SC is the 3rd primary state. He is trying ingratiate with the South Carolina voters. He is also trying a top down approach in Iowa and New Hampshire. Trying to buy other peoples contacts. Tells me he is being coerced into this and really hasn’t thought it all the way through.
I’m not sure I see the coercion element, but several TX Freepers have suggested he’s on the lazy side, which may be a factor in his approach. (I was actually put off by his trying to blame his ambitions on his wife, when he said, as the un-Daniels, that she was the one who was encouraging him to run. Does that make him the male Michele Bachmann?)
Anyway, I wonder whether his handlers saw what some perceived as Palin’s peeve at Haley not having backed her during Tucson the way she had backed Haley. His handlers may have tried to buy Haley’s affections with an easy byline. And I wonder whether it’s worked.