Echo Chamber – God’s Army Wants Sanford For President

SECRETIVE SOCIETY WANTS S.C. GOVERNOR TO CAMPAIGN FOR NATION’S HIGHEST OFFICE

FITSNews – February 25, 2007 – The New York Times is reporting this morning that a secretive society of arch-conservatives tried to get S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford to run for president earlier this month (apparently Pat Robertson was unavailable).

The super scary conservative Council for National Policy, whose members are slightly to the right of Attila The Hun and Jesus himself, apparently held a super secret conclave in Sanford’s native Florida this month to pitch the recently-reelected S.C. governor.

Sanford’s office declined comment, because like Fight Club the first rule of the Council for National Policy is you don’t talk about the Council for National Policy. And the second rule of the Council for National Policy is you don’t talk about the Council for National Policy.

It’s odd that a group whose members include such rabid false prophets social conservatives as Jerry Falwell and James Dobson would even look twice at Sanford, who has at best played lip service to social conservative issues, at worst completely ignored them during his political career.

Sanford’s bread and butter has always been fiscal conservatism. Or at least the glorification of it via expertly-themed public relations stunts.

Because stunts are pretty much as far as he’s been able to take it.

While New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (like Sanford, elected in 2002) has succeeded in cutting that state’s top income tax rate from 8.2% to 4.9% over five years, Sanford is currently begging House Speaker Bobby Harrell to agree to a 7% to 6.5% reduction over three years, which would be his first individual income tax cut.

7% to 6.5% over three years? Seriously, does that even count as tax relief?

At that rate, the complete elimination of South Carolina’s income tax that Sanford first proposed six years ago would take 42 years to pull off. Which is a long time. Especially if you are counting in dog years.

But who’s counting if it looks good on TV, right?

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