I would suggest that the governor of South Carolina, and ALL those SC residents who voted for her, likewise discredit Will 'FitsNews' Folks ...
Posted on 07/29/2013 5:14:31 AM PDT by cotton1706
Lindsey Graham, who already has one announced challenger in the 2014 South Carolina Republican primary for the United States Senate in businessman Richard Cash, may soon face two more challengers. Both State Senator Lee Bright and Nancy Mace, the first female graduate of the Citadel, are preparing to enter the race soon, according to The Daily Beast.
Graham's allies recently publicly stated they expect he will face multiple challengers. On July 23, former South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson, who runs a Super PAC that supports Graham, the West Main Street Values Fund, told the Washington Examiner that Graham "will face a 'spirited' and 'competitive' primary challenge."
Dawson, however, expects Graham to prevail. "Senator Graham has been one of the most successful politicians at the ballot box and has cut the hide of a South Florida alligator when it comes to campaigns and elections," he said.
In addition to friendly Super PACs and a strong network of supporters in the South Carolina Republican establishment at the state and county levels, the Graham campaign has $6.3 million cash on hand. In contrast, Richard Cash, his only announced opponent, had only $248,396 in cash on hand as of June 30, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Tea Party groups across the state unanimously oppose Graham. They view him as a RINO who does not support the constitutionally limited government values of the movement. However, to date they have not coalesced around a single challenger.
Cash has courted the Tea Party movement but has yet to close the deal. On Thursday, he spoke to the Sumter Tea Party, where he received a pleasant reception, But Cash's campaign theme of what he calls the three Cs—"capitalism, Christianity, and the Constitution"—has yet to generate the type of Tea Party enthusiasm he hoped to achieve.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Exactly. Of the three mentioned in this article, Lee Bright clearly is the best and the only one with any prospect of beating Graham.
Mace is a partner of the discredited Will Folks and his FITS news. Cash is a no-name.
Yep. And, of those mentioned, only Lee Bright has any chance at all.
“This shows the need for a New Party”
Are you going to start the New Party? Why not?
Are you going to start the New Party? Why not?
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Actually, a better question is ‘How is a New Party coming along?
So far, so good. It is great to get responses from folks on the internet. It raises the visibility of a New Party every time they post. For those who live in South Carolina, this election is a big opportunity to do something good for their State and the Nation.
TWB
I would suggest that the governor of South Carolina, and ALL those SC residents who voted for her, likewise discredit Will 'FitsNews' Folks ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Bright
This quote is amusing.
‘ “If at first you don't secede, try again.”
TWB
I followed the 2010 Nikki Haley Gubernatorial campaign closely. I became very familiar with mr. folks. I tangled regularly with pissant (dearly departed) over crap that he'd post from fitsnews.
I have clearly used 'discredited' to define Folks, not Mase. However, when I read the article, Folks name jumped out to me. I do wonder how one could be a partner, co-owner(!), with such a tasteless loser like the discredited Folks ... mostly as prompted by the article's author (Michael Patrick Leahy-is he from Ohio too?) himself ......
But Mace's campaign may be hurt by her co-ownership of a website called FITSNews. According to The Daily Beast, Will Folks, who is the site's other co-owner, "shook—or at least irritated—the political world in 2010 when he claimed that he had an affair with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley."
David Dewhurst was forced into a run off with Ted Cruz in the primaries. In the primaries Dewhurst had 45% to 34% for Cruz. This forced a runoff between the two.
Dewhurst ran a dirty campaign even by Texas standards where politics is a bare knuckle fight. The people then took a good look at Cruz and Dewhurst. Cruz crushed Dewhurst 56% to 44%. The Texas Tea Party and Sarah Palin were the deciding factor in this race. Cruz was outspent about three to one.
This race was Dewhursts to lose and he did. If Dewhurst had of been a solid conservative with Tea Party principles (as is Cruz) he would have been Senator Dewhurst of Texas for as long as he wanted to be Senator.
I hope Lindsey Graham meets a similar fate.
Whatever. But it’s folks from Ohio and other such States that keep funding Lindsey Graham’s campaigns and not South Carolina’s conservatives.
Yes, you may offer all the advice and suggestions you want on this forum but you have given me no information that would sway me at all from continuing to investigate the possibility of supporting Nancy Mace. Lee Bright I already know.
I’m curious WHY your stance against Nancy Mace. By your intimations and insinuation that she must be corrupt somehow by her association with this blogger you say is discredited (or by her lack of association with people you approve), you are not helping S.C. FReepers (actual voters) gain useful information at all.
And thanks for nothing for indirectly associating me with the banned pissant. As a matter of fact, why don’t you keep your attention on fixing the political problems in Ohio, which are legion. -30-
If the single candidate against Flimsey Tinkerbelle happened to be named Trey Gowdy, that challenger would WIN, hands down!
Does SC do runoffs? Or does the candidate with the most votes go forward?
If Graham can win on a plurality, he is sitting pretty with multiple primary challengers... They will split the vote and he’ll win.
correct, one viable challenger instead of a plethora of crackpot wanabes is the only way to primary someone.
NOBODY has the money to make this work.
NOBODY has the real credibility or gravitas.
I really hope they are viable and can raise the money to beat Graham in the primary. We’ll see.
Either way, I am voting against him, no matter who runs against him.
“Does SC do runoffs? Or does the candidate with the most votes go forward?”
It says right in the article:
“Though dissatisfaction with Graham among the grassroots is high, past primary challenges to incumbent establishment Republicans in other states have succeeded only when activist support has coalesced around one strong challenger. That has not happened yet in South Carolina. The best those who oppose Graham can hope for at present is to keep him under 50% in the June 2014 primary and force a runoff.
That strategy worked for Ted Cruz in the 2012 Republican primary in Texas, where his second-place finish against Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the May primary forced a July runoff between the two, which Cruz won handily.
The question South Carolina conservatives are asking themselves is whether one of the three announced or potential candidates—Cash, Bright, and Mace—will emerge as South Carolina’s version of Ted Cruz, or if that challenger has yet to arrive on the scene.”
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