Senator Sanford, are you truly a ‘dead man walking’ or are you trying to add some constituents to your donor list by trying to be the lone conservative with values in the Senate – PB/TK
With ‘Nothing Left to Lose’ Mark Sanford Not Afraid to Attack Trump- by Jim Jamitis February 17, 2017
In an interview published in Politico, Congressman Mark Sanford (R-SC) describes himself as a “dead man walking” and explains why this gives him the freedom to be the conservative resistance against President Trump.
When he was Governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford’s name routinely came up in discussions of future GOP presidential hopefuls. That was until he disappeared in 2009 and returned later with an unlikely story about hiking the Appalachian Trail alone. In truth he was in South America with the Argentinian journalist with whom he was having an extra-marital affair. Destroying his marriage through infidelity isn’t something Trump or his hardcore supporters can seriously use to discredit Sanford, but it’s the sense of having hit rock bottom that emboldens the Congressman.
“…All this gives Sanford a unique sense of liberation to speak his mind about a president whose substance and style he considers a danger to democracy. “I’m a dead man walking,” he tells me, smiling. “If you’ve already been dead, you don’t fear it as much. I’ve been dead politically.”
His digs at Trump cover the spectrum. The president, Sanford says, “has fanned the flames of intolerance.” He has repeatedly misled the public, most recently about the national murder rate and the media’s coverage of terrorist attacks. He showed a lack of humility by using the National Prayer Breakfast to ridicule Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ratings on “The Celebrity Apprentice.” Most worrisome, Sanford says, Trump is unprepared for the presidency.”
Described as “professorial” and “quirky” about his conservative philosophy by his colleagues, he was bound to lock horns with Trump.
Continue to redstate.com article: http://www.redstate.com/jimjamitis/2017/02/17/nothing-left-lose-mark-sanford-not-afraid-attack-trump/
