Oh, yeah…and it’s really important to tell the truth. Politico has this one from 2002, putting out the message that resulted in him becoming South Carolina’s governor (h/t RightWingWatch).

Mother Theresa, move over.  Even after her husband said he “crossed the line” with other women, after he said that his mistress was his soul mate and he’d “try to fall back in love” with his wife, Jenny Sanford says she’s willing to forgive.  The First Lady of South Carolina issued a statement, some of which reads:

I am willing to forgive Mark for his actions. We have been deeply disappointed in and even angry at Mark. The Bible says, “In your anger do not sin.” (Psalm 4:4) In this situation, this speaks to the essence of forgiveness and the critical need to channel one’s energy into positive steps that uphold the dignity of marriage and the family, and lead to reconciliation over time. My forgiveness is essential for us both to move on with our lives, with peace, in whatever direction that may take us.

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…his far more egregious offenses were committed against God, the institutions of marriage and family, our boys and me. Mark has stated that his intent and determination is to save our marriage, and to make amends to the people of South Carolina. I hope he can make good on those intentions, and for the sake of our boys I leave the door open to it.

But what tune is the governor singing?

You’re automatically a bad person if you’re pro-choice, says the former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, who adds that the Democratic Party stands for killing babies, slavery, and secession.  This comes on the heels of his comment on FOX News that our only hope as a country is for bin Laden to attack us again.

Scheuer also believes Obama doesn’t care about protecting the country.

COLMES: You don’t think the President of the United States, Barack Obama, cares about protecting this country.

SCHEUER: No, I don’t. Because I don’t think he realizes what the world is like outside the United States. [...]

COLMES: You don’t think he wants to protect the country?

SCHEUER: I don’t think he can, sir. [...]

COLMES: He doesn’t want to protect the country?

SCHEUER: Not if it costs votes.

Pulling no punches, New York Post columnist Linda Stasi has the most devastating piece on Michael Jackson I’ve seen.  While most of the world waxes poetic and ecstatic about his genius and his contributions to society, and his friends talk about his love for his children and goodness, Stasi has the opposite view.

a drug-addled, creepy-beyond-words, accused pedophile who literally bought his children with the help of two brood mares and, apparently, his dermatologist — a group of amoral savages who had no problem giving their kids to a man who looked like the Phantom of the Opera and who behaved like a depraved worm.

You can call it “adoption,” but I call it child-trafficking.

That’s just the warm-up.  Then she takes the glove(s) off.

Unlike Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, Minnesota Senator Al Franken got paid to be a clown. Inhofe is supposed to be a respectful United States senator, and yet here is his statement on Al Franken to Tulsa World:

“I’ll tell you what a lot of people are thinking, and that is it looks like things are going to be over and we are going to get the clown from Minnesota,’’ he said.

Inhofe, a climate change denier, said no disrespect was intended.

“I didn’t mean to be disrespectful. I don’t know the guy, but … for a living he is a clown,’’ the senator said.

“That’s what he does for a living.’’

No, senator, that’s what he did for a living.  You once went to Tulsa Central High, but no one is calling you a high school student.

Lt. Dan Choi will fight to stay in the military after a Syracuse, NY army board recommended that he be the first person to be dismissed from the New York’s National Guard for violating “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.”  Cho’s offense? He said he’s gay.

But he said he refuses to lie about being involved in a relationship with another man. Choi said the relationship has made him a better person, a better Christian and a better officer.

Choi, an Arabic-speaking officer who served for 15 months in Iraq as a member of Fort Drum’s 10th Mountain Division before joining a New York National Guard unit based in Manhattan, said he would appeal to the higher-ranking officers to stay in the National Guard.

“DADT” means military can’t be asked if they’re gay, but they can’t say they’re gay, either. Obama vowed as recently as this week to repeal this ridiculous rule.

“As I said before — I’ll say it again — I believe ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ doesn’t contribute to our national security. In fact, I believe preventing patriotic Americans from serving their country weakens our national security,” Obama said.

“… I’ve asked the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to develop a plan for how to thoroughly implement a repeal,” Obama said.

More than a thousand retired generals and admirals wrote an open letter this year saying a repeal of DADT would destroy our all-volunteer military. Approximately 10,500 military have been discharged for the offense of being gay between 1997 and 2008, 250 of whom were fired just this year.

Choi held a news conference in East LA, where he vowed to campaign for Obama to issue an executive order to end this madness.

Oklahoma state legislator Sally Kern, who earned the “Wingnut of the Day” monicker here, deserves credit for showing up on my radio show last night.  Rightwingwatch is on the case and shares some of the good stuff.

Kern insists that what gays really want is to destroy marriage so that they can legalize polygamy and pedophilia, saying that the push for gay marriage is just the beginning of the effort to “take away the Bible.” She claims that the government is “being intolerant of those who hold Biblical views” and that what she merely wants is “laws that protect the most people in all situations” instead of passing laws that make legal “behavior that we know is harmful.”

Governor Sanford, I beg of you, please stop waving God and the Bible in everyone’s face. We get it. You’re a pious, righteous person trying to do God’s will.  God didn’t want you to tell the whole truth at that news conference; He wanted to keep you in a fresh news cycle. God didn’t want  you on the Appalachian Trail. He wanted you in Argentina. God didn’t want your state or your wife to know where their governor/husband was. And God wants you to stay away from your soul mate and “try to fall back in love” with your wife.

Those people calling for your resignation aren’t in keeping with God like you are.  Who knows what evil forces are driving them?

“A long list of close friends have suggested otherwise – that for God to really work in my life I shouldn’t be getting off so lightly. While it would be personally easier to exit stage left, their point has been that my larger sin was the sin of pride.”

Yes, Marco. God is punishing you by directing you to stay in the governorship.  It is a difficult penance for you to have to keep your job, but continuing on as one of the country’s 50 state executives is just your cross to bear.

And even though Lt. Governor Andre Bauer may be South Carolina’s citizens’ true political soul mate, they can always try to fall back in love with you.

Mark Sanford says Maria Belen Shapur is his “soul mate”, but that he is going to try to fall back in love with his wife.  Jenny Sanford must be thrilled to hear this.

Sanford also told The Associated Press he has ‘crossed lines’ with women other than Chapur, but never had sex with them.

Sanford said one of the trips to see Chapur included what was supposed to be a farewell meeting in New York chaperoned by a spiritual adviser soon after his wife found out about the affair.

Just what does “crossed lines” mean? I’m guessing he doesn’t mean he busted through protesting union organizers.  Does it mean he had dates? Made out with other women? And how soon before another one comes forward?

Barry Manilow had a hit with it; David Pomeranz wrote it.  Good luck, Governor!

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford now says there were more trysts with his Argentine lover than he previously disclosed.

In a lengthy, emotional interview with The Associated Press, the governor described seven meetings with the woman, including their first in 2001. Sanford says there have been five over a 12-month period, including two multi-night stays with her in New York.

It was the first disclosure of any get-togethers with her in the United States and contradicted a public confession last week during which he admitted to a total of four encounters in the past year.

Sanford, who made a big deal about not taking stimulus money because he’s such a good guardian of the state’s finances, now says he’ll pay back the state for a 2008 trip to Brazil and Argentina taken on the government dime.  He says no other liaison used government money.