Pollsters embarrassed by Sanford win, Cockstradamus ends retirement

By: gsandlapper1 (Diary)  |  May 9th at 01:55 PM  | 

servatives wandering aimlessly in the political wilderness since the Obama re-election of 2012 disaster without their strong male role model and Palmetto State oracle  now roosted atop Stone Mountain of Georgia, take heart.   That fearless fighting rooster marked his return to political prognostications last Monday, the day before Mark Sanford’s landslide victory over Stephen Colbert’s sister, via this column, thusly: Our Stone Mountain-of-Georgia-roost-view of the | Read More »

If either’s a “token”, it’s Barack Obama, not Tim Scott

By: gsandlapper1 (Diary)  |  December 30th at 01:33 PM  | 

Unqualified failure is the surest sign of a “token”, which precisely defines the Obama Economy Cries of “Uncle Tom” and “race trait” issued from liberal Democrats’ lips, attacking S.C. Governor Nikki Haley’s choice to fill the U.S. Senate seat of Jim DeMint, before the press conference announcing the choice of Rep. Tim Scott was over. Consider, for example, The New Yorker’s take on the decision of the | Read More »

Sandlapper Sen. Scott strikes blow for spending, demographic sanity

By: gsandlapper1 (Diary)  |  December 17th at 03:34 PM  | 

  The first female Indian-American governor in U.S. history today appointed the first African-American U.S. Senator in South Carolina history. Governor Nikki Haley’s appointment of the Palmetto State congressman that defeated the son of the state’s legendary Strom Thurmond in an 80%+ white district will make Tim Scott the only Black member of the U.S. Senate when it convenes in January. That’s enough obeisance to the Mainstream | Read More »