"...The problems with Sanford lie elsewhere. He is by all accounts a somewhat typical product of what the Republican Party's leadership selection process produces: a political extremist, a grandstander, a policy ignoramus, and a man of amazingly inflated self-importance. Those, to me, are vices. Hypocrisy pales in comparison to them."
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Why Hypocrisy is the Least of Mark Sanford's Sins --Alan Wolfe, The New Republic
"...The problems with Sanford lie elsewhere. He is by all accounts a somewhat typical product of what the Republican Party's leadership selection process produces: a political extremist, a grandstander, a policy ignoramus, and a man of amazingly inflated self-importance. Those, to me, are vices. Hypocrisy pales in comparison to them."
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