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From:	Cato (70.232.73.136)
Subject:	Alas
Date:	June 27, 2009 at 12:53 pm PST

During former President Bill Clinton's scandal, Sanford chimed in, "I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally (to resign). ... I come from the business side. ... If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone."

Columnist Charles Blow, inspired by South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's sexcapade, reviews the literature on the illicit proclivities of Republican-leaning regions.

"There are Democratic sex scandals to be sure, but Democrats didn’t build a franchise on holier-than-thou moral rectitude. The Republicans did. They used sexual morality as a weapon and now it’s shooting them in the foot. And this kind of hypocrisy isn’t confined to the politicians. It permeates the electorate. While conservatives fight to 'defend' marriage from gays, they can’t keep theirs together. According to the Census Bureau’s Statistical Abstract, states that went Republican in November accounted for eight of the 10 states with the highest divorce rates in 2006.

Conservatives touted abstinence-only education, which was a flop, when real sex education was needed, most desperately in red states."

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