The State newspaper, FITS News also BIG Election Day losers

For months The State newspaper had been feeding Democrat Vincent Sheheen's campaign issues

with which to attack Gov. Nikki Haley.

Th anti-Republican gossip website FITS News also took many of the same issues, and tried to destroy Haley.

Fortunately, The State and FITS came out losers in the end. And hopefully it has damaged the credibility of each in their attempts to influence future political matters.

The State's liberal, but denying it, columnist Cindi Ross Scoppe hammered Haley and slobbered over Sheheen.

In July, it was almost laughable how The State made an urgent crisis, front-page issue of rain water running off into the ocean at Myrtle Beach. And dutifully, in synched concert, Sheheen immediately promised $10 million for drains to Horry County, that he desperately needed to win.

And of course The State politicized the horrible act of bad people hurting children that the SC Department of Social Services was assigned. The State tried to put Haley's face in place of the child abusers, in hopes voters would reject her.

Then there was the droning on and on about “Ethics Reform.” Ethics reform pleas are nothing but another tool used to attack Republicans and a system that has rendered Democrats unfit for statewide elected office.

Sure some oversight processes need to be changed, but the rules that are in place now have snagged some big Republican fish, including former House Speaker Bobby Harrell and former Lt. Gov. Ken Ard.

Give “ethics” crusaders more power, and you'll just see more Republicans taken out. “Ethics” talk was more a campaign weapon for Democrats than a legitimate need.

Scoppe was one of the constant whiners about ethics. She also attacked Haley as lawless.

But Scoppe also derided South Carolinians for not wanting to pay more tax and for seeking education reform that would make public schools more accountable, among her other blatantly leftwing causes.

The State was also quick to attack Haley on jobs numbers, campaign funding and the newspaper turned just about any positive into a negative.

While The State was at least partially cunning in its exaltation of Sheheen and assault on Haley, FITS News was clumsily overt and obvious.

FITS News is an alleged “News” website that is thick on gossip and lacking in professionalism, and polish. FITS pummeled Haley, and almost all Republicans, saying the same things The State said, but with much less tact or cover.

What is most pertinent about the media's vilification of the GOP is that it did not work. In fact, the Republicans won with bigger margins and more support than ever.

Let's hope 2014 is a point in modern politics at which establishment media sources have become irrelevant, except for a mirror of leftwing ideology.

While elected Republicans can rejoice at a chance to address some of the mess made by Democrats on a federal level, we can also celebrate the lessening impact of a once influential Industrial Media Complex that is now laid low.