Don’t Cry For Me, South Carolina
There’s no crying in baseball.
Nor should there be any in politics.
Crying is reserved for fantasy sports, or stepping on the scale, or those times when we hear Madonna telling us not to cry for Argentina.
Anyway, S.C. Governor Mark Sanford has reportedly shed a single tear over his decision regarding federal “stimulus” funds.
From Newsweek:
In the halls of the State House, legislators accuse the governor of selling out the poorest South Carolinians to feed his own ambition; outside, his approval ratings have fallen to 40 percent. Asked how this makes him feel, Sanford pauses, then admits to experiencing the “occasional lonely moment.” But he still believes, he quickly adds, that there’s a “silent majority” of voters who support his stimulus stance; it’s just that they’re “too busy to make their voices heard.” Take the Democratic trial lawyer he “completely convinced” in Mt. Pleasant yesterday, or the “70 or so” people who “showed up last week to be counterprotesters to the protesters.” What about them? And what about the “black gentleman” this morning? “I was walking out of a local TV studio, and there he was,” says Sanford. “He’s a security guy for the building, one of these rent-a-cop kind of guys, older guy. And he walks over, and he grabs my arm, and he says, ‘You do what you think is right’.” Suddenly, Sanford stops. His eyes are red and wet. He lets out a quick, pained laugh, then looks up at the ceiling. “I’m gonna lose it here,” he says finally, turning toward his press secretary. “Got to get my head back in the game.” A single tear is running down his right cheek.
Uhhh …
Sanford also posed for some nice shots on the back of his pick-up truck … at least we think it’s his pick-up truck.
Comments
By GGIH on April 28th, 2009 at 11:43 am
He has tears for himself, suffering for his principles, but none for the tens of thousands of South Carolinians who are losing their jobs and homes. Cry me a river.
By Pat Hendrix on April 28th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
“too busy to make their voices heard.”
Ah, finally. After years of being an out of touch, rich dude that was generally a pretty decent person down deep, we finally get the “anybody who disagrees is on welfare” insinuation. Then he sniffles and snorts that an unknown, presumably unpolled majority, is really in his corner. Yeah, he talked to a lawyer in Mt. P. that agreed. What other proof do you need?
By Right on April 28th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Then there’s the lifetime of privation — this plantation-raised Furman graduate who attended a tony out-of-state graduate school had to sleep on the floor of his parents’ room, for God’s sake! Why can’t everybody else just overcome their disadvantages like he did?
And the Rotary Club of Fort Mill is “left-leaning” and “education-heavy.” Too bad he wasn’t speaking to a generally conservative group of normal people who run their own businesses. Oh, wait.
By GGIH on April 28th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
The Newsweek piece was a public relations disaster. Glad I’m not Joel Sawyer.