… AT HER PERIL
|| By FITSNEWS || In 2012, S.C. governor Nikki Haley‘s presidential endorsement was worse than worthless – it was a kiss of death. This go-round, though, Haley was poised to make a positive impact on the electoral fortunes of the “First in the South” candidate she backed.
Rehabilitated politically, her endorsement was going to matter this time …
Two things have happened, though …
First thing? The flag …
Haley’s “New South” national star shines brightly in the aftermath of the Confederate flag flap (during which command economic pressure and naked political ambition guided her conversion). In fact the episode has made her a bona fide vice presidential prospect … preexisting vetting issues notwithstanding.
Haley is taking a hit at home, though. A majority of GOP voters did not support her decision on the flag – opposition which is especially pronounced in the vote-rich Upstate region of South Carolina.
(And likely to be further pronounced among older voters who turn out in droves for the presidential primary election).
So while Haley certainly made herself more attractive for a national ticket by flip-flopping on the flag, she devalued her “First in the South” endorsement to do so.
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Second thing? The Donald …
Love him or hate him, but there’s no denying Donald Trump has taken over the 2016 presidential race … driving the debate and soaring to huge leads nationally and in early voting states. Nowhere is Trump’s dominance more visible than in South Carolina, where three recent polls have shown him enjoying commanding margins over the rest of the “Republican” field.
And that’s after the “conservative” media tried to take him out …
Like Fox News, Haley is no friend to Trump. In fact she dedicated a good portion of her latest speech in Washington, D.C. to bashing his candidacy. Those barbs intensified this week when Haley told Politico that Trump’s “conduct in this campaign is wrong.”
“Our focus needs to be on bringing more people in, not excluding people with angry rhetoric,” she said.
Wait … Trump isn’t “bringing more people in?”
It’s obviously a long way to February, but at this stage of the race every single establishment “Republican” candidate in South Carolina is polling in the single digits. That means Haley’s only real “anti-Trump” option would be retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
So much for her rumored strategy of playing establishment favorites Jeb Bush and Scott Walker against one another …
Also the more Haley bashes the popular frontrunner, the more damage she does to the value of her endorsement …
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106 comments
Nikki Haley’s previous gopher Jeff Tailion is Trump’s State Manager. That could possibly help Haley when it comes to Trump endorsement.
Love her or hate her, Nikki is one of the future faces of the national GOP.
Trump and his bigoted supporters are it’s past, which is a good thing.
HA, HA, HA, HA, HA,
Will Trump and his supporters still be in the GOP’s past, if he wins in Iowa and/or NH and/or SC?
I assure you Trump would win a popularity contest over Haley in this state right now.
Nikki Haley is a traitor-of the same ilk as Barack Obama, in my opinion.
Biblical Christian conservatives elected her 2x DESPITE her personal and professional failings.How does she repay them???…seeks cover from the DEMOCRAT Party and its merry band of race hustlers named Sharpton,Jackson,Rutherford,Clyburn to remove the confederate flag and essentially label the very people that elected her racists and bigots.
She emboldened,in my opinion, racist Louis Farakkan to demand that the American Flag NOW come down in a speech, ironically from an AME church (same denomination of Charleston church involved in shootings) and groups like Black Lives Matter to threaten our communities.Law enforcement is no longer safe as when people like Ms.Haley appease the ‘enemy’-they always come back for more of our freedoms.
Haley would DESTROY any Republican Presidential ticket. In my opinion she lacks the character to serve this nation. South Carolinian’s have seen that first hand.
Go follow Trump. He’s there for you crazies. The GOP has no need for you anymore. You belong in the relic room of a museum, just like the battle flag.
President Trump. Thank you Jesus.Haley can now run as a Democrat.
That’s right.
Keep drinking the trump-aid. This is working better than we thought it would…
Did Hillary’s aide take the 5th today?
You know Hillary, when you told me these Republicans were so dumb they’d fall for this plan, I honestly didn’t believe you. But I gave you a chance, and man, you were spot on. These gullible morons are falling for this trap like flies on sticky paper. I can’t wait for the reveal!
Once my job is done I’ll drop you some more dimes.
Use your name Rocky.
oh, the irony….
You too Smirks!
Never posted under another username. No need to.
Oh, the irony! :)
Not irony. Truth.
Can’t you come up with your own witty retorts fuckface?
Sorry buddy, not me. Been working my tail off since 5:30 this morning.
Weren’t me.
Good point, flip! Use your real name.
Once this is over, I know a ‘job’ or two we can get after a nice massage. I know few places ;-)
Speaking of personal & professional failings… 3 wives and 4 bankruptcies
Who cares? They care more about a pResident that for the last 8 years has destroyed the economy,the health care system,shredded the Constitution and eroded the cultural and moral foundations that once made this country great.
A pResident that instead of declaring war on our enemies, gives em nukes and instead declares war on this nations law enforcement.
Bye bye illegals!
Donald’s gonna kick me out of the country? Oh no! Who will I leech off of then!
Wearing my Trump hat now-the WHITE one!Trump driving you people CRAZY! Love it!
Crazy with laughter.
Some people say my white hat makes me look like a ghost. Black people cross the street to get away from me while I’m wearing it. I wonder why? LMAO!!!!!!!!!
The smell?
So, you call Haley out for her “personal & professional failings”, but when someone brings up Trump’s personal & professional failings, your response is “who cares”?
We all have failings.Trump wins on policy.He has tied immigration to the economy,crime and foreign policy.
You liberals are just to stupid to figure it out.
Yes, some more than others. None more than you.
We all have failings. Just that Trump’s are Huge. Huge I tell you.
I want to get my next degree from Trump University – where you have to sue the school to get your money back.
I love it when gt/flip/sandi try to use facts. Its always screwed up. Get a job. Get off Medicaid. Buy the ways in addition to all the other things i gave you earlier, fewer Police officers have died in the line of duty since Obama has been President than died in the line of duty while Bush was President.
Obama declared this war on police early on when he said “The police acted stupidly.” He made this statement before he knew any of the facts. Since then he has sided with the guilty party in every instance I can think of: Travor Martin, Ferguson, Baltimore, etc. His blaming the police has given permission to others (mainly blacks) to blame police. That is why there is this war on police. Obama started it and it is he who is fanning the flames. I hold him, Obama, personally responsible for the random shooting of white police officers. He has given his sanctions, his permission, to these horrendous acts.
Fewer officers killed in the line of duty under Obama than under Reagan or Bush. You must hate that. Bet you’de like to see that number rise. So sad.
Yes, I need more dead cops to blame on Obama or my winky won’t grow! LMAO!!!
It is sad, what is sadder is that we have to protect assholes like flip when they open their mouth to the wrong person and get their asses beat.
The Obama administration and its media allies has turned America’s police officers into racist assassins.In 2014, we had riots in Ferguson, Baltimore, and a near-doubling of the number of police officers killed in the line of duty.
Whatever Dylann.
This is a total lie, and a disgusting use of Law Enforcement Deaths for your political crap. Crawl back in your hole you lazy pos
Dang girl – you keep this up and Flip and U KNOW WHAT U R will start to accuse you of being me.
According to the FBI, the number of police officers killed in the line of duty nearly doubled from 27 to 51 between 2013 and 2014. That is nearly one murdered police officer a week during 2014, which was also a little over a year after the mainstream media and Obama began its coordinated hate campaigns to demonize America’s law enforcement officers.
You lie way to much Rocky.
I have noticed that Rocky can pull some numbers out of his ass.
He does it so often that it gets tiring trying to correct him, so therefore, everything he says is taken with less than a grain of salt.
You got that right,sir. Watch my back-he is on a ‘conference call’. :)
I condensed from someone elses post last week.
According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
Officers Killed in the line of duty under Bush 1,536
Officers killed in the line of duty under Obama 807
Dang. That’s a true statement. I’m sorry Rock – you’re number one in my book again. I should just shut my pie hole.
Ferguson didn’t happen till August 2014. The only black shooting being protested in 2013 was wanna be cop George Zimmerman.
Once the Zimmerman case ran out of narrative steam after his acquittal in July on 2013, the media’s hate campaign against police officers moved to coverage of the New York City mayor’s race. Mayor de Blasio stirred up hate against the police just hours after Zimmerman’s acquittal.
Throughout the summer and fall of 2013, the tip of de Blasio’s campaign spear was to demonize the police as racial-profiling racists who use the stop-and-frisk policy to persecute black people.
Which fed right into Ferguson in 2014.Try and keep up.
The number you quoted from 2013 was also the lowest number of deaths in 35 years.
I call BS about the NYC mayor and stop and frisk playing any part in police officers being murdered in other parts of the country. It might have increased crime in NYC. You think these thugs in other states that shoot cops follow politics and the news?
LMAO!!!! 90% of the rioters in Ferguson and Baltimore were these thugs!
Your boy Trump claimed the Ferguson rioters, were illegal aliens.
How about that cop in north of Chicago. Shot by two white guys – but Flip don’t mention them.
Something fishy going on with that shooting too. A beloved cop is murdered and no leads a week later? I read that the coroner won’t list manner of death (accident, homicide, suicide) till he receives more details, hmm.
An old white guy shot the Louisiana officer last month. And another officer in that state was killed by his own cousin. Then Flip didn’t mention that the officer up north who claimed someone shot at him while he was driving was lying. He shot at his own car in an attempt to cover up wrecking his cruiser. I’m sure there are others that have no connection to any type of movement – those spring to mind since they happened recently.
NYPD Commissioner was on CNN this AM saying Christie’s big headline claims about crime in NYC were total BS too. He suggested Christie might want to miss a few bagel stops, get off the campaing trail and worry about crime and police officer safety in Newark and Camden.
I call BS on your numbers. Officers killed in the line of duty in 2013 was 107, the lowest number since 1949. Officers killed in the line of duty in 2014 was 117 the lowest number except 2013 since 1956. Most of these deaths were unrelated to firearms. Traffic accidents being the largest killer. Year to date 2015 law enforcement officer deaths related to fire arms are down 24% from the same period in 2014.
Conservatives love to make crap up. Even using the deaths of our law enforcement officers as pawn in their political games.
Damn Jan – thanks for the help. You slapped the crap out of ole’ Flip that time. Good on you.
Flipping burgers isn’t difficult, it just requires getting out of the house for a few hours at a time. That’s a big struggle for flip and GT.
Yet he is still married and is still a billionaire so I think he’s doing just fine for himself.
Get the Sandi out of your vagina before trying to preach morals.
LMAO!!! I ain’t seen 3 people defend Haley in 2 years on Fits yet we have a blog full today!
Since 90% of the contributors are liberals I will assume Haley is now a liberal! :)
That’s not what you said 2 weeks ago. You said she was the best ever in SC?
Are you angry with me? You like fish?
Why would I be, and u÷a.
U OK?
How dare you speak down on me like that! You’re fired!
For those keeping score at home, “Sandi Morals” is “pogo”, aka “flip”, “Farley Costco”, “fc” etc., etc. He used “Sandi” for quite a while. Apparently because of his obsession with a dive in Garden City called “The Sandy Monkey” that he used to talk about incessantly on “The SNOB” (Sun News Opinion Blog.)
For those who think this character is “GT”, he’s not. There IS some kind of connection between them.
“GT” may be dead, btw. If so, may he Rest In Peace.
He ain’t dead. His posts are usually under the name “R U SO STUPID” or something like that, which is his way of saying “I AM GT AND AM SO STUPID” – you can tell it’s GT – the gay sex and fasicnation with poop.
That’s part of pogo’s MO. He apes the style of people he wants you to think are real. “GT” is real of course. But he is not posting comments on the blog at this time. That’s pogo, playing one of his favorite pogo games.
Boz has apparently been posting on other social media that the Grand Tango persona is Will Folks. That is what this is all about.
That’s bullshit. I’ve never claimed that. Never posted that anyplace. Have gone to great lengths to disabuse people of that particular delusion. Including my lovely ginger friend who posts here and gives you well-deserved shit from time to time.
Only a retard would think GT is Will. And Buzzman ain’t no retard.
Why is he apparently spreading that shit everywhere? Wonder if Boz is the fake ‘Emily P.’ and SCPD was just a ‘cover’ by #### 4 $$$$$???
GT is Fits? Say it ain’t so.Is Boz lying?
Hey Boz lets check the ‘score’ card! GOLDEN OLDIE TIME!!!!!
“For the good of this community, why don’t you put yourself out of our misery and resign immediately,” Martin told the mayor at the closing of his speech.
Rhodes said after the meeting that he wasn’t going anywhere.
“No, I’m not resigning,” Rhodes said. “I really have no comment on Mr. Martin’s State of the Boz address.”
Martin said Rhodes had tried to hide that he was in a wreck that Martin said people had speculated involved driving under the influence – which Rhodes said was FALSE.
Read more here: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/incoming/article16615442.html#storylink=cpy
Boz had to apologize for FALSELY libeling and trying to destroy the mayor of Myrtle Beach.
Mayor of Rednect Beach? Is that a real job?
Never HAD to. Just did. That’s all. Just did. We’re fine now. You continue to obsess on the past.
You had too, in my opinion.The mayor had to go on the radio to defend himself. My guess is that Street Reach Mission was next if you didn’t?
John won many points with me when he contacted Tomas G Davis and told him that him and his buddies needed to stop the harassment and threats against me and my family. It was the menace to my mother, on a public blog, that he found offensive. John gave me his solemn word that he would talk with Tom about it. He did so. The harassment and threats stopped for a good long while. Then before long, he assumed another identity on the blog and started them up again. As if on cue, so did some of his buds. Bunch of obsessed drunks, as you likely are, yourself.
I support John Rhodes and the current city council in Myrtle Beach. I have no reason to defend that, or to give you any more information about it. Again, you only attack me over old news. You have precious little real contact with anyone in this area. Knowing the owner of an alkie dive and having gotten shit-faced there a few times does not make you an expert on the area.
Ba-ba-ba-bam!!!!!! Slap down completed. Go Buzzman.
I get it. That ‘alkie dive’ wouldn’t let you eat and drink…then walk out on????…..never mind
I will pass your libelous comments along to the OWNER (and his sister) of Calloways in Columbia.They also own the Sandy Monkey.He played football at USC.
Maybe we can add them to the list of local business owners that have threatened legal action against you for libelous comments about their businesses?
pogo, the terminal alkies who have their asses nearly glued to the bar stools there, every hour that dive is open, know that it’s a dive. The owners of the place have to know it’s a dive. EVERYBODY knows that it’s a dive. Including you.
Bite me, you obsessed loon.
Quit bringing me up ya fat ass POS!
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Donald Trump is a hugely successful businessman. Every thing he touches is gold. Gold I tell ya’. Just to name a few:
1. In October 1988, Donald Trump threw his wallet into the airline business by purchasing Eastern Air Shuttle. The shuttle never turned a profit. The high debt forced Trump to default on his loans, and ownership of the company was turned over to creditors. It lasted four years.
2. In April 2006, Trump announced that, after years in the real estate business, he was launching a mortgage company. Trump told CNBC, “Who knows more about financing than me?” Within a year and a half, Trump Mortgage had closed shop.
3. In 1990, the banking institutions that backed his real estate investments had to bail him out with a $65 million “rescue package” that contained new loans and credit. But it wasn’t enough, and nine months later the famous developer was nearly $4 billion in debt.
And Flip wants this guy to be his latex salesman.
Hurry up Flip, I’m logging off to get back to work.
Work? What’s that? Never heard of it.
lol…Obama was trailer trash when he stole his 1st election and Hillary said she and Bill were broke when they left the wH. I will take Trump!
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Donald Trump vows that if he’s elected president, he would “be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.”
One of the main reasons Trump cites is that he’s a businessman. He has already created jobs, he argues, so he’ll do it on an even bigger scale as president.
So how many jobs has Trump created as a businessman?
A CNNMoney analysis calculates at least 34,000 jobs attributable to the Donald.
It’s not the most straightforward calculation. His company, The Trump Organization, is private, so it does not have to disclose information publicly about how much money it makes or how many people it employs. His campaign didn’t give a specific figure either.
CNNMoney turned to PrivCo, which researches and tracks privately-held companies.
According to PrivCo, the Trump Organization has 22,450 employees and brought in $9.5 billion in annual revenue last year.
But that’s not the whole picture. There are likely other jobs that might not exist without Trump. Economists call this the “multiplier effect.”
New York’s Broadway shows are a good example. Visitors who come to see shows, may stay at least a night or two at New York City hotels and spend money at restaurants and stores. So any analysis on the economic and job impact of Broadway takes into account more than just ticket sales and employment of actors, singers and stage hands.
The same holds true for Trump’s resorts and hotels.
Like the jobs he created in West Palm Beach? Only jobs he creates are for attorneys. “Look at her face?” What an adult.
I’m glad Trump decided he could endorse himself with my name. That takes some real arrogance.
I got balls the size of tree trunks. They’re limp now, but once upon a time, I could hang with the best of ’em.
34,000 jobs. Darn that’s impressive. What’s Obama’s count lately, 9 million?
Well of course she is bashing Trump. Nimrata Randhawa Haley is an anchor baby, just like Piyush Jindal, and Marco Antonio Rubio. I would like to include Rafael Cruz, but he is half American. Even if he was not born in this country.
who?
Nice think about Donalds hair, when it rains, he never gets wet.
I have 30 minutes before my next conference call. Trump is an idiot. He’s a big mouth, attached to a big head. That’s it. He hasn’t offered one realistic proposal yet. He makes fun of his opponents like he’s in a school locker room, and all his little Tea Pee Party loozas giggle and say “go Trump.” They think he’s all for them, yet he wouldn’t let them even park their Chevy’s and Fords in a parking lot of his hotels. Realistically, he’s got nothing. No Plan, No Policy. No Ideas. Nothing. He’s an empty suit and now the Establishment candidates like Carly and Jeb and Kasich are going to slowly take him down. Because if they don’t, he’ll finish of the Republican Party before he’s finished. A complete and utter clown, destined to be gurgling back cream of wheat from his Park Avenue penthouse in another 10 years, while his wife bangs rich Wall Street brokers in the upstairs parlor. Enjoy your life Trump, just get out of ours.
Time’s up Flip – getting coffee before call.
ISIS or DNC?
“Donald Trump hasn’t read the Bible. Because he isn’t in it.” Bobby Jindal
All these people attacking me. I feel a twitter shitter coming.
When Trumps ratings fall you know what he’s gonna do – change to Donna Lynne.
The first “New South” SC Governor was Dick Riley, and Trikki Nikki is certainly no Dick Riley. Someone needs to give her a history lesson. Her staff must really suck.
I don’t know if anyone has brought this up, Nikki Haley has been named to Politico’s Top 50 of “thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics in 2015.” Politico puts her on the list at number nine, tied with Jenny Horne.
Never would have thought they would do that, since they are such a left-wing endeavor.
I guess taking down the flag has really raised her stock in some quarters.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/politico50#ixzz3lN7eR5cJ
When the Donald gets the nomination, Haley will be lucky to be cleaning the toilets at Trump Tower Pennsylvania Avenue.
She has the same amount of integrity as Jenny Horne
After witnessing how poorly many state agencies are run by her administration I have no faith in her judgment. She is making a shambles of several agencies in the name of political (in)correctness.