I wouldn't have guessed it was possible for Gov. Mark Sanford, this quickly, to become only the second most-embarrassing politician in South Carolina.
There are more than 300 million people here in the United States of America, and out of all those people we only need to find 535 members of Congress.
More specifically, there are 668,668 people in South Carolina's 2nd Congressional District and they one needed to find one of them to serve in the House of Representatives.
And they picked this guy?
They'd have been better off picking a name at random out of the Columbia phone book.
I don't know a lot of people who live in the 2nd District of South Carolina, so instead just let me toss out a few other possibilities. Here are 21 people other named Wilson who would be better qualified to represent the people of the Palmetto State. Electing any of these would be far less embarrassing than repeating the mistake of sending Addison Graves Wilson back to Congress:
1. Ambassador Joe Wilson
2. Valerie Plame Wilson
3. James Q. Wilson
4. E.O. Wilson
5. William Julius Wilson
6. August Wilson
7. Cassandra Wilson
8. Rita Hanks Wilson
9. Brian Wilson
10. Mookie Wilson
11. Wilson, the neighbor from Home Improvement
12. Nancy and/or Ann Wilson
13. Luke and/or Owen Wilson
14. Dr. James Wilson
15. Gretchen Wilson
16. Dan Wilson
17. Rainn Wilson
18. Willie Wilson
19. Mr. Wilson, from Dennis the Menace
20. Carney Wilson
21. Wilson the Volleyball, from Castaway
Trust me, South Carolina, any of those would be an improvement.
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