How Long Can a Damaged Governor Last?

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Woman Up Editor

Thanks for the fill on Mark Sanford's extraordinary press conference, Emily. I just watched it again here with Patricia. What I wonder now is how long can he last as governor spending so much of his next weeks and months going door to door "one by one and town by town" apologizing to the many people in South Carolina from whom Sanford asks forgiveness?

Jill is right. It is better for the party that this happens in 2009 than closer to the next presidential race. But what happens now for politicians from the Palmetto State will be a big old barn dance with no telling who will be where when the music stops. Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer is next in line for the seat if (when?) Sanford steps down. But, South Carolina's congressional delegation, members of the state legislature, and Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint have got to be calling their power bases all over the state, figuring out how to preserve both capital and the Capitol. Personally, I'd like to see Jenny Sanford with a new position of leadership and authority when all this shakes out. She knows the business, can campaign (she was her husband's campaign manager), and would be sure to get a sympathy vote from the women in her state.

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