I think one thing I have noticed in the past five years is that Democrats and Republicans tend to elevate politicians to such a level that there is no accountability.

Um, no.

I say this as a liberal, but it applies across the board.

No one elevates a politician to godhood status except the people who have a vested interest in seeing him fall. That means you, Erick, you and the rest of the punditocracy, and I’ll even throw in dKos and Americablog, both of whom were so in Obama’s pocket they could pick lint. You folks and the MSM pump up politicians of both stripes, and that makes them easy targets for the other side to pierce.

We the people either act like sheeple, bleating your words back to you, or we sit back and wonder where the next scandal comes from.

With Sanford, for example, instead of factually reporting his refusal of stimulus funding (a small portion, as it turns out), you basically set in motion his downfall by cheering him on, and touting him as the next candidate for the office.

The Democrats no doubt heard the rumours of his affairs, and set about making sure someone in his hometown paper got the story. And everyone on the left laughs, and everyone on the right looks for the next Democrat to similarly take down.

Most of us, right and left, would love to see politicians get the heck back to legislating, instead of “proving” their moral correctness only to fail miserably. Maybe we ought to take a lesson from the French and just assume every politico is sleeping with someone and grow the heck up already about it.

These are politicians, dammit, and they are corrupt by definition! You can’t win an election without money and you can’t get money AND serve the people without someone getting the short end of the stick.

And power, power is what they crave. The best hope we the people have is to come in second to their self-interest, mostly because we the people cannot possibly hope to match the amount of largess corporate America can smear on elections.

The more I read the lyrics, the more they seem to apply to Erick.
I’m after rebellion, I’ll settle for lies.

The left is linking to this post to laugh at it.

Damn straight!

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Sorry, Eric – we can’t hear what you’re trying to say over the sound of how fucking stupid you are. Want us to stop laughing? Take off the fright-wig & the red ball on your nose, dude – it might just work.

It probably doesn’t help much when you use “strikethrough” on the entire fucking post when you update it, Bunky … if you’re going to sit in the little chair & strap yourself in directly over the dunk-tank, baaaawing when someone pays their money & hits the bullseye is bad form. So is emo tripe like “You don’t get to judge us” when it’s coming from the very same crowd that was shitting itself raw over Obama’s favorite brand of iced-tea or his enjoyment of fucking arugula this time last year.

Odd how all it seems to take is the shoe changing feet, & suddenly it goes from a menace to the health of the state to a mere dalliance with no real signifigance – which just makes it more LOLworthy than ever!

In fairness, it must be noted that Eric The Dim’s commenters don’t seem to be either disappointed OR angry at HIM for being such a blatant shill … nasty as it may be to say, they truly do deserve each other.

* Sanford did tell his staff and family where he was going..
* Again though, at all times there was no doubt that Sanford’s staff and family knew where he was.

jenny stanford:
“This trial separation was agreed to with the goal of ultimately strengthening our marriage. During this short separation it was agreed that Mark would not contact us. I kept this separation quiet out of respect of his public office and reputation, and in hopes of keeping our children from just this type of public exposure. Because of this separation, I did not know where he was in the past week.“

Only if you feel guilt about masturbating.

Oh, you weren’t talking about that?

That’s as long as his wife can tolerate the stench/flab/uncontrollable sobbing.

DONTREADONME Wednesday, June 24th at 9:55PM EDT (link)

Is 5 minutes of lust worth the lifetime of guilt? Anytime you consider infidelity think about that, is five minutes of lust (sex) worth the guilt you will feel when you go home and look at your beautiful wife and family? I know the guilt my soul would feel for that betrayal, and I know that I am weak and possibly unable to forgive my wife is she should so betray me.

Which is funnier, knowing that he probably initially typed 2 minutes or that he felt he should inform his fellows that lust = sex?

Bad news. That’s not egg-white.

Basically copypasta from the strikeout post.

Erick, you’re showing your hand. The last two paragraphs are pretty blatantly admitting that you are using religion and the true believers in order to advance your political agenda. Sure, they aren’t the most incisive lot, hell if they’re reading Red State for purposes other than lulz, they must be pretty fucking slow – but seriously, “On the bright side, I doubt his indiscretions will affect the FisCon movement.” Really? That’s your takeaway for your God-fearing righteous army of followers?

P.S. The statment “I am disappointed in Sanford, but not angry.” looks really funny following a post titled DIAF Mark Sanford. I appreciate that it’s a group blog – but really?

“Democrats have affairs too! See?!?”

Posted by E Pluribus Unum (Profile)
Sunday, June 21st at 4:35PM EDT

…But all in good time, my friends. This is not, and can never be, simply the red team against the blue team.

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Title of the post? BWAhahahhawhHAHAHA…. HJAHAHAH…. okay, I’ve caught my breath.

Conservatives and Integrity

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HAHHAHAH.

Conservatives and Integrity, and never the twain shall meet, boyo.