By Adam Fogle | July 9th, 2009 | 12 comments

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REPUBLICAN DISSES DEMOCRAT EVENT, BLOWS NON-PARTISAN COVER

A rally pushing for Gov. Mark Sanford’s resignation lost it’s only bit of non-partisan cover Thursday as South Carolina GOP National Committeeman Glenn McCall announced that he would not be in attendance.

The event, staged largely by State Democrats associated with President Barack Obama, was billed as an independent, grassroots movement.

But the powerful, partisan push behind Thursday’s rally put McCall in a bad position, forcing him to back out of the event.

On Wednesday, McCall told the Charlotte Observer that he’s still calling for Sanford’s resignation, but he’s satisfied with the involvement by state legislators and no longer felt the need to push the rally.

In other words, it would not have looked very good for a prominent South Carolina Republican to be standing arm in arm with the state’s Democrat establishment and volunteers for Obama’s “Organizing for America” campaign.

McCall was one of the first Republicans to demand Sanford’s resignation after the governor left the state for five days to visit his mistress in Argentina.


12 Responses to “McCall backs out of anti-Sanford rally”

  1. 1.
    Posted by Bill on 07/9/09 at 5:06 pm

    He is a fat tick wanna-be that is one step higher up the food chain than he should be. Certainly, he should learn the wisdom of silence.

  2. 2.
    Posted by Melanie Graham on 07/9/09 at 5:15 pm

    You tell him Bill…don’t hold back. :)

  3. 3.
    Posted by petey pab on 07/9/09 at 5:39 pm

    McCall may want Sanford to resign, but he doesn’t believe in working with the Democrats to make it happen. He is a true Republican and he is the kind of Republican that makes me a proud conservative

  4. 4.
    Posted by Give Me a Break on 07/9/09 at 5:47 pm

    Mr. McCall is one of the most morally conservative men I know. I am proud of him being my voice on the RNC. I agree with Mr. McCall- Sanford was wrong for what he did. But Mr. McCall knew when to make a point and move on. I wish the rest of South Carolina would move on because it seems Sanford is hunkered down in the Governor’s Mansion.

  5. 5.
    Posted by carolyn20 on 07/9/09 at 7:27 pm

    Interesting piece-nice going Fogle. Money talks, doesn’t it?

    “Adam Fogle – was the public face for a secretive group called the “S.C. Taxpayers’ Alliance” that ran television ads opposing the governor’s position on the stimulus funds.

    At the time, attacking Sanford was apparently in the best interests of Fogle’s employer – the political consulting firm of Richard Quinn & Associates.

    Today? Not so much.

    After all, if Sanford is forced to resign his office over the fallout from his extramarital affair, it would elevate S.C. Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer to the governor’s office, which just wouldn’t do for The Scoop’s No. 1 homey (and Quinn’s No. 1 client) – S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster.

    Not surprisingly, then, The Scoop is now all of a sudden working every possible angle it can to provide political cover for Sanford – which includes exposing this afternoon’s rally calling for Sanford’s impeachment as an “Obama operation.”

  6. 6.
    Posted by anonymous on 07/10/09 at 6:11 am

    A Trade Mission?

    A Trade Mission?

    Sanfraud was on a “mission”, but it wasn’t a “trade mission”.

    Sanfraud was on a Argentian Putang Mission.

    Sir, did you successfully complete your Trade Mission in Argentina? uh uh uh …yes I did! …uh uh uh ….wait …let me finish…mission accomplished! …yes sir, putang mission accomplished …uh uh uh …wait let me finish…

  7. 7.
    Posted by anonymous on 07/10/09 at 6:18 am

    SANFRAUD TRIPPING OVER HIMSELF, CAN’T KEEP HIS STORIES STRAIGHT

    In 1998, here’s what the then-congressman had to say about the Bill Clinton sex scandal:“What the American public cares about is the issue of trust… because if they don’t trust their lawmaker… they won’t trust the laws that the lawmaker creates.“

    Sanford also spoke to the Post and Courier in 1998 about Clinton. He said,“I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he’d be gone.“

    The statement had a good deal to do with Clinton not telling the truth under oath, but later that year, Sanford addressed another sex scandal with Louisiana congressman Bob Livingston.

    “The bottom line is that he still lied. He lied under a different oath and that’s the oath to his wife… so it’s got to be taken very very seriously,“ Sanford said.

    Now more than 10 years later Sanfraud’s words bite him in the buttox.

    VIDEO:
    http://www.counton2.com/cbd/news/local/article/could_mark_sanfords_own_words_about_sex_scandals_come_back_to_haunt_him/42711/

  8. 8.
    Posted by Lou on 07/10/09 at 6:48 am

    First, we do not know the extent of the Governor’s misdeeds.
    Second, the rally was probably more wildly successful than anyone would ever believe.
    Third, at least Mr. McCall has sense. He is still calling for resignation and I believe that’s because there’s so very very much more to the Sanford story

  9. 9.
    Posted by anonymous on 07/11/09 at 12:13 am

    Sanfraud said:

    “There were a handful of instances wherein I crossed the lines I shouldn’t have crossed as a married man, but never crossed the ultimate line”

    Sir, how do you do that? I mean, how do you cross the line without crossing the line? uh uh uh, well, it’s kinda of like the The Hokey Pokey…

    You put your right hand in,
    You put your right hand out,
    You put your right hand in,
    And you shake it all about,

    You do the hokey pokey
    and you turn yourself around
    That what it’s all about.

    2) left hand
    3) right foot
    4) left foot
    5) head
    6) butt
    7) whole self

    Sir, how is it like the hokey pokey? well …uh uh uh ….well …wait, let me finish …you cross the line and then you cross back over and then it’s like you never crossed the line at all, see it’s simple.

    Sir, please tell me again how you never crossed the ultimate line? …uh uh uh well, if you’re only over the line for a little while and no one knows about it, then it’s like it never happened ….uh uh uh …are ya fallerin’ me so far? It’s just like I told ya, the ultimate line was never crossed ’cause I’m over yonder now, see? I’m over cheer! See, I’m not over the line. Now if these fellas start to thinkin’ that I’m over the line, well there mistaken because I’m splittin’ my time between the Mansion and Sullivans Island so that proves plain and simple that the ultimate has not been crossed. See …I’m over cheer …over cheer …I’m not over the line, just like I told ya …just like I told ya.

    ********************************

  10. 10.
    Posted by York County Conservative on 07/11/09 at 2:44 am

    Glenn McCall is one of the few people left in York County with dignity and respect. He understands how to call out members of the GOP who have violated a sacred trust without turning it into a witch hunt like the petty Joe St. John diatrabe against Paul Lindemann. There are some of us in the middle ground who wouldn’t support Paul in another election, but see the hypocricy and petty nature of his most vocal opponents as a joke doing damage to the GOP.
    Good for Glenn.
    If only he would rid himself of Joe’s influence. The party would grow.

  11. 11.
    Posted by anonymous on 07/12/09 at 2:07 am

    Just four days before Gov. Mark Sanford got on a plane headed to South America last year, state Commerce Department staff members were scrambling to set up legitimate business meetings in Argentina.

    Roughly 200 e-mails obtained by The Post and Courier sent between Commerce staff, Sanford and the governor’s office from January to July 2008 reveal a governor intent on a light-day schedule and free evenings that Sanford later admitted he spent with his lover.

    In an e-mail sent just before midnight on June 18 to tie up loose ends, a staff member wrote to Commerce Secretary Joe Taylor, “By the way, good news from Argentina — at the end of today they came through with some (good appointments for Sanford) there. We will finalize (the) agenda there for him tomorrow and send it to him. Credit to Ford who blindly called one of the company’s in Spanish and got an appointment.”

    While planning the Argentine trip, Commerce staff repeatedly suggested that the governor wanted a “low-key” schedule with nights free.

    The governor told staff that has was looking to “enhance his trip” to Buenos Aires.

    http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/jul/12/e_mails_reveal_details89006/

  12. 12.
    Posted by Rev Reggie Jackson on 07/14/09 at 11:53 am

    Chances are; Sanford was totally innocent and because he didn’t want to follow the new world antichrist orders; they trumped up charges against him and he had to take it for the protection of his family!! Yes; because they own the media; they can make even a totally innocent man a scapegoat because he won’t allow his state to be taken over by them!! And we will be praying for him that he and his family are protected from these demonically controlled and hell bound devils!!

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