No one would ever look for OUR governor on the Appalachian Trail!
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No one would ever look for OUR governor on the Appalachian Trail!
If there was ever a time that the world needed a news story that was somewhat serious yet also highly comical, it was this week. And that being the case, God bless South Carolina Gov. and now 2009 "Father of the Year" nominee" Mark Sanford, who disappeared from his job with the reported claim that he needed space away from his kids to write, on Father's Day, leaving in the dark not just his wife but his staff, who reported that Sanford was "hiking the Appalachian Trail" (giving birth to an awesome new euphemism!) even though evidence later surfaced that the governor-on-the-lam had been spotted at Atlanta's airport.
All I can say is...this would never happen with our governor, Ed Rendell. That guy has never seen the Appalachian Trail -- which snakes through eastern Pennsylvania -- in his life, unless it was whizzing past at 110 mph as state troopers whisked him from a Penn basketball game to the Dunkin Donuts outside of Harrisburg. And if he did go missing for a long weekend, the APB from state troopers would probably call for a search of every Golden Corral buffet table in the state, not some trail in the woods.
As for Sanford, his brief tenure as a GOP 2012 White House hopeful seems to have gone the way of John "What Happens in Vegas Didn't Stay in Vegas" Ensign and Bobby "Kenneth the Page" Jindal. But I think we'll always have Sarah... and Newt.
Hey what other gov could say that during his last year his state won the Big 10 Football title, the World Series, the Super Bowl, the Caulder Cup, and the Stanley Cup? For a Gov that loves sports that has to be his best memory of being in Harrisburg. (weren't there rumors a while back that Good Ole' Boy Sanford had a boyfriend? maybe that's who he went hiking with on National Nude Hiking Day that was held on Sunday.)— atp2007
Comment removed.- sO, IS "Walking the trail" = the new "punching the clown"? Oh, and Edwards is an amoral dirtbag... before anyone accuses me of being a toady.— Captain Awesome
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- Sanford needs to be impeached. How can a Gov just leave his job without giving his family and staff a way to contact him if there is an emergency? Seriously, what an F up! He makes Palin look competent.— Think for myself
- you might find wide ed on the app. trail....installing tollbooths or slots. he might also start the app trail park authority and install vinny fumo as director to help fund the app. woodchucks soccer team's new stadium.— natedog
the Appalachian Trail goes from Maine down to Georgia. Maybe he flew up to New England (or Scranton) to hike it.- Comment removed.
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"Sanford ain't hiking. He's in rehab. Book it!" yeah, rehabbing his libido. He was obviously with a ho. Oh, bill at, this is for you: li·bi·do (lĭ-bē'dō, -bī'-) n. pl. li·bi·dos 1. The psychic and emotional energy associated with instinctual biological drives. 2. a. Sexual desire. b. Manifestation of the sexual drive.— one_eyed_jack- Comment removed.
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- Bush, the neocons and Ahmadinejad all approve of the use of torture. Now that McCain has endangered the reformers in Iran, he can sleep like a baby knowing that they will most likely be tortured.— Think for myself
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- "...all approve of the use of torture. Now that McCain has endangered the reformers in Iran, he can sleep like a baby knowing that they will most likely be tortured." You claim to 'think for yourself' after typing that? Blaming a U.S. senator for what the Iranian leadership is doing to its own people is absurd--it ain't waterboarding, by the way--and you know it.— Vandy
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