For the GOP, it keeps getting worse. The self-proclamed Family Values and Fiscal Responsibility Party has been going through some epically embarrassing moments in the last few years. One one hand, the repeated sexual indescretions of it's 2012 hopefuls, and on the other, the failure of the majority party (until 2006) to keep government spending under control has further strained an already troubled party.
washingtonpost.com
For Republicans, a Long Winter Gets Longer
By Dan Balz
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Mark Sanford's summer adventure to Argentina -- no, he was not hiking the Appalachian Trail, as his aides incorrectly told reporters -- is now a full-fledged personal and family embarrassment, a story of infidelity followed by a public confession of the kind that has become all too familiar from political leaders.
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