Shameful: Sanford ruins his career, embarrases conservatives everywhere
June 24th, 2009 by Rightwing Czar at 4:13 pmGov. Sanford’s recent admission of an affair he was having in Argentina is absolutely shameful. Let’s be clear: extramaritial affairs are absolutely dispicable and completely unexcusable. It was true for John Edwards as a Democrat and it’s true for Mark Sanford as a Republican.
Sanford wasn’t just a leaderand rising star of the Republican party. He appeared to be an authentic embodiment of conservative principles. We all know the now-famous story of Sanford protesting wild spending by bringing a couple of pigs into the State House.
Democrats are going to use this opportunity to remind everyone how Republicans are a bunch of hypocrites, and there isn’t much use trying to fight it. Unlike Democrats, we on the Right go to great lengths stand for a particular set of moral values. We make the road harder for ourselves because we engage in unflinching rhetoric about right and wrong and it is impossible for anyone to live up to the standards we set for ourselves.
But we know we’re going to mess up, we just don’t use it as an excuse to dillute our values and blur the lines between what’s right and wrong.
It’s a sad thing to see someone like Sanford go down in flames like this. He had a great career ahead of him and he threw it away for something I’m sure he now doubts was worth it.
All of our thoughts and prayers right now should go toward Gov. Sanford, and espcially his wife. It is hard enough to deal with the pain and grief of an affair, but to do it under the public’s eye is unthinkable. And while many will rightly say that Sanford deserves to go through the public humiliation that he is – his wife, Jenny, does not.
Here’s looking to 2012, when this mess will be behind us and we’ll have one less candidate to represent our party.