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GOVERNOR TO BE INVOLVED IN RACE TO REPLACE HIM, MCMASTER MOST LIKELY TO WIN ENDORSEMENT
The blossoming friendship between Gov. Mark Sanford and Attorney General Henry McMaster has almost cost me my lunch on a few occasions, so reading John O’Connor’s piece in The State today about the 2010 governor’s race truly tripped my gag reflex.
That’ because Sanford said he will be actively involved in the campaign to choose his predecessor. The governor told O’Connor it’s “very, very important” who succeeds him.
As if that weren’t bad enough, O’Connor points out that Sanford has good reason to not endorse three of the four Republican candidates.
Sanford has history with two of the candidates — [Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer] and [Carroll Campbell III], the son of the late Republican governor — that suggests he will not support them. Last year, Sanford removed Campbell from the S.C. State Ports Authority board, prompting Campbell to sue. The lawsuit later was dropped.
O’Connor further noted that Congressman Gresham Barrett has been very critical of Sanford. That leaves McMaster as the most likely candidate to win Sanford’s endorsement, and it leaves me wishing I had never gotten out of bed this morning.
Memo
Re: Making the Myth Believable
Date: 5 Jan 2009
Comrade Fogle:
Achieving your goal of promoting Henry McMaster’s campaign will fail unless your propaganda becomes more believable. It is imperative that your claims remain in the realm of reality. The notion that Sanford would support McMaster in a primary is out and out ridiculous.
If you were to venture beyond the wireless reach of the back porch, you would certainly know that Sanford, along with the Club for Growth and others, is actively recruiting a candidate to replace him. He will not endorse any of the aforementioned candidates.
In the future, it would be wise to avoid such over the top claims.
Do McMaster and Sanford share anything in common? Other than being in line with the environmental extremists. Sanford is an inconsequential idealogue while McMaster is a consumate politician that calculates political moves more carefully than any politician in the state.
Yes they share far more than that and I have become privileged to understand that. I can tell you why it’s important for Sanford to chose his own sucessor….. to keep all the bodies buried.
You could start with the Medicaid fiasco, you know, the one going on right now where poor dying SC residents can no longer get hospice care paid for……. there’s a reason.
You can keep right on going through every government agency…. these GOPer’s are hiding bodies everywhere.
Gotta keep the lid on it you know……..
This will help Henry-Mac just like it helped that weasle Scott “suck eggs” Singer.