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PEARLS OF WISDOM FROM AN ORDINARY SOUTH CAROLINIAN

FITSNews - December 19, 2007 - We’ve never met the Hartsville man who wrote La Socialista this morning to extol the unimpeachable virtue of South Carolina’s elected officials, but we did get a little misty-eyed while we were reading his touching letter. Especially this part:

I meet and talk to political figures all over this state, and with rare exceptions, the remarkable common denominator is their dedication, their thoughtfulness, their candor and their desire to do the best thing for their district and their state …

At least at present, South Carolina politics are not dominated by special interest groups, single-issue advocates, or party elites. We do not have the national “my party must win or we all will surely die” mind-set that seems to come from, and generate, so much extreme rhetoric. Most people do not vote their pocketbooks as a usual thing. And venality appears remarkably absent.

Venality? Is that what we think it is? Because if so, there are some shots you can take that’ll clear that right up.

Seriously, this guy’s impassioned defense of the redneck ruling class in South Carolina is indeed poetic, but while birds may be chirping 24/7 to the strains of “Oh What A Beautiful Morning!” over in Hartsville, the rest of the state actually has its eyes open. Oh, and if the polls we’ve seen are any indication, they are most definitely planning on “voting their pocketbooks” this go-round.

Look, even if our state’s elected officials were as “pure as the driven snow” as this guy seems to think they are, that wouldn’t change the fact that they’re incredibly sh*tty at their jobs. South Carolina’s economy sucks, its health care system sucks, its schools really suck and all these morons have done is throw money at the problems. One may smile (and smile) and be a villain, people.