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Should Sanford resign?

Should Mark Sanford resign from his current position.

  • Yes

    Votes: 29 53.7%

  • No

    Votes: 26 48.1%
  • Total voters
    54
  • Poll closed .
obvious Child said:
Over this? No.

I don't think that politicians are good moral leaders. So Sanford being a cheating hypocrite isn't exactly something that's outraging me outside from his campaigning on social conservatism, but I'm pretty jaded to the point where I'm no longer surprised when social conservatives flagrantly ignore their beliefs.
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So because someo politicians are scumbags, that makes it ok? Shoudn't we demand a higher standard from our leaders? Shouldn't we work to change this precendent rather than just giving politicians a free pass?

If Sanford ran the state fiscally well with good employment, low crime and a solid balance sheet, him teabagging hookers isn't that much of a concern to me.

I'd rather have a competent, but immoral governor rather then an upstanding morally pure governor who couldn't run a kiddie fair well.
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Ok, I have to make a point here. Adolf Hitler brought his state out of a giagantic recession, reduced unemployment, reduced criminal prosecutions, and envigorated a nation. Not the most moral chap, but according to you....

I know it is rather cliched, but this is where your logic could lead.
 
No reason for him to resign.
 
In my opinion, he should resign. Not because he had an affair, but because clearly, his head isn't in the game right now. The man took off and left his work responsibilities for a SOLID WEEK with no notice and no information about his whereabouts. How many of us would keep our jobs if we did that?

He should be fired for unprofessionalism and for failing to act like a grown up.

(I could care less where the man was sticking his dick as long as he did his damn job...)
 
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AHH!

I voted no, but I really meant to vote yes!
 
Yes he betrayed his position, he betrayed the voters, by not disclosing his whereabouts. I mean he is the Executive branch of a State, there is no excuse for this. If he simply came out about the affair, there would be no issue with me.
 
TacticalEvilDan said:
Cool.

In other news, I don't think this crap is anybody's business. I think it was retarded that John Edwards got slapped around for his marital infidelity, and it's retarded that Sanford is going to get flayed for his.

I think if we stuck to how people actually do or actually qualify for their jobs we'd be much better off.
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Then again, we're trusting our politicians to serve our interests honestly, and if a guy will lie to his wife, you can bet your ass he's already lying to you.

So issues of fidelity strike right at the heart of the issue of character and hence trust.

But the Democrats, who vociferously defended a perjured rapist, will be right out in the front of the mob demanding Sanford's head.

The guy should resign for one major reason: The dumb**** took off without leaving a contact number or his whereabouts to his staff. He holds a position of responsibility to the state of South Carolina and he failed the people of that state for four days.
 
He was elected for a term, and he should suck it up and serve his term. If the legislature wants him out, it's their job to impeach him, and if the people want him out, it's their job to vote him out. Whether or not he continues the affair, he's not going to make this mistake again.

I'll side with the others saying I don't care about politicians' sex lives, but I do say that writing boyish love poetry and then spending a week with his lover-- after his wife specifically warned him not to-- is despicable. Beyond his duties to his State, he has a wife and sons to consider, and this schoolboy crush of his is interfering with his duties to them as well. He needs to get his head together and figure out where things stand between him and his wife.

Only reason for him to resign is if the job is getting in the way of that. No other obligation can outweigh his obligation to his family.
 
Korimyr the Rat said:
He was elected for a term, and he should suck it up and serve his term. If the legislature wants him out, it's their job to impeach him, and if the people want him out, it's their job to vote him out. Whether or not he continues the affair, he's not going to make this mistake again.

I'll side with the others saying I don't care about politicians' sex lives, but I do say that writing boyish love poetry and then spending a week with his lover-- after his wife specifically warned him not to-- is despicable. Beyond his duties to his State, he has a wife and sons to consider, and this schoolboy crush of his is interfering with his duties to them as well. He needs to get his head together and figure out where things stand between him and his wife.

Only reason for him to resign is if the job is getting in the way of that. No other obligation can outweigh his obligation to his family.
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I agree with you. I would like our leaders to have good morals but their sex lives are up to them. The main reasons I think he should resign;
1. He left his state without a leader for a whole week while spending time with his lover,
2. He ignored the fact that his sons, and wife would be emotionally scared by the fact that he cheated on their mother, and his wife that he cheated on her.

Sanford called for Clinton to resign, he needs to resign. He is obviously not in the right state of mind.
 
not for the boinking, but the lying about it, and any possible misuse of govt funds or property related to it....
it is up to his wife to deal with the boinking.....I suggest the Bobbitt method be used, it is pretty much irreversible if you flush the offending part down the sewer....
 
new coup for you said:
The first is that "family values" is the campaign cry of a charlatan and the other is that Sanford is a bad man and should resign.


If you claim to have "family values" you inevitably are morally bankrupt. And more importantly, you're intellectually bankrupt. People who run on "values" have no "ideas". If you have ideas your values are shown through your ideas. "Values" are empty and meaningless, so they attract empty and (black maid-****ing, wife-cheating-while-finger-pointing and bathroom **** sucking) meaningless people.
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I must disagree with you strongly. While politicians are always suspect because of their chosen profession, there are many people who not only advocate family values, but live it in their own daily lives.

I've been privileged to know many such honorable men and women. I was privileged to be raised by two of them.

Hypocrisy does not lie in advocating a high moral standard one may not always succeed in keeping, but in professing a belief one lacks, or advocating a moral code one never intended to keep.

Tarring a whole class of people with this generalization is as unfair and untrue as making racist stereotypes about a minority.


G.
 
I simply feel that Mr. Sanford should resign because he basically deserted his post as a sitting governor. He went AWOL, and he lied to his aides, as well as to the Lt. Governor...telling them he was hiking in the Appalachians, when in fact he was doing the Argentina Tango with his mistress in South America!

The affair, to me, is beside the point. That is between his wife and his God and himself. But he did a complete disservice to his constinuents by disappearing as he did, and lying about it. Any governor should be fired for things like that.
 
He should carry on it will be more entertaining.
 
mikhail said:
He should carry on it will be more entertaining.
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Are we all looking for entertainment from our leaders, or are we looking for a good leader who has good, moral values, and respects his families feelings as well as the people he is supposed to be leading.
 
I'd be more concerned with dereliction of duty, myself. There's no indication that President Clinton, for all his peccadilloes, ever neglected the duties of his office while pursuing his affairs-- and certainly never did so on the level of vanishing for a week without leaving someone else in command.

I'm all for allowing Governor Sanford to conclude his term in office, but to pretend that what he did was not considerably worse than President Clinton's trespasses is to be willfully dense-- and a partisan hack of the worst kind.
 
Scarecrow Akhbar said:
Clinton committed a felony.

If you're going to make a straight comparison, identify the felonies Sanford committed while in office.
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I'm not even discussing Clinton. What was said was Sanford though Clinton should resign. He essentially does the same, and instead of lying to a grand jury or whatever it was, he lies to the Lt. Gov his aides and his family. Judicially, Clinton did worse,but he didn't go AWOL on the state for half a week.

The reason Sanford is being hypocritical is because he called for Clinton to resign for an affair, and now he won't when he was having an affair. He needs to leave the office, and pull his family back together, but that's up to him.
 
repeter said:
I'm not even discussing Clinton. What was said was Sanford though Clinton should resign. He essentially does the same, and instead of lying to a grand jury or whatever it was, he lies to the Lt. Gov his aides and his family. Judicially, Clinton did worse,but he didn't go AWOL on the state for half a week.

The reason Sanford is being hypocritical is because he called for Clinton to resign for an affair, and now he won't when he was having an affair. He needs to leave the office, and pull his family back together, but that's up to him.
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People like you are the best to have around!

Sanfrod needs to start thinking of how he has effected his family, and needs to pull it back together just as you said.

I think that the thing that a lot of people are ticked about as well is that he went AWOL for a week, and nobody was leading the state.
 
repeter said:
The major point of this "scandal" is that Sanford was a likely Pres Candidate pick for '12.Only as the Sacrificial Lamb This "scandal" took him out of the running.
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He placed his own interests first, and his job and family.....last.
Our nation must learn to ignore "scandals".
Its the quality of a man's achievements that are important.
 
earthworm said:
He placed his own interests first, and his job and family.....last.
Our nation must learn to ignore "scandals".
Its the quality of a man's achievements that are important.
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I have no problem with that except when a politician gets on a soap box about the sanctity of marriage and all that moral BS as a part of their platform like Sanford did.
 
Clinton didn't resign -- why should Sanford?
 
TheAvE8tor said:
My opinion; yes he should. His affair shows a lack of decision making skills, and role model skills. He claims he wants to follow David in the Bible who commited adultery and got back up and overcame his sin. I beleive he can, but the emotional state he is in does not permit him to continue to lead the state of South Carolina.
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Lopettaa said:
I saw that girl from Argentina, she was hot :)
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Sounds like he has great decision making skills then. :mrgreen:
 
TacticalEvilDan said:
so screw it, let's vote for the guy with the biggest member or the gal with the biggest rack and just throw everything else out the window! :D
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Sounds like high school Prom King and Queen requirements.
 
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