bobbyw24
06-09-2010, 05:42 AM
YouTube - SA@TAC - Nikki Haley and the New Conservatives (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MH_H5yeVbg&feature=player_embedded)
South Carolina State Senator Jake Knotts made national headlines last week when he said in a radio interview: “We already got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion.” Knotts was referring to President Obama, who he obviously believes is a Muslim, and SC Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley, who is of Indian descent. That Knotts—a mealy-mouthed moron who looks like Boss Hogg—would criticize anyone’s ethnicity or appearance is amusing. That Knotts and so many other SC Republicans would attack Haley as viciously as they have, tells you all you need to know about that state’s politics—or the state of politics in general.
The last time Knotts made national headlines, he was grinning ear-to-ear on CNN, FOX News and other outlets, practically giddy over Governor Mark Sanford’s admission of adultery. One of the first to call for the governor’s resignation and like most SC Republicans, Knotts had long been at war with Sanford, whose pesky habit of demanding government accountability and fiscal responsibility had ticked off a GOP dominated state legislature accustomed to being as unaccountable and as irresponsible as they pleased. The same Knotts and the same GOP legislature have long had the same antipathy toward Haley who is widely seen as the handpicked successor to Sanford—and she has caused as much friction since the day she stepped foot in state government. Haley entered the governor’s race last year with the least famous name, the least amount of money and was last in the polls. Haley has not only been attacked by Knotts, but more famously by two prominent SC politicos who claimed to have had sexual affairs with the married mother of two, something she has emphatically denied and for which her accusers have yet to offer any solid proof. Despite, hell, high water and haters galore, as of this writing it is the eve of the June 8 SC primaries—and Haley is first in the polls with a shocking double digit lead.
http://www.amconmag.com/tactv/2010/06/08/nikki-haley-and-the-new-conservatives/
South Carolina State Senator Jake Knotts made national headlines last week when he said in a radio interview: “We already got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion.” Knotts was referring to President Obama, who he obviously believes is a Muslim, and SC Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley, who is of Indian descent. That Knotts—a mealy-mouthed moron who looks like Boss Hogg—would criticize anyone’s ethnicity or appearance is amusing. That Knotts and so many other SC Republicans would attack Haley as viciously as they have, tells you all you need to know about that state’s politics—or the state of politics in general.
The last time Knotts made national headlines, he was grinning ear-to-ear on CNN, FOX News and other outlets, practically giddy over Governor Mark Sanford’s admission of adultery. One of the first to call for the governor’s resignation and like most SC Republicans, Knotts had long been at war with Sanford, whose pesky habit of demanding government accountability and fiscal responsibility had ticked off a GOP dominated state legislature accustomed to being as unaccountable and as irresponsible as they pleased. The same Knotts and the same GOP legislature have long had the same antipathy toward Haley who is widely seen as the handpicked successor to Sanford—and she has caused as much friction since the day she stepped foot in state government. Haley entered the governor’s race last year with the least famous name, the least amount of money and was last in the polls. Haley has not only been attacked by Knotts, but more famously by two prominent SC politicos who claimed to have had sexual affairs with the married mother of two, something she has emphatically denied and for which her accusers have yet to offer any solid proof. Despite, hell, high water and haters galore, as of this writing it is the eve of the June 8 SC primaries—and Haley is first in the polls with a shocking double digit lead.
http://www.amconmag.com/tactv/2010/06/08/nikki-haley-and-the-new-conservatives/