A Rising Star That Crashed And Burned

Here's an entry from a parallel universe, one in which Gov. Mark Sanford, REPUBLICAN, is a rising star in his party, all set to tell us all the terrible things of the Obama Administration and lead us back to the fine Republican principles of the Bush years, er-- check that, back to some golden time of Republican ideals, perhaps 10 minutes during Reagan's time in office.

TPM has part of a book catalog for a book that Sanford had written and would've been published now. In those long ago days, before the Appalachian trail, before the lover in South America, before all the weird overcharges on his expense reports, before he gave a semi-psychotic news conference, he was writing "a conservative manifesto."

Then he unzipped his pants and all bets were off.

His "down-to-earth voice and common sense principles will give conservative readers a much-needed sense of hope," says the publicity. Are so-called conservative readers even looking for a down-to-earth voice and common sense principles these days? They seem a lot less hinged than that!