New York Times — Sanford Case a New Dose of Bad News for Republicans
 
Among the five stories that the Times did on Gov. Mark Sanford’s foreign flake out, writer Jim Rutenberg talked to some prominent conservatives about what the implosion of a promising standard bearer means to them and the GOP.

Even though John Ensign was not a credible 2012 candidate, the week after week admissions of sex scandals by conservatives is a heavy blow. The GOP had just gotten over the damage from the Mark Foley/Larry Craig sex scandals and the Bob Ney/Duke Cunningham corruption cases that were major contributors to the electoral drubbings of the past four years.

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