Mark Sanford Spends 1,265 Words Telling Us Why He’s the Victim Here, Y’all

[PeaceNikki]

Mark Sanford would like a minute of your time to discuss how Mark Sanford is doing in the wake of these vicious attacks. Curiously, however, at no point is Mark Sanford ever talking about the Boston Marathon bombings.

Sanford rambles for several hundred words about riding around in airplanes and concludes with the most ironclad credential he can offer for re-electing Mark Sanford to office: “We had the lowest travel expenses of any governor in the last thirty years.” Good job, Mark! Remind them about your travel. Good luck with your nine-point deficit in the latest polls.

Read more at http://wonkette.com/513383/biggest-victim-of-last-week-was-mark-sanford-says-mark-sanford#dirhaJKdpybKv8pb.99

On Sunday, just days after the horrific Boston Marathon bombings and subsequent events that left three people dead, hundreds wounded, and a nation in shock — and just days after the explosion of a Texas fertilizer plant that killed thirteen people and injured hundreds more — Mark Sanford bought a full-page newspaper ad in the print version of Charleston’s Post & Courier to tell us just what a bad week *he* had.

In his 1,265-word, quintessentially Sanfordian screed, the former governor and Republican nominee for South Carolina’s First Congressional District begins, “It’s been a rough week….”

He then spends ten paragraphs (reprinted below) explaining why he was trespassing on his ex-wife’s property in violation of their divorce agreement after she’d asked him not to several times already; complaining that media outlets found his law-breaking to be newsworthy; whining that national party committee groups — like the one of which he used to serve as chairman — have been running negative ads against him, while his own campaign is running similarly negative ads against his opponent; offering excuses as to why he had to pay the largest ethics fine in South Carolina history; and, finally, concluding with a bizarre anecdote about the battle at the Alamo (which he incorrectly said occurred in 1863) because he seems to think it somehow applies to the situation he’s created for himself.

Not one word about what the rest of us would consider to be the main reasons last week was, in fact, a “rough week.”

Full ridiculous ad at link: http://scsoapbox.com/politics/2013/04/22/mark-sanford-spends-1265-words-telling-us-why-hes-the-victim-here-yall/

[panader0]

1. Um.. 1836 mark. not 1863.

What a self absorbed idiot.

[PeaceNikki]

7. Shuuush!! Facts have a liberal bias.

[hobbit709]

2. JuanitaJean's take on it.

http://juanitajean.com/2013/04/22/oh-no-you-cannot-miss-this-you-just-cant/
"Then he compares Democrats to Santa Anna. No, Honey, Santa Anna got caught while boinkin’ his girlfriend. You are Santa Anna."

[PeaceNikki]

5. lol

Thanks for that link!

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. I think he's cracked. n/t

[alphafemale]

4. My congressional district.

Very happy to be voting for Colbert-Busch.

[PeaceNikki]

6. Yay!!

[madinmaryland]

8. One word sums up Mark Sanford very succinctly...

DOUCHEBAG.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. "lowest travel expenses" - yeah, hiking the Appalachian Trail is free, after all

and he cleverly didn't submit any expenses claims for trips to South America ...

Does he really want to talk about travel???