Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 01:30:00 PM EDT
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| To be honest, I'm really not interested in South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's personal life. That is between he and his family. With every day that passes, the media focuses more on the details of his affairs and not on the dereliction of duty as Governor. Chris Christie said earlier on that Sanford is someone he admired and Sanford potentially left all the residents of the state he leads vulnerable should any problems that could have occurred while he was out of touch. Christie is seeking the same responsibilities from the New Jersey votes that Sanford abandoned.
The State Committee wants Christie to condemn the Republican Governors association for the the connection to Sanford and the advertising attacking Governor Corzine: "Christie should publicly repudiate an RGA that would have Mark Sanford as its Chairman," said Cryan. "Christie has leaned on Sanford's support since the primary to curry favor with the RGA so they would run ads distorting Jon Corzine's record. Christie gladly accepted the support of the Mark Sanford led RGA and now he should call for the negative advertising created by Sanford to be pulled. The hypocrisy of Christie's candidacy is exposed with every advertising dollar he continues to accept in Mark Sanford's name." I always enjoy the calls from one side to have the other side stop running ads. That's clearly the politics of the situation, but i'd be more interested to hear what Christie has to say about the leadership of Mark Sanford being out of touch from his state for nearly 5 days. Here was clammyc's take over at dailykos:If the tables were turned, and it was Corzine or Paterson or Rendell or Kaine or any of the other Democratic Governors who went "missing" for days without putting the Lt. Governor in charge, or so much as telling anyone where he or she was going, there would be (rightfully so) nonstop calls by the Villagers, the right wing noise machine, and quite possibly many prominent Democrats for removal from office - through impeachment, through resignation or whatever other means.
When you are in such a high level position of responsibility, you don't have the flexibility or the ability or the justification to just pick up and leave.
Period.
While the focus is on the emails or the wife or the children or the "begging the Lord for forgiveness" or any of the other sidebar items, the biggest story is being missed or glossed over. Does Christie think that is an effective way to manage as the Chief executive of a state? What do you think, if anything Christie should say on the matter? |
| Jason Springer :: Deep Thought: What should Christie say about Sanford? |
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