Gov. Sanford: Standard advice for going into the wilderness is to tell someone your plans

[CreekDog]

Especially if you are going into the wilderness alone.

And wouldn't that include telling your family or someone in your family where you are going?

I find this odd for an average person, let alone for a governor.

Also, I'm pretty skeptical. I could see if you didn't want people to know where you were going, you might leave your staff in the dark (a bit much for governor though). But would you leave your own wife in the dark --she said she didn't know where Sanford was.

This just doesn't compute, unless there is another explanation for what happened.

[liberal N proud]

1. Don't Governors have a security detail?

I thought most states had state police protection for the Governors of at least one guard. I guess every state I lived in did.

You would think that if he did, they would have known about his plans????

[dgibby]

4. According to the local paper, he "slipped" his security detail.

Hmmmm?

[MarjorieG]

2. Wildnerness doesn't compute. maybe to a designer cabin somewhere. Family uninformed suspicious.

[flakey_foont]

3. very suspicious indeed

not too smart for the Governor of a state to decide to take a Crocodile Dundee walkabout on the spur of the moment, and not let someone with some authority know.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Makes you kind of wonder where he REALLY was and WHO he was

meeting with.

2012 is not THAT far away, when the campaigns start two years before election day.

[Catshrink]

6. I don't buy the story that no one knows where he is.

Wherever he went, rehab or camping or spa, someone knows. The denial is to keep the press at bay even though it makes the whole thing look very very odd. Why not just say that Gov. LooneyToons needed some time for R&R. Hmmmm, maybe not. That really sounds like rehab, doesn't it. Surely they could come up with a statement that would quell the speculation and satisfy the public's insatiable demand for "celebrity" news.

I think the more of an ass he makes of himself the better. This is just another example of how tone deaf the Republicans have become. Sanford is this week's loon, last week it was Ensign. Let's speculate on next week's "Republican Loon of the Week."

on edit: The week before Ensign, the loon was Palin -- but then, it's always Palin and someone else. So, in Loon of the Week "contest" Palin and Bachman are too obvious.

[sarge43]

7. According to the Lt Gov he had no notion where Sanford was

and his staff couldn't or wouldn't tell him. One thing to leave your family or staff in the dark, but your second in command? That's skating right up to the illegal line.

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

8. Good "presidential material," isn't it?

We need that kind of "judgment" in the White House, don't we? No, in this case, it's "all about Mark." He has to follow his own whims and couldn't care less about his constituents or even his family. All about Mark...one of the most selfish politicians I've ever seen.