Sheheen needs a magic pill, grasps at beach water

Vincent Sheheen, a candidate in search of a knock-out issue

So far, one-time loser Vincent Sheheen has attacked Gov. Nikki Haley with Data Breach, Ethics Reform, DSS and anything else he can try to make walk.

He needs an issue to knock her down. He needs a magic pill. 

The National Democrat Party has given Sheheen nothing but negative baggage to shoulder. He has to find a gimmick issue.  

Sheheen, a well-connected, well-paid lawyer and state senator from Lugoff, is following a pattern of ripping and reading from the headlines of the establishment media.

Sheheen says, if elected, he can be counted on to spend millions in state taxpayer money to remove drain pipes and credit himself with improving water quality at Myrtle Beach.

The State newspaper dutifully rewarded Sheheen, with a front-page headline today: “SC must fight bacterial pollution.” 

During a top vacation week in South Carolina, July 5, The State newspaper ran a sensational, front-page, over-the-top ALERT.

The State, with scant sourcing, contends that rainwater run-off at a few spots of the 60-mile Grand Strand, is causing a danger with high bacteria levels in beach water. The spots where run-off pipes are, have warning signs beside them.

Media Scares Tourists with Sensational Alert!

Like Data Breach, there has been no outcry from the public and no victim was cited. But who does not hate bacteria in swimming water? 

And Myrtle Beach is the money-maker, in an otherwise miserable Obama economy. South Carolina hauls in more than $17 billion a year from tourists.

But Sheheen has to be betting that a promise to dump money on the beach will give him a win in Horry County. Myrtle Beach has its share of “anything-goes” Liberal-Tarians (different from Libertarians.) They like the profit of free-enterprise espoused by fiscal Conservatives, but are susceptible to liberal causes, if it sounds hip, and can be co-opted to benefit them individually.

Who knows if Sheheen's latest media-manufactured issue will pan out?

So far, there has not been a victim of data breach. But give the media time (closer to November) and some will likely materialize. Some Beach Bacteria victims may surface, too.

The tragedies at DSS are just too much of a stretch to blame on Haley, as Sheheen has attempted. And people just don't care about Ethics reform as much as the media. Just follow the laws that exist.
Voters could see ethics reform demands as a scheme to give the media more traps to ensnare Republicans. That leaves Sheheen desperately looking for an issue. Watch the headlines in the establishment media. It will likely tip you off to what the Sheheen Campaign will do next.