Flap over SC governor’s whereabouts driven by politics

Updated on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 10:05AM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Updated on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 5:40PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

SC governor Mark Sanford (R) is chair of the Republican Governors Association. I'd vote for him if I could.Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) apparently decided to take a few days away from the office and politicos are crawling out of corners much like termites fleeing insecticide-treated wood. Sanford’s wife told the Associated Press her husband needed some space to work on something he was writing. For neoliberal Democrats and Republicans, Sanford is a favorite target. He came under heavy political fire for refusing to take federal stimulus money. Only when the SC Supreme Court handed down a take-the-money mandate did he yield. Sidenote: Was the court’s decision overruling the top elected executive in the state legal? Not that ‘legal’ really matters to most state and federal politicians anymore.

In the Palmetto State, an area I am intimately familiar with, politicos from both parties (past and present) wailed and roared. How dare he? What if an emergency had arisen?

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As GOP tangles within, RGA has winning platform with focus on core values

TGov. Mark Sanford (S.C.) is one of the few governors smart enough to realize federal stimulus funds amounted to "Greeks bearing gifts."he “Gallant Old Party” may be bickering within, but the Republican Governors Association quietly came up with a platform that is true to party roots, one that doesn’t aim to recreate the United States as a nanny. To be perfectly accurate, the most obese nanny in the history of the world. The Tax Day “Tea Party” Protests were completely misunderstood by pomp media, the political class, President Barack Obama and the Democratic members of the biggest spending Congress in the history of the country. But the RGA got what protesters were saying, and the organization has scheduled a townhall by telephone for Thursday, May 14 at 8:30 p.m.

I realize my opening paragraph sounds like I’m advocating for Republican governors like Mark Sanford (S.C.), Bobby Jindal (La.), Rick Perry (Tex.) and Haley Barbour (Miss). I am advocating for these governors because they get what the country needs. Here’s a statement that sums up a true conservative platform: “[T]axes are too high, our federal government is too big, and our states' rights are being trampled upon.” Within that statement is the spirit of the US Constitution many senators and representatives in Washington seem to have forgotten. The constitution limits the power of the federal government. Yet many in Washington today seem hell bent on expanding it even more. And some of the expenses are completely insane.

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