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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Fort Whoopi Goldberg
Fort Roseanna Barr
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.
Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley, an Indian Sikh, can kiss my grits.
Good observation....the left doesn’t stop. They may advance slowly, even lose ground, but they are ever on mission.
“What she did was not the least bit courageous. “
Exactly! Nothing courageous about caving to liberals! The eGOP does it all the time.
Offensive post, offensive and despicable tag line . . . You're firing on all cylinders today
That's as far as I read...
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.
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.
Yes. Someone said it best: Republicans do the “right thing” when it doesn’t matter.
” Someone said it best: Republicans do the “right thing” when it doesn’t matter.”
That someone was a genius.
Jumping on the fascist cultural/historical purge bandwagon is NOT leadership.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Nikky Haley is DONE
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