The South Carolina Republican Party has formally voted to censure Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) over his extra-marital affair and his disappearance from the state — an interesting development, the closer one looks at it.
Of the 41 members of the state GOP’s executive committee, a bare majority of 22 voted to censure him. Ten members voted to ask him to resign, and nine others in fact voted in support of him.
Funny thing: Sanford voted to impeach Bill Clinton over a sex scandal in 1998, and at the time a whole lot of Republicans said that a mere censure of Clinton was insufficient — only impeachment or a resignation would truly satisfy the moral and legal problems at hand.