{"id":183431,"date":"2013-03-05T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/05\/we-have-a-new-best-definition-for-chutzpah\/"},"modified":"2013-03-05T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T00:59:00","slug":"we-have-a-new-best-definition-for-chutzpah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/05\/we-have-a-new-best-definition-for-chutzpah\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have A New Best Definition for Chutzpah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who are not aware of the classic definition, &#8220;That quality  enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chutzpah\">throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan<\/a>,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, Mark &#8220;Hiking the Appalachian Trail&#8221; Sanford has <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/features\/mark-sanford-2013-3\/index1.html\">come up with a new and improved definition<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">But Mark wanted more than just his ex-wife\u2019s disavowal of interest. When he first ran for Congress in 1994, he installed Jenny as his campaign manager. He did this for reasons of economy\u2014\u201cYou\u2019re free,\u201d he told her at the time\u2014but she proved a natural at the job. She blossomed into a shrewd political strategist, running Mark\u2019s subsequent campaigns and becoming his top adviser. Will Folks, a former Sanford press secretary, says, \u201cThere\u2019s absolutely no way he would have ever won the congressional seat or been governor without her.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">According to Jenny, she had already told Mark she would be taking a pass on the race the day before, at the funeral of a mutual friend. So when Mark came to visit her, he arrived with a proposal. \u201cSince you\u2019re not running, I want to know if you\u2019ll run my campaign,\u201d he said. \u201cWe could put the team back together.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Jenny told him, in so many words, that wasn\u2019t going to happen. Mark made one last appeal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI could pay you this time,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Un-dirtyword-believable.<\/p>\n<p>You leave her, you publicly humiliate her, and you <b>want her to run her campaign<\/b>?<\/p>\n<p>If I were Mark Sanford&#8217;s parents, I&#8217;d worry. <\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/mark-sanford-approached-ex-wife-about-running-congressional\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who are not aware of the classic definition, &#8220;That quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan,&#8221; Well, Mark &#8220;Hiking the Appalachian Trail&#8221; Sanford has come up with a new and improved definition: But &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051,978,1104,982,979,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-politics","category-psychology","category-stupid","category-wanker","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}