Friday, 3 of September of 2010
Why not?
Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona, is serious about national security.
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey is serious about balancing budgets. In the video below, he says he doesn’t want to be president so let’s just fantasize.
What’s not to love?
I’m just dreaming out loud here, but they both have more executive experience than Obama and Biden put together. So…
At a town hall meeting, in front of a live audience which applauds him loudly. Twice.
I’m thinking of starting a tent revival tour for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie because whenever I hear him speak, I find myself wanting to shout out… “Can I get a hallelujah?!”
Watch in awe as Christie gets a standing ovation at the end of this video after announcing “The Day of Reckoning.”
Please Note: No teleprompter.
There isn’t much difference, really.
Both are bloggers, both claim to have had lurid sexual encounters with rising politicians and both want you to just take their word for it.
One difference between them is that Will Folks made his outrageous claim about a conservative Republican woman, while Larry Sinclair made his outrageous claim about a liberal Democrat man.
The other difference is that the media paid attention to one of them. Guess which one…
As noted HERE, HERE and HERE, the media didn’t ignore Will Folks at all, even as he tried to play the victim.
There was no credibility for the claims made by either of these men. Their stories should have been treated the same way. As in, the way one handles garbage.
Nikki Haley’s campaign stood strong and in the end she emerged the victor, but one has to wonder if she would have crossed the 50% mark and thus avoided a runoff were it not for Will Folks and his media aided smear campaign.
In the end, Nikki Haley will be the new governor of South Carolina.
Will Folks, like Larry Sinclair, will just be damaged goods.
I was watching the Special Report coverage of the primary elections on FOX News Tuesday night and I thought I heard a weird exchange between Bret Baier and Juan Williams. I initially dismissed it, thinking that I must have been hearing things. I was wrong.
The Wall Street Journal confirms that I’m not hearing voices. Yet. Whew!
Nikki Haley ran far ahead of all other contenders for South Carolina’s Republican gubernatorial nomination, though the official returns give her 48.9%, just shy of a majority, which sets up a runoff against Rep. Gresham Barrett, who got 21.8%. Haley is a woman. She is 38. She is Indian-American, which by some lights makes her nonwhite (although South Asians are “Caucasian” in the traditional racial taxonomy.)
We witnessed an amusing moment on Fox News Channel last night when Juan Williams observed that Haley would be “the first native American governor.” It was left to host Bret Baier to explain the difference between Indian-Americans and American Indians, and also to point out that Louisiana’s Gov. Bobby Jindal (also a 38-year-old Republican, albeit a man–hey nobody’s perfect) is in fact the first Indian-American governor.
Who has video of this? Mediaite? HotAir?
Hello?
A well deserved victory.
Nikki Haley, the Republican South Carolina candidate for governor is on her way to the South Carolina governor’s office.
Despite the smear tactics used against her by bloggers and competitors, she got almost 49% of the vote in last night’s Republican primary.
I’m so looking forward to November. Can you already picture campaign events for Nikki Haley with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie?
What about Sarah Palin or Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal? Haley will likely also get support from Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, as well as Florida senate candidate Marco Rubio.
Below, you’ll find a round-up of Nikki Haley awesome-ness.
Erick Erickson of Red State, an ardent and early supporter of Haley, says she is now The Most Dangerous Woman in South Carolina…
They called Nikki Haley a whore. They called her a raghead. Now they better start practicing calling her Governor.
Nikki Haley came within a percentage point or two of avoiding a runoff for the Republican nomination in South Carolina. Despite all the smears and all the foul play, she is a winner.
The second place finisher, Congressman Gresham Barrett, goes into the runoff roughly 27% behind Haley.
This race also makes Nikki Haley the most dangerous woman in South Carolina. The old order, the old way of doing things, has been decidedly defeated. The runoff becomes the last stand — a TARP voting establishmentarian versus the outsider accountant they threw everything at.
Politico notes that Haley mopped the floor with her competition despite the smear campaign…
State Rep. Nikki Haley trounced U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett, her closest rival in the four-way Republican primary for governor Tuesday, but will face him again in two weeks in a runoff election.
Amid two allegations of infidelity and an ethnic slur, Haley ran as the reform candidate scorned by the good ol’ boy network – and she’s been crowned the voters’ Cinderella. With nearly all the precincts reporting, she was winning nearly 49 percent of the vote, more than twice Barrett’s 22 percent. But she needed to pass 50 percent threshold to avoid a runoff.
“We knew from the very beginning it was us versus the establishment,” Haley told a cheering election night crowd in Columbia. “I won’t stop until we get a conservative House, a conservative Senate, and conservative governor.”
David Weigel at the Washington Post explains why there will be no runoff election…
A surprisingly blunt press release from the Republican Governors Association all but calls for Rep. Gresham Barrett (R-S.C.) to stand down and let Nikki Haley start running for governor of South Carolina, after she missed the right to avoid a runoff by the narrowest of margins.
The statement from Executive Director, Nick Ayers:
The voters of South Carolina made a clear choice in Nikki Haley, notwithstanding the possibility of a runoff. The outcome is all but certain. Nikki Haley withstood a barrage of innuendoes and slurs in the closing days of the primary season and persevered to the finish with dignity, determination and confidence. Moreover, receiving half of the votes against two other statewide incumbent Republicans and a sitting Congressman speaks volumes of her strength as a candidate and bodes very well for her in the General Election. We congratulate Nikki for her grit and determination.
Congratulations to Nikki Haley!
I posted Greta’s pre-Obama interview with Jan Brewer last night.
This is Greta’s post-Obama interview with Jan Brewer and I love the fact that they did the interview in a bar. I would love to have a beer with Jan Brewer. Her name is brewer. Someone in her family made beer at some point.
I sometimes think Greta Van Susteren is underrated. Now is one of those times. The video below is a great interview with Arizona Governor, Jan Brewer.
I think Jan Brewer rocks. She’s an effective governor, she cares deeply about national security and she’s a fiscal conservative. What’s not to love?
If you follow American Glob, you may have noticed I’m not covering the coordinated smear campaign against Republican South Carolina gubernatorial candidate, Nikki Haley.
There are two reasons for that.
The first reason is that the subject is already being superbly covered by Red State, Robert Stacy McCain and Ace. I applaud their coverage of this story and their defense of Haley.
The second reason is that I simply don’t buy any of it. This baseless attack on Haley is made of the same crap we’ve seen hurled at Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann on a regular basis. As Nikki Haley notes in the video below, the attacks against her only came when she started polling well.
With that in mind, I saw a great post on Red State tonight by Moe Lane which has a video of a debate where Nikki Haley confronts one of the smear merchants working against her. I had to wade into this subject, if only to show you this video. Nikki Haley is pretty awesome.
I’ve never been to South Carolina, but I bet the voters of The Palmetto State know the truth when they hear it. Hopefully, they’re listening to Nikki Haley.