The Times Examiner on RINOs

With apologies to those living elsewhere, we're back to South Carolina again today. The reasons for this recurring theme are multiple. Through history, S.C. has sometimes earned a reputation for rebellion against things in need of it. "First gallant South Carolina nobly made the stand" for secession in 1860, as the old song says. The Palmetto State has produced great pioneers and defenders of freedom galore -- John C. Calhoun, three Wade Hamptons (the first born in Virginia), Andrew Jackson, Francis Marion, signers, drafters and not least Robert Clarkson.

At present, no small thanks to our Great One, this state is at least one of the topmost in terms of rightist activism and sentiment. This attracts great outsiders (Christian Exodus) and leads to real progress (2000s Real ID victory, 1990s Confederate flag war) and smaller battles for freedom too. Leftists re known stay away because of this cachet. 

I just love being here -- not only because of the above but because its climate is the best compromise I'm aware of in the US and its people a huge improvement on Zew Jersey where I spent most of my life. The downside is of course that politically this state coasts stupidly ever further down into the sewer of leftwing idiocy, banality and corruption. Yes, socialism's the word! And the way people just accept it and keep kissing the politicians' feet over and over (or ignoring the subject blithely letting them run riot, take your pick) is endlessly sickening.

This is the last state you'd expect to suffer a serious plague of neocons ("neoconservatives", total fakers of the Bush and Cheney type) or RINOs ("Republicans in name only" -- mostly very liberal Democrats who have switched their party for cynical tactical purposes only). But oh boy, we've got the blight, and it keeps getting worse. Here's an editorial on it (thanks, Kendra), just in from one of the great print papers left -- Greenville's own Times Examiner. This paper is part neocon "Mr. Hyde" but its noble "Dr. Jekyll" aspects can't be beat.

http://www.timesexaminer.com/bob-dill/1405-rinos-in-panic-mode-straw-man-distracts-from-truth
RINOs in Panic Mode, “Straw Man” Distracts from Truth

If the RINOs really are in panic mode, it couldn't happen to a more fitting bunch. Wake me when it's over, would you?

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