Don't Cry for Me, South Carolina.

Alternative Title for this post : NO POTUS FOR YOU!

Here's the deal with the disappearing governor: The affair is not lethal...the jaunt to Argentina is. Sanford would have survived the admission of an affair with a short "I'm sorry. I messed up. I am working on my marriage. I'm human."

The unannounced trip to the Argentine by a sitting Governor is as bizarre as it comes in the annals of American political history. If he wanted to be President THE TRIP makes it next to impossible. Everything about it screams: unstable! He says he drove along the coast to clear his head. Dude, South Carolina has a lovely coast. Disappearing to Argentina is what on the lamb Nazis and middle aged Jimmy Buffet pot heads with tax bills do.

Having said that - People who concern themselves with the health of the GOP ought to tell the Republicans to kick the social conservatives to the curb now. Dump them. Show 'em the exits. Place a big neon sign over GOP national headquarters saying: YOUR PRIVATE LIFE IS PRIVATE. UNLESS YOUR PRIVATE LIVE INTERFERES WITH YOUR DUTIES OR IS ILLEGAL WE DON'T CARE.

Fiscal conservatism needs a real home - a home not cluttered with the Judgement is Mine! bobble heads. I would not join up - but millions would. And I'd give any Republican candidate more than a fair shake if it was clear that once elected my bedroom wouldn't be invaded. That sexual orientation would not be used as a punching bag. That families - all families - would be respected and supported, not just the ones who look like a 50s sitcom shot in Stepford, Connecticut. That's the lie. That ideal families actually look like that. Ideal families do not exist. Happy families do - and they are composed of humans who live human lives. There is an opening on the libertarian side of the American psyche right now - that apparently the libertarians are not going to exploit.

Just some free advice from the Left...the GOP won elections before 1980 when the R.R. let in the Evangelical brigades...it is time to kick 'em back out...

At any rate, Sanford gets a pass from me on the affair. Lying about it is a problem but not unexpected.. Skipping South Carolina and heading to Argentina for 5 days...sorry dude...that, Mr. Sanford, is bad judgement on a big - and weird - scale. No POTUS for you.


*Note - on listening to this song again it occurs to be that it works for BHO rather well. His final plea to the last remaining Obama pods just before he's shown the door in November of 2012?