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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNikki Haley is being hailed as a rising star in the Republicant Party.
Lawd, they have hitched themselves to a crazy-assed comet. Any group that lauds her as their best is heading downhill at warp speed.
They are ignoring how 95% of the population of SC feels about her. Both parties depise her, and the Repubs hate her more than the Dems. The Teaspitters aren't thrilled with her either. She endorsed Romney who they still aren't fond of.
She is also a pathological liar. Haley goes waaaaay beyond what we expect from run of the mill politicians. She has done it so much about so many things that I really don't think she can help it. Anybody who lies about what place her daughter finished in at a middle school pageant is beyond help. She came in second, but Haley said she won. A parent pointed out the discrepancy.
I don't care what her daughter does, but this is an example of her inability to be truth. She lies about things that can be easily checked.
I hope they give her some high office. She'll drive them wild trying to keep up with what she says and issuing clarifications.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)lame54
(35,317 posts)is it going to happen?
MADem
(135,425 posts)Who knows? She has enough dirt without any indictments...!
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Not only that, she and her husband S.C. First Gentleman Michael Haley are said to have an open marriage in which they are free to have sexual relations with other partners.
Want more? Were told that members of South Carolinas mainstream media have nailed down both stories yet have been sitting on them for weeks.
Rumors about the open nature of the Haleys marriage have floated around Lexington County for years. Naturally, these rumors intensified last summer when two men including this websites founding editor stepped forward and acknowledged previous sexual relationships with Haley...In responding to the initial allegations of infidelity, Haley technically never denied having sexual relations with other men she merely claimed that she had been 100 percent faithful to her husband. Strict verbal constructionists quickly noted that the wording of Haleys denial left the door open for the possibility that she had engaged in extramarital sex with the consent of her husband....
She's definitely got some strange ideas...get a load of this:
http://feministing.com/2012/07/25/nikki-haleys-funding-cuts-to-sexual-assault-and-dv-programs-vetoed/
She's also a notorious...er....ummm...what's the word? Oh yes--LIAR. Why would Mark Sanford go all the way to Argentina to screw this woman...and why does she insist that anyone thought she was involved, when no one seems to be admitting to even asking her the question?
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/HaireoftheDog/archives/2012/04/05/nikki-haley-makes-startling-claim-about-mark-sanfords-appalachian-trail-fiasco (read the WHOLE thing--well worth it):
...Tim managed to convince the now-ravenous media that I hadn't been in Argentina with the governor, but in the hours and days that followed the scandal only got worse."
Now, here's the funny thing: after having spoken with several reporters and political insiders, there is reason to question Haley's account of the events mentioned above. Of the reporters that I spoke to, none of them contacted the Haley campaign about this alleged smear. For most, the first time that they had heard this anecdote was when Politico recently released an excerpt containing Haley's parking-lot claim. The same goes for the political insiders. The news that Haley's car was parked next to Sanford's during the whole Appalachian Trail fiasco was, well, news to them. Nearly everyone was baffled by Gov. Haley's claim in Can't is Not an Option.
So what's going on here? Frankly, I have no idea. I've reached out to Haley's press secretary Rob Godfrey for some sort of clarification, but he hasn't gotten back to me. Hopefully, he will, and we'll know exactly which media organizations were ravenously pursuing this story which pretty much no one had heard of until, like what, two weeks ago.
I'll leave you with this raw video of Mark Sanford's car at the Columbia Metro Airport. If someone can tell me which car is Haley's, well, that would be great.....
This one's a beaut, too--the full list is enlightening!
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/HaireoftheDog/archives/2012/08/28/gop-convention-21-facts-about-nikki-haley
14. Nikki Haley called Fox affiliate WACH a tabloid news station after they aired an interview with Will Folks.
15. Nikki Haley's approval rating among South Carolina's is routinely less than Obama's nationwide.
16. Nikki Haley once claimed that half of South Carolina's workforce was high on drugs while the other half was stupid.
Pictures, and constituent ire, at this link: http://bonjupatten.com/
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)and he's heading to Afghanistan for a year. I hope he stays safe.
Meanwhile back home, Nikki will be on the loose. Stay off the Appalachian Trail or any trail for that matter.
There are more rumors about indictments and people having affairs than I can keep up with. People in the SC are at the point that they are just halfway listening now. We want to see proof! These rumors are getting old.