Tea Parties Help Elect Indian and Black Candidates In S. Carolina

[Danube]

Sarah Palin front and center again..


"South Carolina state Rep. Nikki Haley clinched the Republican nomination for governor Tuesday night, sending an Indian-American politician into the general election campaign as a favorite to become her state’s first female governor.


The Associated Press called the race shortly before 8:30 p.m. Haley, whose campaign drew endorsements from national Republican heavyweights including former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, defeated Rep. Gresham Barrett, the runner-up in the first round of primary voting two weeks ago...


In the runoff for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District seat, state Rep. Tim Scott rolled over Charleston County Commissioner Paul Thurmond for the Republican nomination to replace retiring GOP Rep. Henry Brown. Scott’s victory in the Republican-oriented district puts him on track to become the first black Republican in the House of Representatives since J.C. Watts retired.


National Republicans rallied to Scott’s campaign, much as they did to Haley’s, and the legislator picked up endorsements from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, as well as Palin, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor and several other GOP House leaders. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Scott held a 68 percent to 32 percent advantage over Thurmond, the son of the late Sen. and presidential candidate Strom Thurmond.


Both campaigns were unexpectedly civil and low-key affairs, surprising observers who expected South Carolina to revert to bare-knuckled, blood-on-the-mat form. In the same state where a false whisper campaign about an illegitimate black child helped derail Sen. John McCain's 2000 presidential campaign, Haley's ethnicity and gender were largely off limits during the two-week runoff campaign"


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38875.html



"Scott, who is also a state representative, beat Paul Thurmond, the son of the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, in a district that has elected a Republican congressman for three decades. Scott now faces Democrat Ben Frasier, who also is black. If Scott wins, he will become the nation's first black GOP congressman since 2003 when Oklahoma's J.C. Watts retired.

The 44-year-old Scott was the first black Republican in the South Carolina Legislature in more than a century when elected in 2008. Before that, he served 13 years on Charleston County Council.

Haley was little known just months ago, but got a crucial boost with early support from former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement. She has become the latest female GOP star to face talk of a possible vice presidential campaign in 2010.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/22/haley-wins-south-carolina-primary-runoff/



"Scott, who is also a state representative, beat Paul Thurmond, the son of the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, in a district that has elected a Republican congressman for three decades. Scott now faces Democrat Ben Frasier, who also is black. If Scott wins, he will become the nation's first black GOP congressman since 2003 when Oklahoma's J.C. Watts retired.

The 44-year-old Scott was the first black Republican in the South Carolina Legislature in more than a century when elected in 2008. Before that, he served 13 years on Charleston County Council.

Haley was little known just months ago, but got a crucial boost with early support from former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement. She has become the latest female GOP star to face talk of a possible vice presidential campaign in 2010. "

 

[Danube]

"Aided by an influx of newly active Tea Party voters more concerned with fiscal issues than race, creed or gender, Lexington state Rep. Nikki Haley won the Republicans’ gubernatorial nomination despite the use of an ethnic slur against her and doubts about the authenticity of her conversion to Christianity. On the coast, state Rep. Tim Scott defeated the son of longtime U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, who created the Dixiecrat Party. Scott could become the first black Republican to serve in the U.S. House in eight years.

Voters and observers said Tuesday’s runoff results could do much to erase the state’s image as the place where campaigns go to wallow in the muck. This is no longer your father’s S.C. GOP.

“It speaks volumes for the state and for the voters,” said Glenn McCall, the only African-American among 100 Republican National Committeemen. “If you can inspire people and you’re motivated and can motivate voters, people reward those kinds of candidates."

For S.C. GOP, a ‘monumental’ step


http://www.thestate.com/2010/06/23/1345315/for-sc-gop-a-monumental-step.html

 

[dammitgibs]

Ok in all seriousness, if you go around touting "hey look we elected these particular race and elasticities" then you're no better than the race bating progressives. Just go on about your business and let them fall on their swords.

 

[Danube]

Ok in all seriousness, if you go around touting "hey look we elected these particular race and elasticities" then you're no better than the race bating progressives. Just go on about your business and let them fall on their swords.

Nah - its Obama and the media and the Marxocrats that tried to demonize the TP's as racists - and yet many flava candidates (like Alan West) are turning out to be TP favs. The media won't cover this story for what it is but its easy to see why Marxocrats fear Palin and TP's. Gosh dang they stuck it in their eye.

 

[Infohawk]

"Marxocrats"? Can we just tone down the rhetorical nonsense for a few seconds.

There is truth to all this though. Not only have the teapartiers (whoever they are) helped minority candidates but they've also helped women candidates too.

 

[Danube]

"Marxocrats"? .

Totally fits..the MoveOn/Soros wing of the party has taken the Dems over a cliff. Now Obama the neo-Marxist head case is going to stalk America like Capt Ahab stalking Moby Dick. 2008 = one of most dumb elections in history

 

[Double Trouble]

Unpossible. That can't be. After all, Tea-Party members are all fringe crazy racist white guys who are angry about having a black man in the white house

 

[highland145]

Honestly believe the best guy lost last night. I will be voting for Sheheen in November. And since I'm pulling for Alan Greene too, I might as well register as a dim-o-crat. Any lefties here know the number to the S.C. democratic headquarters of the top of your head?

 

[boomerang]

Unpossible. That can't be. After all, Tea-Party members are all fringe crazy racist white guys who are angry about having a black man in the white house

How about that Limbaugh fellow? A black preacher married him and Elton John performed at his reception? What a racist homophobe he is!

 

[Genx87]

Damn racist tea baggers!

 

[mav451]

Lol what is the deal with this thread? RNC is chaired by its first African American, Steele. Jindal - first Indian governor. Cao - first Vietname congressman. Anyone who is paying attention wouldn't be surprised at all. I mean, the baiting will work on "Marxocrats", maybe, but not anyone with a brain.

 

[Slick5150]

Danube's in a heated competition with Patranus for Crazy Person of P&N 2010!

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Lol what is the deal with this thread? RNC is chaired by its first African American, Steele. Jindal - first Indian governor. Cao - first Vietname congressman. Anyone who is paying attention wouldn't be surprised at all. I mean, the baiting will work on "Marxocrats", maybe, but not anyone with a brain.

Hmmm... :hmm:

 

[spidey07]

Wait a minute! Teabaggers are racist, so this can't be true.

 

[Danube]

Lol what is the deal with this thread? RNC is chaired by its first African American, Steele. Jindal - first Indian governor. Cao - first Vietname congressman. Anyone who is paying attention wouldn't be surprised at all. I mean, the baiting will work on "Marxocrats", maybe, but not anyone with a brain.

True about the surprise - except that there was in intentional effort to demonize tea parties as racist when a lot of the TPs fav candidates (Allen West etc) are black etc. Women and black candidates are filling a leadership vacuum in the GOP. Jan Brewer has shown more leadership in GOP than I have seen in many years.

 

[Tom]

Interesting facts in there, so many people think racism is behind us but the first Republican black member of SC legislature since reconstruction was elected 2 years ago ??

 

[highland145]

Interesting facts in there, so many people think racism is behind us but the first Republican black member of SC legislature since reconstruction was elected 2 years ago ??

That's because they are democrats. Very few black repubs in S.C.

 

[umbrella39]

Racist OP is racist. Who cares what race/color they are if they are qualified and elected. It is funny to watch all the usual suspects showing up in this thread and tripping over themselves to proclaim them non-racist! Pay attention to what is in this hand and ignore all you see behind you kind of convincing stuff. Well done and as usual, woefully transparent and pathetic.

PS When you use words like Marxocrats, you become a mongoloid OP.

 

[oslama]

Haley and Gindal changed their names and their religion in order to pursue their political ambitions.

This sends a wrong message to the ethnic and religious minorities. The only way to get into the mainstream of American politics is to change your name and religion.

 

[cubby1223]

These candidates are just plants, to divert us from the TEA Party's real hidden agenda of purging this country of everyone who isn't an old white male.

 

[CallMeJoe]

Haley and Gindal changed their names and their religion in order to pursue their political ambitions.
This sends a wrong message to the ethnic and religious minorities. The only way to get into the mainstream of American politics is to change your name and religion.

1) Her given middle name is Nikki.
2) Her surname and religion were adopted when she married. This religious conversion is not uncommon, especially when marrying into a devoutly Christian family in the South.
3) Jindal.
4) He was nicknamed "Bobby" as a child; was he already planning to sell out his race for political gain?
5) He converted to Catholicism in high school. See previous point.

 

[Double Trouble]

1) Her given middle name is Nikki.
2) Her surname and religion were adopted when she married. This religious conversion is not uncommon, especially when marrying into a devoutly Christian family in the South.
3) Jindal.
4) He was nicknamed "Bobby" as a child; was he already planning to sell out his race for political gain?
5) He converted to Catholicism in high school. See previous point.

Don't bring logic into this. He knew as a child that some day he wanted to be in politics and knew that racist americans would never elect him (or some guy named Barack)... so he changed his name at the age of 7

 

[Lemon law]

No one ever said, as South Carolina goes, so goes the nation.

And given some past elected officials from South Carolina, that set of tea baggers candidates almost look good by comparison.

But right now about the biggest idiot in the nation is a fellow named Dick Armey who helped the tea bagger movement get started and provided funding. The Armey dream was that the Tbag movement would mainly consist of a bunch of grass root bumpkin characters willing to call the democrats nasty names so no responsible republican would have to be held accountable for their inclusion into the partisan fray.

But it all sort of got all out of control when The Tea bag movement started running their own slate of candidates. And when the GOP vote is split between mainstream GOP candidates and T-baggers, or the TBaggers force the GOP to run a candidate only from the far right of the GOP, it becomes a golden opportunity for the democrats to win general elections they normally would not. So far the results have been mixed, but its something political observers will watch in South Carolina and other States.

The other unasked question, since the Tea Bag movement has no real organization, can it ever get on the automatic ballot as an organized party and will it stay as a national force past 2010?

 

[NoStateofMind]

Wait a minute! Teabaggers are racist, so this can't be true.

They are, which is why this must be propaganda!~

 

[Moonbeam]

I worry that the tea baggers will be America's last hurray. What hope is there if even rage can't change things? And when rage peters out we will be left with impotents and exhaustion.

The sheep will crawl back under their rocks fleeced and shorn.