not tell where you're going, no phone calls, nothing?

You have a very unusual relationship, at least in my world. Even the police call it a "missing person" after twenty-four hours.........

[Tangerine LaBamba]

17. Happy Summer to you, too,

good person.

The upside of this Sanford disappearance - is there a downside? - is that any Presidential aspirations he might have had are now nothing but fantasy, and will remain so.

(Did you say "Elvis's Cockring"?)

And Rush moves up even higher in the GOPig hierarchy.....................

[saltpoint]

19. And there's Rush now. EXCELLENT graphic. It's Rush's best side, definitely.

Agree with you on Sanford's presidential hopes. Maybe not statistically out of the question but increasingly discouraging.

I think of deep Dixie there in South Carolina and am remembered to Petigru's quotation about the state -- that it was too small to actually BE a state and a bit too large to be a mental asylum.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

22. Two words:

Strom Thurmond..................

[saltpoint]

24. LOL! Laughing and gasping.

Strom Thurmond.

Good lord.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

28. Yep,

one of South Carolina's finest, hmmmm?

How quickly we forget ........................

[Mojambo]

21. Like calling out the National Guard in the event of a disaster.

For this guy to just up and disappear without making any arrangements or telling anyone is just CRAZY incompetence.

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. And he wants to be POTUS.

[Horse with no Name]

26. Exactly. Irresponsible.

He could have been kidnapped.
I wouldn't want to live in the public eye for the very reason that I treasure my privacy.
But the fucking Governor should NEVER just disappear without making arrangements. That is foolish and irresponsible.
Not asking for a Press Conference, but SOMEONE should know his whereabouts in case there was a natural or manmade disaster.

[Gold Metal Flake]

16. Oh, you are just so precious!

Yes you are!


Yes you are!

[rocktivity]

29. I wouldn't give a shit, either--except that his job is giving a shit about South Carolina

If Sandford didn't want his family to know where he was, I guess that's his personal business. But if he needed to temporarily shed his duties, he should have officially left the deputy governor in charge. Ditching his security detail this day and age and making up a story about hiking is irresponsible and inexcusable.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[Greyhound]

30. No it's not OK, you are not being distracted by today's shiny object!

Next you'll be noticing things better left unnoticed and then you'll be calling attention to them and then how are we supposed to get on with our business?

Why do you hate America?

Bad RB! Now go watch some TeeVee, and don't come back until you can tell us which housewife is winning.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

31. Maybe he went to talk to Judge Crater.

Judge Crater disappeared in 1930.

Never found.