South Carolina’s most widely read and influential political blogger, Will Folks, has “confessed” to having an inappropriate physical relationship (undefined) with gubernatorial front runner State Representative Nikki Haley.
Haley has issued a statement denying the allegation.
I heard about this kind of stuff last year when I was researching Nikki Haley, my interest in her candidacy piqued by Will himself. I asked him if there was anything to it. “I won’t dignify that question with a response,” was his curt reply.
As any rational person would, I took that as an emphatic “NO!”
As I got to know Nikki Haley, I harbored guilt for trying to verify an outlandish and sordid rumor.
Such behavior would be out of character for Nikki Haley.
I believe that still.
I came to learn that the stories then were a cheap attempt to marginalize Haley’s budding candidacy for governor. They quickly died, justifiably, for lack of nourishment by fact, logic or reason.
The cowardly whispers also coincided with the on-going attempts to keep Haley from succeeding in her efforts to force state legislators to record their votes, particularly on budget legislation.
Now, a couple of weeks before the Republican primary, with Haley having made monumental leaps in the polls to go from 4th to frontrunner, these old, discounted tales are being re-animated; gone viral on news and social media outlets.
Just as designed.
Further, my friend Will is eschewing interviews about the story. Anyone who knows, knows of or reads Will Folks will find it curious – damned near incredulous – that Sic Willie would avoid interviews or other publicity, especially during an election.
Talk about out of character!
Regular readers of FitsNews are routinely regaled with references to his pre-marital exploits. So why is THIS one suddenly – AT THIS POINT ON THE POLITICAL CALENDAR – a top priority for soul-cleansing? Where was concern for truth a year ago or even a month ago when Nikki Haley was considered a dark horse with little chance of surviving the GOP primary?
Were the players in this melodrama any one else, the first, loudest and most indignant voice of all would be that of Will Folks. He would engage his refined political olfactory sense and, himself, declare that it and its purveyors magnificently failed “the smell test.”
Now, Nikki Haley is left to disprove a negative, a position in which opposition political operatives take great delight.
I don’t know what’s going on, but the “smell test” seems formidable. The coincidence all too convenient.
Will said he is “letting the chips fall,” but from the smell of things, what KIND of chips is he dropping?
/CS/
This doesn’t just smell, it freakin’ REEKS!
Good points, all, sir! He won’t put up nor talk any more about it because there’s nothing he can prove. He’s got his big wad of dough and that’s all he wanted apparently.
Isn’t Folks motto, unfair and imbalanced. He puts it right there on his blog for everyone to see!
Will Folks is a slug, everyone in political circles knows this and you can’t get more unfair an d imbalance than this guy. He is truly sickening! I look forward to Haley kicking but!
These are tactics, a la Bob Peeler in the 02 Gov race and when he and his sickos trashed John McCain 8 years ago in the Presidential Primary….These rats still boast of it!
Let’s just say from what I have heard. It backfired on whoever started this rumor per say. People see right through it. It has actually caused more to want to vote for Nikki. If not, it did managed to WAKE MORE PEOPLE up asking questions about the “good ole boys.” Won’t they ever learn?
8,300 miles away, it smells just as rotten.
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The Wastewater Treatment plant i operate smells better!
I concur, this stinks, BUT my bigger concern is yet another “Nikki Haley wants votes on the record”….
geez, talk about blind political followers. consider this: ANY member of the House can request that a vote be taken on the record today. (full procedural disclosure: it takes 10 members to concur on the motion, but a requestor ALWAYS finds 9 friends…) How many times has Nikki Haley, champion of on-the-record voting, asked for roll call votes in her years in the House? Look it up. (hint: more than 1, less than 3; rhymes with “poo”)
Please stop the mindless followership; pretend to be interested in the facts.