Gov. Nikki Haley (R, South Carolina), Last Woman Standing.

This is from last month, so no real need to dwell overmuch on it – still, always nice to see an old friend of RedState doing well:

When Gov. Nikki Haley takes her second oath for the state’s highest office Wednesday, she will stand as a survivor of a sometimes turbulent first term, having outlasted many of her opponents and controversies.

Powerful legislative leaders who fought the Lexington Republican’s priorities have left the General Assembly. Foes who took Haley to court and challenged her at the ballot box failed to knock her out of office. Scandals, including the worst data hacking of a state agency in U.S. history, did not cause lasting damage.

Read the whole thing, particularly the part where that bitter old racist Dick Harpootlian (former South Carolina Democratic chairman) complains about Nikki’s luck while doing… whatever the heck it is that Dick Harpootlian does these days. It’s not really worth looking up, honestly – and, yes, I wrote that with malice aforethought. I thought it appropriate, given the general tenor of South Carolina politics.

Moe Lane