Short version: a couple of short-sighted idiots went and climbed that stupid flagpole in Columbia that has that freaking flag* and then stupidly caused a scene by cutting it down because they couldn’t wait their stupid selves until after the weekend. Because, let’s be honest: the legislature is going remove the flag next week, even after this stupid stunt. As to why it was all stupid? Because of Alinksy, of course: Continue reading Quote of the Day, This Is Why Democratic South Carolina Activists Can’t Have Nice Things edition.
Tag: south carolina
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.
Continue reading Gov. Nikki Haley (R, South Carolina), Last Woman Standing.
Tweet of the Day, Now Ask Me If I Am Surprised edition.
Spoiler warning: I am not.
Tim Scott widely outperforms Lindsay Graham w/ every single voter demographic (age, race, party, gender) but one: Liberals. Absorb that one.
— DMH (@HawkinsUSA) October 26, 2014
Moe Lane
OK, let us address Vincent Sheheen calling Nikki Haley a ‘wh*re.’
See, this is why we can’t have nice things. Background: Vincent Sheheen, the slowly-drowning Democratic nominee for South Carolina governor, had this to say yesterday about Governor Nikki Haley.
http://youtu.be/tLwiKhGtcHg?t=14s
Continue reading OK, let us address Vincent Sheheen calling Nikki Haley a ‘wh*re.’
Jim Clyburn (D, South Carolina) accuses his fellow-Democrats of racism! …We *think*.
(H/T: Weasel Zippers) Oh, dear.
Bless his heart, U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC6) has the unfortunate affliction of speech. In a recent article in The State newspaper, the 73 year old, seven-term congressman claims there are “barriers” in South Carolina that prevent black candidates from winning statewide office;
One of them, he said, is the state law that requires a candidate to win 50 percent plus one of the votes cast in a primary election. Often, that requirement forces black candidates into runoff elections that are harder to win, he said.
Nasty South Carolinian bigot Dick Harpootlian visited White House.
Way to bury the lead there, Wall Street Journal. Forget various Democrats whining about where that sweet, sweet campaign contribution money is going: this is a bit more pressing.
[Dick] Harpootlian said he visited Joe Biden, the other most prominent potential 2016 contestant, in the White House about a month ago and told the vice president he would support him if he decides to run.
Continue reading Nasty South Carolinian bigot Dick Harpootlian visited White House.
Of COURSE a segment of the NAACP will hate-speech Tim Scott on demand.
Senator Tim Scott must be infuriating to that section of the NAACP that’s taking orders from the (predominantly white) Democratic party leadership. After all… Tim Scott was enthusiastically voted into the state legislature by white South Carolinian voters, he was enthusiastically voted into the First Congressional District by white South Carolinian voters, and later this year he’ll be enthusiastically confirmed as Senator by white South Carolinian voters. And – this is the good bit – he’s done that and will continue to do so without any help whatsoever from the NAACP. Given that the existing message is that the only way for African-Americans to get ahead is to cleave utterly to the Democratic party (of which the NAACP is pretty much a subsidiary of these days), Senator Scott broadcasts a profoundly subversive message simply by existing.
Continue reading Of COURSE a segment of the NAACP will hate-speech Tim Scott on demand.
RedState Gathering: Senator Tim Scott (R, SC).
This, again, isn’t the official footage by any means; but I did film some interviews of my own, and I’ll be putting them up this week. This, of course, is Tim Scott: old friend of the site, good guy in general.
Moe lane (crosspost)
It’s good to be the Governor of South Carolina.
The Democrats spent $2M on #sc01 and all their base got was… what, not even a T-shirt?
Jim Geraghty did a perfectly acceptable job taking the Democrats to the woodshed for being blindsided in yesterday’s win in SC-01 (I will note, btw, that I in fact called it ahead of time), but I want to highlight this part:
It’s bad enough for the press to not know the district, but national Democrats don’t have that excuse. Today you’re hearing a lot of talk along the lines of, ‘oh, everyone knew this was a really conservative district and that Sanford would probably win.’ Well, you don’t spend more than $2 million ($1.2 million in donations to Colbert Busch, more than $929,000 on independent expenditures against Sanford) for a race you know you can’t win. Maybe this race really was unwinnable for Democrats, but this means that the DCCC and its allies have serious problems in assessing the terrain and determining which races ought to be prioritized.