Mark Sanford took a bit of a victory lap after his win in the Republican primary for South Carolina’s first Congressional district.
In an interview Wednesday on Morning Joe, Sanford spoke about his fall from grace after the disclosure of his extramarital affair.
He spoke of his long road back into the political arena, and his gratitude for being given a second chance.
What we saw last night in the Republican nomination was people give a verdict of yes, we appreciate, you know, where you come from–we don’t approve of everything you’ve done in life–but we’re going to give you a shot at carrying the Republican nomination and the conservative ideas forward into the general election. And I feel it’s a blessing and I’m thankful for it.
But what kind of conservative champion is the former South Carolina governor, who left office in 2011 after one of the more bizarre marital breakdowns in American political history? It may in the end be easier for conservatives to forgive Sanford’s infidelity to his wife than to forget his infidelity to conservative principles of limited public spending.









