Erick Erickson Explains Mark Sanford's Victory

     What is South Carolina thinking?!

     Last thing I'm in the mood for is Right wing gloating. Still, I'll let Mark Sanford explain Mark Sanford's win yesterday:

     "Mark Sanford has won the special election in South Carolina’s first congressional district."

     "He was abandoned by much of the South Carolina congressional delegation."

      "He was abandoned by the NRCC and its fundraising."

     "The Democrats outspent him by more than a 3 to 1 advantage."

      "But the district favored him to begin with. Despite panic a few weeks ago, he recovered rapidly and closed a ten point gap."

     "I was with Mark Sanford in the beginning despite unmitigated hell from lots of Republicans who were outraged by my supporting him. As I said then, he was the most risky candidate, but potentially the greatest reward in how he’d vote in Congress."

     "I am glad the voters of South Carolina chose to give him a second chance. Mark Sanford wins again. I guess the Democrats will blame Busch."

     "Already they claim the GOP, as the party of “family values”, is hypocritical for voting for Mark Sanford. The party of Bill Clinton and Kermit Gosnell could, of course, never be accused of supporting family values. More over, many of the very same Democrats claiming Sanford’s win is a loss for women will be out next year opposing Nikki Haley’s re-election."

     "The fact is neither side should read more into this election that there was. Elizabeth Colbert-Busch was a terrible candidate, horrible at retail politics. Mark Sanford thrives on retail politics. Lastly, and most importantly, the district was drawn to be a Republican district, though had Colbert-Busch been a better retail politician, she would have done much better."

     "On election day, Sanford had ten events in addition to voting. Elizabeth Colbert-Busch voted and disappeared."

     "Honestly, in a nut shell, despite what you may hear in the media, there are still places in America that hate liberals and would rather a deeply flawed Mark Sanford than an elitist liberal."

http://www.redstate.com/2013/05/07/mark-sanford-wins/

     I let him do it as I think this pretty much sums it up. You can't say Colbert-Busch was a great candidate and like he says Sanford is a great "retail politician." He also lets the cat out of the bad as far as what's really going on here: gerrymandering. 

     I saw him on MSNBC-one of the 10 appearances-and just shook my head. Can South Carolina honestly re-elect this guy? When asked about his scandals with adultery-and leaving the country with his mistress-he turned it back on the questioner-you mean you have no skeletons in your closet if we don't look hard enough? Ok, but there are skeletons and skeletons. 

     Anyway, as far as policy he made it clear he won't be voting for either immigration reform or background checks. Again, though this district was drawn to be a Republican district. If Colbert-Busch had been more engaged maybe we could have had a major steal. As it was it was very close for a gerrymandered Republican district.