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   DemoCRETIN Colbert CRUSHED In SC Special Election; Not Even Close;   
   'RATs Piss Away More Than A Million Bucks! (snicker)   
   Mark Sanford defeats Elizabeth Colbert Busch   
   Republican Mark Sanford has defeated Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch   
   in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District special election. The   
   victory caps a dramatic comeback by the scandal-tinged former   
   governor, whose political career was left for dead four years ago when   
   he was caught lying about an extramarital affair.   
      
   With three quarters of precincts reporting, Sanford led 54 percent to   
   45 percent for Colbert Busch, and The Associated Press called the   
   race.   
      
   Sanford, waging a bid for political redemption three years after his   
   fall from grace, went into Election Day with a head of steam. Polls   
   showed the former governor closing on and then eclipsing Colbert   
   Busch, a Clemson University administrator and the sister of comedian   
   Stephen Colbert, who just a couple of weeks ago looked poised for a   
   major upset.   
      
   The former governor, who in 2009 admitted an affair after infamously   
   claiming to be hiking on the Appalachian Trail, spent the final day in   
   a frenzied dash across South Carolina’s Lowcountry. Once regarded as a   
   viable potential presidential contender, Sanford had said the race   
   would be his last if he fell short.   
      
   The race was triggered in December, when Gov. Nikki Haley appointed   
   GOP Rep. Tim Scott to fill Republican Jim DeMint’s vacant Senate seat.   
   It drew a cast worthy of Hollywood: Sanford, Colbert Busch, and   
   Republican Teddy Turner Jr., the son of liberal media mogul Ted   
   Turner, among other candidates.   
      
   Sanford cast himself as a changed man seeking a second shot. He easily   
   prevailed in the primary over a crowded field of Republican opponents   
   who struggled to match his fundraising power and universal name ID.   
      
   Then, in the general election, he managed to turn the race into a   
   referendum on Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic establishment instead of   
   himself. That was the winning play in the deep red district.   
      
   Sanford and Colbert Busch cut starkly different political profiles.   
   Sanford, a political animal, packed his schedule with campaign events   
   in an effort to win over voters who had misgivings. Colbert Busch, a   
   newcomer to the political stage, kept a lower profile and presented   
   herself as a pragmatic-minded, palatable alternative to the former   
   governor. Helping fill her fundraising coffers was her famous brother,   
   who traveled to New York City, Washington, D.C., and Charleston, S.C.,   
   to host donor events for her.   
      
   Sanford entered the general election as the favorite: The deep-red   
   district has been in Republican hands for more than three decades and   
   broke for Mitt Romney by 18 percentage points. But in April, he was   
   dealt a serious blow when the AP reported that his popular ex-wife,   
   Jenny Sanford, was suing him for trespassing at her Sullivan’s Island   
   home.   
      
   The next day, the National Republican Congressional Committee   
   announced that it would cease spending money on the race. The decision   
   left Sanford alone to fight it out against Democratic groups who,   
   eyeing an opportunity to steal a Republican seat, were pummeling him   
   on the airwaves.   
      
   With polls showing him in free fall, Sanford battled back by casting   
   Colbert Busch as a tool of House Minority Leader Pelosi and labor   
   unions. He challenged Colbert Busch to say how she’d be independent of   
   party leaders who were helping to fund her campaign.   
      
   At one point, Sanford debated a cardboard Pelosi cutout. The theatrics   
   drew ridicule, but Sanford aides — and some Democrats — say the   
   publicity the theatric generated helped drive attention to his   
   message.   
      
   Colbert Busch insisted that she would be an independent voice in   
   Congress, and her Democratic allies said Sanford couldn’t be trusted.   
      
   The NRCC, which pulled the plug on Sanford’s bid, issued a statement   
   congratulating him after his win.   
      
   “Democrats spent more than $1 million trying to elect a candidate who   
   was backed by the Democrat machine,” NRCC Chairman Greg Walden said,   
   “but at the end of the day, running on the Obama-Pelosi ticket was   
   just too toxic for Elizabeth Colbert Busch.”   
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