Mark Sanford

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

But that most certainly doesn't mean the Republic is safer when people like you assume that all of them are exactly like Sanford.

no but they'll have some other failing. It is childlike to place faith in men or women. Quaint, but childlike.

Faith in ourselves is all we need, plus some Divine help.

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by Archaea

no but they'll have some other failing. It is childlike to place faith in men or women. Quaint, but childlike.

Faith in ourselves is all we need, plus some Divine help.

Of course they have some other failing. So do you. But you view them as if they all have a debilitating failing and conclude we should reject them all out of hand.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

Of course they have some other failing. So do you. But you view them as if they all have a debilitating failing and conclude we should reject them all out of hand.

So?

[MikeWaters]

So this idiot repeatedly asked permission of his wife to go to Argentina to visit his mistress.

Also, incredibly, he cites King David and Bathsheba as justification to remain as governor.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

So this idiot repeatedly asked permission of his wife to go to Argentina to visit his mistress.

Also, incredibly, he cites King David and Bathsheba as justification to remain as governor.

I won't research as I don't care that much. Did he spend taxpayer dollars? If not, why care you?

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by Archaea

So?

It is pretty tough to favor any kind of representative government if you take that viewpoint.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

It is pretty tough to favor any kind of representative government if you take that viewpoint.

No. Trust nobody and let them do little.

[Levin]

Originally Posted by Archaea

The is rich. You assume one who is cynical is uninformed. Keep me laughing, Nasenbohrer, Herr Montag. Who is your Clarisse?

You offer nothing to shatter the vision justified by experience.

You know, your line of ignorance and being uninformed looks like this:

Ignorance to --> knowledge to --> a lot of knowledge to --> cynicism and paranoia to --> that cynicism distorting the previously gained knowledge and all newly acquired knowledge to --> ignorance and being uninformed

It is possible for men to pass a threshold of cynicism -- even paranoia -- where what once counted as knowledge now only counts for deep cynicism -- a blinding cynicism to reality. I think you've crossed that threshold.

[SeattleUte]

The guy had an affair in Argentina; he was lonely and was as emotionally bonded as he was sexually addicted to the mistress (see Daily Beast). Why is this occasion for debate on fate of the free world? You're all overwrought.

Waters, your big complaint seems to be that he's a supposed Born Again Christian, i.e., a hypocrit. Maybe then you should be a little more charitable.

[MikeWaters]

My main complaint is that he lied to the public.

That he quotes the bible to describe his love to his mistress and justify remaining governor is merely the icing.