Scoop: Sanford Calls Out Veteran GOP Consultant
TOMPKINS TAGGED A “RINO” BY S.C. REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR
FITSNews - April 3, 2008 - Republican Gov. Mark Sanford has singled out veteran GOP consultant Warren Tompkins as a “Republican In Name Only” and a “problem” for conservative Republicans, the website Palmetto Scoop is reporting today. The quotes apparently come from an article in Human Events, which is slightly to the right of Hammurabi, or Ghengis Khan.
” … the bottom line in South Carolina is we absolutely have Republican control, but we do not have a conservative working majority in our body politic,” [Sanford said …] “I guess some folks call folks like that ‘rinos’ [Republicans In Name Only], I don’t know what you call them, but the bottom line is a lot of folks with whom we’ve indeed had troubles have not been pushing conservative ideology.”
He specifically singled out Warren Tompkins, top political operative for the late Republican Gov. Carroll Campbell. Tompkins, according to Sanford, “long ago earned his stripes as a Republican. But Warren Tompkins these days makes his money as a lobbyist with issues before the state general assembly.”
Seeing as we agree completely with this criticism, we’d really like to give Sanford some props for his comments. Unfortunately, we can’t see our computer monitor due to the glare coming off of his checkered shirt.
Comments
By Rob W. on April 4th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Science related sidenote: Sanford’s shirt looks like that on a computer because of the Moiré effect, which comes about when you have two patterns (i.e. the pixels on your computer screen and the lines on his shirt) that interact to make a third, unintended pattern. You can look it up on Wikipedia, but here’s a fun demonstration:
http://www.mathematik.com/Moire/
By FITNA on April 4th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Willie, this family photo is ALMOST as bad as the one we have from our first trip to Edisto — the one with no sunshine, muck everywhere due to Hurricane Andrew; my daughter’s salt-water-moistened diaper and the gel it was made from [circa 20 years ago] swelled up bigger than Jake Knotts head; my son disturbingly enjoying biting a guppy in half; and my husband with the ‘I never signed on for this when I married you’ look.
By calhounf fawls on April 5th, 2008 at 5:22 am
Yeah, but Jenny Sanford is a MILF in that tank top.
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