TweetSince I got uninvited from the meeting at which Nikki Haley was to woo business support today, I’m wondering… Did it even happen, or did it get canceled or postponed? Who showed up? What was said? Did she make any progress against Vincent Sheheen’s Chamber support? I drove past the Wilbur Smith building a little […]
TweetWell, this is ironic… When I was typing this post back here about how Nikki Haley is trying to compensate for the fact that the Chamber backs Vincent Sheheen, I got a call from Henry McMaster. Actually, first I got an e-mail from Trey Walker asking for my phone number, then I got a call […]
TweetWow. After having won the nomination on a wave of Tea Party extremism, the Nikki Haley campaign is trying rather desperately — and transparently — to portray her as “conservative” in the actual, traditional, conservative sense of the word. So it is that I got this release from Nikki a few minutes ago: I wanted […]
TweetDid you see the strong editorial in The State Sunday, challenging Nikki “Transparency” Haley for hiding behind a loophole in FOI specifically carved out to protect legislators, and legislators alone, from transparency in order to keep her state-issued e-mail secret? I was very glad to see it. As the edit pointed out, this isn’t about […]
TweetThought I’d start a separate discussion based on a subthread back on the post about Nikki Haley on the cover of Newsweek. Phillip, reaching for the bright side of the national MSM’s superficial coronation of Nikki because she’s an Indian-American woman, wrote: Maybe this is all for a larger good. Even if I disagree with […]
Tweet “Nikki and the neo-Confederates”… Hey, THAT could be a name for my band! Kind of Katrina-and-the-Wave-ish. I wonder if Nikki would agree to front us? Just though y’all might be interested in viewing the video of Nikki Haley and the other candidates seeking the endorsement of a group called “South Carolina Palmetto Patriots.” And […]
Tweet I dropped by the Capital City Club just before the polls closed, and things were buzzing. According to a Tweet by Jack Kuenzie — whom I saw huddled over against a wall Twittering away — I had just missed Nikki, who had come to check things out, then left when cameras started appearing.The crowd […]
TweetI sort of do. If you look at all the trends of the last couple of weeks — the ads from ReformSC, the Palin endorsement, the sympathy-generating scandals, the even-more-sympathy-generating ethnic slur, poll after poll with her numbers higher in each (which is something that feeds on itself), the constant free media (hey, all she […]
TweetHere’s an interesting (if unsavory) thing to contemplate… First, it’s pretty much a given that Nikki Haley will win the GOP nomination — maybe even without a runoff. So what happens after that? Well, one’s first instinct as a longtime observer of politics is to think, The allegations against her character aren’t going away. And […]
TweetFirst, let me answer a question of Bud’s: THAT’s how fed up I am with tawdriness. -Brad Then why do you keep writing and talking about it? It’s your blog, you can ignore it. Simple: No more important question lies before this blog than that of who will be our next governor. It is of […]
TweetThis just in from the Nikki Haley campaign: Nikki Takes 20 Point Lead Friends, Last week, I reached out with the news that Nikki had taken a double-digit lead in the polls. Well, today we have even better news – another independent poll shows that lead has grown to more than 20 points! Here are the […]
Tweet This just in: COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A South Carolina judge has ordered a political group spending heavily to promote Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley to pull its television ads supporting her campaign. Spartanburg County Judge James M. Hayes issued the order Wednesday at the request of Haley primary opponent U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett […]
Tweet Since the event on Friday, a number of people have raised the following question: How many people showed up for the Sarah Palin/Nikki Haley rally? Well, gee, I don’t know. But I do think the published reports were off. Here’s an e-mail I received from a reader: Dear Brad, It was good to read […]
Tweet Sorry not to be forthcoming with a post on the Sarah Palin/Nikki Haley event last evening. I’ve been too busy — my baby granddaughter spent the night with us last night, my youngest daughter came home from Charlotte and my wife and I had a lot of errands to run this morning (including, alas, […]
TweetYou know what’s way, WAY more important, and more ominous, than how the governor spent his weekend? It’s this: Jenny Sanford to Hit Campaign Trail with Nikki Haley Friday Friends, Exciting news! Former South Carolina First Lady Jenny Sanford will be hitting the campaign trail with Nikki on Friday. Jenny and Nikki will make stops […]
Tweet Under the headline, “Is this even legal?,” Wesley Donehue shares the above ad being paid for by ReformSC. Which makes me wonder — surely no one’s pretending this is anything other than a Nikki Haley ad… are they? Well, maybe there’s one difference… I’m thinking Nikki herself might be embarrassed to pour it on […]
TweetChad Walldorf at the SC Club for Growth is a nice, sincere guy, and I’ve always liked Nikki Haley. But both of them are so in step with Mark Sanford that there’s not a bit of surprise in this: The S.C. Club for Growth has endorsed the Republican gubernatorial bid of Lexington Rep. Nikki Haley. […]
TweetHere’s a little snippet of evidence indicating that SC Republicans aren’t entirely monolithic these days. You can tell them apart, and they do disagree now and then, as evidenced by these two Tweet from Wesley Donehue, spokesman for SC Senate Republicans: Nikki Haley called me last year angry that the Senate filed a roll call […]
TweetNikki Haley is rightly proud that, after a two-year battle in which she took considerable risk taking on the powers that be in the House, that body passed her bill requiring roll-call votes. There’s just one ironic little fun-fact-to-know about that passage: Nikki herself was not present for the roll-call vote on roll-call voting. Really. […]
TweetThis just in from Nikki Haley’s campaign: Friends, Yesterday we received some incredibly exciting news – former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has endorsed our campaign for Governor. “Ann and I got to know Nikki Haley during my campaign for president and came away enormously impressed with her as a person of character and as the […]