Angry McCainiacs

One thing we’ve learned about moving in South Carolina political circles is it doesn’t take a whole helluva lot to piss people off.

In fact, for a state that prides itself on such a “rough and tumble” political tradition, South Carolina politicos tend to get their panties wadded up faster than a three-year old girl whose Barbie got stolen.

Anyway, such is the case today with our friends over at Palmetto Scoop, who are evidently a little bit upset that we’re not sufficiently supportive of GOP presidential nominee John McCain – or sufficiently delusional about his chances of beating Barack Obama next month.

The Scoop – which operates out of the mail shop affiliated with McCain’s South Carolina consulting firm – apparently took none too kindly to a post we did this morning on the difficult electoral math that’s confronting their candidate of choice.

After accusing us of “hopping on the pessimistic doomsday bandwagon” about McCain’s chances, Scoop author Adam Fogle implies that we fabricated a quote in our story this morning before shifting gears mid-sentence and insinuating that the quote was leaked to us by somebody in the office of Gov. Mark Sanford – a place where our founding editor has been persona non gratis for some time now, incidentally.

Actually, the quote was leaked to us by one of McCain’s strongest South Carolina supporters, but that’s beside the point.

Frankly, we’re used to this sort of whiny crap from “Republicans,” who seem to be growing increasingly bitchy as their support wanes with voters both here in South Carolina and across the country.

Rather than stand on the principles their party was founded on, these taxpayer turncoats think that just because they wear an “R” in front of their names we’re supposed to sit back and ignore it when they sell out conservative principles.

They’d rather attack independent voices like ours for failing to “tow the Republican line” when what they should be doing is opening their eyes and acknowledging that the current crop of “Republicans,” whether in Washington D.C. or Columbia S.C., bears absolutely no resemblance to the Reagan Republicans who believed in government cutting taxes and then getting the hell out of the way.

Sure, 21st Century Republicans like McCain, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and others still love to talk about conservative principles, it’s just voting on those beliefs that evidently gives them heartburn.

Furthermore, what Fogle and other “Republicans” of his ilk don’t understand is that we could honestly give a rat’s ass what they – or Republicans in general – think of what we write.

We’ve got a commitment to the truth and to “keeping it real,” not sucking up to a Republican party apparatus that is going down in flames because its so-called leaders forgot to govern like Republicans.

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