I normally don’t agree with Meghan McCain. Actually, I don’t think I have ever agreed with her. At least until today, when she made this statement

But what goes on in Governor Sanford’s personal life, I believe, just isn’t relevant to his role as a public official. The problem I see, like most problems I have with politics, goes back to the same thing—the hypocrisy of it all. One thing making everyone so mad, myself included, are the clips being played of Governor Sanford publicly blasting former President Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky. It looks horribly hypocritical. And it is. We have to stop requiring that our politicians live at such a high level of moral superiority, as if they are infallible creatures. Let me assure you, they are not. Because when these same politicians fall from grace—especially in the South—we demand that they leave office immediately. (Unlike, say, Eliot Spitzer, Governor Sanford didn’t do anything illegal. If he were to be convicted of misusing state funds for traveling to Argentina, then, of course, it is a different matter entirely and he should step down. )

Is it wrong? Yes!! But really, does it have anything to do with politics? Does it have anything to do with him running his state? Unless of course he used state funds for traveling to Argentina. Otherwise, I don’t think we need to know and I don’t thinks its grounds for removal. Its not like he killed anybody or had $90,000 in his freezer?? Now those would be reasons to resign.

Also, my decision is not based on party lines, I didn’t care about Clinton’s under the desk adventures either… I only cared about the perjury part!

These Governors just recently sent a letter to the president in favor of the HUGE Spending Bill.

Charlie Crist (R-FL)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA)
M. Jodi Rell (R-CT)

Schwarzenegger will be done in 2010 due to term limit.
Crist is up for re-election in 2010. Hopefully, Someone runs against him. Or he runs for Senate!
Rell is up for re-election in 2010. Hopefully, Someone runs against her.

Deval Patrick (D-MA)
Bill Ritter Jr. (D-CO)
Jack Markell (D-DE)
Pat Quinn (D-IL)
Chester J. Culver (D-IA)
Jennifer M. Granholm (D-MI)
Jon S. Corzine (D-NJ)
David A. Paterson (D-NY)
Ted Strickland (D-OH)
Brad Henry (D-OK)
Theodore R. Kulongoski (D-OR)
Edward G. Rendell (D – PA)
James H. Douglas (R – VT)
Timothy M. Kaine (D – VA)
John deJongh Jr (D-VI)
Jim Doyle (D-WI)

Here is the letter:

The 19 Governors who support a Spending bill to bail them out.

41 States are faced with (or are going to be facing) a shortfall in their budget this and/or next year.

The white states are the 9 that are doing quite well.

6 of the 9 have Republican Governors.