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Gov. Nikki Haley’s stock rises amid flag furor
THE HILL ^ | 06/24/2015 | By Niall Stanage

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: confederateflag; coward; funh; nikkihaley; southcarolina
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To: manc
Next FT Hood and other army bases, parks, schools will be renamed.

Fort Whoopi Goldberg

Fort Roseanna Barr

21 posted on 06/24/2015 2:37:06 PM PDT by TYVets
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To: trubolotta
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.

You're the first person I've ever seen get it right in one. It was, indeed, about money and power, and that is why some "gentlemen's" letters to and from Lincoln and his inner circle are sealed and closely guarded today. And likewise why, as (Unionist) historian Mark Neely noted 10 or so years ago, there are still about a dozen people in Lincoln's inner circle (men whom not one citizen in 1000 can name, but they killed a million people and rewrote the Constitution with a bayonet) who have not had proper, scholarly, thorough biographies done yet.

My guess: These guys are still radioactive after 150 years, and toxic to standard historiography of the Civil War.

22 posted on 06/24/2015 2:39:29 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley, an Indian Sikh, can kiss my grits.


23 posted on 06/24/2015 2:41:19 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: manc

Good observation....the left doesn’t stop. They may advance slowly, even lose ground, but they are ever on mission.


24 posted on 06/24/2015 2:42:05 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: windsorknot

“What she did was not the least bit courageous. “

Exactly! Nothing courageous about caving to liberals! The eGOP does it all the time.


25 posted on 06/24/2015 2:43:38 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Reno89519
Governor Haley might be a great pick and if her decisive action helps her and Republicans in general, great.

Offensive post, offensive and despicable tag line . . . You're firing on all cylinders today

26 posted on 06/24/2015 2:44:01 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: SeekAndFind
Silly Republicans. All they need to do to win is to be spineless sell-out poll-monitoring wishy-washy fools and to do everything the media tell them to do! Heck, it's been working so far!
27 posted on 06/24/2015 2:45:37 PM PDT by golux
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To: SeekAndFind
“It’s been her finest hour as governor,” said David Woodard, a Clemson University professor...

That's as far as I read...

28 posted on 06/24/2015 2:46:05 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: ealgeone

give the left an inch and they take a yard. Sadly the GOP are just either too stupid or they think they will be liked.

The left since before Pres Wilson have been making in roads and all they care about is getting to their final agenda and yes they know it will never be in their time , but they helped the left to get there.


29 posted on 06/24/2015 2:47:40 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m at a SC beach right now.

Later today, I’ll be visiting one of the hundreds of beach novelty shops that line Hwy 17 to purchase a Confederate Flag beach towel.

I’ll be rolling that puppy out on the beach for the rest of our stay.

FUNH.


30 posted on 06/24/2015 2:47:48 PM PDT by moovova
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To: CodeToad

Yes. Someone said it best: Republicans do the “right thing” when it doesn’t matter.


31 posted on 06/24/2015 2:48:01 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: windsorknot

” Someone said it best: Republicans do the “right thing” when it doesn’t matter.”

That someone was a genius.


32 posted on 06/24/2015 2:48:35 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Jumping on the fascist cultural/historical purge bandwagon is NOT leadership.


33 posted on 06/24/2015 2:51:08 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: kabar
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.

Note to budding "journalists": if the best endorsement you can cite for a politician's actions comes from a blogger who claims to have porked her, might want to rethink your approach.

34 posted on 06/24/2015 2:51:21 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: SeekAndFind
Folks added that he thought she had “done a good job of being a uniter.

How has she been a uniter? The people who supported the flag before still support the flag. The people who hated the flag still hate the flag. Before the ones who hated it had a grudge. Once she's done the people who support it will have a grudge. And the divide and the distrust and the hatred will continue.

35 posted on 06/24/2015 2:54:49 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Reno89519
Governor Haley might be a great pick...

With her vocal hatred of unions having her on the ticket will guarantee Pennsylvania, Michigan, and probably Ohio in the Democrat camp. Unions may have been losing influence but they still have enough to make a difference in those states with the right motivation. And she'll give it to them.

36 posted on 06/24/2015 2:57:31 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: SeekAndFind
Gov. Nikki Haley’s stock rises amid flag furor

As would ANY conservative politician who abandons their core beliefs in the act of currying favor of the liberal elitist class.

But that doesn't mean the libs will win their votes....

They prefer a pure liberal statist instead of an turncoat.
37 posted on 06/24/2015 2:58:08 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: lentulusgracchus

Yep, some of the “untold” story. It is a little known fact that after South Carolina seceded, it pass a 10% tariff on imports. Northern newspapers equated that to a declaration of war because it would aid the British and French while penalizing the northeastern states. Prior to that, the mood in the north was to simply let the south go. After all, that slave picked super-cheap cotton would still be available for New England textile mills.


38 posted on 06/24/2015 2:59:43 PM PDT by trubolotta
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To: moovova

Visit the Confederate museum too as that is a good place to se and learn, plus you put money into the daughters of the confederacy


39 posted on 06/24/2015 3:00:26 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nikky Haley is DONE


40 posted on 06/24/2015 3:03:50 PM PDT by gwgn02
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