As I’ve said chez moi, I don’t particularly think there’s much more to the Sanford Southern Summer Sojourn Saga than the laffs. There are those of us on The Left who have discerned in this episode certain elements approaching Touching Human Drama, and maybe there are — but what can I say, I’m an American: I like my beer cold, my steak rare, and my political sex scandals pathetic and smarmy.

So in regards to deeper meanings, I’m not looking for any. God bothering politician turns out to be comical dishwater hypocrite, why, goodness, whoever could have imagined what a shock gracious golly good grief burp. And that’s about it. To put this another way, I’d always considered Sanford sort of a clown, so when he behaved clownishly, I chuckled. I had always been certain that he lived where motley is worn, and shazam! I was right. Nothing changed utterly, a farcical press conference was born. To borrow a phrase.

So imagine my surprise to discover, via Red State, where I often learn similarly surprising things about The Left, that to us — to me — the Sanford Affair is of World Historical Importance.

So many hopes have devolved on the next generation, the 50-and-under Republicans, many of them in state government or in the House: Sanford, Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Pat Toomey.

Among that younger generation, Sanford stood out as the most experienced, and has compiled a strong record not only of principle but of public integrity, from leaving Washington after three terms in Congress to battling his own party back home over spending….

The Left, of course, sensing the removal of an obstacle to ever-greater social control, is ecstatic at Sanford’s downfall.

I had no idea, myself. Frankly, I am totally thrilled by the prospect of any of those folks seizing the banner of the Conservative Movement, because I quite enjoy laughing at wingnuts. Or, more concisely, I’m even less worried about Sarah Palin than I ever was about Mark Sanford. No, honestly.

The other great thing about that Red State post is the stuff about how banning abortion and keeping gays from marrying aren’t nearly the threat to personal liberty as seat-belt laws. These are very silly people.


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