Arkansas Blog

Governors are not supposed to do such things, but haven't most of us had the urge to just take off somewhere on occasion? My MO few times has to just get in the vehicle and drive. These episodes have been a few hours, not four days. Doesn't hurt anything and may actually help a little.

Max, you are right. He's no presidential candidate. This antic would hamstrung him as much as Gary
Hart's diddling.

Oh it's pretty clear what he was doing. Click the blue name.

Well, maybe as POTUS candidate he could have an event planner.

President Teddy Roosevelt did this all the time. Just disappeared. Horseback riding in the Maryland country side, hiking, etc. Guess times have changed.

I understand about getting away, but someone on the "family values" promoting side of all this, please explain to me how getting away from the wife and four kids on Father's Day is promoting family values?

Isn't that supposed to be a virtue of the Republican politician and Presidential candidate? Or am I suffering tinnitus from the Elephant Echo Chamber trying to resurrect the Senator Boxer Ma'am smear for another news cycle?

When I was little and my parents would separate from time to time over my dad's infidelities, they'd always tell us it was because he needed a quiet place to study for his CPA exam. Maybe he wouldn't have had to take the test four times if he'd actually done some of that studying.
This whole thing sounds very fishy to me. What kind of father disappears for four days without a word to his family, especially over Father's Day? I'm curious to see how he handles all the questions that will be asked upon his return.

Me thinks Sanford is a bit of a nut....

I agree with Any*Mouse...

Anybody remember the stand-up comedian whose entire routine was based upon him having Alzheimers? he was an older man in his 70s when he first started performing. He didn't really have Altheimer's of course, but he was damned funny...

My favorite line: "The best part of Alzheimer's is waking up in a new world every day..."

The second-term chief executive was hiking along the Appalachian Trail "to kind of clear his head after the legislative session."

Uh huh. Does this mean Gov. Beebe had Clorox swished through his veins after our last legislative session.....I wouldn't blame him. I think the people of Sanford's state would be served well if a round of medical testing could prove no semen has left the governor's body since he left home. Surely they have a test for that by now, don't they?

If not a man or woman, I'm betting there's a brown bear out there in the Appalachians lighting up a Marlboro as I type.....and there's no one I hate more than a bear FK'er. I smell sex! Go ahead...put your nose right up to yer monitor and take a whiff........you'll smell it too.

Please tell me some "investigative reporter" is hot on Sanford's trail. Inquiring minds want to know!

Well, I hate to take the opposite tack from most of you, especially since Sanford is a Republican, but this may really have been his entirely innocent week-end escape. And, yeah, even over Father's Day. Not all of us think a special day is necessary for fathers or mothers. Some of us think it's downright silly. (Good thing we two oddballs found each other, 'cause most people figure we're crazy.)
More power to Sanford if he escaped. On the other hand, considering ticks, chiggers, mosquitoes, heat, etc. etc. etc., I can't see how the man is very bright. If I had just had to escape, I do believe I'd have gone north and hit the trail in Maine. Or do they have chiggers in Maine too?