Sanford Twitter Account Active Even As He's Disappeared

Governor Mark Sanford may be missing in action. His wife may not know exactly where he is. And there could be some dispute as to whether the South Carolina Republican is hiking the Appalachian Trail or flying somewhere via the Atlanta airport.

Through it all, however, his twitter account has kept active.

An astute observer points out that there have been multiple posts on the twitter page of the possible 2012 Republican presidential contender even though Sanford himself has gone off the radar.

On Thursday, the day the governor apparently 'disappeared,' Sanford's page had two tweets: first to trumpet his appearance the night before on Sean Hannity's show on Fox News, the next to tout the message sent by the famous tea party protests of government tax policies.

tea parties were a tipping point in pushing back against Washington DC's financial recklessness - http://tinyurl.com/sanfordo... #liberty

On Sunday, Sanford's twitter account had another post, declaring that the "stimulus discussion shows need for restructuring in SC." Finally on Monday, when news of his disappearance became a national story, the Governor's page had a tweet that South Carolina's government structure was "fundamentally flawed."

Could it be that Sanford, a self-avowed active tweeter, was filing posts from his jaunt through the Appalachian Mountains? Was he staying abreast of current events as he was closing himself off from family, friends and colleagues?

Actually, the answer is far more innocent. While the governor was gone his staff kept on working, with an aide tasked with keeping the twitter account up to date.

Comments

[mrpink]

Casting the lone dissenting vote on a health care issue involving breast and cervical cancer shows his true colors. Uncaring, shallow, heartless tool bag. My his political career end soon..

[AmericanWarrior]

He turns down the stimulus, meant to aid students and the unemployed but he goes to Argentina? W T F

[Bartolo27]

Nothing says Happy Fathers Day like disappearing from your family, Your job, leaving the country, not telling anybody at work and spending a wek with a Gay Male Argentinean Prostitute

I'm just saying
No one knows for sure
It could of happened.

[Bartolo27]

What? these fraudulent guys personally tweet? You can be sure they all have young staff members whose responsibilities include tweetin for their fabulous tech ignorant Senators, Governors, Congressme­n.........

They use the Google on the INTERNETS because it is a SERIES OF TUBES!

[proudandtrue]

wonder if a special lady waited for him at the Bueno Aires airport arrival terminal...ay yay yay....

[IndieBlue]

Isn't that where John McCain kept one of his mistresses?

[violettefemme]

La La La La LOLA!

Special indeed.

[JohnnyLiberal]

The question still remains - what, exactly, is Sanford hiding? What was he doing in Argentina, and why all of the lies?

You can post your theories here -

http://www.ihatewhatyoujustsaid.com/2009/06/23/the-sanford-pool-place-your-bets-readers/

[satorist]

So ... who's the plagiarist, Sanford or his Tweeting staff?

[Rachelee]

well, if this was plagiarism, i guess that would be a valid question.

[BoVandy]

I don't think you know what plagiarism is

[satorist]

You both may be correct. I used the term to mean "o steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own", but what does Webster know.

Monkeys, monkeys monkeys....

[CeeCee]

I pity his children. They will need years of therapy to deal with this.
As for his wife, she's an adult. If she appears next to him as a dutiful wife, she deserves the consequences too.
I'm sick of people showing false humility. A little moral courage goes a long way.

[magnetplanner]

Blame it on Rio. What a loser.

[Marc Lipman]

he's more of a creep than I imagined!

[GetACluepeople]

Great looking women down there...just went for a drive? Doubt that!

[tsanders726]

The whole story is goofy, but if this guy was a Democrat, it wouldn't have even made the papers.

[EdBradly7]

Gotta love those family values. I remember as a kid my father would always fly off to Argentina for fathers day without telling me or mom. I just assumed the media was to blame. From the Startribune.....The governor has long been known as a loner — bucking GOP leadership during three U.S. House terms and casting the only dissenting vote on Medicaid coverage for some breast and cervical cancer treatment. Gotta love those family values.

[Decipherer]

Au contraire, Slick.

It would have been vigorously and gleefully hyped 24/7 by Murdoch and the right-wing dominated media in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Are you kidding me?

[Wilbur]

BINGO!

Wilbur

[gvidal]

The weirdest politician in America.....and S America. How's his darlin' down in Buenos Aires doin?

[spiritpony1]

hey----wat's the big deal; both Appalachia and Argentina start w/ A.------in any case, they say he gets "overwrought" after leg. sessions historically; fine, THEN WE 'SHO DON'T WANT HIM PREZ-------WHAT IF HE HAD HAD TO PUT UP W/ WHAT BHO HAS THESE LAST FEW MOS.------GUY IS , LIKE MCNUTTY, UNSTABLE--­---------S­EEMS MORE REPULSIVES SHOWING UP THAT WAY-------­--BIZARRRR­RO----

[HarryMonster]

You just wrote the first campaign add against him - whether for Pres or Gov

[madisonhack]

Political career over.