28 July 2010, 9:36 am
Any political party can ride ‘Crazy Train’ Floyd, Knotts, Greene: SC embarrassments By Austin Jackson The Daily Gamecock Third-year political science student Published: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 Updated: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 Austin Jackson The Daily Gamecock Chaos has taken control of South Carolina politics.State Rep. Nikki Haley took something that would usually immediately sink a politician — accusations of an affair — and instead turned around to beat out U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett in the GOP primary runoff with over 60 percent of the vote. Not only did state Sen. Jake Knotts of Lexington manage to paint his party’s gubernatorial nominee with the same brush “birthers” use to paint President Obama, he dared attempt to redefine the meaning of “redneck” on the floor of the South Carolina Senate. Knotts then claimed no one came to his defense when he was called a redneck and stated he is proud to be one. This summer has proven that the crazy train does not discriminate by political party. Take USC alumnus Alvin Greene — the only man I have ever heard of to win a major party nomination for federal office by sitting at home. Many aspects of that election continue to be suspect, for example the fact that we use voting machines without a paper trail that have been banned in some states. Since the South Carolina Democratic Party executive committee did not find enough fraudulent votes to disqualify Greene from the general election ballot, voters need to be reminded Greene that is not the head of the state Democratic ticket; gubernatorial nominee Sen. Vincent Sheheen is. Despite this fact, GOP operatives, from Chairwoman Karen Floyd down, continue to misidentify the state Democratic ticket by promoting a nonexistent “Greene-Sheheen” ticket. According to sources within the SCDP and Sheheen himself, the latter has never met Greene and does not plan to campaign with him. However, the evidence linking Haley to Gov. Sanford is extensive. The same day Floyd let loose the “Greene-Sheheen” lie at the “unity rally,” she also presented a national debt clock that the SCGOP insists is due to that straw man argument of “liberal” spending—complete with photos that created straw-man arguments of the president, U.S. Rep. John Spratt, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sheheen. While it’s known that neither Sheheen nor Spratt are liberals (and progressives often say that the president is not liberal enough), the national debt did not just come into fruition on Jan. 20, 2009. This nation was fighting two wars, had bailed out banks a month before the 2008 election and put a prescription drug benefit on the nation’s credit card. Shall I mention the Bush tax cuts... Read More »
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