{"id":187330,"date":"2013-04-04T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/04\/iokiyar\/"},"modified":"2013-04-04T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T01:34:00","slug":"iokiyar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/04\/iokiyar\/","title":{"rendered":"IOKIYAR*"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:colbertnation.com:425045\" width=\"384\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>It&#8217;s on!<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Mark &#8220;Hiking the Appalachian Trail&#8221; Sanford <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/04\/us\/politics\/mark-sanford-unlikely-republican-standard-bearer.html\">won the Republican nomination for the special election in 1<sup>st<\/sup> Congressional district in South Carolina<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mark Sanford\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, the Argentine for whom he risked a political career, stood next to him Tuesday as he accepted the Republican nomination for a South Carolina Congressional seat. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Mar\u00eda Bel\u00e9n Chapur\u2019s appearance was a surprise, especially to leaders in the national Republican Party. It might not have been the most strategic move in Mr. Sanford\u2019s attempt at a political comeback. Still, it was how Mr. Sanford wanted it. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Whether national Republican leaders will decide that the former governor is putting the seat in jeopardy and decide to lend more support is only one question in a race that has already been filled with political and personal drama. After defeating 15 other candidates in a primary race and winning a runoff on Tuesday, Mr. Sanford faces Elizabeth Colbert Busch, a Democrat with enough celebrity appeal and financial backing to change what could have been an easy victory in the special election on May 7 into a real battle.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is yet another example of just how classless Republicans are in the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cEverybody is really concerned because she\u2019s not a bad-looking lady, she is a good speaker and she\u2019s got some money,\u201d said Jerry Hallman, chairman of the Beaufort County Republican Party. \u201cIn politics, those things are important.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elizabeth Colbert Busch is Stephen Colbert&#8217;s older sister, so when the classless Mr. Hallman talked about her celebrity, he was not kidding.  (See the vid for more)<\/p>\n<p>Still, it is remarkable how complete a Republican self-immolation can be, and yet they are still allowed to return to positions of public trust.<\/p>\n<p>This is a guy who runs on family values, and he gets caught f%$#ing around on his former wife with the woman who is now his current wife, and it&#8217;s, &#8220;Hey, no harm, no foul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Republican culture of impunity is a marvel to behold.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><u><b>I<\/b><\/u>t&#8217;s <u><b>OK<\/b><\/u> <u><b>I<\/b><\/u>f <u><b>Y<\/b><\/u>ou <u><b>A<\/b><\/u>re a <u><b>R<\/b><\/u>epublican<b>.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s on! Mark &#8220;Hiking the Appalachian Trail&#8221; Sanford won the Republican nomination for the special election in 1st Congressional district in South Carolina: Mark Sanford\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, the Argentine for whom he risked a political career, stood next to him Tuesday as he accepted the Republican nomination for a South Carolina Congressional seat. Mar\u00eda Bel\u00e9n Chapur\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1051,1075,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-hypocrisy","category-sex","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187330"}],"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=187330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}