Haley ascends and increases chance for Gov. Henry McMaster?

Never will the opportunity be greater than it is right now
for Haley. And McMaster has a reason to be smiling.
(Haley Campaign Facebook photo)

When asked about her plans of accepting a higher (national) office, Gov. Nikki Haley will not answer. 

She said she is focused on the the present. And that leaves the door wide open for the young and attractive Haley to move up.

Haley is coming off of a highly successful re-election campaign. She was sent back to the Governor's Mansion by a 15-point margin.

On top of that, Republicans across the country are soaring. The GOP is seeing a diversity of African-Americans, women and “Repsect-for-America” enthusiasts rising, at a time when the country most needs them.

Setting the course

And Haley, by almost magically separating from a field of seasoned men in 2010, set herself on a course that has no ceiling. She has made the right moves afterward.

Example: the media saw Haley's 2014 decision to direct millions more for poor schools as a campaign ploy to thwart Democrat opponent Vincent Sheheen. It was much more than that.

As a national candidate, Haley can point to her focus on the least-achieving, most-needy students as a calling card. Extending a hand to the struggling, as Haley has done to welfare recipients, shields her from attacks that rich Republicans don't care. And though the media is quick to call her a Lexington Republican, Haley grew up, the child of immigrants, in Bamberg, one of the most impoverished sections of the state. Talk about “street cred.”

And then there is economic development

At a time when there is no real job growth nationally, South Carolina landed Amazon and Nephron Pharmaceuticals in Lexington County. 

In addition to that, several tire manufacturers, among other industries, announced the moving of thousands of jobs to South Carolina during Haley's first term.

Employment, or the economy, is THE NO. 1 issue in what has been a depressing six years.

That being said, Haley, with SC Attorney General Alan Wilson, wrested Boeing jobs that an overreaching and callous Obama Administration wanted to steal for his special interest union cronies. Haley fought the fed and won.

National recognition

Because of her maneuvering as governor, Haley is mentioned as an ascending star by the most-influential of Conservative radio talk show hosts.

The much-vilified talk-radio community is hated by the left, and the establishment, because it has the truest understanding of which Republican candidates can actually win big on a national level.

Fundraising

As a fundraiser, Haley has outgrown tiny South Carolina. Because of her attractiveness as a national candidate, she draws dollars from sources all over the country. Haley is so effective at gaining contributions, it has been one of the media's criticisms against her.

GOP upward and onward

Also in Haley's favor, the GOP, on a federal level, seems to be getting it. It has wasted no time since the monumental Nov. 4, election wins, telling an unpopular President Barack Obama what the people want Congress to tell him.

Expect Republicans to offer solution after solution to Obama. And regardless of what Obama does, Republicans will look like the refreshing answer to Obama's years and years of malaise that has infected the country. It's a simple strategy, hard to mishandle, and not complex enough for the media to pervert the message.

The GOP is set to be in great shape in 2016, and Haley, as an experienced and popular executive in a Conservative state, is in prime position to ride the crest of that wave.

Before the end of the next four years, expect a Gov. Henry McMaster in South Carolina. Chances are not high that Haley will finish her second term as governor.

Would Gamecocks defensive resurgence save staff's jobs?

Under no circumstances should
defensive coaches be retained.

It may be hard to admit as a Gamecock fan, but did it cross your mind - as that game ticked down - that a win versus Tennessee may save the defensive coaching staff's jobs?

But what if the defense did not collapse and SC held on and beat the Vols.

All fans, sometimes have to be against in a convoluted way to be for ultimate improvement. 

That said: the SC defensive coaching staff removed all doubt. 

And not to be harsh, because all of South Catalina's assistant defensive coaches will find employment, after they are let go at the end of 2014.

But would we be patting the defensive coaches on the back with a Tennessee win, telling them to squeeze by for a couple more wins, and all would be well?

Truth is: to keep the SC defensive staff would just prolong what has been a disaster.

Even if the Gamecocks would have some how sneaked by and defeated Tennessee, you have to believe the defensive play was so bad, it would not have been enough to save the defensive coaching staff.

South Carolina fans are now put in a position to pull for a win, but not any semblance of resurgent defense.

If I'm Head Coach Steve Spurrier the die has been cast. The pink slip is in stone. There would be nothing that could change my mind about the defensive coaching staff's dismissal.

The defense has been so inept, there is not an excuse, or a comeback large enough to save its jobs.

After three hideous, stomach-punch collapses, along with soft play on D for years, there is no question a change has to be made.

Let's hope the Gamecocks can win the last three. But because of the defense, there is not much hope of that. Should the improbable happen, let's consider it payback for the games the defense has blown and call it even, no hard feelings.

But under no circumstances should any defensive coach be retained. Regardless of a miracle, or not.

State newspaper totally lost trying to explain Haley's win

S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley obliterated Democrat Vincent Sheheen because she rejected the polcies of

President Barack Obama. Sheheen lost because could not mention Obama – for or against. If Sheheen would have attacked the miserably failed Obama Administration, the bulk of Democrat voters, African Americans, would have turned on him. If Sheheen would have embraced the very unpopular president, he would have alienated a majority of pro-progress voters. Sheheen's campaign was one of attack only, without much substance. He had no choice, or much of a chance.

But Haley had lots to brag about. Haley was able to protect the state from Obama's labor deptarment trying to block Boeing jobs in South Carolina. She also rejected a plan to expand Medicaid by $11 billion that the state would eventually have to pay for. And Haley defeated the federal government, pushing voter-integrity laws. And the fight to uphold the voters' will regarding the redefining of marriage by the homosexual lobby helped her, too.

The State newspaper was a big supporter of Sheheen's, often transferring his campaign message to its front page. But here's how The State newspaper is coping with the loss of the Democrat .

 The State said Haley won by “Cranking up the money machine” saying: “years of handshakes and speeches paid off in 2014.”

 The State said Haley stole an issue from Democrats when she “unveiled an education initiative that included more reading coaches, new technology and more state money for poorer schools.”

The State accuses Haley of “Attacking early and often” and running “ads slamming Sheheen began airing before St. Patrick’s Day.”

 The State says we have a good economy and said Haley benefited from “The economy’s good timing.” with ads touting “the state’s improving economy.”

And this next one may be The State at its most delusional. The newspaper said Haley won because of “Not getting S.C. Chamber of Commerce endorsement.” That's laughable. The endorsement may not have helped, but it certainly did not lead to Sheheen's losing.

More South Carolina losers in Nov. 4 election

Tom Ervin. This Democrat
thought he could buy votes.
It was a $4 million ego trip
that likely did more damage
to his ego than good.

Can't buy me love!

Petition candidate for governor Tom Ervin got .92 percent (less than one percent) of the vote in last Tuesday's election.

While many in the public have an idea that you can buy elected office, Ervin's run for Governor would dispel that myth.

Ervin, a rich trial lawyer, spent more than $4 million. The self-called “Independent Republican” bashed Republican Gov. Nikki Haley incessantly. Ervin finally quit a week before the election and revealed his true colors, as many suspected all along. Ervin endorsed fellow Democrat Vincent Sheheen.

Democrat loses ground

In 2010, Haley defeated Sheheen 51 to 47 percent. In 2014 she took 56 percent of the electorate and Sheheen 41 percent. That is a rout, a shellacking and a landslide. 

What happened since 2010? The  Democrat Party ruled on a federal level and obviously  damaged the brand substantially. 

The whipping has Democrat Party mouthpiece, The State newspaper, moralized, surmising that it could take a decade to recover from this beating. Truth is: it may just take getting in touch with REAL South Carolinians, instead of pandering to more-and-more absurd special interests. 

Jenny Sanford's charcoal touch

Another loser last Tuesday was Jenny Sanford, and the woman she shot an ambiguous bash “Mark” commercial for. Sanford is the wife of former Liberal-Tarian Gov. Mark Sanford. And the Sanfords have been feuding publicly for a couple of years. Both carry themselves as elitists, but are a bit trashy and tacky of late. 

Democrat S.C. Secretary of State candidate Ginny Deerin became a cause-celeb of the media, and she was considered a real upset chance. Reality: Derrin got 40 percent of the vote after the Democrat embraced by Jenny Sanford.

Sanford seems to have the charcoal touch, everything she touches crashes and burns.

Lexington County

Lexington County shot down a county-council backed penny sales tax increase that would have cost voters more than $300 million over eight years. The vote against was 70-to-30. 
Lexington County Council, which claims to be Republican spent more than $450,000 to push the tax. You have to wonder if some of the council members may now have targets on their backs for de-election, the next time around. It was a big loss for tax-and-spenders claiming to be Republicans, but acting like Democrats. 
A $225 million facilities upgrade bond referendum passed in Lexington School District 2. That district covers Cayce, West Columbia and Springdale. Seems voters trust Lexington 2 more than they trust county Council. 
In Lexington County, the most Conservative-voting, Haley got 64 percent of the vote to Sheheen's 32 percent. Lexington County had 65 percent of its voters, vote a straight GOP ticket.

Beatdown of white Fersuson protester spells Democrat disaster?

Rioters are not likely to accept the truth
very well. When the officer is exonerated
because he defended himself,  expect more
violence from groups who have been told
 they are right by the Obama Administration

African-American protesters in Ferguson Mo. turned on one of their own Thursday night.

Chris Schaefer was chased from  Greater St. Mark Missionary Church near St. Louis and beaten so severely he had to be transported to the hospital for treatment.

What did Schaefer do wrong? He was white!

Schaefer was at a meeting helping plan protest attacks in response to an innocent finding related to Police Officer Darren Wilson.

Wilson defended himself against Michael Brown in the August shooting case in Ferguson. Reaction to that incident has already cause extensive damage from rioters. And members of the Obama Administration have inserted themselves into the war, and emboldened violent protesters, pitting blacks against whites.

Thanks to Obama's AG, Eric Holder, Ferguson protesters in the African-American community have all been assured that Wilson was guilty, and Brown did not attack and assault Wilson. But the evidence seems to indicate Brown, who had a criminal record, was the aggressor, and Wilson was just defending himself.

If Democrat politics are reduced to blatant hatred of whites, based solely on skin color, could it totally doom the party to one of race only?

If leftwing black political activists will beat a man because he is white, even when he is trying to help them, it does not bode well for the unity of the various political special interest groups that make up the Democrat Party.

To beat your would-be own based on race, could rip the party apart. 

An obligation to fight gay propaganda for protection of our children

The pro-homosexual movement is
about much more than just marriage. 

The State newspaper's headlines – along with much of media - are filled with aggressive, pro-

homosexual confrontations.

On Saturday, The State proclaims: “Non-profit says SC gay marriage ban hurts kids” and another headline reads: “Haley, Wilson file motion to stop gay couple from marrying in Charleston.”

Though no one is reporting it, we must strongly back our leaders' effort to limit the homosexual community's move on our culture.

Opposition to the promotion of homosexuality has more to do with the protection of children than it has to do with discrimination against a Democrat constituent gaggle, like the gay movement is.

But if you look at the comment sections of any news story about the gay movement, proponents of the that lifestyle are legion, attacking anyone who may advise caution.

And why do we practice caution? Gay proponents demand that we cannot tell them “Who to love.” We have no right to tell them “Who to Marry.”

The reality of the situation is that they can love anyone they want, already. And they can marry without restriction. As far as civil rights, gays are, and should be, entitled to all civil rights that any other American is entitled. No one is telling gays who to love or marry. Their civil rights are as solid as any. But the government should not be forced to sanction their unions, especially when the people (voters) are solidly against redefining marriage. 

The current gay movement is really an aggressive action that redefines marriage based on sexual preference. Changing the structure of the institution of marriage should not be granted to a political special interest group that identifies itself based on its sexual habits.

And there are other reasons to resist the onslaught of the well-funded Gay Lobby.

Resisting the expansion of the gay culture is protecting our children.

“Research confirms that homosexuals molest children at a rate vastly higher than

heterosexuals, and the mainstream homosexual culture commonly promotes sex with children,” writes author Steve Baldwin, a former California State Assemblyman and author.

Baldwin's study link: Homosexual inundation is not good for children

Baldwin has complied a mountain of data and research that exposes a move in the homosexual community to promote more (legalized) sex between adults and children.

In addition to Baldwin's study, radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger presented a report on her show that revealed more than 70 percent of gay men said they were molested by an adult before age 10.

Baldwin's study also contains an expose of a Los Angeles gay-based children's “help” agency that took in street children, and eventually had sex with them. The director of this group found nothing wrong with adults and the vulnerable children being involved in sexual relationships.

There is much more documented data in Baldwin's report that the media ignores.

The bottom line is that the gay culture is not good for children, and it does not have the interest of helping children develop healthily.

And with a country that is in moral chaos, we can least afford for the violation of our children right now. Allowing our children to be used by dishonest people is something we should never accept.

It is the obligation of all of us to stand up against this onslaught, no matter how offensive the opposition is. The future of our culture depends on it. 

Could demographics foil Democrats' future

Even some on the right are saying the demographics of the future do not favor the GOP.

Mostly because older Americans, those who are wiser, with more experience in reality, vote for Republicans.

If you are using age as a determiner, you'd have to assume the older voters will die off, and the younger, less responsible, who now vote Democrat, will stay uninformed.

But many current Democrat voters will grow older, just like the 20-somethings of the 1980s are 50-something Republican voters now, and that much smarter.

Not only is the maturing of voters an advantage for Republicans, experience will be a benefit, if the Republican House, Senate and others in state and municipalities follow the freedom-based platform of the GOP.

It's fine to camp out, get drunk, and smoke pot with Occupy deadbeats when you're young, but anyone past age 30 has to see those modern-day beatniks for the ne’er do wells they are. Who wants to live like that?

And another thing: Obama's criminal-level pandering to Hispanics could cause a schism with monolithic Democrat voters in the Black community.

Should the Democrat Party bleed an substantial amount of Black voters, while the GOP appeals to the most-responsible segment of Hispanic voters, there is the opportunity to turn Obama's illegal immigration scheme on him.

That's not an endorsement of amnesty, just a path that may garner more votes in a part of the population that Democrats think they own. See Texas Hispanic voting patterns for an example.

When a party, as the Democrats have, build a coalition of self-centered special interests, just one perceived double-cross of those voters can send their house toppling.

On the other hand, Republican voters, by nature, are secure, solid, mature and nation-minded. The party is a lot less susceptible to fissures based on the rationing of largess.

Republican voters are far more likely to be givers who want government to leave them alone, not takers who look to a less-and-less competent government for empowerment.

Because of that, the GOP could be in good shape as the future unfolds.    

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.

Homosexual voters are overwhelmingly Democrat

A bullying court system has imposed its definition of
marriage over the law. Will there be a turn with full
repudiation of leftwing political special interest groups? 

The homosexual community exposes itself as a partisan political special interest group.

An expose on CNSNews.com revealed that four percent of voters in Tuesday’s election identified themselves as "gay, lesbian or bisexual."

That revelation comes from a CNN exit poll. CNN questioned voters immediately after they had exited the voting booth. Included among the questions was: "Are you gay, lesbian or bisexual?"
About 76 percent said they had voted Democrat.

Of the other straight voters, 53 percent voted Republican, while 45 percent voted Democrat. Another two percent voted “other.”
The more balanced breakdown of straight voters is an indication that heterosexuals are more open-minded and less partisan than homosexual voters. 

With such a lopsided favoring of Democrats by homosexuals, it remains to be seen if the well-financed gay lobby will be blocked from much of the pandering and special considerations it has received. With so much one-sided power of Democrats in the last six years, gays have been exalted above other Americans.

Hopefully, after the election, the focus will be for more justice for ALL Americans, with less emphasis placed on leftwing special interests. 

The GOP will be judged on REJECTING Obama, not gridlock!

In South Carolina, Gov. Nikki Haley was re-elected because she fought leftwing Democrat President

Barack Obama.

Obama tried to impose more socialized medicine, take our jobs for unions and block SC's voter integrity laws. Haley fought Obama, with SC AG Alan Wilson, on every front, and won.

Haley's opponent, Vincent Sheheen, along with his media supporters, dodged Obama as if Obama had Ebola.

But all the while, Obama was the 10,000-pound elephant in the room, stomping the S.C. Donkey.

So now, as we digest the the historical 2014 losses for Democrats, media pundits are telling us GRIDLOCK is what voters oppose.

The media is saying the GOP now has the obligation to compromise with Obama to “get something done.” That would be laughable if it was not so ignorance-based.

What people want is a Congress that will oppose Obama like Haley has.

We want an assault on Obamacare. We want the Keystone Pipeline approved, so the terrorists who blackmail us with crude will realize we're serious about affordable energy independence.

We want an economy that is on fire with optimism, opportunity and jobs.

By cutting taxes, and encouraging earners and producers to invest, the depression that has persisted since late 2008 will turn to hope and enthusiasm.

Voters do want gridlock. They want to gridlock more socialized medicine schemes. They want to block government regulation that sends the cost of fossil fuels skyrocketing. And they want to stamp out tax increases and the punishment of entrepreneurs.

We want to GRIDLOCK failure and isolate it to the Democrat Party.   

Democrats, media, whine about low turnout, after uplifting election result

Liberals are whining about low turnout. 

Liberal media struggles to cope with rejection

Democrats are trying to throw cold water on a sizzling hot and exciting Election Day 2014, that saw a total rejection of Democrats and failed liberal policies.

The media is lamenting that not enough voters participated as a source for sorrow.

In a similarly absurd proclamation, Wednesday, President Barack Obama, in a news conference said: He is listening to the people WHO DID NOT VOTE. 

 WHAT? Maybe he needs to consider the apathetic have lost all hope in him and his failed promises. 

Here's what The State newspaper said:

“Voter turnout for Tuesday’s midterm election was the lowest in at least 40 years for an S.C. general election,”

Also from The State: “It’s an obvious indicator of apathy regarding this election,” said Winthrop University political scientist Scott Huffmon.

None of the top candidates made the election super exciting, Huffmon said. Democrats didn’t have President Barack Obama at the top of the ticket and Republicans didn’t have Obama to vote against, he said.

Republicans swept statewide races against their Democratic opponents by margins ranging from 14.5 percentage points in the governor’s race to 24 percentage points in Tim Scott’s historic U.S. Senate race.

What Huffmon is really saying is that Democrats have lost hope. After having a messiah type president given two terms based on Utopian promises, the country is as depressed as it has been since 1980 - the last year of the last worst president.

Low turnout complaining is just a smokescreen for liberals – the media – to attack GOP voters.

Truth is Conservative voters are as enthusiastic as ever with the election result.

Maybe there is light at the end of this dark and depressing tunnel we entered in November 2008.

Maybe with true, pro-American leaders in the US Senate and House, we can shake off the chains of  oppressive, failed government.

Maybe we can restore more enterprise, freedom and life into this listless nation.

We may not have had high voter turnout, but those motivated enough to come out got it right for the people of this country. That is what matters.

Let the media wrap itself in a wet blanket with Obama and the Democrats. As for me and my house, I will celebrate and pray we can spring from these great election results, and help heal this ailing nation.

For people who want prosperity for their family, and fellow American, there is a boldness and excitement, regardless of how it came to us. The result is important, while low turnout is irrelevant.

Religion of Liberalism rejected by voters

The GOP must be bold and courageous to heal
 this damaged nation, and clean up the mess
made by the Democrat Party and the Liberalites.  

Make no mistake about it. A majority of American voters drove a stake through the heart of

Liberalism on Election Day 2014.

The Republican Party picked up at least seven U.S. Senate seats and could end up with as many as nine. The US. House, already controlled by the GOP, added at least 13 seats. Republicans will have at least 246 House seats, its largest majority since World War II.

The balance of power has shifted. Instead of holding an advantage it used to bully, the Democrat Party was smacked down. And the Democrats can thank no one but liberals for their total rejection by voters. It is a fate that is well-deserved.

Liberalism – as we found out in six years of President Barack Obama - is a religion of hate.

It is a system of confusion and disorder. Upside must be turned down.

The Church of Liberalism thrives when: recipient hates worker; homosexual hates family; woman hates man; Liberalite hates Christian; black hates white; young hates old; chaos hates order; union hates management; dark hates light; poor hates successful and Democrat hates Republican.

Liberalism has its own mythology with stories used to demonize its political enemies, based on race, gender and class warfare.

Fables of Liberalites - like Ferguson or global warming- are propaganda pushed by Hollywood, news media, pop culture TV and literature.

The doctrine of Liberalism is based in lies. And when the lies are exposed through action, it leaves the Democrat Party naked to the people. That's what happened on Nov. 4, 2014.

Irrational, unprovoked and wanton hate – as practiced by Liberals - is a sin. The wage of sin is death. And the Democrat party faced the consequence for its sin on Tuesday. Let's hope it is even worse for them in 2016.

Hate - or Liberalism - should be stamped out. Liberalism has resulted in unemployed, suffering and needy Americans. Liberal hate has closed food bank doors in Columbia. It has caused the price of gasoline to rise more than a dollar a gallon for at least the last six years. It means taking your child to the doctor costs you insurance, and full payment, before you leave the office.

Liberalism cares not that the price of food is so high, parents have to cut back on what they can feed their children. All that matters to Liberalites is forcing its policies to punish those who they envy and loathe.

Now that their deeds have caught up with them, it is the obligation of the persecuted to make sure voters know there is resistance to the hideous religion of Liberalism. We must stand up to our enemy with courage and resolve. Because if we do not offer light, the people who trusted Republican leaders will feel lost and abandoned by their country. We have had too much that. We cannot afford any more poor and failed leadership. The last six years has been bad enough. We desperately need some relief. We need some true hope.

Democrats take historically brutal beating

JONI WINS IN IOWA
ROBERTS STAYS IN KS
PERDUE TAKES GA
REPUBLICANS TAKE CONGRESS
+7 SENATE
SCOTT WALKER STAYS
CRIST LOSER

Republicans delivered some big blows in elections on Tuesday, picking up victories in Kentucky, West Virginia and Arkansas in their drive to control the Senate and dramatically tip the balance of power away from President Barack Obama and his Democrats

GOP's Tom Cotton Ousts Incumbent Sen. Mark Pryor in Arkansas

Republican Mike Rounds Wins S.D. Senate Seat

Lamar Alexander, Thad Cochran Retain Senate Seats

Report: McConnell Voters Had GOP Senate Control in Mind

McConnell: I'll Work With White House, 'Restore Hope'

GOP's Capito Takes West Virginia Senate Seat

Republican Cory Gardner Wins Senate Seat in Colorado

Republican Steve Daines Wins Montana Senate Race

Voters reject penny tax in Lexington County

In a loud NO to new taxes, Lexington County voters rejected a move by Lexington County Council

for a penny sales tax.

The NO vote for the tax was 70 percent to 30 percent for it. Many big spenders got behind the tax, but the people drowned out the well-financed pro-tax campaign.

Bill Banning, a former Lexington County Councilman lost his council seat to anti-tax candidate Ned Tolar, who was elected to council with no opposition, Tuesday.

The NO vote was 36,441 to 15,482 with 75 percent of the county's precincts reporting.  

The loss comes after the big-hitters of local media, including The State newspaper, promoted the additional tax, that would have cost taxpayers about $400 million over eight years. 

Republicans Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham re-elected

South Carolina voters elected Republican Tim Scott to the U.S. Senate, making him the first black candidate to win a statewide race since just after the Civil War.

Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham was also re-elected to a third term.

Scott and Graham were declared winners after the polls closed based on exit poll data.

Haley beats Sheheen in governor's race

Haley re-elected. Democrat Sheheen hurt by rejection
of Democrat Brand. 

The Associated Press has already  declared that S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley has been re-elected.

The AP based its projected win by Haley on exit polling,
The AP did not give a percentage, but said the margin was higher than the 4.5 percentage margin in 2010.
The AP also complained that a percentage of Haley's campaign fund of $8 million came from "out-of-state" donors.

Tom Brokaw is the epitome of conventional ignorance

It's humorous to see the ways Democrats rationalize their rejection

Liberal Tom Brokaw is in a bad mood as
voters seem poised to reject Obama and
failed Democrat policies.
(Newsbuters.org photo)

Former network news anchor Tom Brokaw offers a political minute commentary on WVOC,

Columbia's Conservative news and talk radio outlet. WVOC carries Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

Brokaw, in the station's concession to liberalism, whines that “all indications are that Americans are ticked off and ready to blame president Obama,” when they voted today.

Brokaw laments that voters are voting more against Obama, than for something. But the truth is, Americans are voting for healing and economic recovery. We know that is not going to happen with Obama. 

Brokaw seems irritated that voters are rejecting Obama. He does not mention that Obama has earned repudiation from the people more than any candidate in recent memory.

Brokaw also bemoans the fact that wound-licking Democrats will immediately begin trying to win the 2016 White House, so NOTHING will get done.

If no dangerous Democrat policy, like Obamacare, or a tax to pay for global warming, is passed Americans will stand and cheer when Congress does nothing.

What is laughable about Brokaw's complaining; he immediately attacked the Tea Party as the bigger loser than Obama.

I guess liberals – after they accept their failure – have to find a villain, other than the demons they have been riding for the last six years.

The Tea Party will be fine in its mission to pull Republicans to the right. Just because you don't win a primary, does not mean the Tea Party has no influence.

And that is exactly what makes Brokaw, and other leftwing media tools mad.

Republicans are being elected to oppose Obama. As long as they do that, and counter him with sound policy, Republicans will grow in power and lots will get done. But I doubt Brokaw - or any other liberal - will like any of it.  

Spurrier to stay with Gamecocks, expect purge of defensive coaches

For Steve Spurrier: “The plan is to definitely be back here and so forth,” Spurrier said according to

Spurrier will be back next year, full
of enthusiasm. Proving critics wrong
is what he lives for. 

Josh Kendall of The State newspaper.

But Spurrier refused to address the future of his assistant coaches, including Defensive Coordinator Lorenzo Ward, D-line Coach Deke Adams, LB Coach Kurt Botkin and Secondary Coach Grady Brown.

Spurrier said of the question about the future: “If it’s got anything to do with coaches coming back next year, me coming back next year, I am just going to refrain from all of that. Let’s get through this season here and see where we are all at is probably the smartest thing for all of us to do right now.”

Spurrier is no doubt at the lowest point he can be at this year. Maybe his team -including the offense -folds at this point. Because no matter what the offense does, the defense will lose the game.

It's as if the defense has put money on its opponent, and is trying to lose games on purpose. It cannot get any more inept or incompetent, if it tried. And the defensive coaching staff has totally failed in making any move to correct the futility. That is the trait of a lost coaching staff, when no improvement is made.

Once the pain and ugliness has been digested, Spurrier has come too far to quit now. No matter who he chooses to replace Ward and Co., those coaches will be (have to) be better.

There is the foundation that Spurrier has built at SC. Bad coaching hires have shaken that foundation, but not to the point Spurrier will not get invigorated for one more try. Once he has purged his program of its ailments, things will look much better.

Let's bet Spurrier embraces the challenge of proving he can move his guys back to where they were before the program was damaged by a lack of coaching talent on the defensive side of the ball.

Spurrier will be back and he will be good again.

America disgusted with Democrat disaster

From the Drudge Report, here are some of the national news headlines on Election Day, Nov. 4, 2014.

Republicans sense power shift; Dems rev up damage control...

WASH POST: 97% CHANCE GOP TAKES SENATE... CNN 95% NYT: 70%

PAPER: Where did O go wrong?

NYT: Irate Electorate...

Most ads on Obamacare...

GA Dem Refuses to Say If Would Have Voted For Law -- Again...

VIDEO: SCOTT BROWN'S FINAL PITCH...

REPORT: Shaheen Conspired With White House Insider On IRS Targeting Scandal...

Law Enforcement Give Dire Warning: Obama's Exec Amnesty Will Unleash 'Tidal Wave' of Illegals...

WH Strategist: Dems Running from President 'Look Like Chickensh*t'...

Guide to What to Watch for on Election Night...

Harry Reid's fateful evening...

30 year old Republican set to be youngest congresswoman in history...

Will rejection of liberalism turn struggling economy positive?

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Can the rejection of Obama and the horrible Democrat economic policy experiment boost our hope and optimism?

Republicans are expected to rout the Democrats in today's elections.

Many hopes rode on the defeat of Barack Obama in 2012.

As disbelieving Americans sat and absorbed the pain of Obama's re-election, it was not animosity for our fellow Americans that had us down. We feared for the economic future of our country. That fear was justified.

If we could have defeated Obama in 2012, we would have had a two-year jump on healing the miserable economy he has delivered.

Obama's war on fossil fuels, powered by the Global Warming myth makers, has all but criminalized coal and crude. His dislike for – and regulation of - nuclear has resulted in billions more in costs to build reactors. Exponentially higher costs for energy drive up the price of everything, including household maintenance.

Families have seen declining incomes, layoffs and they've seen full-time jobs turn into partial employment, under Obama.

And just when Americans were learning to scrimp by on little or nothing, Obamacare kicked in, and health insurance premiums skyrocketed and deductibles doubled. The costs have been a punch in the gut.

And with declining revenues pouring into states and local governments because of the poor economy, the move to burden our people with more taxes has increased.

There is no good economic news, despite what Obama's media minions preach or government-manufactured data tells you.

It's a bad economy.

The question is: Will our country begin to rebound if we come to the realization that Democrat economic policy is a failure?

Will most voters now understand that liberal economic policy - that must have the taker hate the producer – is backward. With wealth-producers being attacked, there is no one to pay the bills.

Let's get behind the doers in the country, instead of attacking accomplishment and success as evil.

If you take anything from the rejection of the Democrats, use it to scream against the bondage of ignorance and hate that is tied to leftwing fiscal policies.

We have a breath of fresh air. We must build on it, so that voters think long and hard before making such a horrible economic mistake of putting liberal Democrats in control of our welfare again.
Today we are rejecting failure. 

Rand Paul destroying his career pandering to the lawless

According to the Washington Examiner Rand Paul said: “The root problem that caused a police

It's third-party types like Rand
Paul, calling themselves
Republicans, who damage the
GOP brand. He should run as
a Liberal-Tarian. 

officer to shoot and kill Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., sparking protests by members of the community, was an overzealous war on drugs.”
In other words, it's law enforcement's fault, not the drug-using attacker.

On CNN's "State of the Union, Paul, a U.S. Senator from Kentucky said: "The war on drugs has had a disproportionate impact on African-Americans and Hispanics.”

That is typical excuse-making and pandering to a special interest, in place of demanding personal responsibility.

Paul actually exacerbates the problem of race and drugs, for not condemning the strife caused by race-baiting and the damage drugs cause.

Ron Paul, Rand's father, who also calls himself a Republican tries to appeal to the same Liberal-Tarian sect that sometime harbors with some in the GOP. It has never really worked for more than anything but a sideshow.

Rand Paul is also going around bashing Republicans, saying how damaged the GOP brand is.

It's triangulating candidates like him, who do more damage to the GOP.

If Paul would read the Republican Platform, and follow it, he would not blame the laws against drugs for immoral and criminal behavior. He'd blame the criminal.

Wrong is wrong. Making excuses for it, in order to appease the offenders is very irresponsible. And that's what Paul is attempting to do.
Ron Paul causes a lot of ruckus for a man who can only attract in the lower single digits of voters. Rand Paul is securing the same fate for himself that his father has.  

Financial repercussions of Gamecock defensive staff being retained

The Gamecock offense is setting
records. But it's not enough to
compensate for the terrible defense. 

While South Carolina Head Coach Steve Spurrier said, in reference to his coaches: “Everybody is safe” that is only what he – or any coach – is required to say.

Spurrier's assurance of retaining defensive coaches came with the promise that job performance would be evaluated and the job protection is only good until the end of the season.

All who truly care about the program should be comforted by the addendum. Firing the defensive staff should not even be a debatable issue.

After another fourth-quarter implosion versus Tennessee, the ugliest of three this year, it would not only be bad football to retain Lorenzo Ward and his staff, it would be a poor business decision.

While there was an early movement to absolve the likable Ward of blame for the hideous defensive play, that affection has totally evaporated.

The most constant of Spurrier's enemies (The State newspaper) seems to be lobbying for Ward and Co. to stay, but some fan sites, like CockyTalk are already calculating the cost to fire Ward. It is said to be $1.5 million. And USC will lose money - initially - to clean house of all of its defensive staff.

But if the defensive staff is left intact fans will vote their disapproval with their pocketbooks.

If drastic changes are not made, there would likely be a big bite taken out of ticket sales and crowd attendance. General interest in the program - and respect for it - would be reduced. 

Three years of 11-win seasons not only spoiled fans for victory, but it showed them the Gamecocks can be superior to almost all programs.

Once you've tasted high quality, don't expect the fans to settle for bottom-rung coaches, just to be nice. Recruiting is already being negatively affected by the nosedive of the team's fortunes. 

If the USC leadership does not address the horrible mess on the defensive coaching staff as soon as possible, there will be financial repercussions. Not moving to fix the obvious problem will damage the trust and confidence Spurrier has earned.

Dumping the defensive staff is the best way to assure angry and bewildered fans that you are still committed to winning.

Right now, Gamecock Nation needs that assurance.

Understandable that Spurrier does not take post-game questions

We all know what the anser is. But Spurrier cannot say it,
Head Coach Steve Spurrier did not take questions after the 45-42 loss to Tennessee.

If Spurrier did take questions, it may have gotten ugly.

Spurrier took the high road by not taking questions.

Everyone knows that Spurrier's Gamecocks may have the worst defense in the country.

He said it never gets easy to stomach the total implosion of his defense, despite it happening twice before this year.

SC lost a two-TD lead with less than two minutes left.

If Spurrier said anything of value, he would say he is cleaning out the defensive staff as soon as he can.

Instead he took no questions. That was likely the best thing he could have done.

  

Dismiss defensive staff IMMEDIATELY in a real world

What can Spurrier do? 

Gamecocks have WORST defense in the nation, but Spurrier has to bite his tongue.

With 1:51 seconds to go, South Carolina was ahead of Tennessee by two TDs.

The Gamecocks' defense for the third time this year totally collapsed, as if there was no D on the field, and lost the game 45-42 in OT.

Head Coach Steve Spurrier - who personally apologized to the fans after the game - has to be a big man to not fire Defensive Coordinator Lorenzo Ward, and his staff tonight. If Spurrier were acting on merit only, he would terminate the defensive staff Saturday night.

Any man, in any job would be immediately fired if he did his job with the level of incompetence of Ward, and his staff.

It will take compassion for your fellow man, and a lot of restraint, to let Lorenzo Ward, and staff, stay to finish out the year.

With the defensive coaches, South Carolina has very little chance of beating Florida or Clemson. The home game with UAB is not a given.

That said: if Ward, and his whole defensive staff, are not let go at the absolute soonest point possible, Gameocck fans will abandon the team - or hopes in it - in droves.

There have been very few times when the Gamecocks have been as humiliated over their team as they have been this year. And it's because of the defense. 

Just when you think the D can be no more outrageously bad, it gets worse.

When SC's offense made some big plays to give the team a two-TD cushion so late in the game, the defense could not have played any worse, if it had been trying to concede the game.

Lorenzo should be very grateful Spurrier does not want to embarrass him, as he has embarrassed Spurrier, and the whole Gamecock nation. If Spurrier were reactionary Ward would be gone, already. And a lot of fans would not be hurt by it.   

Strangely, Gamecocks versus Tennessee carries a renewed excitement level!

Accepting the deficiencies of the
defense, can Spurrier
adjust to finish strong?  

Tennessee at South Carolina used to be a BIG game. Even when the likes of Peyton Manning wore the Orange and White, and the Gamecocks did not have much of a chance, it was fun football.

Since the glory days of the Vols, things have changed,, and changed again.

Lately South Carolina has been able to defeat Tennessee in Columbia. But with a total breakdown of the Gamecock defense in 2014, the chances for South Carolina to win more than five games in 2014 did not look good.

But based on a gameplan last Saturday night at Auburn, the Gamecocks could be a threat to win.

An adequate defense may be an aggressive, always-scoring, offense.

If Steve Spurrier can maximize his scoring chances- score a TD every time the Gamecocks have the ball – The Gamecocks may be able to finish up well.

There is no better time than today, versus Tennessee, to test the new 'never-give-up-the ball' offense.

The Gamecocks played Auburn like the team had the idea the defense would provide no help. And that was an accurate assumption. If you expect no help, you won't be disappointed when you get none. And that is how the Gamecocks must adapt its style of play.

Even with four losses in 2014, there is much to play for. If Coach Steve Spurrier can win against Tennessee, it will at least give South Carolina fans hope for a strong finish.

The Vols game is a chance to renew a little faith in the Head Ball Coach’s ability to take what he has and do the best with it.

And that's what Gamecocks fans should hope for. If South Carolina can figure out a way to beat Tennessee, there is a chance for more wins later. And each win, considering the disaster so far, is precious. That's something Gamecock fans have not had to consider since the last time Tennessee was a powerhouse.