{"id":4203,"date":"2009-06-24T19:34:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T02:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4203"},"modified":"2009-06-24T19:34:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T02:34:31","slug":"the-mysterious-disappearance-of-drofnas-i-mean-sanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/06\/24\/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-drofnas-i-mean-sanford\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mysterious Disappearance of Drofnas (I mean Sanford)"},"content":{"rendered":"

To clarify my Sanford posting in the “Horse Race” post, when I saw the hoop-lah over Mark Sanford’s disappearance I knew what was happening was a lot of sharks circling around looking for a sex scandal.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t really believe the “Went hiking the Appalachia” story, but I didn’t disbelieve it either — I don’t know the fellow, and despite what people seem to think, a governor has a bigger\u00c2\u00a0field of privacy than a president!<\/em>, nor was I particularly dismissive that an affair wasn’t the source of a cover-up, I just would much prefer to allow a politician, or whomever,\u00c2\u00a0to have the opportunity to jump away for a spell and hike the Appalachias, or whatever, without a presumption of something unsordid.<\/p>\n

It’s a characteristic of the Internets that the reaction was to tap the “Hike Naked Weekend” and ponder that storyline.<\/p>\n

When it turned out he dashed over to Argentina,\u00c2\u00a0I\u00c2\u00a0gathered that the sharks swimming around looking for dirt were about right, though it’s a curious affair.\u00c2\u00a0 So we have two Republican falls from grace within a week.\u00c2\u00a0 Two Republican Presidential Hopefuls?\u00c2\u00a0 Not particularly — Sanford would surely have run for office, as that sort of messanger candidate that doesn’t really accumulate a nomination, and Ensign’s Presidential Bubble was a\u00c2\u00a0nugget of a bored ever flowing chattering class apt to notice a politician ducking into Iowa.<\/p>\n

But the bottom line is that I need to do a dusting off of this here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I think I can safely pluck away the Kid — that\u00c2\u00a0was a case of kicking ’em while they were down, and Joe the Plummer is no longer a Republican.\u00c2\u00a0 But for the life of me I don’t know who to replace these three with.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll get back to it, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To clarify my Sanford posting in the “Horse Race” post, when I saw the hoop-lah over Mark Sanford’s disappearance I knew what was happening was a lot of sharks circling around looking for a sex scandal.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t really believe the “Went hiking the Appalachia” story, but I didn’t disbelieve it either — I don’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}