S.C. GOVERNOR “RADIOACTIVE” WITH GRASSROOTS
This website has spent years exposing S.C. governor Nikki Haley as a traitor to the people who elected her … and the ideology she was elected to advance.
Now it looks like we’ve got some company …
A guest columnist for The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier has ripped Haley to shreds for “betraying conservatism.”
“South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s tone-deaf, anti-conservative, establishment Republican ‘rebuttal’ to Obama’s final State of the Union speech last week was supposed to be her audition for the vice presidential spot on a Rubio, Bush, Christie or Kasich ticket,” wrote Richard Viguerie, publisher of the ConservativeHQ newsletter. “Instead, Gov. Haley’s ten minutes in the national spotlight appear to have done serious damage to her political future, not because her delivery was bad – it wasn’t – but because she picked the wrong side in the battle between conservatives and the go-along-get-along Republican establishment.”
The fallout from Haley’s address would certainly seem to support Viguerie’s assertion.
We’ve written extensively about the fault lines within the GOP (see here, here and here for a few recent examples), but Viguerie’s piece sums up the divide perfectly.
“On one side you have the content-free Big Government Republican establishment who were all teed-up to pat themselves and Gov. Haley on the back after her remarks,” Viguerie wrote. “On the other side you have the grassroots conservative base of the GOP who said after Haley’s attack on Trump and Cruz, ‘Hey wait a minute, that was an attack on us, because they are carrying our message and we agree with them.'”
Therein lies Haley’s problem …
“Haley, along with Eric Cantor, John Boehner and the rest of the discredited D.C. establishment apparently didn’t get the memo that the establishment has lost control of the GOP and it no longer has the ability to dictate to the grassroots,” Viguerie added, concluding that Haley “did serious damage to her political future when she threw in with the losing side in the battle between conservatives and the Republican establishment.”
Indeed …
There is a growing realization among many fiscally conservative Americans – including disaffected Democrats – that the “Republican” party is doing absolutely nothing to rein in the excesses of the administration of Barack Obama.
In fact, the GOP establishment in Washington, D.C. is actively embracing those excesses (look no further than this excellent column by our friend Rick Manning of the group Americans for Limited Government to see exactly what we’re talking about).
Haley threw her lot in with these thieves … lock, stock and barrel … and then made a fool of herself by trying to walk it all back.
Still buying what she’s selling?
No ma’am … “not today.”
At the local, state and federal level, voters must continue to reject establishment, big government “Republican” politicians like Haley. Instead, they should support authentic pro-freedom, pro-free market leaders who are committed to advancing their opportunity and prosperity through smaller government and lower taxes … not more of the same tax-and-spend nonsense.
Of course as they weigh their options, it’s important to remember that Haley was elected as one of those small government, anti-establishment voices – riding the Tea Party wave of 2010 to power in South Carolina.
How ironic it is, indeed, that her attempt to break onto the national stage involves repudiating the very people who launched her political career in the first place.
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Haley and her family righfully need to fade into obscurity once this term as Governor is over with. From Day 1, it has been about her, her cronies, and her interests, people of SC be damned!
Amen!!!
The people elected her twice. Not all people in SC are racist nitwits.
Maybe not racist, maybe not all, but apparently we do have a majority of nitwits in the voting lines.
I supported her in her first bid for Governor. Within a couple of months of her taking office, I had serious buyer’s remorse. No way in hell would I vote for her again.
Yet, she got elected again. Like I said, a majority of SC voters aren’t racist nitwits.
Don’t worry, she already got what see needed from you and won’t be running again in SC.
You can’t vote for her again…..you know that, right?
The two term limit is only on consecutive terms. She could run again after a four year break.
Quit dreaming. She’ll have a postion in Washington by then.
Nope. It’s over and she did it to herself. What a fool.
If we have learned anything over the past several decades, it is that pols always…ALWAYS take care of their own.
only about 10% if voters showed up at the polls.
No, they are just easily fooled twice, just like those who voted for Obummer twice!!!!
I have to agree. She’s hired the worst people to run her state agencies and she has been leading from behind since day one. Whether you agree with the Tea Party movement or not, you have to admit they have a right to be pissed. The Tea Party/Sarah Palin/Mitt Romney PAC $$$ are the reasons she won her first election and she hasn’t lived up to the person she thought she was.
She has turned The Department of Public Safety into The Department of Black Lives Matter.
Ted Pitts has sullied his reputation forever. I’m sure Mrs. Anne would be very disappointed.
She would be rolling in her grave. She would have NEVER liked Haley.
You are right that its been about her cronies…which came to the very forefront when she openly supported the crook Stephen Goldfinch. I dont know why that bothers me so much even after this while, perhaps I am too old, but I could not stand Haley supporting that liar and criminal, when Goldfinch was going around bearing false witness against the good doctor. That is a deep moral issue for me as a devout Christian that she stood strongly in support of a false witness (Bible strongly condemns this as sin), which everyone saw Goldfinch was clearly lying. If this is what she did out in the open in support of a crook, I wonder what’s in her closet, thats probably why it bothers me so much, including Tim Scott’s support of Goldfinch. Bury core moral values for politics and wins?? I dont get that.
Somebody voted for her…and then reelected her. (Hint: I wasn’t me). Are you implying the citizens of South Carolina elected a less than competent, corrupt, and venal governor?
Thank you Barbara for your thoughtful and insightful reply!
I’ve posted here for years about Haley’s pathology for lying, her incompetence, her proclivity to use any means available to get what she wants. I was around and helped her election to the House and Gov. She is also a backstabbing, unappreciative user. I’ve seen her, first hand, play up to people, use them and then throw them under the bus. There is no doubt in my mind, she was involved with Larry Marchant, Will Folks, as well as others. Her loose tendencies were well known around the Capitol in 2006, 2007, 2008 and beyond.
My belief, Elinor Kitzman was a confidant, enabler, a henchman, operative, procurer, hatchet woman for Haley and her activities and this is why, Haley supported her in many positions, which she was incompetent and unqualified.
Haley needs to fade away and be forgotten.
wow!
Haley & Kitzman met each other at the “Re-purposing couch fabric” clinic held at the Oliver Gospel Mission every other month.
The bond they formed there is unbreakable. Hate on hater.
Take a wank break there, buster.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-guest-trumps-alt-right-fans-childless-single-men-who-masturbate-to-anime/
Haley is an ANAL!!!
I’ll see you on the campaign trail and then Washington. Thanks for your help in getting me there!
I followed career in the House because she was a favorite of The State on one of their single-issue issues.
I remember her breathless interview – name me; don’t name me; name me – with Cindi Scoppe about the evil Bobby Harrell ‘demoting’ her from the commerce to the education committee because she did support him on some bill – relating to vote transpsrency, I think.
Of, course, when she ran for gov, it became clear that she wanted commerce because that’s where she could do the most good for the clients she was acting as an unregistered lobbyist for.
She is probably one of the most overtly corrupt politician ever elected governor in this state.
“There is a growing realization among many
fiscally conservative Americans – including disaffected Democrats – that
the “Republican” party is doing absolutely nothing to rein in the
excesses of the administration of Barack Obama.”
Most career Republicans have realized fighting the Conservative fight buys you absolutely nothing. You are are pilloried by the MSM, the Democrat party,
and many of your fellow Republicans
Fighting the political trend to the left in this country is a hard fight, especially when many personal rewards are available for those who are compliant with the trend. Those that want to fight the battle against the tide of the leftward onslaught often find themselves at odds with the left, the press, and their own party.
Yep. You Are no longer needed nor wanted. Go away now. You are an embarrassment.
Bye, bye!
Which helps to explain my question from the other day. Dims go to Washington / Columbia and act like Dims. Republicans go to Washington / Cola. and after two or three terms act like Dims. The pressure to “fit in” is such as to require them to blend or bend to fit the profile.
Bring some CLASS back to the Governors Mansion………….
RITA JENRETTE!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU BETCHA!
I CAN SEE PLAYBOY SPREAD FROM MY ROOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
too much caffeine this morning?
Not yet1
Just to much Palin on the morning news.
Like you wouldn’t check a Palin spread out.
For sure> Fantasize ’bout her, “Crazy Eyes Bachmann”, and that little “witch’ from Delaware.
Now your talking!!!
A Tea for Three!!
Ha. This dude definietly called it. Except the old farts here have no idea what anime is….
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-guest-trumps-alt-right-fans-childless-single-men-who-masturbate-to-anime/
Go buy a Hustler pervert.
Buy? Are you dense – high speed internet.
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Hell yea!
“Pilloried” — Well, folks, not exactly per tradition (from Wiki)
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Rather like the lesser punishment called the stocks, the pillory consisted of hinged wooden boards forming holes through which the head and/or various limbs were inserted; then the boards were locked together to secure the captive. Pillories were set up to hold petty criminals in marketplaces, crossroads, and other public places They were often placed on platforms to increase public visibility of the offender. Often a placard detailing the crime was placed nearby; these punishments generally lasted only a few hours
In being forced to bend forward and stick their head and hands out in front of them, offenders in the pillory would have been extremely uncomfortable during their punishment. However, the main purpose in putting criminals in the pillory was to publicly humiliate them. On discovering that the pillory was occupied, people would excitedly gather in the marketplace to taunt, tease and laugh at the offender on display.
Those who gathered to watch the punishment typically wanted to make the offender’s experience as unpleasant as possible. In addition to being jeered and mocked, those in the pillory might be pelted with rotten food, mud, offal, dead animals, and animal excrement. As a result, criminals were often very dirty by the end of their punishment, their faces and hair begrimed with the smelly refuse with which they had been pelted
Was this the origin of, “eat shit and die”?
wow! 100+
On another note…did the NAACP end their “boycott” of SC since Trikki Nikki removed the flag? How much money has this wonderful state made since the boycott ended? Anyone?
Excellent.
It usually takes a year to figure those things out, but SC is in better shape now, then in 2008.
How dense are the “conservative Republicans”, anyway, if it’s taken this long for a great many of them to figure out that Haley was a self-serving phony from day one?
LMAO! That coming from someone that supported and campaigned for Green Peace Marxixt Gloria Tinabu in SC7?
Oh my!!!!
Bernie Sanders 2016
Thanks, Dad. That is my guy for sure….and he will win.
Tinubu was supported by the Green Party, not Green Peace, idjit.
Also, contrary to the propaganda put out by Tom Rice and his drunken crazy wife and druggie Democrat family and staff, Gloria was not on the outs with the Dem establishment in Atlanta because she was too far left. On the contrary, her family-centric movement to reform the schools was too center-right for them, from their point of view. She was not in any way a “carpetbagger”, either. Her roots in the district are far deeper than Tom’s.
Tom and his dirty tricks weasels went after Gloria for having left the area and state to further herself (leaving out that she got a degree from Clemson in the meantime) — then when elected he turned right around and whined about how his son was going to have to leave Myrtle Beach to find a high-paying job. That was after he was told he could not employ his family members as staff when he was in DC.
I have views that are liberal as well as views that are conservative. So do most Americans. So do you. You kiss Tom Rice’s ass constantly, and he’s a social engineering tax-and-spend liberal if there ever was one, who postures as a conservative.
I supported Gloria because I know her, and I know her heart. She is a good woman, a true daughter of the district, and 100 times more qualified than mushmouth goober Tom Rice.
Plus, she’s not a crook. He is. End of story.
Putz.
Real dense… because they are all self-serving phonies.
Wait till they wake up to Trump’s complete BS.
I don’t think even the live boy or dead woman would wake them up to Trump.
They have already awaken to Hillary’s fucked up bullshit. Who wants to vote for woman who condones her husbands pedophilia? You?
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4709396603001/judge-jeanine-the-republican-party-is-in-real-trouble/?playlist_id=937116552001#sp=show-clips
Surprised Will didn’t cover this.
Damn Taz, I love her!!!!!!
She tells it like it is. Maybe she should be Trump’s running mate. Better looking and definitely more well-spoken than Palin!
No MO HALEY!!!!!!!!!!! NO MO Obama and 100% of the rest!!!!
No
more political dynasties, or ruling class: Clintons, Bushs, Quinns,
Eckstroms, Ravenels, Sanfords, Peelers, Wilkins, Wilsons and the like.
They have sucked off the taxpayers tit too long. As a matter of fact
they have just sucked too long!
NO MO 90% of the rest of EM EITHER!!!!!!
Get rid of all and start over!!
I 100% agree!
So you’ll be voting for Bernie then? Good.
A Socialist/Communist, NO THANKS!
Oh yeah, that could describe almost 99% of the DumboCraps!!!
Hey Nimrata, they have a great makeup line available on HSN. It covers imperfections, dark circles, and still looks natural. Ironically, the product line is TWO FACED. Check it out.
Hey. Thanks for electing me twice. The rest of the nation loves me. Who cares what some dumb racist hick has to say?
Please do not let them come back to Lexington.
Why would I want to return to that shit hole?
There’s probably some pennies on a dead man’s eyes that you, county council, Jakie, or Joe, missed that are still here for the taking.
Pennies? I’m headed to the national stage to make REAL money. Forget broke ass SC.
Thanks for your help ;-)
Spoken like a true gypsy.
Spoken like a clueless racist.
Yea just think, without Sanfraud’s money to buy that ad, Gresham Gump would be Gubner.
Nikki Haley hasn’t betrayed the most important thing in her view — Nikki Haley.
Wonder what will happen when Michael has to become the bread winner?
You mean when the “bread maker” between her legs gives out? When it becomes too yeasty?
As I mentioned yesterday, I am the actual son of Flip / Tango / Pogo / Sandi. He was a great Dad in the early days. He used to take us tubing on the Saluda River, and we’d go get ice cream at Dairy Queen. Usually around Thanksgiving we’d go out to the countryside near Turbeville and Lake City and we’d pick cotton from the left over plants and Mom would use that raw cotton to make beautiful place settings and Christmas decorations. Dad bought us all old school desks from a guy near Swansea and refinished them so we could do our homework. I think it was back in 1992 when things started to go south. I was sixteen then and we had a mock election at school. I reported to Dad that Bill Clinton won, and he asked me if I voted for Perot like he said. I told him no, that I thought Bill Clinton offered a solid progressive vision for America’s future. After that Dad started taking me fishing often on the Edisto. We had always done that, usually using a friends riverside shack behind the Circle C Travel Plaza just the other side of I-95. But soon, Dad would have me fish off the I-95 bridge by myself. He said it was to give him warning of driftwood (I would yell out “Tree a comin”) but I always thought it was a little dangerous.
The rest of my story.When I came out it was at a banquet/memorial service for my grandfather. My aunt, uncle, parents and others were having a conversation about the likelihood that my 2nd cousin was a transgender male and it was completely positive. Eventually my sister and mom (who know I’m bi) asked me if I wanted to say anything. I said only if my sister initiates it so she did and then I announced what I am. My aunt and uncle said they were fine with it as long as I am happy and all that me being bi meant was my genes were a little different than others. My cousin said it just means I might bring home a guy instead of a girl for Christmas.
Hope she will be consigned to the trash can of political has beens. In less than 6 months she went from a respected conservative who stood by her promises and that the majority of SC liked to this. She first vilified our heritage, slandered our veterans and broke a key campaign guarantee all to pander to the media and ignorant minority, rather than unite us after a tragedy she ripped us apart them she attacks the very people that elected her. Telling us to be quiet, shut up and listen. I am sorry you are not my mother, my teacher or my judge. Her recent past has been nothing more than a self serving push for national attention and higher office and I can only hope that once her term expires here in SC as governor she will quickly be forgotten just as we forget what we had for dinner two nights ago.
Quit your bitching, Nimrata has always been a terrible governor, a habitual liar, and as far from conservative as you can get. She’s smart enough to know she’ll never make a national stage, because the national media will tear her apart unlike the chickenshit local media. But you were willing to ignore that as long as her policies adversely affected the “ignorant minority”. Now, that she has taken down your precious rag, you want her to pay for what she should have paid for during election season. The only thing I wish happened differently, is that the flag could have been put up for auction. That way, paying for it’s storage would be a dead issue. And some dumbass could broke trying to bid on it.
nomoho
That’s right—the same Will who has systematically lied about sleeping with Haley now thinks it’s “news” that Haley has betrayed cons
There’s just no off switch on stupid with this Vista-jaded narcissist who thinks debauchery with legislators is somehow a magic wand
So when—not IF—that long Tea Train takes out the flag-ripping gutless legislators and Joe-I-Lie-To-Conservatives-Wilson himself
Will may still have a blog but as to awareness of what constitutes “news”—he’ll fade into history with Haley as a Lilliputian elf !!!
I don’t think he lied, but most people who screw trash generally try to keep that quiet and pretend it never happened..hey, we have all made mistakes, we just don’t all advertise them. And we generally try to forget them. What a terrible thing to admit. Particularly when you see all the other bozos who said they screwed her too. Clorox couldn’t scrub that shit off. Yikes. I feel so bad for him admitting he screwed her. Had to be a very low moment in his life.
PILLORIED? oh my goodness! Kind of kinky behavior. (The pillory is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse. )
Haley’s political is over… at least it should be… She should just fade away into history…
So Haley has been PILLOWED many, many times! Sounds right.
The entire nation now knows all about Haley wickedness and corruption. She is doomed. She shot herself and her family in the head. Where ever she finds work after her term ends, she will not last long at all. Her life will never be the same as her standard of living will keep sinking, and sinking, and sinking. What a fool she really is.
Everything she is accused of here by her deepest detractors is pretty much what many of us expect from a SC Republican pol, especially a Teabagger, and most especially from Lexington County. Where’s the surprise?.
Republicans have been suckering voters on small government so the can privatize and make more money while you pay more for same service, lower taxes on the rich, they have lowered theirs since 1950, no tax and spend, look to see that Democrats spend less than Republicans and balance budget more.