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Mean_Ol_Liberal
11/29/09

In reply to Jenny Sanford's Six-Step Guide to Capitalizing on Disgraced Politican Pussyhound Husbands
Instead of being shocked or amused, I have to admit that this is the kind of cynical crap with which I've always associated the coastal (Atlantic and Gulf) South. Flaky, arrogant governors; tornado temper wives; a voting public ravenous for great gossip and not really giving a damn when it comes to electing such characters; and all of the dogs and ponies our eyes can feast upon - all served up with some civil sounding bon mots laced with dual meaning.

Then again, I've always marched to the beat of a different Yankee drummer.
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ampersandparade
12:21 AM

@Mean_Ol_Liberal: As someone born into Wallace's Alabama in the eighties who has watched nearly every state governor's administration implode in some catastrophic "oh my genteel heart, let us observe this to death while not learning anything from it" way, I think you've hit the nail on the head. This sort of crass crap is tailor made, but only for those willing to consume it. After having seen many of my home state's political leaders end up in the clink, and watched the nepotism that comes alongside electing social figures to higher office (bless her heart, she's wonderful, we have no idea what she actually stands for or believes), I would've thought the electorate would be at the point where substantive qualitative policy would decide their votes. Alas, if this had happened in Alabama, they might have already made her the new governor. The cycle continues forward.
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Mean_Ol_Liberal
12:20 PM

@ampersandparade: It sounds all so....old. As if this culture is far older than 400 years. Jaded, cynical, shrugs expressed about who is in government or market dominance because it just doesn't matter.

Now I< sound naive and insular.
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ParahSalin
11/28/09

In reply to Jenny Sanford's Six-Step Guide to Capitalizing on Disgraced Politican Pussyhound Husbands
Fun fact about the Sanfords: they met at a Goldman Sachs mixer (they both worked there) in the Hamptons, where I'm sure they drank white wine and ate arugula, just like liberals. So much for his "aw, shucks, I'm just a good ole Christian country boy (grew up on a plantation)" routine. I think they're both abhorrent, but she's definitely the brains of the operation.
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BookishLookish
11/28/09

@ParahSalin: She's not southern; she's from Chicago, from a Catholic family. And she's got her own money and now she is seeking her own vengeance. Tons of lip service with the ol' forgiveness line, but she made him, and now that he crossed her, she will ruin him, once and for all.
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ParahSalin
11/28/09

@BookishLookish: Oh, I know she's got more money than he does - she's the Skil Saw heiress (insert your own penis severance joke here). They met in NYC when they both worked for Goldman, which I always like to bring up, since Republicans always scoff at libruls hanging out in the Hamptons drinking white wine. She was also his closest political ally, and I think she engineered his rise to power, and I suspect you're right - she will ruin him. Rumor has it that she's going to stick with him to make his life a living hell, but I suspect he's going to amble off to his plantation in Beaufort, or to Argentina, and she'll end up with her own media company or political career. She's kind of like Sarah Palin, except with brains, class, and money, which is kind of scary.
Another fun fact: for some reason, which I don't really know, all the other Republicans in the state hate him, and this was true even before he embarassed himself and the state so badly. I'm not sure why, I wish I knew.
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IamnotStarJones
11/29/09

@BookishLookish: but how could she do that to the father of her children???!!! I mean what would Jesus say?
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BookishLookish
11/29/09

@IamnotStarJones: I believe Jesus would say, Quit being a weakling and dump that punk-ass motherfucker.
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Better to Eat You With
11/29/09

@BookishLookish: I like your Jesus.
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BookishLookish
11:47 AM

@Better to Eat You With: And he LOVES you!
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Baroness
11/28/09

In reply to Jenny Sanford's Six-Step Guide to Capitalizing on Disgraced Politican Pussyhound Husbands
Jacqueline Kennedy's omerta seems classier every year.
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ampersandparade
12:27 AM

@Baroness: In a parallel universe, we reflect back on Governor Onassis' mid-70's administration, and how she once and for all made New York and the Democratic party forget the name Kennedy.
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La Mareada
11/28/09

In reply to Jenny Sanford's Six-Step Guide to Capitalizing on Disgraced Politican Pussyhound Husbands
Also helps to have a Top 10 network drama portraying your situation sympathetically by Nurse Hathaway from ER.
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DahlELama
11/28/09

@La Mareada: Actually, what I find bizarre about that show is how hard they work to make the husband sympathetic at the same time. Not sure why this is.
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La Mareada
11/28/09

@DahlELama: I think its secretly produced by the Committee to Re-Elect Elliott Spitzer.
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futuremrsrickankiel
11/28/09

In reply to Jenny Sanford's Six-Step Guide to Capitalizing on Disgraced Politican Pussyhound Husbands
You forgot the Empowering Singalong... female independence is never attained without an Empowering Singalong.
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Lysergic Asset
11/28/09

In reply to Jenny Sanford's Six-Step Guide to Capitalizing on Disgraced Politican Pussyhound Husbands
Devil's Advocate: Is it better or worse (for his wife or in the general concept) that Gov. Sanford 'fell in love' with another woman instead of just hooking up with the random skanky 'ho' like politicians usually do?
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
11/28/09

@Lysergic Asset: Well, if the ex-wife of the ex-Governor of New Jersey is anything to by, either of those options is better than having said husband cheat with a man.
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ParahSalin
11/28/09

@Lysergic Asset: Don't waste any sympathy on Sanford, he's a class A dick. I seriously wanted to take a nine iron to his SUV when he said he wouldn't be extending unemployment benefits for South Carolinians, but he would instead be praying for the unemployed. He doesn't realize we can't all marry Skil Saw heiresses. The good news is the Republicans here are now in a bit of a pickle - the Lt. Gov apparently is a closeted big Mary, so they are left with replacing an unethical, lawbreaking, adulterer with a homosexual, or just leaving the adulterer in office. I know what you're thinking "aren't closeted homosexuals and Christian adulterers the base of the Republican party?" Well, yes, but they're not supposed to be so goddamned blatant about it.
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Lysergic Asset
11/28/09

@ParahSalin: Whew. Such a small state for all that drama! Actually, I wasn't sympathizing with Sanford at all, it was more a sociological query.
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ParahSalin
11/28/09

@Lysergic Asset: You know your state is the laughing stock of the nation when Jon Stewart thanks you for producing such comedic gold. At the same time Sanford was bawling like a lovesick 15 year old girl, we had a guy get arrested for screwing a horse...for the second time!!!!!! I always picture the horse looking over it's shoulder and going "Jesus, not you again." I guess he really was in love with her. I mean the guy with the horse, of course, not Sanford.
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Lysergic Asset
11/28/09

@ParahSalin: You and Jersey are running neck and neck.

P.S. - This song is for you.
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ParahSalin
11/28/09

@Lysergic Asset: HEARTED!
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Lysergic Asset
11/28/09

@ParahSalin: :-) ditto!
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Cheruth
11/29/09

@Lysergic Asset: Obviously a random hook up with a skank is better because a real man falling in love with a woman is sooo gay.

I have no respect for this jack ass. And I don't think it was "love" so much as falling for the romance, danger and excitement of the whole thing. But I do think there are all kinds of double standards and stereotypes about manliness at play.
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Lysergic Asset
11/29/09

@Cheruth: "But I do think there are all kinds of double standards and stereotypes about manliness at play." Absolutely. I am inclined to think that someday, we'll all be like the bonobos, no stereotypes necessary.

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BowlingForDollars
11/28/09

In reply to Jenny Sanford's Six-Step Guide to Capitalizing on Disgraced Politican Pussyhound Husbands
I hope Elin Woods is reading this post.
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jackbarber
11/26/09

In reply to 'Hot Rumor' Alert: Hil for Veep?
Want to bet?

Actually / if necessary: this will most likely / definitely happen.

P.s. Kerry to Sec St.

Seriously -- why would Obama NOT do this.

Term 1 neutered Bill. Term 2 will most likely require some frisson.

Then HRC gets to be president. If she can beat John Thune.
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MrInBetween
11/25/09

In reply to 'Hot Rumor' Alert: Hil for Veep?
A far more inspired (and likely) VP swap would be Biden-for-Rahm.
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jackbarber
11/26/09

@MrInBetween: Are you insne? Rahm is unelectable to nat'l office.
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MrInBetween
11/26/09

@jackbarber: Check your Sarcasm Meter.
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MisterHippity
11/25/09

In reply to 'Hot Rumor' Alert: Hil for Veep?
Well, you know what they say ...

Thunder only happens when it's rainin'.
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Flashman
11/25/09

@MisterHippity: And players only love you when they're playin'.

So I'd say Joe B has every reason to be a'feared.
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Mike Jahn
11/25/09

In reply to 'Hot Rumor' Alert: Hil for Veep?
That's a shot across the bow of a Palin candidacy.
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
11/25/09

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Biden just needs time to take care of his 1981 Pontiac Trans Am.

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ms_priestypants
11/25/09

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: Oh my gosh. Are we sure this is fake?
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MisterHippity
11/25/09

In reply to 'Hot Rumor' Alert: Hil for Veep?
Oh Stevie Nicks .... won't you lay me down in the tall grass and let me do my stuff?

Oh. Sorry. Saw the record cover and had a little flashback to high school.
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
11/25/09

@MisterHippity: Old man.
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Airvault
11/25/09

@MisterHippity: Everyone knows it was all about Christine McVie.

You going to argue with Chicken Shack?
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
11/25/09

@MisterHippity: Sentimental lady
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Tchotchke
11/25/09

@MisterHippity: Somehow, despite knowing that those were Fleetwood Mac lyrics, that comment struck me as incredibly filthy and now I feel weird.
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Magister
11/25/09

@MisterHippity: One night a long time ago, I was wandering around campus, when I spotted an owl in a tree and a girl laying down looking up at it.

Maybe because they were scheduled to perform a concert the next evening, I convinced myself that it was Stevie Nicks, so I laid down in the grass nearby hoping to make a dream come true.

Neither of us said a word and eventually after maybe half an hour, she got up and floated away. To this day, I swear that it could've very easily been Ms. Nicks, but since I was tripping on acid at the time, I'll never know.
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MisterHippity
11/25/09

@Tchotchke: "Incredibly filthy"? Not compared with my high school fantasy about Stevie Nicks!

But I'm probably getting into "T.M.I." territory here, huh?
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Tchotchke
11/25/09

@MisterHippity: Potentially. If it involved blowing coke up her derriere, then, yes. I've been told she is into that.
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Airvault
11/25/09

In reply to 'Hot Rumor' Alert: Hil for Veep?
This rumor is hardly new. Go look up a Chris Matthews interview on Charlie Rose from a few months back where he says the same thing.
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naugahydeinplainsight
11/25/09

In reply to 'Hot Rumor' Alert: Hil for Veep?
No way to gracefully drop Biden from the ticket (the VP selection being a president's first and most important decision).
Except maybe through a job swap with Hillary. Hmmmm. I could see that.
(Though I don't believe that anything being said about Obama 2012's ticket in Nov. 2009.)
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ms_priestypants
11/25/09

@naugahydeinplainsight: Um, all kidding aside Joe Biden for Secretary of State sounds like the worst idea ever. Can you imagine the wars we'd be in by 2016?
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naugahydeinplainsight
11/25/09

@ms_priestypants: He is a little unpredictable, isn't he. Yet wasn't his name high on the list of SecState candidates being bandied about last year? Even as VP he was hailed for his foreign policy experience.

#tips
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TechLackey
11/25/09

@naugahydeinplainsight: Mrs. Biden let it slip that Obama offered Joe his choice of SoS or VP, with whichever one he didn't pick going to Hillary. So a 2012 (or sooner?) switcheroo is entirely conceivable, seeing as Barry considers them both qualified for either job.
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ms_priestypants
11/25/09

@naugahydeinplainsight: I should note that I get my political news exclusively from SNL skits and The Daily Show, in order to counteract my father getting his from Fox News.

#tips
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naugahydeinplainsight
11/25/09

@TechLackey: That's right. The gaffes run on both sides of that family!

#tips
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eatsshootsleaves
11/25/09

@ms_priestypants: Having filled both their prospective roles, Clinton has, thus far, made more gaffes than Biden.

And Biden, believe it or not, has been rumored to be the most dovish member of the new administration. I would welcome the switch (that is not going to happen).
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