BUT DID SHE DO IT ON PURPOSE?
|| By FITSNEWS || We’ll have a post up soon on the real news associated with former Florida governor Jeb Bush‘s visit to early-voting South Carolina this week, but first we had to address the colossal pooch screw committed by S.C. governor Nikki Haley during his trip.
Haley – who we believe is likely to endorse Wisconsin governor Scott Walker – butchered Bush’s visit by taking him to Sistercare, a battered womens’ shelter in Cayce, S.C.
Wait … what’s wrong with that? How is visiting a battered womens’ facility a bad thing?
Well, despite wielding an embarrassingly anemic veto pen during her first four years in office Haley managed to cut funding in 2012 to twenty-three rape and domestic violence crisis centers across the state.
Among them? Yup, Sistercare …
“Governor Haley has stooped to an all-time low by bringing a Presidential candidate to a women’s shelter that she tried to defund,” S.C. Rep. Mia McLeod said. “South Carolina ranks number two in the nation for women killed by men, and we don’t need self-serving, overly-ambitious politicians like Nikki Haley, pimping domestic violence shelters and the women and children they serve, just to get another five minutes of fame on national television. These shelters need funding, not lip service and a photo op from a Governor who’s doing nothing more than auditioning for her next job.”
Wow …
We agree with McLeod. Well, mostly. We believe men who kill women (and women who kill men) in cold-blooded premeditation deserve efficient justice.
But that’s another story …
Obviously, this isn’t the first time Haley has been ripped for her hypocrisy on this issue … in fact it’s not the first time she’s been ripped for this specific funding hypocrisy … which makes it all the more baffling why she would take Bush to Sistercare (unless of course she wanted to turn his visit into a controversy).
And that, frankly, makes it baffling to us that Bush’s campaign – which is supposed to be a top shelf operation – didn’t see this goat rodeo coming from a mile away.
Seriously …
Anyway, like we said we’ll have a post soon on what we view as the real story associated with Bush’s visit … but given the extent to which politicos in the Palmetto State are buzzing over Haley’s flub, we had to get something up on it.
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He, he – FITS said muffed. She muffed it. He, he! Muffed. Side note, looks like Jeb’s losing some pounds, gettin’ ready for the big race. Go Jeb. Common Core, Amnesty – go Jeb, go!!! A real conservative – he has my vote. Bueno Jeb. Bueno.
Back to our regular scheduled comment. Muffed it. She’s got the muffed. Muffed out. Muff-in. Muffintop. Muffinito. She’s got Muff. He, He. Muff.
Lastly, I miss Smirks, Where is Smirks?
I vaguely remember him. As I recall he didn’t really like me. Surprise :)
Saying Palin is smart out loud is a good way to get yourself ostracized! :)
Good way to get committed too
I am sure, but since I’m not really a tangerine, I’m not too worried about it.
FITS does have a way with words.
He rocks!
I won’t vote for another Bush. I’m telling you I will stay home first. I think this is a dog and pony show.
In the end, when we see who all the candidates are, wonder where she will be? My guess? Unless she has an offer as VP, right beside Jeb. I like Haley, I understand the game she plays. It’s hardball.
Will be interesting to watch it unfold.
If Bush is the nominee,you will vote for him because you are a Republican.(this is where you come in and like the other “nonRepublicans “who only vote for Republicans come in and deny you are a Republican)
Let the Follies continue!
You hit the nail on the head, all these types have an excuse every year why they just had to vote the same way again and again and how next time it will be different. Then they all scratch their heads and wonder why Lindsey Graham or some other Republican they don’t like is still in office ten or twenty years later
Nope, I didn’t vote in mid terms, for much the same reason. Nothing was going to change.
You are my new BFF.
Hiss expression is priceless. “What the fuck am I doing here?”
Hiss… funny. Damn keyboard.
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I finally like a comment you post today…ha! That is good and spot on.
I pulled a few out of the trunk ’cause I needed something to put me to sleep. Very busy day and night….
Busy day here too, luckily hubby took on evening, giving me some free time.
Sleep well Shifty!
It appears anything Governor Haley does, according to this site, is wrong. Get real, Fits, what does it matter where she takes anyone, including presidential aspirants. Must not be much stirring out there today to arouse the negativity of your mostly liberal following, Fits.
Fits is left of me on some issues and right of me on others. To coin this site as “liberal” isn’t quite right.
Mostly, everything Nimrata does is wrong for most people. Fits does play both sides, but he also speaks on issues that the local media won’t touch, or talk about AFTER this already has. The real problem is that we have a shitty local media.
Nikki’s life is one big photo opportunity.
She stands for nothing. Please note her compromise/reversal on the gas tax.
it is just one big photo opportunity.
And that is different from other politicians?
Tell it like it is, Mia! More power to you.
More power to her and while she has a pretty face, she is no Gov. Haley.
Thank God! Haley is an absolute moron.
Haley isn’t a moron, even when I HORRIBLE disagree with her, she isn’t dumb. Even the most liberal must recognize, she knows how to work a system. Do I agree with her all the time? No, absolutely not.
However, when you look at what Rep. McLeod wants, it is more money. She wants to fund EVERY thing. Where is this money going to come from?
As a capitalist, and many who are objective capitalist will horrible disagree, but still act the same….
We pay taxes to the government. They use those taxes as incentives to force us (states/individuals) to comply with whatever crap they cook up.
I would take their money, my money, state money, and any other given money, available. I would make every effort to avoid strings attached, but I would not cut off my hand to spite my arm.
More money will stop rape and DVC. Yeah right.
Huh?
I think you meant CDV? I’m not sure if money would? In some cases maybe, but I think that is up to the families to provide. In cases where families CANNOT, then I do think that is a role of government.
Call me what you will, my thoughts are my own, I am sure many have a label for me – but I do think for myself.
Mom, what is your answer for CDV? What solutions can you provide? Unless we have answers, why even question?
CDV is nothing new. Back in the day men beat women and the women were made to believe it was somehow their fault. Women kept it secret because they were embarrassed. I donate to Sistercare because I believe we as a civilized society are called to take care of victims. For the victims who forgive their assailant again and again, no one can help them. As frustrating as it is, their are no solutions for some cases.
You are desperately attempting to justify the behaviors of a governor who has repeatedly wronged the very state she represents. She is a bought-and-paid-for Koch brothers opportunist who is governor because Sarah Palin visited the state and told people to vote for her. I actually hope she attempts to go national with her political ambitions, just so a real news media can take her hypocrisy apart.
Please, I need to add Koch to my earlier comment – that is flat out embarrassing that you even think that way.
I used to admire Palin, voted for McCain because I liked her. She was/is smart. Politics was breaking her bank account. She got out, of office, and still has a voice and more money.
More power to Palin – a woman I think does care.
Wow — that comment is all I need to know.
Glad I could answer your question ;)
Even Bush had more brain cells and that is really saying something
“She is a bought-and-paid-for Koch brothers”
I wish that was true. What has the Koch brothers gotten?
In South Carolina, preservation of the status quo: An ignorant voting public that will react like Pavlov’s dogs when symbolic issues arise.
I have seen no greater ignorance than some spouted on this site. Salivate they might, but I doubt that rebel flag is much to slobber over.
what about Skinners mouse?
LOLOL – great question!
Another Republican stooge.
Ask Scotty and the people of Wisconsin.
Ohmighosh – here we go with the Koch brothers, very similar to the Howie Rich argument – both useless…..unless laws are changed. No one wants that?
Speak for yourself,I would like to see a lot of laws changed.
Venality, opportunism, and hypocrisy do not in any way equal stupidity.
While you are right it does not preclude her from being a stupid cunt either, remember that one time I decided to stop working? She is good at what she does, making a public image – or spectacle – for herself, but that is it.
“so a real news media can take her hypocrisy apart.”
I thought Fits was?
Ain’t it good to know we got a governor that makes Sarah Palin look intelligent?
FYI, it.was NOT her endorsent that got Larry Martin reelected in 2012.
Her success proves she can certainly work something…
Couldn’t agree more. The “Haley is a moron” line is way off the mark. She’s extremely smart in many ways. Most of them absolutely no good for the people of South Carolina — other than her family and cronies.
I should probably allow that she understands how to manipulate her ignorant voting base. Now try asking her to move beyond the Fox News talking points on any issue.
She knows how to work you morons in SC. Don’t lump everybody into that category, asshole.
Nookie, uh, Nikki don’t have to be a Rhodes scholar as long as there are “grown” men that have their brains in their britches.
She certainly does have a very pretty face. Writes compellingly, too. One of these days, though, Will is going to actually feature a female on the site who writes articles/posts, but is not physically attractive in any way. It is bound to happen, as this site, and Will, continue to mature. Kudos in advance to the woman who is willing to suffer the abuse that’s bound to be heaped on her, for being the first “non-babe” regular columnist.
you never know Buz, maybe one day I will have time and might be “that woman” – we are all getting older. I just hope we are getting better too.
I thought the purpose of having Taylor Brown was to fill that position. She’s not all that and she writes some of the dumbest drivel to be found.
Taylor is quite attractive, and she writes compellingly on the subject of sexual assaults on campus and elsewhere. I admire her strong and uncompromising stand on that vital issue, as it is often not in keeping with the thinking of so many in the conservative ranks of the GOP.
You know, the bunch that thinks a woman’s vagina is connected directly to her mouth, that women can only get pregnant if they enjoy the sex, that it’s OK to sell an adopted child to a molesting single male, because she’s previously been molested and she is “damaged goods”, etc. You know, the backwards and aggressively (often malignantly) ignorant American Christian Conservative Taliban.
Other than that, agree with some of here opinions and disagree with others — but I do respect her and consider her to be a decent writer.
Give it up, Will.
Mia’s just being a mad black woman. I’m waiting for the wig and earrings to come off.
Repulsive comment.
why is the truth repulsive. I guess the smoke of the Blue Oyster is affecting your brain? Stick to handys at the MB welcome center.
So are you skippy.
Da truth ill set a frree, bro.
Jeb kinds looks like a Will in his CDV mugshot.
Taking Bush to SisterCare gave him exposure to maybe 20 women who may be persuaded to vote for him. If Haley wanted to help him, she would have taken him to a place with a larger audience. This was a slap in the face to Bush. Go home Bush, SC doesn’t want you.
Awwwwww, are poor twiddle Mia’s panties in a wad again?
Give it up Mia, Haley has already announced a task force and other initiatives to combat CDV. I’d hardly call this a muff, in fact it may just be pure self serving genius.your tag line was pure genius as well Will, I read it originally as “Nikki Haley’s Muff Visits Jeb’s Bush”.
No. Haley did that because she wants the news media to believe she cares about violence against women. The national media have identified South Carolina as one of the worst states for men killing women, and as a woman, Haley knows she must put up a pretense of action in order to further her political ambitions.
Hence the assessment as “self serving genius”.
She has actually taken some affirmative actions and spending money on homes for battered women frankly won’t stop the problem. Dealing with the assholes who hit women early and severely will.
“Genius” is word that will never apply to Haley. She is getting advice from political insiders and does whatever will benefit her. She is a right-wing political construction, meant to show how “inclusive” the Republicn party is, especially in the “new south.” Isn’t that the crap they tried to sell on the cover of a national news magazine?
Is there ANY politician who does not get advice? If they don’t – I consider them fools.
That is NOT the point. The point was refuting her hilarious characterization as a genius.
If it’s stupid and it works it isn’t stupid.
Freaking Genius! :)
Define genius from your point of view?
She, like Sarah Palin, has a genius for self-promotion. She is actually a much greedier person than Palin, however. But she is also more intrinsically intelligent. She lacks Palin’s charisma, and is not nearly as hot. Palin is aging remarkably well. Nikki … meh. Still hot, but it appears that a few more years will sink that.
Palin is mainly a good campaigner. She has a few truly bad marks against her from her past, but if she were smarter she could have overcome all of them. Smart as Haley is, there is simply no way she would ever be elected POTUS or VPOTUS. Her record of double-dealings and gross violations of ethics make her unelectable. Never mind the extreme chrony capitalism. Hell, the mainstream of the party loves that, and so does the far right wing, other than the Paulites.
“She is getting advice from political insiders”
What? So you don’t think women are smart enough to take their own council.
Logic isn’t your strong suit.
Logic isn’t your strong suit.
?????????
Your logic is if Haley does something stupid, it’s her doing, but if she does something smart, advisors are responsible.
Matthew 11:19 But brilliant men(women) like you can justify your every inconsistency!
You attempted to generalize my comment to all women, when in fact it is Haley I do not support in nearly any regard.
“You attempted to generalize my comment to all women…”
Right. I knew it was your weak spot. Whether it’s you or Mia, Haley’s most virulent and personal opposition at this site, comes from women.
If ever a man tried to abuse Haley, she would beat the hell out of him and she wouldn’t be going to Sistercare.
Easy there Bible Thumper.
Yeah! I’m cyber abusive. I need to visit a less divisive site for awhile.
You damn right you do…;)
No you just need a lot of prayer and reflection over some of your very “unbiblical” type comments.In other words,”thump” the Bible more!
Wow, I can’t believe I just read that, are you bashing women who end up needing Sistercare? Are you saying that women can always fight back against their abuser? Holy fuck you are ignorant.
Right Wing? Seriously? Even the TP that got her elected has been disappointed. Given the field of candidates, who would you have chosen? This person might have a chance in the near future.
I don’t see much future politically for Nikki.
Her so called”national aspirations” are a joke.She isn’t going to be on anybody’s ticket.She could run for the Senate and would certainly lose to Scott and likely to Graham.
Maybe,if a Republican got elected President(a big “if” ), she could get a SubCabinet post.
Other than that I don’t see her doing much more politically after her term is over.
When McCain picked Palin they thought she was a joke too, but McCain was not joking. Haley does not have to have accomplishments or brains or anything to be picked for higher office, she just has to peddle Repub speak and look pretty.
But if they don’t have some place to go, then they get the crap beat out of them again.
Shelters for battered women may not stop the problem, but they are so very important, nonetheless.
Don’t disagree about their importance but they won’t stop the problem.
What does Mia actually do, I mean besides bitch about Haley? Has she brought up any real legislation? Just a younger Gilda Cobb-Hunter.
Not nearly as facile as Ms. Cobb-Hunter.
It endangers sheltered people when you publicize the location of the shelter, governor.
I agree, but all one has to do is call to find their location.
Jeb looks like he’s had a very bad stomach virus or been on a crash diet.
LOL – I think it’s the crash diet :)
He appears as stoic as Charlie McCarthy……..
LOL – you just gave away your Disqus :)
Nope! –but you’ll receive a compliment from me by tomorrow night — if I can remember …..
ha! I know you! I just don’t know how. :)
If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.
(Steven Wright)
I contemplated skydiving in my teen/early 20’s but decided that crap can hurt you.
Interesting comment.
Hate much?
I had the best response queued up earlier for you, but that was in the VERY early morning hours. Now you are here and I cannot think of what I had to say.
Oh, I DO remember (free flow as usual). I think I have a cure for you. Mrs. Piggle Wiggle has many cures for kids. The one that best fits you is Chapter 8, The Fighter Quarellers Cure. I think you fit right into that category of Fighter-Quarreleritis, which is very contagious.
I believe if everyone on this site acted as you do, and you were to see first hand, what it looked like for people to see how horrible your reacted, within a day, you too might be cured :)
Your level vapidity gives even the Internet a bad name…..
Cyberspace is like anything. There is good and there is bad….you, and those like you, represent the most-ignorant and the most irrelevant thinkers on earth…
You so much want to present content and substance. I make it look so easy…
But you have no talent or intellect for it…so you just vomit failed attempt after failed attempt. And that sabotages your purpose even more….
I read some of your earlier posts on this site. You were much nicer.
IF I wanted present content/substance – I know how to get it. Do you?
I have no desire to be in power. I simply call it as I see it.
While you and I “may” have a good bit in common, you can’t even agree, when we agree.
I must ask, who sabotages what purpose? What is our purpose? Oh my soldier friend, what are you fighting for? You seem aimless in your debates, unless it is hate you wish to spew? To what avail? What do you hope to accomplish?
Or are you just some angry person who wants to argue? Or as I believe, someone who wants to draw information.
Notice that really wasn’t a question.
I’m genuinely concerned with the Disaster our nation has become under the totally F*#ked up power of Obama, the Democrats, and the RINOs who will not (scared to ) challenge them…
You’re concerned w/ “dialogue” and trying to ensure you are perceived as likable, hip and thoughtful…
I was at the Bush/Haley Sistercare confab yesterday..and (like all of those events) a gaggle of immature wannabes talk loud, try to be clever and hit all of the talking-point jargon, while they think everybody is looking at them. They trigger a gag-reflex in me. Always have…
People respond to sincerity and determination, against the corrupt, ignorant and powerful…Not those trying to promote themselves – and saying anything to do it…
People are sick of carping sycophants, who just want to be a part of the carnival, but have nothing to show…
We love being at the bottom and the bottom…
So why did Sistercare let them in?
Because Sistercare puts the welfare of abused women ahead of your liberal hate and insistence to hurt women to serve your greed and political interests. ..
“Governor Haley has stooped to an all-time low by bringing a Presidential candidate to a women’s shelter that she tried to defund,” S.C. Rep. Mia McLeod said. “South Carolina ranks number two in the nation for women killed by men, and we don’t need self-serving, overly-ambitious politicians like Nikki Haley, pimping domestic violence shelters and the women and children they serve, just to get another five minutes of fame on national television. These shelters need funding, not lip service and a photo op from a Governor who’s doing nothing more than auditioning for her next job.”
Mia needs to speak her mind more often.
She might speak her mind, but how much money does she require to implement that speaking her mind?
Great ideas – where is she going to get the money to fund them? Oh, I am guessing some fat rich cat? Please.
The same place we get money for ANYTHING else. By cutting taxes for corporations.
LMAO..BIBI WINS..F*#K FITS, Obama and RonPAul….Your Nazi A$$#$ just got the S#!t kicked out of you…again…
And if the Democrats don’t run a slick Black candidate again (don’t see one on the horizon),,,No Multiple Voters will come out…and the Ds will get their @$$#$ kicked in 2016..too…
Ain’t lookin too good for the America-Israel haters….Suck it @$$-holes…..Hahahahaha…
CRICKETS….LMAO….
I love it when Liberals get STFU….
Where’s FITS’ SAGE commentary…Will RonPaul publicly wipe the S#!t off his face??…And Obama sent in his campaign team to beat Bibi…and they got their @$$#$ kicked…Will he answer for that???
Bibi wins – yippie. And that means what to anyone? Guy is PM of a country the size of Rhode Island. Wow! Superpower!
Gas prices went down 5 cents in one day, based on renewed faith because of Bibi’s win. Bibi has done MORE for the US economy that Obama (who has only damaged it)…LMAO…
But like a Clemson fan…When you get your @$$ kicked in Basketball, it does not matter…you’re a Baseball School all of a sudden…LMAO…
You paraded Obama’s campaign team overseas, trying to beat Bibi, because he came over here and worked w/ the US Congress BETTER than the POTUS…and that made you look like the incompetent Dumb@$$#$…that you are…
Why do you think FITS is S#!tt!*g all over himself. He’s scared to touch this BIG Win for America…because he knows it’s a BIG loss for Obama and the Democrat Party…????…a signal for 2016…
Gas prices down, thank you Obama.
You might need to take a world economics class…Dumb@$$..
Did Obama support peace and stability in the Mid east..or did he attempt to attack it?…
If Obama would have won..prices would have been up steeply…
Thank Haley and the Teabagger lawmakers the next time you tear the shit out you car when you hit the next pothole. They hate them some goberment…
They hate wasteful contracting even more. Pissing away money in the name of roads is a bad deal.
How successful is Sistercare? How many of the women return to their abuser to be abused again or get into another abusive relationship?
How many women make money and don’t want to be in their “camps” is a better question.
I personally chose to move, change everything to get away from abusive relationship. I do not trust these camps to keep me safe. Of course, it could be said I have some trust issues – I prefer to call them independent ;)
seriously?
In other news… the vote for the anti-Christ is too close to call.
The anti-christ was born with hateful Christians. IMHO.
hateful Christians
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an oxymoron
LOLOLOL – good point.
You do know Euwe that your style is similar to someone else on this site. Hmmmm….
Blasphemy!
yeah, yeah, yeah ;)
oh, please tell me it’s someone sane!
LOL – Neither of those.
FYI – Buz wouldn’t quote Nietzsche – ha!
BEZ! not buz.
Is this what you are referring to: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/us/presbyterians-give-final-approval-for-same-sex-marriage.html?_r=0
I am sure there are other sources, just the quickest one to grab.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/03/17/israel-elections/24890227/
She’s a politician. There are no depths to which she won’t go.
They all are.
Rape crisis centers are not the same as — nor are they typically located under the same roofs as — battered women’s centers. The latter are worthwhile and the former IMHO are a waste of a raped woman’s time and tax payer money. Men in the legislature might be unaware that a stupid brochure and a perfunctory “There, there, you poor thing,” is about all a woman gets at one of these rape centers, so perhaps it takes a woman to make funding commensurate with thei usefulness.
The domestic violence homes are in a different category altogether, but (and correct me if I’m wrong) I don’t think their funding was reduced.
All I know is YEARS ago, maybe 2 decade, I was desperate enough to reach out, without giving any information (maybe a mistake on my part), but based on all I knew of the person I was trying to get away from, none of the shelters seemed safe.
Had I gone there – I might have a different opinion, but all I could imagine was sleeping in tents, cowering down and not facing my fears or doing anything that was in anyway going to protect me.
I am sure they serve a purpose?
I’m not sure what to make of the title of this article!
The expression on Bush says it all, he is thinking what in the hell am I doing here with this narcissistic bitch?
Can you imagine hanging out with self described Republicans all day? God, what an awful existence.
Mia the voters of your district stooped to an all time low in sending u to Cola.
on one aside, alas poor Mia, like the A21 project, social welfare programs function best with charity and grace flowing through the church, not the state from whom all blessings flow under the force of law. The government does best to support these agencies by enforcing the law and keeping them safe, rather than holding purse strings and demanding to tell them how they should run.
I see SC didnt welcome Bobby Jindal here with his Temple of Doom Claws either….Hahaha
A picture of 2 complete losers.
look at Jeb Bushs face doesnt it look like he is praying “beam me up Scotty””