Mark Sanford

Well, now you know.

With all the national, statewide, and regional headscratching going on about North Carolina politics, namely in the Eighth Congressional District's 2010 Republican primary runoff election, it should come as no surprise that in Richmond County, the heart of the district, Sheriff deputies have discovered 60,000 marijuana plants.

Cross-posted from Facing South with author Sue Sturgis's permission

There was a cryptic moment in the emotional press conference South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford held last week to apologize for committing adultery.

"C Street," Sanford said, is where men face "hard questions."

Later, in response to a question from a reporter, the Republican governor and former congressman said that he had been to "what we called 'C Street' when I was in Washington."

Most of us are still shaking our heads at the National Enquireresque headline hovering over Mark Johnson's articles at the CharO and the N&O this week.

NC House votes to protect gay kids

The headline crafted for S.C. Governor Mark Sanford should come as no shock. Whoever wrote it is trying to show him in a sympathetic light. The problem is, the facts in the article don't support the headline. Here's the headline:

Sanford's e-mails depict anguish over relationship

BONUS RedState commentary!

What the morans across the aisle are saying about Mark Sanford isn't exactly making sense for a group that insists on family values being enforced in your home, your bedroom, whenever a pregnant woman feels she has the right to make a choice of going through with the pregnancy or not, and in general as a group that just wants to make themselves out to be holier than thou.

Gay people getting married is KILLING hetro marriage! No, really! I saw it on FauxNewz and read it at RedState so it MUST be true! Right?

Then again, perhaps what is killing hetro marriage is hetrosexuals that have affairs and stuff. Maybe it's the fact that some hetro marriages just grow apart. Maybe this incident with Mark Sanford has much less to do with who he's sleeping with but more to do with his incredible lack of judgement. Let's have a look.

The incredible idiocy of Right Wing Republican politicians attempts to score political points by throwing the bodies of their constituants under 18 Wheelers rolling down Interstate 95 through Governor Mark Sanford's state and towards Governor Bobby Jindal's state is somehow expected.

You see, Republicans have decided to toe the line that says "We don't care about anything other than Politics here in 2009. Our vision is short-sighted and myopic, our popularity is in the shitter, but our basic values of not caring one goddamned iota about our constituants is in full evidence. Not to mention, we actually think that this is a WINNING formula going forward.

Let's explore the insanity.

Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina has a message for the American people. The majority of you are the "Fringe" crazies of America.