Tag: south carolina

Just a quick note about the South Carolina First District special election.

Expect an all-out war in the Republican primary to replace now-Senator Tim Scott.  Via Jim Geraghty comes this list:

On the GOP side, potential candidates include former Gov. Mark Sanford and his ex-wife, former first lady Jenny Sanford; state Sens. Chip Campsen and Larry Grooms; state Reps. Chip Limehouse, Peter McCoy, Jim Merrill and Andy Patrick; Charleston County Councilman Elliott Summey; Dorchester County Councilman Jay Byars; Charleston City Councilman Mike Seekings; Mount Pleasant Town Councilman Ken Glasson; former state Sen. John Kuhn; former Charleston County School Board member Larry Kabrovsky; former Charleston County Council members Curtis Bostic and Joe McKeown; and Lowcountry businessmen Keith Blandford, Carroll Campbell, Mark Lutz, Bob Menges and Teddy Turner.

Continue reading Just a quick note about the South Carolina First District special election.

Nikki Haley to appoint Tim Scott for SC-SEN?

A bit of a rhetorical question, there: reports are saying that South Carolina governor Nikki Haley will be appointing Tim Scott to replace Jim Demint as Senator. Works for me: Tim’s a good guy, good conservative, and he’s already demonstrated an ability to win re-election. A term or two there and he might even be ready for the governorship itself.

…And I really do feel sorry for what the man is about to go through. It’s going to get vile out there, on the Left.

There are a *lot* of rumors going on about the South Carolina Senate seat.

Every credible one that I’ve heard is being contradicted by an equally credible source, but we know one thing: Nikki Haley will not appoint herself.  I’d recommend waiting until the decision is made before people start getting themselves into a tizzy over it.

…Yeah, I know: what’s the fun in that?

Moe Lane

PS: Lemme save time: no, that one’s just a rumor, too.  Whatever the rumor is.

 

Senator Jim Demint (R, South Carolina) leaving Senate for Heritage.

Details over at RedState: I’m with Erick that Heritage is damned lucky to get Sen. Demint.  I’m also with Erick that Tim Scott (R, SC-01) would be a good replacement… although I expect that there’s going to be a very quiet, and very savage, battle behind the scenes to persuade Nikki Haley over who to appoint.  We’ll see.

Moe Lane

PS: Lindsey Graham, by the way, is right now breathing a sigh of relief.  The implications of this news seriously cuts into the pool of people who might have been thinking of primarying him.

#rsrh Today’s ‘Republicans are Nazis’ comparison will be brought to us by Dick… Harpootlian.

And who is Dick… Harpootlian, I hear you ask?  Why, he’s the head of the Democratic party in South Carolina!

(pause)

Yeah, I know: there’s little that you could do to the man that’s more degrading than being that.  Still, old Dick seems to be living down to the job: Continue reading #rsrh Today’s ‘Republicans are Nazis’ comparison will be brought to us by Dick… Harpootlian.

#rsrh Well, this will end well.

And by “well” I mean “will result in a particular C-List regional blogger with a history of reckless behavior getting shaken by the military blogosphere until he suffers from fits.” Although I don’t know whether The Garnet Spy (which is one of the ones doing the shaking) is actually a milblog.  Oh, well, everybody’s invited, I’m sure.  Anyway: free hint for everybody out there trying to make it into what we will call, for lack of a better term, the ‘big time:’ when you’re on this side of the aisle, folks tend not to react well when you host posts that attack the military and call them hoodlums; particularly when you’ve got a [past*] history of being, well, a jackass.

But don’t let me stop the aforementioned jackass that The Garnet Spy is linking to (so that I don’t have to).  The guy’s got to learn what it’s like to play in the big leagues sometime, after all.

Moe Lane

PS: I know that this is somewhat convoluted, but you try writing about somebody getting smacked around while still trying to avoid giving the guy being smacked traffic that he doesn’t deserve.

[*Got this pointed out to me on Twitter: fixed.]

#rsrh NYT, WaPo analyze latest attempt to smear Gov. Nikki Haley (R, SC)

And just a bit angrily, too. If that surprises you, it shouldn’t: while the NYT loathes conservatives in general – while Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post merely(?!) loathes a lot of specific conservatives – both probably despise New Media even more.  And since it was a doofus progressive regional blogger (Logan Smith, for the benefit of those tuning in late*) that started the whole carnival of stupidity in the first place, well…

And that’s that, hopefully.  Until the next time that somebody tries it, of course.

Moe Lane

*Search engines, too.  In light of that, let me print the following terms: nincompoop, doofus, n00b, twerp, goofball, idiot, moron, ineffectual, and justifiably obscure.

Nikki Haley’s interview with some provincial hick at Time Magazine.

Most people are concetrating on the absolutely inane question Gov. Haley got at the end – as God is my witness, the Time interviewer* really did ask whether the Governor tipped Sikh cab drivers more – but the entire interview is in its way engrossing viewing. If only because the interviewer clearly thought that there was a hick in the interviewing room (true) and that her name was Nikki Haley (false). I mean, I grew up in New York and New Jersey and I was humiliated by the utter unsophisticated provincialism of the interviewer; I would take some comfort that the woman’s accent suggests that she’s just some rube right off of the boat, but that’s cultural chauvinism talking. Continue reading Nikki Haley’s interview with some provincial hick at Time Magazine.

The IRS is NOT investigating Gov. Nikki Haley (R, SC).

Welcome to South Carolina! Here’s your accordion.

You may remember that a few days ago a minor South Carolinian political blog tossed out the very serious allegation that South Carolina governor Nikki Haley was about to be indicted by the Justice Department for alleged tax fraud involving her parents’ temple*. The keyword? “Imminent.” Well, it turns out that the IRS is not actually investigating either the Governor or the temple (H/T @RBPundit) in fact, if I’m reading this correctly the entire thing was more or less based off of the usual bureaucratic paperwork (H/T Hot Air Headlines). The goofball progressive blogger n00b (some guy named Logan Smith) that put up the article in the first place at first tried to stand by his anonymously-sourced allegations, but has since more or less given up and done one of the more grudging and passive-aggressive retractions that it’s been my pleasure to read lately. I don’t even think that Smith is going to get fifteen minutes out of this; and, of course, he’ll never get another shot.

Tragic. Continue reading The IRS is NOT investigating Gov. Nikki Haley (R, SC).

Thoughts on the SC primary.

As mentioned earlier, I was kind of taking last night off, so this will be a little scatter-shot.  Anyway:

  • Heh.  Called it.  Not that getting the order was all that hard, or even unsurprising; also note that I didn’t predict the percentages.  By the way:  the end results (Gingrich 40%, Romney 28%, Santorum 17%, Paul 13%) were pretty close to what PPP predicted (Gingrich 37%, Romney 28%, Santorum 16%, Paul 14%).
  • Sean Trende over at RCP has done a pretty good job explaining just how bad this night was for Mitt Romney.
  • I predict that we’ve heard the last of any suggestion, by the way, that Romney will skipping most or all of the remaining debates.
  • Most importantly: none of this suggests that Newt Gingrich is now the inevitable nominee.  Just that Romney isn’t actually inevitable.  But it’s going to be one of those two.
  • Florida is going to be epic next week.  Nine days of (metaphorical) knife fights in alleys, because there’s some people out there who are scared for the first time in this campaign cycle.  Hope everyone else is prepared for that, because it’s going to happen anyway.
  • Looking further at the schedule… Nevada, Arizona, and Michigan’s caucuses/primaries look like the results will be binding; Maine, Colorado, and Minnesota’s technically will not. Don’t expect that to be reported in the media.
  • If Romney doesn’t start winning primaries, the Super Tuesday narrative will have a disproportionate amount of space dedicated to the minor detail that the frontrunner is not on the ballot in Virginia. Fallout from that: if Romney wins the nomination then Bob McDonnell will not be his Vice Presidential pick.
  • Last but not least: if the Gingrich campaign is wondering what to send RedState in the way of a gift basket, I personally like those chocolate praline stick things.  Although, honestly, I didn’t do the heavy lifting on this one.

Moe Lane (crosspost)