Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker has taken notice of South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley. In a recent article, Parker calls Haley “a rusty nail,” after former SC GOP chief Katon Dawson told her she would have to be “a rusty nail” to get through next year’s campaign.
Parker did an excellent job capsulizing Haley’s personal and professional stories.
Haley breezed through her initiation in the blood rite known as South Carolina politics. Seated at a checkerboard corner table in the rear of the restaurant, she waves away the anonymous ads questioning her conversion from Sikh to Methodist. Next, I said, they’ll accuse her of being one o’ them dadgum Muslims, and she batted another imaginary gnat from her peripheral vision.
I have promoted Nikki Haley’s candidacy for six months and will continue to do so. She is the only candidate with the agenda South Carolina needs to grow and prosper in all the necessary areas; economic expansion, education, employment, technical advancement, rural development and more.
Haley will change the face of the Governor’s Office in a number of ways – all of them positive. She will erase many of the stains that have spilled on the state in the last year or two. She will introduce workable ways to solve long-standing problems and rescue South Carolina from the cold hard grip of cronyism and status quo political numbness that has dominated the state for most of a generation.
As I wrote in May:
Rep. Nikki Haley has jumped in the testosterone thick waters of state-wide politics and I’m glad for it.
A true conservative, smart, fresh ideas and the kind of populist politician that could force the ol’ boys in the Chamber to get off their rear ends (and the throat of progress) and do what’s right.
THIS is gonna be a helluva race!
I have known Nikki for a while now. She is bright, intelligent, has conviction and vision, somewhat akin to Sarah Palin.
Nikki is her own woman, not owned by anyone. She has all of the positives needed to take the state in a positive direction, no skeletons in the closet, as did Bob Peeler, Mark Sanford, and as DOES Andre’ Bauer.
We can have the same “good old boy ” politics or we can move forward in a progressive way.
Nikki is also the only candidate that has a record of trying to reform the system, in fact she got punished for standing up to the good ole boys. That is what SC needs, someone with backbone, along with convictions
Rep. Haley told Kathleen Parker that she would like to eliminate the 7% state personal income tax and the 5% state corporate income tax. If this is so, she needs to say, “I support the South Carolina FairTax Act!” So far, Lt. Gov. candidate Bill Connor is the only candidate for statewide office to make that announcement.
FairTax = Jobs! The Board of Economic Advisors announced today that nearly 1 in 4 South Carolinians is unemployed, under-employed or has simply given up looking for work. We desperately need a tax system that rewards capital (and labor) investment!