GOVERNOR TAKES TO CNN TO DO MISS TEEN SC IMPRESSION

Long lost anonymous blogger “Not Very Bright” returned today to post the above clip of Gov. Mark Sanford trying like hell to get some national media love as a vice presidential prospect. Since the geniuses at CNN are about as lost in the woods as the governor himself, they haven’t quite accepted the fact that Republican presidential nominee John McCain will never in a million years pick this guy as his running mate.

So hopefully CNN and other news outlets learned their lesson this morning when Sanford was on “Late Edition” with host Wolf Blitzer and proceeded to do his best impersonation of former Miss Teen South Carolina, Lauren Caitlin Upton.

When shown Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama’s latest radio ad and asked if there are any significant differences between what the Bush administration’s economic plan and McCain’s proposal, Sanford froze up and did everything but declare a map shortage.

“Yes. I mean, for instance, take, you know — take, for instance, the issue of — I’m drawing a blank, and I hate it when I do that, particularly on television,” Sanford said before sputtering off something completely unrelated about NAFTA.

Blitzer tried to bring Sanford back the question at hand, but the governor continued babbling and said, “No, I was going to go to a point — I was going to go to a point which is, what you would want is consistency with regard to that position.”

All of this came, of course, only seconds after CNN ran a graphic at the bottom of the screen that read, all too ironically, “A ‘Mental Recession.’” Folks, I rest my case.