Posted on 09/09/2010 3:25:38 PM PDT by neverdem
The libretto of this operatic election season, understandably promoted by Democrats and unsurprisingly sung by many in the media, is that Republicans have sown the seeds of November disappointments by nominating candidates other than those the party's supposedly wiser establishment prefers. This theory is inconvenienced by two facts: South Carolina's Nikki Haley and Tim Scott.
"I am a policy girl," Haley, 38, says demurely. But she is a savvy politician who in 2004 won a state legislature seat by defeating the longest-serving incumbent. Although the state's Republican establishment opposed her nomination for governor, she won because for two years she has been traveling around the state asking this question: Does anyone think it odd that in 2007 only 8 percent of the decisions by the state House, and only 1 percent of the state Senate's decisions, were made by recorded votes?
The political class and its parasitic lobbyists preferred government conducted in private. Haley, whose early campaign strategy was exuberantly indiscriminate ("go anywhere and talk to anybody") won the gubernatorial nomination by defeating the state's lieutenant governor, its attorney general and a congressman.
She and her state have come a long way since, at about age 5, in her home town of Bamberg, she and her sister entered the Little Miss Bamberg pageant. It usually crowned a white and a black queen. The flummoxed judges disqualified both Randhawa girls.
If elected, Haley will be the second Indian American Republican governor in Dixie, joining Louisiana's Bobby Jindal. She, unlike him, does not look like someone from the subcontinent; her faintly olive complexion could be Mediterranean. Tunku Varadarajan of Stanford's Hoover Institution and New York University's Stern School of Business suggests why they have risen in the Republican Party while no Indian American has comparably risen in the Democratic Party...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
It’ll be amusing to see what the Congressional Black Caucus does once Tim Scott gets elected.
I don’t remember what they did about JC Watts, but I’m pretty sure they froze him out when he was a member of the House.
Hopefully they’ll have to deal with Allen West as well.
Ping!
I don't mean to be snarky, but isn't Will practicing a form of Republican identity politics here? I don't think of Dr. Sowell as a black republican. I think of him as brilliant. Why do even our brightest lights let the left determine the terms of the debate?
Thanks for posting this.
TS
Did Will ever mention Sarah helped both Scott and Haley.
Wow. And here I thought (as did Haley) that Sarah Palin had something to do with it.........
Will still looking down his nose at Sarah, I see.....
Of course not.
I didn’t think so. What a putz Will is.
Thanks for the link!
One can read it simply that He could regard Dr. Sowell as a pathfinder. As a Southerner, I find it great to find someone who thinks like I do, but is a much better reasoner.
I would hope that Scott and West would refuse to join the Black Caucus on principle.
George Will’s last paragraph: “If the question is which state has changed most in the last half-century, the answer might be California. But if the question is which state has changed most for the better, the answer might be South Carolina.”
Makes me proud to live here.
We go there on vacation (from Indiana)
The place gives off a good vibe!
Oh, for Pete's sake. He was allowed 750 words and wrote an excellent column about two very conservative non-whites in what the liberals insist is a racist culture. Does the lack of a Sarah-mention really hurt the column?
Actually it does. It’s bias by omission.
What a stupid comment.
Haley appears to be the most conservative but she's far from from proving herself as being moral or ethical. The first time she ran in my district there were no pictures of her anywhere because they didn't want her Indian background to become an issue. I know Joe Wilson is pushing her in his home district because of his ties with India. I supported Joe Wilson when he first came on the scene 30 years ago, however, I'm still very ambivelant about Haley.
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