Mark Sanford was boinking a hot Argentinean babe

Mark Sanford, the governor of South Carolina, admitted to having an affair with a mistress in Argentina.

He was considered a possible candidate for 2012, but I didn’t mention him in my recent 2012 post. He looked like a pretty good candidate, a guy who was tough on liberals and not afraid to speak out with a conservative voice, and he has been tougher on immigration issues than most Republicans. It's too bad he's now considered out of the running.

I sense an unfortunate whiff of gloating from leftists who think it’s funny that a Republican was cheating on his wife. I would point out that unlike Clinton, Sanford didn’t lie about the issue at a deposition, or pay money for sex like Elliot Spitzer, or otherwise commit any illegal acts (as far as I know). But I have to admit that it's slightly hypocritical for someone as strongly anti-abortion as Sanford to be cheating on his wife. What would happen if his mistress got pregnant? Without abortion, she would be doomed to be a single mother.

It’s not entirely uncommon for men to have low sex drives when they are 49, but politicians seem to have a higher libido than the average man.

I am looking forward to the first internet photos of the presumably hot Argentinean babe whom Sanford was boinking.

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Sanford is all apologetic and sorry and begging for forgiveness in his press conference. I’m still hoping for the day when a politician will come out and say “I had sex with a woman who wasn’t my wife, and I really enjoyed it. I’m only sorry that I got caught.”

The press conference is full of a lot of Christian stuff, but if Sanford really believes in that stuff, why couldn't he keep his penis in his pants? Was the sex really worth damning his eternal soul? Or do Christians believe that as long as you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, adultery is forgiven and you still get to go to Heaven?

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Billare writes:

He sounded in love with her in the emails. The letter was sappy enough that it didn't sound like a man simply exercising his power amongst women. I feel sorry for him, actually. I think quite a few women watching this Lifetime TV movie would think it quite the romance story.

I could be wrong. *I* think it's slightly romantic.

Here’s a link to the emails.

I think it would have been more acceptable if his partner were another man. Everyone thought the movie Brokeback Mountain was oh so romantic, even though they were both cheating on their wives.

I should also add that, although the headline says he was "boinking a hot Argentinian babe," I think it may very well turn out that the woman isn't conventionally beautiful. Remember the Boeing CEO's mistress? We shall see.

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How did The State obtain these emails? Did someone hack into Sanford's email account? And if The State knew about the affair since December (according to internet sources), why did it not break the story many months ago?

Is the Anchorage Daily News hiding similarly titillating stuff about Sarah Palin?

We can certainly all agree that Sanford is a much better writer than Palin. See Palin's pathetically illiterate email.

And while we are talking about Palin, let's remember that the Enquirer accused Palin of having an affair with Brad Hanson, but Palin just denied it and she continues to be governor and some people in the stupid wing of the Republican party are still looking for her to run for President in 2012. Maybe if Sanford just denied everything, there would be a non-story (unless Maria happened to have a semen-stained dress which she lent to a friend who would give it to the press).

Comments

[mnjohn]

He lied about it to his entire staff. Nobody knew where he was. This is slightly unethical and not characteristic of a man preaching moral values.

[HS: Who has never lied to take some time off from work?]

[Brutus]

Why is his extramarital affair noteworthy?

Sigma, the electorate will forget in 2 weeks, and if this woman is a babe maybe she'll announce, like Marla Maples, that Markie is hung like an admiral and supplied me with the best sex I've ever had.

[king obama]

Sanford is done politically. The chick better be hot as f**k because he just ended his political career.

The guy ran off to Argentina like a love-sick school boy. Pathetic.

[Anonimnik]

Nice emails:
http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-sanfords-love-letters-to-maria-2009-6

[mnjohn]

Who has never lied to take some time off from work?

He preaches family values that make us end up a with a teenage pregnancy rate 4 times higher than Europe's and this doesn't seem like a big deal to you? Not to mention he was banging this chick over fathers day's weekend. One might think since he did this instead of spending time with his kids to prove further his family values that he his a scumbag.

[HS: Father's Day is a bogus holiday made up by greeting card companies.]

[roissy]

"It’s not entirely uncommon for men to have low sex drives when they are 49, but politicians seem to have a higher libido than the average man."

or politicians have options with higher quality women than the average 49 year old man. it should come as no surprise how quickly a man's dwindling libido will spring to life when there is something worth springing for.

"I’m still hoping for the day when a politician will come out and say “I had sex with a woman who wasn’t my wife, and I really enjoyed it. I’m only sorry that I got caught.”"

i know what i would say. "hey, variety is the spice of life."

[The Undiscovered Jew]

"but politicians seem to have a higher libido than the average man."

I wish the US were more like France when it comes to politicians having affairs. Having an affair makes no difference when it comes to governing (Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan would not have been less successful presidents if they were having affairs).

In France, the public automatically assumes ambitious and successful politicians have mistresses. Proof that elected officials are sleeping around doesn't even make the tabloids in France - it is considered non-news to the public.

In fact, I was told by a French tax attorney based in New York that many Frenchmen think it is *Good* for a married politician to have a mistress because affairs are both a symbol of French virility and because they think it helps powerful men relax, unwind, and burn off steam by having a hot young mistress.

I think there is an HBD case to be made for the French stance on mistresses.

If it became socially acceptable for married politicians to have women on the side, we would get higher T, higher IQ, and higher talented men to jump into politics rather than the lame mediocrities we have now.

[J1]

"I have to admit that it's slightly hypocritical for someone as strongly anti-abortion as Sanford to be cheating on his wife"

I'm not clear on why being anti-abortion specifically would make a guy screwing around on his wife a hypocrite, though I'm certain he (like me and everybody reading this) is one; hypocrisy is as innate a human behavior as breathing.

"Or do Christians believe that as long as you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, adultery is forgiven and you still get to go to Heaven?"

Well, you have to do things like confess and repent, but yes, that is what Christians believe.

[HS: sounds like a commie-liberal religion to me. How do you expect people to behave properly if they can just "repent" and still go to Heaven? With a huge loophole like that, it's no wonder that Sanford was in Argentina sowing his seed.]

[Turambar]

http://www.thestate.com/sanford/story/839350.html

"Below are excerpts of e-mails, obtained by The State newspaper in December, between Gov. Mark Sanford's personal e-mail account and Maria, a woman in Buenos Aires, Argentina."

Hmmm, this is curious. The emails are from a years ago and the paper has been sitting on them.

I wonder what the explanation is here of how they have emails from a private account. Perhaps the Democrats tried hacking everyones private accounts, not just Palin.

There was the cell phone tapping of Newt in the '90s as prescient.

[mnjohn]

Europe's laissez-faire attitude towards sex only extends so far. Italy's prime minister Berlusconi just got caught with a 17 year old underwear model and is apparently in trouble. I think its bulshit, don't get me wrong, but there are limits.

[Sebastian Flyte]

I see no reason to presume this girl is attractive.

[HS: I agree 100%. You obviously don't get my subtle humor.]

[king obama]

Sanford should just dump his wife and marry this Agentinian chick. His political career is over anyway, so what difference does it make now?

Obviously, his wife is not doing it for him in the sack. He should just cut his losses and "upgrade" for someone better.

[The Undiscovered Jew]

"Well, you have to do things like confess and repent, but yes, that is what Christians believe.

[HS: sounds like a commie-liberal religion to me."

Aren't there NeoNazis who think Christianity was the *original* Jewish plot and that the white race would be better off going back to worshipping Thor and the Norse gods?

[king obama]

"Aren't there NeoNazis who think Christianity was the *original* Jewish plot and that the white race would be better off going back to worshipping Thor and the Norse gods?"

I don't know about that since I don't read Stormfront or VNN much, but Samuel Francis (a WN who used to post on Vdare before he died) did not like Christianity. He blamed it for the liberal attitudes regarding race that have swayed the USA leftward.

[The Undiscovered Jew]

"Europe's laissez-faire attitude towards sex only extends so far. Italy's prime minister Berlusconi just got caught with a 17 year old underwear model and is apparently in trouble."

Berlusconi was already known to be a huge womanizer. The controversy centers around the young age of the girl.

And even then, most Italians didn't care enough about the allegations to punish Berlusconi's party at the European elections.

It is possible for a politician in Europe to get kicked out of office for having affairs, but it takes a very unusual set of surrounding cirumstances for that to happen.

Financial corruption is much more likely to get them in trouble than an affair.

[Billare]

I think the problem is that the Internet and new media has changed the old equilibrium.

Let me explain what I mean.

I have little doubt that there is some sort of psychological instinct in us that causes the ritual condemnation of our politicians when they are in error. Men who have accumulated the significant status in other venues that allows them office could easily monopolize too many women, but, if so the option does exist of you and fellow lower-status men ganging up and forcing Mr. Too-Big-For-His-Britches to acquiesce by threatening to pull your labor from the communal food provisioning. You just can't be too open about your polygamous tastes once you've made the big time.

But even as one of those same men also perhaps begins to accumulate wealth and power of his own as a result of the same luck in the genetic lottery, his mentality begins to change. He begins to see opportunities for infidelity more than he might otherwise, without necessarily being conscious of it, and willing women help those thoughts by offering the subtle sexual cues of groupies. The genetic advantage of concealed estrus is to allow for sort of thing, so that humans can have the benefit of a cooperative society of lower-status males, and yet it also allows for the possibility of the occasional woman defecting from her beta marriage, thus ensuring a higher genetic quality in the next generation when they opportunistically, but most importantly, discreetly, mate with the most eligible men. In fact, I'd bet that since polygyny is farthest from the natural state of marriage in Europeans they get differentially angrier than other peoples.

So it's a contingent mindset. A man could easily rationalize this "hypocrisy" just as woman rationalizes her liaisons with him as a one time fling, instead of the powerful urge of oncoming ovulation. Evolutionary traits do not come bundled with their proximate mechanisms.

But now these men have less privacy than ever. Too many sleuths out there now, combing over emails, strange trips, too many people who are divorced from the Big Guy's will and able to profit from reporting his infidelity. In our hunter-gather days, at the precise moment, maybe Zug and Grug steps back as you ready your spear for the wooly mammoth's charge to teach you what really for.

Basically, it's going to become apparent quite soon that the "right to privacy" is becoming a myth. Everyone will be watching everybody else. This story will become more and more common, people are going to cry out about the decay of moral society, but nothing's going to change it, unless we change our standard of evaluating politics. Which I sincerely doubt. I'm wouldn't doubt that those politicians *really* can't help themselves, those are the traits bundled with leadership that probably makes 'em good politicians in the first place! I'd say its yet another struggle of human evolutionary adaptation to an increasingly strange modern society.

[Billare]

He sounded in love with her in the emails. The letter was sappy enough that it didn't sound like a man simply exercising his power amongst women. I feel sorry for him, actually. I think quite a few women watching this Lifetime TV movie would think it quite the romance story.

I could be wrong. *I* think it's slightly romantic.

[Brutus]

If it became socially acceptable for married politicians to have women on the side, we would get higher T, higher IQ, and higher talented men to jump into politics rather than the lame mediocrities we have now.

Posted by: The Undiscovered Jew | June 24, 2009 at 07:21 PM

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[DaveinHackensack]

"It’s not entirely uncommon for men to have low sex drives when they are 49, but politicians seem to have a higher libido than the average man."

If Sanford were just looking for extramarital sex, I'm sure he could have found that closer to home. It sounds like he felt a real connection with this Argentinian woman and fell in love. It also seems like he's got the worst of all possible outcomes now: his marriage is wrecked, his Argentinian lover is staying with her husband, and his political career is derailed.

[Billare]

lol, realize that Brutus that TUJ took a very leftist position; what kind of females do you think the top gun is going to be sampling? Every kind, but probably, so he doesn't instigate a needless tiff, he's going to be taking the blue-collar guy's wife, the guy who has a wife that a few of his fellow co-workers in the neighborhood still can't believe he landed. but, at least it helps the *best* people, the upper-crust of society, right, Brutus? moron.

[Brutus]

It also seems like he's got the worst of all possible outcomes now: his marriage is wrecked, his Argentinian lover is staying with her husband, and his political career is derailed.

Posted by: DaveinHackensack | June 24, 2009 at 08:06 PM

Dave, it's time to start a truly NEW party. Here are its core principles:

1. When caught having an affair with a hot Argentine babe, brag that she gave you anal on the first date. Then discuss how she screamed when you entered her.

2. Cite peer-reviewed scientific research when addressing important cultural initiatives.

3. Embrace the principles of human differences

4. Embrace stupid people's problems, but don't lie with your remedies.

5. Advocate for high-IQ immigration

6. Scratch your blueballs during a press conference, muttering, "That babe can sure fuck. Hope I don't have crabs."

We'd have a much better country if we embraced these core principles (oh, yeah: Butters and Eric Cartman on the 1 and 5-dollar bills)

[The Undiscovered Jew]

Btw,

Does this mean, "Hiking the Appalachian Trail" is a new, sexually suggestive phrase?

Or maybe the phrase should be, "Chasing the Argentinian Tail"?

[Brutus]

lol, realize that Brutus that TUJ took a very leftist[no, it's not leftist, it's realist] position; what kind of females[hopefully any slut with the good sense to do anal on the 1st date with the top gun, and to possibly discuss either Proust or rising milk prices] do you think the top gun is going to be sampling? Every kind, but probably, so he doesn't instigate a needless tiff, he's going to be taking the blue-collar guy's wife[pleez! a sexually attractive, tight babe is without geography or class], the guy who has a wife that a few of his fellow[sic]co-workers in the neighborhood still can't believe he landed. but, at least it helps the *best*[best? that's a relative term, isn't it?] people, the upper-crust of society, right, Brutus? moron[that's I].Billare, when do you go on business trips? I might like to taste your goodies.

Posted by: Billare | June 24, 2009 at 08:18 PM

[Larry]

What religion is Sanford? I mean I know he is Christian but what branch of Christianity? Is there a correlation between the religious practices of a politician and his propensity to screw around

Putting it another way, do mormon politicians ever get caught doing stuff like this ? Perhaps the repubs need to run Romney as the candidate just to eliminate the chance of something like this happening with Mitt?

[HS: I find it hard to imagine Romney doing this. He seems too much of an uptight Mormon to even contemplate it. (Rather ironic given the religion's polygamous past.) ]

[Gannon]

About Berlusconi
Age of consent is 14 in Italy anyway, unless the is a relationship of trust, then it's 16. Italians, like most sane people, know that men like teen girls.
About the Argentine mistress: even average agrentine girls are attractive when compared to American Women.
About Nordic Gods: Nietzsche said that christianity was a religion for slaves, but he himself was Budhist. Later the nazis disliked christianity because of it's core believe of empathy, mercy and showing the other cheek. Hitler himself was agnostic, but Himmler tried to revive nordic paganism as the main religion for it's Waffen Schutzstaffel.

[DaveinHackensack]

Brutus,

I don't watch South Park consistently enough, but the recent episode where Cartman goes to Somalia to become a pirate was hysterical.

[asif]

So Romney would never do this - but what about Mormon politicians in general ?

[The Undiscovered Jew]

Billare,

My position about politicians cheating on their wives is HBD realistic, not leftist.

[DaveinHackensack]

"Putting it another way, do mormon politicians ever get caught doing stuff like this ? Perhaps the repubs need to run Romney as the candidate just to eliminate the chance of something like this happening with Mitt?

[HS: I find it hard to imagine Romney doing this. He seems too much of an uptight Mormon to even contemplate it. (Rather ironic given the religion's polygamous past.) ]"

I voted for Romney in the primary, but I think he might be the one candidate whose political prospects might actually improve if he had an affair. Having worked with high-achieving Mormons in the past, I know that men like Romney (i.e., smart, financially successful, actually believe their religion, morally upstanding, happily married, kids who love them, etc.) really exist, but I suspect Romney seemed so perfect to some voters that they assumed he was fake. It didn't help that Romney pretended to be a social conservative, but that's not what I'm referring to.

If you didn't know any real life Romney-types, you could be forgiven for being suspicious of a guy who is that smart, successful, and is still happily married to his high school sweetheart. I wonder if an affair might make Romney appear more human and earn him a little sympathy from voters.

[Sheila Tone]

If her name is really Maria, she's unlikely to be young. Those traditional Hispanic names are falling by the wayside even in Latinamerican countries.

"Is the Anchorage Daily News hiding similarly titillating stuff about Sarah Palin? "

I saw a documentary about this during a recent hotel stay. I think it was called "Nailin' Paylin."

[Jack]

She's probably not super young. She's probably 5 to 10 yrs younger than Sanford.

If Sanford came out and said he did it and had no regrets, I would not only forgive him, I would guarantee him my vote.

[Sheila Tone]

"He said he spent the last five days “crying in Argentina.”"

Ick. Nothing sexier than a blubbering baby who just flushed his career down the toilet and documented it like a high school student on MySpace. I'd take Spitzer over this pussy any day of the week.

It says his wife said he'd earned a chance at reconciliation -- I wonder if that was before the email release.

[Peter]

Sanford's case is worse that Spitzer's, as in the latter case it was a hooker and there were no emotional ties.

[Chris]

Wonder who will be the new chair of the Republican Governors Association?

What's that? Haley Barbour? What a surprise.

[Joe]

Brutus,

I don't watch South Park consistently enough, but the recent episode where Cartman goes to Somalia to become a pirate was hysterical.

Posted by: DaveinHackensack | June 24, 2009 at 09:50 PM

The quintessential Cartman-Butters episode was Casa Bonita. Unbelievable!

[anon]

HalfSigma: I’m still hoping for the day when a politician will come out and say “I had sex with a woman who wasn’t my wife, and I really enjoyed it. I’m only sorry that I got caught.”

Wow, you're nasty.

It's incredibly mean to the wife, and how would his children feel upon hearing such an admission?

I'm sure he enjoyed his affair, but it would obviously be incredibly mean for him to openly state that he did.

[Joe]

Link to the entire Casa Bonita episode:

http://www.vidilife.com/video_play_1137402_South_Park_7x11_Casa_Bonita.htm

[whiskey]

Anchoarge Daily News HATES Palin. So it's unlikely they would sit on anything. IIRC, they ran a bunch of stuff that was untrue about her, and later apologized.

Palin is not going to get the nomination, because women hate her. Palin married a blue collar guy, speaks blue collar, has too many kids, did not abort her down's syndrom baby, and ... married a blue collar guy.

Women HATE that, they'd rather a cheated on woman with a high powered husband (Hillary).

[DaveinHackensack]

"Ick. Nothing sexier than a blubbering baby who just flushed his career down the toilet and documented it like a high school student on MySpace."

Ah, please. Sanford's a former Eagle Scout, a self-made successful businessman, a former three-term Congressman, a father, and a governor. He ought to be able to cry when he screws his world up without getting mocked for it.

Besides, I've read a few posts on your blog where you deride men who pursue women for sexual and not emotional relationships as "weasels", so why are you giving a man crap for caring enough to cry over what he has lost? Is there a porridge that's just right for you, or do you have some latent hostility for all men?

No offense intended, I'm just curious.

[Dwayne Mayor]

"Ah, please. Sanford's a former Eagle Scout, a self-made successful businessman, a former three-term Congressman, a father, and a governor. He ought to be able to cry when he screws his world up without getting mocked for it."

In truth, he wasn't much of a father. He wasn't a "self-made" businessman, as his multimillionaire wifey funded all of his endeavors, and being a former Eagle Scout is meaningless. This guy is a diminutive beta through and through who happened to marry into money. Big whoop! Cry me a river. Spitzer on the other hand, was all man.

[Jack]

Spungen/Sheila does seem to have hostility (not really latent) for almost all men. She especially hates men that dare to hit on women significantly younger than them. So yes, most men. She's actually pretty smart when she's not talking about that stuff.

I don't understand why anyone would be angry at Sanford. He fucked up, he's owning up to it, what else is there to talk about?

P.S. if the Argentine chick is attractive, then by definition, Sanford is not beta.

[My Name]

s/Argentinean/Argentine/

[Joe]

s/Argentinean/Argentine/

Posted by: My Name | June 25, 2009 at 04:28 AM
the former is an Americanization, the latter how Argentines refer to themselves

[Ned]

Lots of politicians (at least male politicians) have affairs - they are surrounded by adoring female followers, many of whom seem to want to take a tumble with the Big Guy. It doesn't seem to matter if they are Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative. I wonder how many US presidents have had affairs - a majority? In the 20th century, Clinton, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, FDR, Harding and Wilson come to mind. Others?

It's not so much the affair, it's the hypocrisy that seems to bother us. Mark Sanford said:

"It is my personal view that the largest proclamation of one's faith ought to be in how one lives his life."

He's an Episcopalian, by the way.

Is it possible for a politician (or anyone else, for that matter) to divide his life into watertight compartments - to be lying and deceptive about his marital life and upright and honest about everything else? Should we declare a moratorium on this stuff? Are we better off without Spitzer, Edwards, Sanford and the rest, or not? The Europeans are certainly more tolerant about this sort of stuff than the Americans are, but are they right? Berlusconi has had a lot affairs, but he also seems to be involved in lots of shady, possibly illegal, financial deals. Does that matter as long as he "does a good job?" I think about these things a lot....

[J1]

"women hate her. Palin married a blue collar guy, speaks blue collar, has too many kids, did not abort her down's syndrom baby, and ... married a blue collar guy"

You left out "is still thin and in good shape after five children, and is better looking than 99% of them".

"This guy is a diminutive beta through and through who happened to marry into money. Big whoop! Cry me a river. Spitzer on the other hand, was all man"

Maybe so, but if you're going to criticize someone because everything they achieved was the result of access to money they didn't earn, Spitzer's a peculiar choice for comparison. I'd call marrying into money considerably more alpha than inheriting it.

[Sheila Tone]

"Besides, I've read a few posts on your blog where you deride men who pursue women for sexual and not emotional relationships as "weasels",

Clearly you didn't understand the posts. A "weasel" is an underdog who seeks to inflate his ego by treating women poorly. The most common method is to trick or bully women with low self-esteem into sex knowing they're expecting a boyfriend out of it, then dumping them in a humiliating way. It's not really about the sex. The "Weasel" label seeks to contradict the underdogs-make-better-prospects myth.

Sanford is not a Weasel; he's an immature idiot who can't control himself. No person who is over 30 should idealize anyone the way he indicates in those emails -- especially not The Other Woman. He's got terrible judgment and no self-control. I bet Maria's feeling pretty disgusted with him right about now, too.

[KingM]

"the former is an Americanization, the latter how Argentines refer to themselves"

No, it's not. In Spanish, you would say, "soy argentino(a)" depending on your gender.

I think "Argentine" would be an adaptation from French.

[roissy]

spoogen:
"The most common method is to trick or bully women with low self-esteem into sex knowing they're expecting a boyfriend out of it,"

women who loathe male desire use words like "trick" and "bully" to describe the measures men take to fulfill their desires.

"then dumping them in a humiliating way."

define humiliating. details matter here.

"It's not really about the sex."

you are projecting your female psychosexual needs. for nearly all men, it really is about the sex, at least at the beginning of a relationship.

"The "Weasel" label seeks to contradict the underdogs-make-better-prospects myth."

a better term for underdog is beta. it says so much more because it puts the lie to what you are attempting to hoist up as a valid generalization about men. fact: most betas are not dumping the girls they manage to get in a humiliating way. betas are all too happy to be getting some for that to happen on a widespread basis. fact: most *men*, alpha or beta, don't dump their women in humiliating fashion, unless by humiliating you mean the unqualfied definition "he dumped her". i could see you meaning that.
fact: the kinds of guys who are able to a. score desireable chicks, b. dump them for other chicks, and c. do so in a calculated way so as to maximize the humiliation felt by the dumpee are not underdogs -- they are alphas.
see: in the company of men.

"Sanford is not a Weasel; he's an immature idiot who can't control himself."

he was a man in love.

"He's got terrible judgment and no self-control."

you write like someone who has never been in love.

[Peter]

"you already had a full tank of love in the emotional bank account"

Christ Jesus, that's among the worst writing I've seen in ages.

[DaveinHackensack]

"Emotional bank account" is a Stephen Covey phrase. Perhaps Sanford was reading "The Seven Habits of Self-Destructive Politicians".

[Audacious Epigone]

HS,

How do you come to the conclusion that he is more restrictionist than most Republicans are? Perhaps among governors, but certainly not in comparison to those in the House. His AfBI grade is a D+. He has opposed granting automatic legalization for those in the country illegally. Other than that, he is not restrictionist in any way.