Posted on 06/24/2015 2:09:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) is attracting widespread praise for leading the bipartisan effort to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the Statehouse.
Haley’s swift response has put her back in the national spotlight, stoking speculation that she could be the vice presidential nominee on the GOP’s 2016 presidential ticket. The 43-year-old governor saved her party from divisive bickering and damaging headlines that could have lingered for months.
While other prominent Republicans hemmed and hawed, Haley was clear at her press conference Monday that the flag must come down. Defenders of the flag, meanwhile, largely remained silent. The long-term political impact of Haley’s new stance — which is much different than her position last year — is unclear. But the short-term effect is obvious.
“It’s been her finest hour as governor,” said David Woodard, a Clemson University professor who also serves as a Republican consultant in the state. Woodard noted that he had worked for one of Haley’s rivals in the GOP primary when she was first elected in 2010 and has never been particularly enthused about her.
“I think she has handled it about as well as could be imagined,” said Will Folks, the South Carolina political blogger who sparked a firestorm in that same 2010 campaign when he claimed he had an affair with the married Haley. (Haley denied his story.)
Folks added that he thought she had “done a good job of being a uniter. And I say that as someone who has been critical of the governor on a wide range of issues. I don’t think she’s done a good job as governor.”
Republican consultant Ford O’Connell also extolled Haley’s performance and, asked about the broader political implications, suggested that “her VP stock is probably on the rise again at the moment.”
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No it doesn’t
Put her on the ticket. They will lose.
Southerners will not forget this. And no matter what she does a liberal will never vote for her. I predict a low turnout in 2016.
I thought Boehner was slated for the VP nomination.
Not with me it didn’t.
I know for a fact after talking to many down here that she is toast.
Governor Haley might be a great pick and if her decisive action helps her and Republicans in general, great.
Not around my parts.
She sh!t her brand. Just like Rubio over amnesty.
I’m disgusted that I used to both defend her and cut her a lot of slack, on a number of issues.
She can go rot in hell. Damned bitch.
Cracks like that is what killed Vaudeville
Pander bear.
The left demanded that the flag come down from flying on top off the roof. The officials caved and said we will put it in the back and so the left agreed.
15 years later they went back on their agreement and now demanded to have to taken down all together.
Homosexuals and the left in VT demanded civil unions and officials agreed.
Notice a pattern? The left never cave in nor do they ever stop demanding.
Next FT Hood and other army bases, parks, schools will be renamed.
Well on the 27th of June the left are holding battle flag burning day.
June 28th there will be fly your battle flag
>>> I know for a fact after talking to many down here that she is toast.
That’s why she’s seeking national spotlight. Establishment GOP do that all the time.
ChrispyKream will be doing the same thing next week, his poll number in his own state tanked, but will be viewed as another viable candidate.
How quaint. The Confederate flag is the symbol of resistance to federal tyranny, not the defense of slavery. Indeed, it was northern commercial interests using government for economic domination of the south. Liberals must stick to the false and inaccurate “slavery pitch” to discredit any cause against the tyranny of democracy.
I’m quite tired of the repeated crapola that the Civil War was about slavery. It was called the War of Northern Aggression for good reason and we should never forget that.
Coward.
Good point. "I'm screwed anyway, so I might as well ask the guys who screwed me in the first place to put me on their national ticket."
Good thinking, Nikki. Go for the cheese.
More MSM propaganda. The message is if you do what the j
Left wants, you are rewarded.
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