Muckey movers - GOP tongue-tied

Sure, everyone’s startled by Mark Sanford’s emotional confessions Wednesday.

But the GOP needs to get more fleet of foot.

After disappearing over Father’s Day weekend, the South Carolina governor resurfaced, admitted to an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina, and resigned as chairman of the National Governors Association.

When we visited the NGA web site this morning, we clicked on the “message from the chairman” link and found this:

Evidently, someone in the party knew enough to take the message down, but couldn’t think of anything to put in its stead.

There’s a metaphor in there somewhere.

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