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South Carolina governor's race.

gturner

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Has anyone been following the incredible sleaze in this race?

The front-runner for the Republican nomination, Nikki Haley, was accused of having an affair with - conveniently - a political consultant working for her primary opponent. :rolleyes:

Then Republican state senator Jake Knotts, who supports her opponent, said, "We've already got a raghead in the White House, we don't need another raghead in the governor's mansion."

When later asked to clarify his statement, he said that Haley has been set up by a network of Sikhs and was programmed to run for governor of South Carolina by outside influences in foreign countries. He claims she is hiding her religion and he wants the voters to know about it.

He believes Haley’s father has been sending letters to India saying that Haley is the first Sikh running for high office in America.

He says her father walks around Lexington wearing a turban.

He said, "We’re at war over there," and clarified this by saying we're at war with foreign countries, but not with India.

:shifty:

NikkiHaley.com
 
This race is absolutely outrageous. It is a total circus and whoever wins the GOP primary will probably win the general election. But what a surprise...a Palin-backed "family values" candidate faces cheating allegations from within her own party.
 
The first affair that Haley was accused of was with a former staffer from the current joke of a Governor's office. She's denied that affair, but she did hire the guy for her campaign - even AFTER the guy had been convicted of Criminal Domestic Violence.

The SC Republican Party is imploding!
 
Yeah, this is pretty bad, even by South Carolina's gutter-level standards.

A secret Sikh conspiracy to take over America.

Right.

I think we should have let them secede.
 
What should be of over riding concern is that a ethnic slur is viewed as accepatable by the ' it was a jest' defense. Very sad.
 
Apparently Jake Knotts is upset about Nikki Haley's push to require roll call votes, which have become an extreme rarity in the South Carolina legislature. He actually argued that it was unconstitutional to record how legislators vote.

Here's Haley discussing her bill.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB4ikF8LSCI[/yt]

You can tell by her eyes that she's probably some kind of Sikh operative. Of course, Jake Knotts represents everything that Sikhs oppose, like caste systems, ignorance, racism, religious bigotry, and the like.

Here she is slamming Jake "Raghead" Knotts in front of his committee.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7C53MY_kAc[/yt]
 
She's cute and has a southern drawl. I'd vote for her in a heartbeat.

Her accuser looks like the typical fat tub of shit backroom dirty deal politician who operates in the South. We had one like that here, in Oklahoma, named Gene Stipe.
 
Part of the issue here is that this is highlighting the Tea Party vs the Republican Party. They're fighting each other while the Democrats (at least in SC) stay above the mudslinging.
 
I was just reading the WSJ piece on the sleaze in the race, and noticed these comments

John LaRosa wrote:

700 calls and many of them in the middle of the night. The Republicans are on the verge of nominating an adulteress for governor. Does their stupidity know no bounds? Revelation 2:20 “Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. 21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. 22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.”

The Republicans deserve to lose South Carolina if they nominate this Jezebel. What next? Will they lose Mississippi too?

Peter Andes replied:

John 8:7 "So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."

How long until someone cites "bearing false witness" against her accusers?
 
A southern drawl makes me immediately think someone is dumb. That's just the connotation it has. Slow, redneck, and stupid.

It kinda gets a bad rap I think.
 
A southern drawl makes me immediately think someone is dumb. That's just the connotation it has. Slow, redneck, and stupid.

It kinda gets a bad rap I think.

To be fair, it's South Carolina, everybody should have a southern accent. Plus, there are different types of southern accents. There's the sharp twangy accent that, to me at least, seems to suggest dumb hick, and there's the slow subtle southern drawl that seems to say "I'm classy in a 'my family used to own human beings' kind of way." :p

As far as I can tell, Nikki Haley hasn't admitted having an affair. I figure an accused adulterer should have a better shot than a legitimate outspoken racist.

BTW, which one is the standard GOP, which one is the Tea Partier?
 
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Since I don't live in South Carolina, I can honestly say that I don't care. :p

Then why post in this thread?

Just to be contrary. :p



And so what if she speaks with a Southern accent? She is from the South, after all.

Then again, I find good looking women with southern accents extremely sexy.

I like the sound of her voice. The drawl is subtle but you can tell it's there. Some people have way too much drawl and they sound drunk.

She seems like a smart lady, too.
 
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