Thursday, June 25, 2009

Recent history

In the wake of the scandal regarding Mark Sanford's extramarital affair, many pundits are saying that Sanford can never be elected president. They are probably correct.

On the other hand, why should we be so certain that a southern governor who marries a woman from the northern suburbs of Chicago and then cheats on her can't make it all the way to the White House when the last southern governor who married a woman from the northern suburbs of Chicago and then cheated on her got elected president twice?

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