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	<title>Comments on: Mark Sanford&#8217;s only path back to political viability</title>
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		<title>By: Mike gamecock DeVine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike gamecock DeVine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: George Claghorn</title>
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		<dc:creator>George Claghorn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I do think he should, as you suggested, Resign, repent, reconcile, and rehabilitate, but return seems almost impossible at this point.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do think he should, as you suggested, Resign, repent, reconcile, and rehabilitate, but return seems almost impossible at this point.</p>
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		<title>By: Warner Todd Huston</title>
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		<dc:creator>Warner Todd Huston</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t see &quot;return&quot; as possible. Few on our side do much &quot;returning.&quot; Usually they stick but at much reduced influence forever more.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t see &#8220;return&#8221; as possible. Few on our side do much &#8220;returning.&#8221; Usually they stick but at much reduced influence forever more.</p>
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		<title>By: Doc Holliday</title>
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		<dc:creator>Doc Holliday</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>and used his power to damage Lewinsky.  Sanford is through as a leader, forget 2016.  He needs to focus on his life, as do we all.  It can not help an ego-maniac to even leave a bit of the door open.  It was not the crime, it rarely is, it was the cover up.  

As I have said before, and will likely say again, the media is laser focused on taking down Republicans.  We know this happens in both parties, but only one is under the spotlight.  We need to think as a party what it is we actually stand for and what it is we want our leaders to do.  These people are not religious leaders, but they swear and oath to God.  One reason we go from scandal to scandal is that we are not focused on what it is we stand for.

If we try to put forward those that want to be moral, that want to be role models, then that is the best we can do on that subject.  Maybe we can vet a bit better, but other than that, human weakness will occur.  

This is why I have said, long before Ensign and Sanford, that we must elect Republicans that want to reduce the power of the government in our lives.  We all have weakness and we all are sinners.  But if we give those in government enough power, their personal sins will rain down on our heads.  This is something we do not need and this is something that is amoral. 

We need to reduce the power of government, we need to focus on liberty.  God will decide how we live our lives, not some bureaucracy.  Of course the government and its sinful members should try to be an example, but they have a more important job, that is to follow the Constitution and to let us pursue our own happiness without their meddling.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>and used his power to damage Lewinsky.  Sanford is through as a leader, forget 2016.  He needs to focus on his life, as do we all.  It can not help an ego-maniac to even leave a bit of the door open.  It was not the crime, it rarely is, it was the cover up.  </p>
<p>As I have said before, and will likely say again, the media is laser focused on taking down Republicans.  We know this happens in both parties, but only one is under the spotlight.  We need to think as a party what it is we actually stand for and what it is we want our leaders to do.  These people are not religious leaders, but they swear and oath to God.  One reason we go from scandal to scandal is that we are not focused on what it is we stand for.</p>
<p>If we try to put forward those that want to be moral, that want to be role models, then that is the best we can do on that subject.  Maybe we can vet a bit better, but other than that, human weakness will occur.  </p>
<p>This is why I have said, long before Ensign and Sanford, that we must elect Republicans that want to reduce the power of the government in our lives.  We all have weakness and we all are sinners.  But if we give those in government enough power, their personal sins will rain down on our heads.  This is something we do not need and this is something that is amoral. </p>
<p>We need to reduce the power of government, we need to focus on liberty.  God will decide how we live our lives, not some bureaucracy.  Of course the government and its sinful members should try to be an example, but they have a more important job, that is to follow the Constitution and to let us pursue our own happiness without their meddling.</p>
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