Warren Tompkins’ RINO Love
We’ve been saying for years that “GOP” consultant Warren Tompkins was nothing but a big government liberal selling his Republican label to the highest bidder.
A RINO, or “Republican In Name Only” in the political parlance.
And not only that, an ethically bankrupt RINO.
What else can you say about a guy who took money from the same video poker barons who were relentlessly attacking his “other” client, former S.C. Gov. David Beasley? Concurrently, no less?
After awhile, people like current S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford started picking up what we were throwing down on Tompkins, and articulating it.
Based in part on those comments, Tompkins is the subject of a scathing national critique in this week’s National Review by conservative columnist Deroy Murdock.
Here’s an excerpt from Murdock’s column:
Down in Dixie, frustrated Republicans complain about another smooth operator. J. Warren Tompkins is a successful South Carolina lobbyist and campaign operative. Conservatives argue that his good fortune has come at the expense of their beliefs, and that he has enriched himself through insider’s deals and arrangements that subvert limited government.
Palmetto State governor Mark Sanford, a stalwart and increasingly vocal advocate for limited government and fiscal sanity, told Human Events’s John Gizzi that “the bottom line in South Carolina is we absolutely have Republican control, but we do not have a conservative working majority in our body politic. . . . A lot of folks with whom we’ve indeed had troubles have not been pushing conservative ideology.”
Sanford blames “RINOs”[Republicans in Name Only] such as Tompkins’s client, state senate Finance Committee chairman Hugh Leatherman. Sanford described him as “a guy who for 25 years of his life is a Democrat, he sees the time changing, he shifts to the Republican party, but it is indeed in name only.”
Sanford specifically points to Tompkins as a problem. Tompkins, Sanford said, “long ago earned his stripes as a Republican. But Warren Tompkins these days makes his money as a lobbyist with issues before the state general assembly”
The article is a detailed and compelling take on why Republicans have lost their way, with a hometown twist that conservatives in South Carolina will no doubt appreciate after years of watching Warren “play conservative” on the national stage while ramming a self-serving, big government agenda down our throats here at home.
Also of interest in this story is the one defense Team Tompkins seems to perpetually make for their master’s malevolance to lower taxes, educational freedom and spending restraint.
In a word? “Jim DeMint.”
Seriously, DeMint has become Team Tompkins’ answer for everything – as if the fact that they’ve elected one conservative in the past decade gets them off the hook for years of growing government and perpetuating the worst educational system in the world.
Frankly, at this point Sen. DeMint might want to consider seeking counsel elsewhere.
If he’s indeed going to lead a new conservative revolution in Washington, it might be a good idea not to have one of the nation’s biggest RINO consultants on his payroll.
Comments
By huh? on February 26th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Isn’t “Jim DeMint” two words?
By Pat Hendrix on February 26th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
To be fair, he meant to say “In a word: Dumbass.” I think that’s what Jimmy goes by these days.
By BIN News Editorial Staff on February 26th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Answer: Warren Tompkins has successful paying clients who will admit paying him.
sic(k) willie has anonymous sources and people who slip him a few bucks for beer money under the table to sling mud. But, none of them will admit paying him.
Ever see his client list? He can print it with a Sharpie on a stamp.
BIN News Editorial Staff
Flair and Balanced
By Hal on February 26th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Warren represents the worst of the GOP…but there are so many like him.
Keep it up Will…truth to power and all that stuff.
Don’t let them back u down!
By Todd on February 26th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Warren is open about representing his old yellow dog Democrats. He openly represents Jean Toal, er, the South Carolina Judicial Department. No telling how much tax payer money will go down trying to protect her this year. But then, she’s got several lawyer legislators under her thumb helping ole Warren out …..
Keep it up, Willie.
BIN, find another hobby other than bashing Sic. Do you have a blog you can’t get off the ground or are you one of his ex’s? If you can’t find anybody to play with you, then buy somebody. That’s legal in Vegas. Go out there.
Sheesh.
By MR. TAX INCREASE on February 26th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Will: I agree with the above post about Tompkins.
But what about Sanford’s decision yesterday not to VETO a TAX INCREASE.
Especially a TAX INCREASE during these economic times.
He’s lost the mantle on fiscal responsibility. He’s now just going to turn a blind eye to the reckless spending of local governments and allow them to another route to raise taxes even further. Club for Growth should be all over him for this decision, or should i say “NON DECISION”
how can you call yourself a governor, a chief executive, and then not have the courage to sign or veto legislation. wow. our state really is full of rino’s.
By Ty Wonkinski on February 26th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Tompkins is not a Republican. He is a Tompkinsite, first and foremost. He pushed GuvDaBe into an ill-advised “moral” stance on the Confederate flag that is still costing this state. He did so to raise Der Beez’s profile for a shot at veep on the national ticket since he straddled traditional and religious conservatives, in the process giving the Democrats their best electoral year in the state in sixteen years, with none better since then.
Go back and check Warren’s hysterical rant at the Columbia Record in 1986 trying to bluster them out of the truth by crying “yellow journalism” when caught red-handed.
By Scott on February 26th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Cool photo
By Reader on February 26th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
What tax increase did he not veto? I don’t keep up as I should — but it better not be this tyranny against the Marlboro People!
We will bow up. And we will bow up good.
By Silence Dogood on February 26th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Hey FITS, I know I wrote this on the last story, but I think I could put it in here verbatim also. So as I said in my last comment to a recent prior post, word for word, but in that one it was the Quinn’s whom you were trying to scare off potential clients from, this time, just fill in Tompkins where you see Quinn’s in the comment below:
“FITS, if I didn’t know any better I would think this article of half baked truths was more about scarring potential clients (read politicans in need of consultants) away from one major S.C. political consulting firms (the Quinn’s)and trying to heard them into another direction??? But who could that third party “other†political consulting firm be…
However, I know that a non-biased, objective, disinterested sourse like FITS would have no reason to ever try such a ploy. I’m probably just paranoid, right?”
By Toyota Kawaski on February 27th, 2009 at 9:42 am
suck and blow the new motto at fits
By baker on February 27th, 2009 at 11:23 am
This is kind of interesting stuff to me. I’m certainly not a GOP insider, so I guess I don’t know what to make of all the infighting.
But, Will or others….what’s your take on the ascension of the GOP in SC? I mean, when they were trying to sway sitting Democrat representatives to the Republican side, was that a good thing or a bad thing? Should they have only put forth new candidates and tried to beat those guys on ideological grounds? Or should the party-switchers have been forced to take a ideological “litmus test”? Ultimately, wasn’t the GOP happy to have the party-switchers, though?
And hasn’t the swing to the GOP side made it much easier for Republican candidates of ALL stripes to get elected, at least after the primary? With the “R” candidates being the default pick for so many SC voters, doesn’t that help the likes of even Mark Sanford?
Well, anyway, it is interesting to observe. I kind of wonder if a lot of folks wouldn’t be happier if South Carolina had a legitimate two-party system.
By Carl Weathers on February 27th, 2009 at 11:26 am
@ Reader:
That tax increase would be impact fees in Dorchester County.
By Reader on February 27th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Thanks, Carl.
That one seems reasonable and it doesn’t impact me. Funny how that works.
If Bobby Harrell’s Smoker Tyranny Bill-HR#BlahBlahBlah passes, the SC Dept. of Agriculture will find a lot of us doing this in our own back yards, tax-free!
http://www.fotosearch.com/UNU115/u17498354/
By Bard of Beaufain St on February 27th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Sen. DeMint is, in fact, the foremost conservative voice in the U.S. Senate. Not too shabby, eh?
By BIN News Editorial Staff on February 27th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Toyota Kawaski is wrong.
“Suck and Blow” is not sic(k) willie’s style.
His style is: “Blow and Suck.”
First, he blows things out of proportion, and then he sucks his readers (all 3 of them) into thinking he has a clue what he’s talking about. He doesn’t.
From this day on, sic(k) willie will be known as “Suck and Blow.”
“S&B” to his friends.
BIN News Editorial Staff
Flair and Balanced
By Not So Balanced on February 28th, 2009 at 12:32 am
Finally,the
By Not So Balanced on February 28th, 2009 at 12:36 am
NSB is NSB tonight, so glad to see the smoke clearing on that the king of slime and jim demint. THANK YOU FITS NEWS and go back from whereever you came toyota whatever.
By Elmo on February 28th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Keep bashing the crooked insiders Willie-
Bin News- go get yourself a blog and a boyfriend – we all know you want Sic Willie but it isn’t going to happen – you are pathetic – go do something positive with your life and come on out of the closet. Start a SC gay blog – who knows it might work for you
By BIN News Editorial Staff on February 28th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
sic(k) willie posts about “RINO Love.”
And elmo attacks by calling our staff “gay.”
elmo, you probably don’t realise this, but statistically you almost certainly have gays in your immediate family. Probably several.
Don’t bend over in the shower, elmo. You never know. You could slip.
By Jim Bequette on March 16th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Jimbo says the Dorchester Impact Fee Bill which Sanford allowed to become law WAS NOT a tax increase. It will actually DECREASE school debt millage tax. It requires builders/developers to contribute money to the school district for building schools which are only built because of the need created by new homes. The builder/developers are conning the public by calling it a tax increase.
Only problem is that the amount in the Dorcheser County law is much too low.