Rep Sanford: "People feel like, if potus can say anything to anybody at any time, then I can, too."

[kpete]

"People feel like, if the President of the United States can say anything to anybody at any time, then I guess I can, too."

Link to tweet

[Greywing]

1. Sanford has been sounding like a reasonable politician the past couple of days

Of course it's his voting record in Congress that really matters. I've wondered if he's trying to set himself up for a presidential run?

[niyad]

3. this is mark "hiking the appalachian trail" sanford, right? the mind reels.

[Greywing]

6. Yes, it is ... Stranger things have happened in the past few years

[marylandblue]

2. He'll never run for President becauae of his past mistakes

But I did read an interesting interview with him where he said he has learned from mistakes, salvaged his.political career and now just tells the truth no matter ehat. Refreshing from a Republican.

[niyad]

4. apparently, infidelity and corruption and sexual predation are okay if one is a puke.

[brush]

5. Isn't he the one who ran off with his mistress?

Said he was hiking on the Appalachian Trail.

[GoCubsGo]

8. Yes.

[GoCubsGo]

7. No, Mr. Luv Guv, it's not "weirdness."

It's your own party's chickens coming home to roost. You and your ilk stood silent when your party's presidential candidate fomented that behavior. Now you are shocked over it? Go fuck yourself.

[Orsino]

9. That's how Trump won, talking like that.

It's empowering to the allegedly-oppressed white working-class male, who sees a rich man telling him that his worst impulses are a-okay, and that very soon he'll be able to indulge them just like his hero.

The rube is largely wrong, as law enforcement may still pick him up as a non-rich offender...but more and more we see them trying out their Trump wings.

[leftstreet]

11. Well, he didn't really 'win'

He lost the popular vote, but got the stupid electoral vote

But you're right he motivated a large segment of people who may not have voted otherwise

[renate]

10. I feel bad for laughing at him through all that Appalachian Trail business

I take it back. Well, he cheated on his wife, so I don't take it all back, but I take back the stuff I thought about how it's okay if you're a Republican; he's not like most other Republicans these days.

[matt819]

12. That's all well and good

But we need stronger language from the right.

Sure, it's total weirdness. No doubt. But you have to condemn the things that 45 says and does. You have to condemn in no uncertain terms Gianforte's attack on Jacobs. You have to condemn this administration's fantastically cruel budget, a budget the contradicts just about everything the president said when he was running for president. It's time, folks on the right, to speak up, and not in mealy-mouth weasel words. You're either on the right side of history, or you're in full support of fascism, autocracy, and totalitarianism. To paraphrase 43, if you're with 45, you're against America, against honesty and ethics, against civility and decency, against the poor and working class (often one and the same), you're for violence, racism, sexism, misogyny. You get the idea. Speak out now, or your support for 45 and the same it brought on you and America will be the opening line of your eventual obituary, overriding any good you might have done in your lives.