No sooner does Nikki Haley announce that she’s sewn up the backing of the goddess of the Tea Party movement than Henry McMaster has to weigh in with a “Me, too!”…
McMaster earns Upstate Tea Party endorsement
May 13th, 2010
Conservative group says attorney general is candidate Tea Party can trust
COLUMBIA, S.C. – One of South Carolina’s largest conservative grassroots organizations, the Boiling Springs Tea Party, today endorsed Henry McMaster for Governor. The Boiling Springs Tea Party has organized a network of thousands of Upstate conservatives since its founding last year and will encourage them to turn out voters for Henry McMaster in the June 8 Republican gubernatorial primary.In a press release, the group praised McMaster’s “outstanding character, judgment, experience, Christian conservative values, understanding of the state’s needs and proven dedication to accountable public service.”
Boiling Springs Tea Party organizer Maria Brady said in part, “Our search for a gubernatorial candidate with conservative Christian values grounded in the Constitution led us toward Henry because he embodies the ideals of our Founding Fathers. [H]e is clearly a candidate Tea Party patriots can trust to fight President Obama” and “stop bailout-peddling Washington politicians…”
Oh, but get this next part:
Attorney General McMaster thanked the group for the endorsement. “Washington radicals threaten our very way of life,” he said. [boldface emphasis mine]
And to thing I was wringing my hands over whether I was engaging in extreme rhetoric. Guess I can relax, huh? I’m the very soul of self-restraint, by comparison.
Ah, Henry, we hardly knew ye…
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I just read over that again… Jeez, Henry; take a chill pill.
This Sarah Palin thing’s got him panicking…
So I guess Gresham Barrett is the heir apparent for reasonable and rational, yet conservative, Republican leadership in SC?
Dan–That’s what I have heard from several in-the-know sources.
Boiling Springs Tea–now that sounds mighty yuppie, to me. Comes in tiny cloth sachets and recycled glass bottles…and twee flavors like Peach-GreenTomato
Have any of the Tea Partyers yet figured out that when they chase established, professional politicians from office, they give up their seniority on important committees?
I am clearly slow. Again, how does vowing to overthrow democracy make one an American “patriot”?