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Stand Up for Nikki Haley!

Posted on | June 3, 2010 | 23 Comments

Dan Riehl is exactly right:

I’d rather be a little wrong now . . . than give in to low-life, bottom-feeders trying to find a safe rock to hide behind to secure their position in SC’s political stream. . . . I’m standing with Nikki Haley and her family. And I hope SC voters do, as well.

Brian O’Connor at Red Dog Report is also exactly right:

The only conclusion that can be drawn is that we are witnessing . . . a coordinated attack to discredit the most popular and qualified candidate in the field.

We have long ceased to expect that Democrats or the liberal media would treat any conservative woman with courtesy. However, there is a special horror in watching this woman subjected to such a vile smear campaign by Republican political operatives.

Every Republican who cares about the reputation of their party should take action immediately:

  • Call the Republican National Committee (202-863-8500) and demand that chairman Michael Steele denounce these vicious tactics in no uncertain terms.
  • Call the Republican Governors Association (202-662-4140) and demand that chairman Haley Barbour denounce these political character assassins.
  • Call the South Carolina GOP (803-988-8440) and ask chairwoman Karen Floyd why she has not demanded a stop to this slime campaign against Nikki Haley.

Dr. Melissa Clouthier is exactly right:

Where are the feminists? Oh right, she’s a Republican.

Certainly, no feminist can be expected to defend a conservative woman. To quote Palin-hating feminist Jessica Valenti, feminism is “a social justice movement,” a radical ideology akin to Marxism.

To hell with feminism.

This isn’t about “social justice.” This is about trying to preserve some semblance of basic decency in politics. As a Southerner, I am particularly disturbed to think Nikki Haley’s enemies believe that the people of South Carolina would not only tolerate but endorse this kind of cruelty against her.

Is chivalry dead in South Carolina? Does no shred of honor remain?

NIKKI HALEY for GOVERNOR

Category: South Carolina

Comments

23 Responses to “Stand Up for Nikki Haley!”

  1. Joe
    June 3rd, 2010 @ 9:58 pm

    I do not know Nikki Haley, but two guys with obvious biases and conflicts of interest making allegations of this nature, should not be enough to derail a promissing political career. If these allegations are false (and I believe them to be false based on what I have seen so far), these two deserve to be horse whipped. And I do not mean that rhetorically.

  2. Joe
    June 3rd, 2010 @ 4:58 pm

    I do not know Nikki Haley, but two guys with obvious biases and conflicts of interest making allegations of this nature, should not be enough to derail a promissing political career. If these allegations are false (and I believe them to be false based on what I have seen so far), these two deserve to be horse whipped. And I do not mean that rhetorically.

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  4. ConcernedforSC
    June 3rd, 2010 @ 11:56 pm

    How bout Jake Knotts, Larry Richter’s partner in crime calling Nikki Haley a raghead. On the air…

    It really happened

    http://palmstatepolitics.blogspot.com/2010/06/jake-knotts-goes-racist-on-nikki-haley.html

  5. ConcernedforSC
    June 3rd, 2010 @ 6:56 pm

    How bout Jake Knotts, Larry Richter’s partner in crime calling Nikki Haley a raghead. On the air…

    It really happened

    http://palmstatepolitics.blogspot.com/2010/06/jake-knotts-goes-racist-on-nikki-haley.html

  6. Noel
    June 4th, 2010 @ 12:08 am

    Maybe a drunken Marchant picked up a stoned Will Folks in a Nikki wig in that Utah hotel bar.

    Haley wasn’t even in the state, but in their confusion, they both thought they got lucky.

    It explains so much. So very, very much…

  7. Noel
    June 3rd, 2010 @ 7:08 pm

    Maybe a drunken Marchant picked up a stoned Will Folks in a Nikki wig in that Utah hotel bar.

    Haley wasn’t even in the state, but in their confusion, they both thought they got lucky.

    It explains so much. So very, very much…

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  9. Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative
    June 4th, 2010 @ 3:50 am

    On May 26 I wrote Republicans needed to stop falling for this Axelrod smear tactic and vote for Nikki Haley:
    http://www.aconservativelesbian.com/2010/05/26/a-conservative-lesbian-confesses-to-her-torrid-affair-with-will-folks/

    Also, whenever libels and slanders like this are tried again, why don’t we all confess to having an affair with the libeler/slanderer?

  10. Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative Lesbian
    June 3rd, 2010 @ 10:50 pm

    On May 26 I wrote Republicans needed to stop falling for this Axelrod smear tactic and vote for Nikki Haley:
    http://www.aconservativelesbian.com/2010/05/26/a-conservative-lesbian-confesses-to-her-torrid-affair-with-will-folks/

    Also, whenever libels and slanders like this are tried again, why don’t we all confess to having an affair with the libeler/slanderer?

  11. Joe
    June 4th, 2010 @ 5:00 am

    What is going on in South Carolina?

    A joke? Man they really hate (or more likely fear) Nikki.

  12. Joe
    June 4th, 2010 @ 12:00 am

    What is going on in South Carolina?

    A joke? Man they really hate (or more likely fear) Nikki.

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  14. Estragon
    June 4th, 2010 @ 7:00 am

    I don’t know what is more pathetic – the sick wretches “coming out” with the sleaze, or that the establishment puppet-masters behind them actually thought it might work.

    South Carolina needs this embarrassment. Perhaps the shock of our shame being exposed to the whole country will awaken some of our citizens to act, and vote for reformers not only for statewide offices, but for the legislature as well.

  15. Estragon
    June 4th, 2010 @ 2:00 am

    I don’t know what is more pathetic – the sick wretches “coming out” with the sleaze, or that the establishment puppet-masters behind them actually thought it might work.

    South Carolina needs this embarrassment. Perhaps the shock of our shame being exposed to the whole country will awaken some of our citizens to act, and vote for reformers not only for statewide offices, but for the legislature as well.

  16. Roxeanne de Luca
    June 4th, 2010 @ 2:06 pm

    “Social justice” often results in the exact opposite of actual justice. Ditto for “reproductive justice” or “distributive justice” or anything else that the progressive Left dreams up; the “justice” is just stuck on the end to obscure the atrocity of the idea.

  17. Roxeanne de Luca
    June 4th, 2010 @ 9:06 am

    “Social justice” often results in the exact opposite of actual justice. Ditto for “reproductive justice” or “distributive justice” or anything else that the progressive Left dreams up; the “justice” is just stuck on the end to obscure the atrocity of the idea.

  18. Ron Jones
    June 4th, 2010 @ 3:09 pm

    The best man for the South Carolina governorship is a woman. And her name is Nikki Haley.

  19. Ron Jones
    June 4th, 2010 @ 10:09 am

    The best man for the South Carolina governorship is a woman. And her name is Nikki Haley.

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