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Join Sarah Palin & RedState in Helping Nikki Haley

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 24th, 2010 at 03:38 PM  | 

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No one cared about Nikki Haley when she was in third place in South Carolina — no one, that is, except RedState and Sarah Palin.

Now guess what? Nikki Haley is in first place with a double digit lead over the number two candidate. Rasmussen has her at 11 points up. So what do they do? A blogger claims he has an “inappropriate physical relationship” with Nikki Haley. Mind you, he doesn’t say sex, but that is the implication.

It all comes about after Republican leaders in the South Carolina House and Senate get together to figure out a way to stall Haley’s momentum. They couldn’t attack her record. They couldn’t attack her business dealings. So they went straight for sleaze.

Well, Sarah Palin and RedState are not going to abandon Nikki Haley just because some blogger claims he stole her toenail clippings or something.

But time is short. And Nikki Haley is going to need cash fast to combat this smear. We’ve stood up for her the whole time. It’s time we put our money where our mouth is.

I’m in for another $100.00. I hope you’ll join me and give what you can. Join Sarah Palin and RedState — let’s fight the smears and support Nikki Haley.

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  • retail1
  • http://www.neoavatara.com/blog neoavatara

    …this morning after I heard this story come out.

    If the old timers in the party are worried, that just makes me want to vote for Nikki all that much more.

    I am fully behind her as the conservative voice in that state.

    www.neoavatara.com/blog

  • shadowtax

    First rule about Palmetto State Fight Club: Don’t talk about Palmetto State Fight Club!

    Second rule about Palmetto State Fight Club: Don’t whine on your blog if you lose to a girl.

  • eburke

    a$$-hat for slander and/or defamation of character? I mean, I know there’s the whole ‘public domain’ thing, but surely there’s got to be a limit (in our litigious society where you can make millions for being stupid enuf to put hot coffee between your legs) to how far one can go with just out and out lies…isn’t there?

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    The standard is so high for public figures like her it wouldn’t be worth trying.

  • Adjoran

    http://tinyurl.com/33ev7mo

    If Haley wanted to fool around, she could have done much better. Why he was fired, I mean allowed to resign ignominiously, as Sanford’s spokesdude: http://tinyurl.com/2cq5eve

    Don’t blame this on SC politics. This is a pathetic loser desperate for attention.

  • http://www.spartanburgteaparty.org karenmartin

    Bob McLain did a radio interview with Nikki this afternoon; he is VERY well respected here in Upstate SC. Here is the link:

    http://www.newsradioword.com/Nikki-Haley-denies-affair-with-Will-Folks/7203772

    Callers to his show all afternoon have been determinedly supportive of Nikki, many have said it furthers their resolve to support her. It is known around the state that the most vicious political attacks come from the right, from the good ‘ol boyz network. Mention has also been made that unless the other 3 candidates colluded in launching this attack, that 2 of them are probably not to blame … and yet … at the time of this radio interview, none of the other candidates have come forth as “Southern gentlemen” to defend her.

  • http://www.libertytreehugger.com reverelth

    this was not an inside job, rather the other side wanting to face a more beatable (less-of-the-same liberal Republican) candidate.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    I never liked the reasoning that just because you became famous you suddenly lose some of your rights. I understand the value of parody and satire, but parody and satire are quite distinct from this kind of crapola.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    That’s the reason we didn’t inherit the British laws, which are ridiculously biased in favor of public officials, protecting them from even truthful attacks.

  • eburke

    potentially throw away a marriage and a promising political career over some ugly doofus like Folks ’cause that’s the best she could do.

    Riiiight!! I’m betting the closest this loser blogger got to Haley is in one of his dreams.

  • Achance

    lots of people, male and female, have awakened thinking, “What was I thinking?” At least I’ve been told that that has happened to some people.

    ‘Course, we know no guy has every made up a story about having some hottie who wouldn’t actualy give him a second glance.

  • fpete13527

    Thanks for your stand for Nikki.

  • http://www.libertytreehugger.com reverelth

    and probably is the work of Democrats.

    That being said, I’m not comfortable with bestowing kingmaker status on Sarah Palin right now, especially in the primaries.

    She’s going to pick some losers, too.

    And, above all, I like to give Nikki Haley most, if not all, of the credit.

  • conservativecrusade

    or his useless attempts at humor on his blog, but it was not him that started this mess. The Free Press approached him about some items they had receives supposedly showing there was a relationship. To his credit, he has only made one statement, while a not very clear statement, rather than trapping away.

    The real question should be who is giving these “proof” items little by little to the Free Press or is it just something the FP is expanding on what was an innocent or non sexual incident. The Free Press has suggested the full scale of this thing will be written in the next week. Hope they, for once, have enough class to not put in print what they can not offer proof for, but guess we will see.

    Not voting for Nikki unless she wins the primary and runoff, but unless real proof is given by whoever has started this or by Foltz himself, I hope she does not lose one of her supporters. For anyone to give up on her or change their vote due to unfounded rumors, would be a travesty.

  • red_baron

    I go here to donate (which obviously links directly to her page). Your statement that “[n]o one cared about Nikki Haley when she was in third place in South Carolina ? no one, that is, except RedState and Sarah Palin” is both untrue and unproductive for Nikki Haley. If we want to get the best and brightest elected in 2010 we should work together instead of making unproductive statements like this one. It is also contradicted by the post you put out a number of weeks ago.

    And before someone starts ranting about 2010, I suggest you read that first sentence again.

  • Brian Hibbert

    I suspect she’ll get 2 additional supporters for every idiot that abandons her for this goon’s lies.

  • laura_lee

    I have to agree. These tactics are of the same personality that the OTHER SIDE typically uses to defeat anyone (Anita Hill, et al, remember?)

    That the other guys inthe race haven’t come forward to defend her is not suspicious, just disappointing. I would expect them to rise to the occasion quickly.

    She sounds like a great candidate. She’ll probably get a bounce from it, and this will come back to hit her enemies straight in the crotch.

  • laura_lee

    Blogger: Barrett campaign pressured me to confess Haley relationship
    The blogger who rocked the state’s political scene Monday by claiming to have had an “inappropriate physical relationship” with gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley says he was pressured to disclose the affair by the campaign of fellow candidate Gresham Barrett.

    This is the top story on the WISTV website, at the moment that I’m posting this.

    http://www.wistv.com/Global/category.asp?C=1682&nav=menu36_1

    The story is 34 minutes old.

    Of course, the sleaze ball claiming the affair could be lying about that, too.

  • Achance

    the person who says it must know it is false when they say it, so since he’s saying he had an affair with her, you get to the knowing part easily. The problem is proving he’s lying. If he said it occured on Wednesday the 12th at 8pm, and she could prove she was elsewhere, there’s your proof. But, whether he’s lying or is just a normal human being, he probably won’t remember that specifically, so proving the falsehood is the issue. Actually, if you want to libel a public figure and get away with it, just make something up from whole cloth and make it something that doesn’t involve you. Then all you have to say is “I believed it to be true.” You don’t get the willful disregard for truth standard if you’re a public figure. Plus, most of these people don’t have anything worth sueing them for and nobody notices when you win.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    would be self-evident if Haley proves sex didn’t occur given that the blogger made a statement that he was personally involved so that the usual standard of proving that the declarant “knew it wasn’t true” is easier than if the declarant stated that a third party had sex with her.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    I charged a retainer and hourly billing! Not contingency!

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    In fact many American public figures bring their cases over there more easily now due to internet dissemination.

  • Achance

    but none of them have anything worth sueing for and the burden is so high it isn’t worth it. But, it is something to busy myself thinking about since they’ve outlawed pistols at dawn. I have invited a couple of them to come over and say that to my face, but, of course, no takers. I got banned from the Juneau Empire’s comments for issueing one such invitation and advising the invitee to come armed.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • eburke
  • eburke

    (which I don’t for a minute think she did) she would disqualify herself IMO not because of a ‘fling’ but for an abysmal lack of judgement in men.

  • Achance

    I even have detractors outside Alaska. The DC people with AFSCME hate me. And, when I was Alaska’s head of labor relations, the CA guy and I were the only Republican appointed/policy-level heads of L/R in the Country; all the other states with fully unionized public employees were Democrat. When we’d go to our heads of L/R soirees, the rest of them would act like he and I had horns and tails – we did, but we tucked them in for these events.

    Neil, Moe, et al. have pretty much disposed of my stalkers here, but they still show up from time to time. There’s one who is simply obscessed! I didn’t fire him, don’t really know who did or precisely why, but his grievance got to my level, we gave it the perfunctory denial, and the union dropped it; color it gone – we sure didn’t look for reasons to keep them open. So, he shows up at my office harrassing my subordinate that had his case. I threw him out and banned him from the building; had his picture put up at every reception desk. He just can’t get over it! Anyway, he follows me around to the Anchorage Daily News and the Juneau Empire constantly. If I say anything in their comments sections, there he is going on about what an a#$hole I am. I usually just remind him that he’s still fired and tell him to go back on his meds.

  • Richard Mullins

    That way they get a taste of old west justice. The fear of you is the best way to handle these people. Make them very scared of you.

  • Achance

    to give it my best shot a couple of times.

    They used to be very scared of me; anymore, I’m just an old retired guy.