Gov Sanford Shrugs His Shoulders At Specter Of Overcrowded Schools

I heard most of this earlier and was pretty shocked with how Scarborough shut down Deutsch's questioning of Sanford. I mean, really Joe? Think Progress has more.

DEUTSCH: Ideology is all great, but let’s pretend I’m a dad and I’m living in South Carolina. A lot of that money is earmarked for education. If you don’t take that money because of your point of view and my kid — there are less teachers, the tuition for the state schools go up, and education is really affected — this is not just in theory, this is reality. What do you say to me as a dad that I’m worried about my kid in a state that has very poor education records?

SANFORD: Yeah, but here’s the bottom line. What this tug of war is really about is reform within South Carolina. … It’s only in these kind of economic times that you can make the changes that are essential, frankly, to South Carolina being more competitive. So our view is, no, we could make some changes that created the dollars that could then be allocated to education and other things.

IOW, screw the kids, I'm running for President. Notice he never answered the question.