After comparing gubernatorial candidates in South Carolina, Nikki Haley commanded my respect with two exceptions 1) she is a Republican, 2) Sarah Palin endorses her, meaning that Haley allowed Palin to use her...not the other way around.  What Palin knows about governing a state like South Carolina after her two long years serving her state half the time she had promised, cannot be a significant help.  I must then presume, if she was any help to Haley, it was the fringe group of not-to-bright voters she might have brought with her.

Haley has run her campaign as a challenge to politics as usual and began the run-off campaign by declaring "It's us versus the Establishment." (see here)  She will be opposing (most likely she will be the ultimate Republican nominee) Vincent Sheheen, The Democrat who won the nomination yesterday, as well.  His mission: to reunite the fractious South Carolina.  He lists all the reason what has divided them for so long, listing racial prejudice, lack of support to public schools, bad economy, scandal and all the good things that might just get him there, though Haley also has a good following in a state that is usually Republican with as many faults as a party can have.

There are too many who pay no attention to the other states., sadly.  When it comes to this whole country and how it runs, we cannot afford to ignore the opinions, goals, prejudices and resistances to move the country forward.that live around us.

REMNANT ABOUND OF ROVE-STYLE POLITICKING

South Carolina which does not seem to have distinguished itself for fair politics or truth in accusations, has recently had a Republican accuse another Republican of accusing her of having an extra-marital affair (which, even if it were true does not belong in a campaign), proving his innocence by taking a polygraph test which he passed.  Campaigning is no longer a process by which the voters can get to know the truth about their politicians and seems not to have been such for several decades, meanwhile getting worse with each election.  Here is the rest of the story.  It happens that Nikky Haley is half Indian, having Sikh in her heritage before she converted to Christianity.

South Carolina State Senator, Jake Knotts,  called her and Obama 'ragheads', calling for some good Christians and asking what was wrong with his God.  As I recall, in the Bush-McCain campaign to be the party nominee, that lovely state spread a rumor that McCain had fathered a child with a black woman.  It seems people in South Carolina, at least the voting majority, is stupid enough to believe anything even though the subject may be totally irrelevant to the job sought.