How does being seen with a 4th district congressman create a candidate for a 1st district seat? Only The Boy knows

The Blogger Who Knows No Shame wonders if The Luv Guv plans to run for his old congressional seat:

GOVERNOR’S APPEARANCE AT CAPITOL SPARKS RUMORS OF CONGRESSIONAL BID

It’s been a long time since Gov. Mark Sanford had a reason to go to Washington, DC — nearly 10 years, to be exact.

But the former Congressman who gave up his seat in 2001 to become governor made a surprise visitto the Capitol building on Thursday.

CNN reported that, the day after his final State of the State address, Sanford was spotted in the rotunda alongside Congressman Bob Inglis.

Asked why he was in Washington, Sanford said, “I was going to catch up with some friends on the House floor.”

But the visit has already sparked rumors that the term-limited Sanford, who has $1.4 million left in his gubernatorial campaign account, might be considering running for his old Congressional seat.

The first district seat has become hotly-contested since Congressman Henry Brown announced his retirement. Already, Republican Carroll Campbell III and Paul Thurmond have jumped in the race, with a slew of other GOP candidates reportedly mulling a bid.

Sanford, however, has become infamous since his five-day disappearance in June and revelation of an affair with a woman in Argentina. As a result, his approval ratings in South Carolina are in the dirt and even a run for dog catcher would be extremely difficult.

This is South Carolina, though, and stranger things have happened.

Rumors? Like the one about vice president Tim Kaine? Never mind that Sanford's ratings are not enough in the dirt to get him even censured by both houses of his party's legislature, much less impeached. Or that if Sanford hasn't been in DC in ten years (which is hard to believe, given his ties to C Street and the usual duties of governors), he wasn't there while he was still a member of Congress. Or that Inglis is one of Boy Fogle's paymasters' Big Enemies.


This is the sort of lazy, unsourced, asshattery that makes Boy Fogle such a fun read. Like his contention, just yesterday, that C-SPAN was covering Sanford's final state of the state address to see if he would talk about his affair.