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S.C. blogger reveals texts with top Nikki Haley aide (Claims affair with GOP candidate)
CNN Politics ^ | 05/26/2010 | Peter Hamby

Posted on 05/26/2010 10:18:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: marron
I write everything with the idea that someone else may see it. If I criticize someone, I do it in words I would use if I was saying it to their face. If I reveal something personal, I do it with the understanding that others may see it who I did not intend. It changes the way you write, but for the better, all things considered.

Solid suggestion considering the lack of ethics and loyalty plaguing our society today. One can never be careful enough!
21 posted on 05/26/2010 10:59:04 AM PDT by MollyKuehl (Contribute to FR: $10 $20 $50 $100 REMEMBER, LURKING IS A FORM OF ENTITLEMENT!!!)
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To: ChinaThreat

Other than King David, I am unable to recall any “great leaders” that were philanderers. There have been successful people, but their lack of character is what prevents them from being truly great, at least in my eyes.

Ross Perot fired his top guy at EDS when he discovered the man was a cheating on his wife. Perot believed that if the guy’s own wife couldn’t trust him, neither could he.

It will only be a matter of time until the cheater that you hire cheats you.


22 posted on 05/26/2010 10:59:27 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: marron

Everyone has a favorite email faux pas; I had a buddy of mine who was a CSR send an estimate to our boss for approval, the boss replied that the price was okay, along with a string of invective and angry pejoratives about the client and my buddy sent the whole thing along to the client.

My friend, who was just getting his start in agency business and was really nervous in the first place, literally and very nearly had a heart attack.

My boss, who is a confident and wealthy exec laughed the whole thing off.

The client, seemingly, never saw the comments or never said anything


23 posted on 05/26/2010 11:00:26 AM PDT by incredulous joe
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To: ChinaThreat

I agree with you. If she made a mistake, thats bad, and I can see why she would prefer to keep it private. You can criticize her for not being forthright about it, and you’d be right, but you can also understand why she wouldn’t want to spill her guts on the subject and have it splashed all over page one.

But, and to me this is an important but, the people who are using this to sink her are worse. So your choice is someone who politically agrees with you, who made a mistake in her private life, versus someone who doesn’t agree with you politically and is ruthless and willing to stop at nothing in pursuit of power.

Easy choice.


24 posted on 05/26/2010 11:02:03 AM PDT by marron
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To: ChinaThreat

I’d rather a conservative hypocrite than a liberal with no values to betray.

I’d rather have high values that I couldn’t always live up to than some so low they were easy to conform to.

But if she lied about it, well she runs into the same problem Nixon did. If he’d just come out and said, “yeah, so what?” they couldn’t have touched him.


25 posted on 05/26/2010 11:21:38 AM PDT by chesley (Lib arguments are neither factual, logical, rational, nor reasonable. They are, however, creative.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Still not buying it. If Folks really did have the evidence, making it all public at once would have been the better move. Letting it out little by little only prolongs the scandal for Haley and for his own family. Plus, it makes Folks look like he needs time to fabricate the evidence.

Nope, not buying this one little bit.
26 posted on 05/26/2010 11:21:50 AM PDT by 84rules ( Ooh-Rah! Semper Fi!)
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To: marron
Actually, those are not the choices. The choices are Haley, Bauer, McMaster, and Barrett. Maybe one of Haley's opponents is using it to sink her, but there are no allegations that all of her opponents are involved in trashing her.

Assuming the allegations are true, and you were a Haley supporter, the choice would more likely be between Haley as an adulteress, and some other Republican candidate. Your decision would depend on how much you abhor adultery and how close another candidate is to your liking.

27 posted on 05/26/2010 11:26:09 AM PDT by MBB1984
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To: reaganairport

Yep. It ain’t gonna go well for this gal. She might as well drop out now, than have a slow drip of emails showing she’s a liar.


28 posted on 05/26/2010 11:29:26 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

Here’s betting that Will’s brother, Ken, is in on this scheme.


29 posted on 05/26/2010 11:30:18 AM PDT by billhilly
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To: Retired Greyhound

“Other than King David, I am unable to recall any “great leaders” that were philanderers.”

Frankly, for the majority of history, it wasn’t considered philandering for a man to have more than one wife or concubines. This would cover most of the great men in history.


30 posted on 05/26/2010 11:44:38 AM PDT by ChinaThreat (3)
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To: SeekAndFind

Will Folks is the owner and founder of his website, Fitsnews.com. Everything he posts is only on that site, and I am quite curious why, Henry McMaster pulled his political ad from Fitsnews. The so so-called emails does not look to me legitimate at all, Something very phony going on here.
Also, one of Gresham Barretts supporters went to a judge to have an injunction to pull Haleys ad from appearing on TV, due to “election campaign rules”, as posted in the Spartanburg Herald Journal.. So, I would like to see these rules in writing and displayed for all to see. So far everything is only heresay. Will Folks is looking for publicity, and maybe, being paid to trash Nikki Haley because she was leading in the Republican campaign. Also Will Folks worked with Haley years ago, and was Gov Sanfords aid or spokesperson.


31 posted on 05/26/2010 11:54:38 AM PDT by Bullfrogg (American by birth, Irish by heritage, and hellraiser by choice)
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To: ChinaThreat

Not so much the “more than one wife part” as much as the part where he slept with Bethsheba while her husband Uriah was at war, and then had Uriah killed.

Multiple wives was very common at that time.


32 posted on 05/26/2010 3:32:34 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: SeekAndFind

Also, Haley and her supporters - including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin - have worked overtime to undermine Folks’ credibility.

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I’m FROM SC. I’ve met Nikki Haley. I’ve met Will Folks. I’ve watch BOTH of them at work for the last 6 or 8 years. It’s not even a CLOSE contest as to who has credibility. NO ONE has to sork to thrown Folks under the bus or undermine his credibility — he HAS none.

Nikki has been above board, fought for the people, worked for transparency in the Legislature, is a Tea Party sctivist, advocate of small government and states rights — DON’T throw her to these wolves base solely on “texts” that could have been doctored or created out of thin air! Are people — CONSERVATIVES!? — that freaking gullible?!

Folks appears to have been working with — or his hand was forced by — one of her opponents; perhaps the one who has been in Washington TOO long. Unless he can produce EVIDENCE that has NOT been tampered with, his word is worth SQUAT.


33 posted on 05/26/2010 8:19:55 PM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: reaganairport

Maybe, but if there are legitiamate e-mails, Haley has to know those exist and can be produced. She’d be even more stupid than her accuser...and he seems pretty stupid.


34 posted on 05/26/2010 9:11:55 PM PDT by liberlog
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