•SC-01: Boo yeah! Sure sounds like Elizabeth Colbert Busch got the better of Mark Sanford at their lone debate on Monday night:
Sanford spoke repeatedly about his extensive efforts as governor and House member to cut wasteful spending. Colbert Busch then turned to Sanford and delivered this zinger:If you're Mark Sanford, how do you not prepare to answer attacks like this? And pretending you're deaf and trying to pivot to the sequester? (You can watch the exchange at 1:45 here. There's no way he was unable to hear.) Sheesh. Really sad."When we talk about fiscal spending and we talk about protecting the taxpayers, it doesn't mean you take the money we saved and leave the country for a personal purpose."
That was a reference to Sanford's use of state funds to fly to Argentina to visit his mistress and now fiancé, an affair that derailed his political career four years ago.
"She went there, Governor Sanford," one of the debate's moderators responded.
With much of the crowd hooting and hollering, Sanford seemed shaken.
"I couldn't hear what she said… repeat it, I didn't hear," he said.
"Answer the question," Colbert Busch interjected.
"What was the question?" Sanford said, appearing stunned. "Ok, but anyway, ah ah, on the sequester, I'll go back to the sequester…"
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