For awhile, we were thinking of retirement in SC.
Rethinking.
Four years ago I spent six months researching where to retire. I finally settled on the Aiken, SC area. Moved here from Louisville, KY and have never been happier.
Friendly people, nice weather, plenty of amenities. This place is great!
Yup, that's a problem. Too many folks retire and move down here and immediately try to turn us into the high-tax, liberal hell-hole they just left.
You should hear how surprised some new arrivals are that (outside of city limits) we have wells and septic tanks, we haul off our own garbage or pay a private company to do it and we have volunteer fire departments. I always smile at them and ask "Didn't you wonder why your annual property taxes are less then $200?"
Pandsey is an embarrassment. He changed his stripes once he got to DC and now he has a huge war-chest of cash and the backing of the left and middle. The dems aren't even going to field a challenger, if we don't take him out in the primary he skates back into office.
McCain...he carried the retirees big-time and has the GOP establishment in his pocket, he has been down here courting them for the last three years. Splitting the vote 4 ways didn't help matters. (5 ways, if you count the RonPaulers.)
I voted for Thompson and attended one of his "Meet Fred" events during his bus tour of SC. He ran a lousy campaign.