SC-1 special election - May 7th

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I don't really feel the need or desire to address content here, so...

1. Who is Alice Rosenbaum, exactly? Sorry, I haven't been following this thread with my fullest attention.
2. I see your grammar and punctuation haven't improved.
3. It's 'Stephen'.

[MaxQue]

I don't really feel the need or desire to address content here, so...

1. Who is Alice Rosenbaum, exactly? Sorry, I haven't been following this thread with my fullest attention.

She is more known under the Ayn Rand, name.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I don't really feel the need or desire to address content here, so...

1. Who is Alice Rosenbaum, exactly? Sorry, I haven't been following this thread with my fullest attention.

She is more known under the Ayn Rand, name.

Ah, yes. Yes, I suppose Sanford does kind of act like a Rand character in some ways, but not necessarily in the ways I'd consider most salient.

[BigSkyBob]

I don't really feel the need or desire to address content here, so...

1. Who is Alice Rosenbaum, exactly? Sorry, I haven't been following this thread with my fullest attention.
2. I see your grammar and punctuation haven't improved.
3. It's 'Stephen'.

Steven, Stephen, doesn't matter. The salient point is that he is prick.

[Miles]

I don't really feel the need or desire to address content here, so...

1. Who is Alice Rosenbaum, exactly? Sorry, I haven't been following this thread with my fullest attention.
2. I see your grammar and punctuation haven't improved.
3. It's 'Stephen'.

Steven, Stephen, doesn't matter. The salient point is that he is prick.

It sure takes one to know one.

[BigSkyBob]

I don't really feel the need or desire to address content here, so...

1. Who is Alice Rosenbaum, exactly? Sorry, I haven't been following this thread with my fullest attention.
2. I see your grammar and punctuation haven't improved.
3. It's 'Stephen'.

Steven, Stephen, doesn't matter. The salient point is that he is prick.

It sure takes one to know one.

I seem you operate on just about the same level as Colbert. The main difference is what you just wrote might actually be considered funny, unlike almost all of his swill.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I don't really feel the need or desire to address content here, so...

1. Who is Alice Rosenbaum, exactly? Sorry, I haven't been following this thread with my fullest attention.
2. I see your grammar and punctuation haven't improved.
3. It's 'Stephen'.

Steven, Stephen, doesn't matter. The salient point is that he is prick.

What a witty comeback. You can go now drink your kool-aid. You've earned it.

[Miles]

I seem you operate on just about the same level as Colbert. The main difference is what you just wrote might actually be considered funny, unlike almost all of his swill.

I was being serious. If you're mean and unpleasant most of the time, as you generally are, people tend to consider you a 'prick.'

I'm more of a Jon Stewart fan myself, but whether or not you consider Colbert funny is purely subjective. You're framing your personal opinion of him as absolute fact.

[wan]

I cannot understand how voters could possibly be willing to give this man a second chance. Not only did he have extra-maritals while in office and lie about it. Which if you're a dem, is an impeachable offense. He also used tax payer money to fly abroad to do it. It seems like, in an era of uber-fiscal conservatism, that would be a deadly sin.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

I cannot understand how voters could possibly be willing to give this man a second chance. Not only did he have extra-maritals while in office and lie about it. Which if you're a dem, is an impeachable offense. He also used tax payer money to fly abroad to do it. It seems like, in an era of uber-fiscal conservatism, that would be a deadly sin.

Partisan hackery > Loyalty to principle

Works every time.

Remember, these are the same folks who think Ted Haggard should make their moral/lifestyle choices for them.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I don't care about Sanford having an affair per se. His private life is not mu business. What disqualifies him is that in course of said affair he went missing, leaving the state without a man in charge. Now that's irresponsible.

[Niemeyerite]

My prediction:

Colbert-Busch 51%
Sanford 48%

[NewYorkExpress]

Prediction:
Mark Sanford (R) 47.6%
Elizabeth Colbert-Busch (D) 46.9%
Eugene Platt (G) 5.3%
Other 0.2%

[DrScholl]

Colbert Busch 50%
Sanford 47%
Platt 3%

[tmthforu94]

Prediction:
Mark Sanford - 50.4%
Elizabeth Colbert-Busch - 46.9%
Eugene Platt - 2.7%

[Beet]

I'm going to say Colbert Busch pulls it off
Colbert Busch - 48%
Sanford - 46%
Platt - 5%

[Maxwell]

Sanford - 50%
Colbert Busch - 49%

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Colbert Busch - 47%
Sanford - 46%
Platt - 7%

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'm more of a Jon Stewart fan myself, but whether or not you consider Colbert funny is purely subjective. You're framing your personal opinion of him as absolute fact.

In fact, not to put too fine a point on it, Bob, sometimes you act remarkably like a less engaging, less interesting, less self-aware right-wing version of BRTD. And I apologize sincerely to BRTD for the comparison.

Anyway:

Sanford 48%
Colbert Busch 46%
Platt 6%

unfortunately. I have very little inherent trust in voters.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I don't care about Sanford having an affair per se. His private life is not mu business. What disqualifies him is that in course of said affair he went missing, leaving the state without a man in charge. Now that's irresponsible.

Andre Bauer would dispute that there was no man left in charge, but since I never cared for our former Lt. Governor, I wouldn't.  Bauer acts like an overaged teenager who should have stopped his political career after winning President of the Student Council.

[RogueBeaver]

Nate Cohn on the race.

TF: Yeah, I remember Bauer from his 2010 races. Not terribly fond memories either.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113134/mark-sanford-elizabeth-colbert-busch-special-election-toss#

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

TF: Yeah, I remember Bauer from his 2010 races. Not terribly fond memories either.

I had the fun of voting against him in 2010, 2006, 2002, and 2000 (he was my State Senator as well).  Only because he moved into the 7th was I unable to vote against him in 2012.  Still, I wonder.  What if Bauer had moved into the 1st instead of the 7th?  What if the primary runoff had been Sanford v. Bauer which it probably would have been in that case.  (SC does not have gubernatorial tickets, so Sanford and Bauer were never a team, indeed they didn't like each other, which shows that Sanford isn't totally clueless.  That antagonism was also a factor in why Sanford didn't resign when the Appalachian Trail Gate occurred.)

[RogueBeaver]

As for my prediction... not that great at numbers so I'll just say a narrow Sanford win.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The one safe bet is that the better Sanford does, the worse Platt will do.  Pretty much all the votes over 1% that Platt gets will come from Republicans who can't bring themselves to vote for Sanford but who also insist on voting.

[Talleyrand]

Mark Sanford- 50.1%
Elizabeth Colbert Busch- 45.6%
Eugene Platts- 4.3%