All right. Next stop: South Carolina.

The primary is on February 20th for our side. Three things you must remember:

  1. There is a reason why that Frank Underwood dude in that show is from South Carolina.
  2. The rules to the game down there are simple: no physical violence. Everything else is fine. And when I say ‘fine’ I mean that it is fine for everybody. Even the people who you like play rough.  And they don’t care about your opinion about it, either.  Why should they? The operatives never get in trouble. Just the politicians.
  3. South Carolina operatives not only can smell fear; they find it to be a bit of an aphrodisiac.

I make no guesses as to who wins, but: it ain’t gonna be clean.

13 thoughts on “All right. Next stop: South Carolina.”

  1. I suppose the good news, for the anti-Trump folks, is that South Carolina is probably the least fertile soil for his populism..
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    That said .. just by being a New Yorker, Trump advances quite close to the top of the “rough play” class…
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    Mew

  3. So. With the Sanders win in NH, do we change the state motto from “Live free or die” to “Live free on someone else’s dime”?

  4. I find it odd how on the GOP side that the South Carolina primary comes before the Nevada caucus, but it’s the other way around on the Democratic side.

  6. Moe:
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    I was part of the CNN focus group last night, and let me tell you, it ain’t pretty or clean already. Randi Kay made the mistake of showing her bias by asking the entire panel (65 of us, R & D), after sitting there for 3+ hours and wanting to go home, if we were, “just like the rest of the country” and tired of hearing about Hillary’s emails… The ensuing “discussion” almost resorted in fist-to-cuffs with folding chairs. It is of course, a vast right wing conspiracy (Democrats) and Hillary should be in an orange jumpsuit (Republicans) “discussion.”
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    Also realized that CNN has no idea how we register in SC. We do not register along party lines – we just register. I can vote in any primary I wish, I just cannot vote in both. That seemed to confuse both CNN and the Focus Group facilitators, as a concept. We kept hearing, “Are you a registered Republican? – No. Democrat? – No. Independent? – No. We do not register for any party.”
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    It was like they thought we were lying to them….

    1. Nah, they just thought you were a bunch of dumb hicks that didn’t understand how to register in the proper manner. i.e. their way.

      1. The media are part of the NY parochial hive-mind.
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        Anything they don’t understand must be wrong.
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        Mew

    2. Greg – it would have been epic if CNN had cut to the focus group as the chairs were flying, the voices were raised and the moderator was imploring the Almighty to intervene.

      I would watch that on YouTube at least fifteen times – minimum.

      1. It’s all fun and games until Geraldo gets hit in the face by a flying chair.
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        Then it’s just fun.

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