Sic Speaks On K-Flo, SCGOP Race

It’s now ten days after April Fool’s, but the question still stands.

Will he or won’t he?

The Palmetto State’s most infamous political bad boy hasn’t officially said that he is running for Chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party.

Then again, he hasn’t officially said that he is not running for the post, either.

And no matter the varying degrees of dismissal, disrespect, disdain or distress his “bid” has engendered in official circles, it has clearly sparked plenty of interest – and plenty of discussion.

Of course, a little honesty in a process typically dominated by torrents of meaningless B.S. tends to do that.

We did a little poll the other day, too, and Sic took 49% of the vote to front-runner Karen Floyd’s 30% – with 21% going to veteran “GOP” consultant Warren Tompkins.

Sure it was a home crowd, but nearly 200 people voted. The entire electoral universe for this race is only 700 souls.

Also, Sic’s um, campaign website – which you’ll read a little bit more about below – has received several hundred hits since it was launched a week ago.

Not FITS-level traffic, obviously, but not a bad showing for a “non-candidate.”

Anyway, after over a week of ignoring our request for an interview (really), Sic finally sat down for a wide-ranging, frank discussion on his anti-candidacy, his “opponent” Karen Floyd, his mammalian instincts, his real client roster, the status of the S.C. Republican Party (and the status of women and African-Americans therein) and the state of Palmetto politics in general.

Part one of that interview – which was conducted by the decidedly non-imaginary FITS gal Lauren Robirds – is included below.

Enjoy …

Lauren Robirds: Alright, so you finally agreed to sit down with us.

SIC WILLIE: Yes.

LR: Thanks a lot. You know, that’s pretty pathetic considering this is your website. What’s up with that? What took you so long?

SIC: Well, I’ve been shepherding a few things.  A few sheep, actually. Which is to say I’ve been asleep, mostly.

LR: Right.

SIC: (Smiles)

LR: Alright. Well it just seemed strange you wouldn’t want to sit down with your own website.

SIC: FITS gives tough interviews.

LR: But you own FITS  … you can make these interviews as tough or as easy as you want.

SIC: Are you new here?

LR: Excuse me?

SIC: Sorry. You’re really cute, that’s all.

FG: Ahhmm … Mr. Folks your pregnant wife is sitting like … right over there.

SIC: I know … I think she’d agree with me.

LR: (Sighs)

SIC: (Smiles)

LR: Alright, can we just do this?

SIC: That depends on what your definition of the word ‘this’ is.

LR: (Silence)

SIC: (Smiles)

LR: Alright, since you obviously don’t take anything in your life seriously, I’m going to have to be the grown-up here.

SIC: Knock yourself out.

LR: Alright, Mr. Folks, regarding your “candidacy,” you are the only person – and I want to be clear about this – I’m talking about you by yourself, you and no one else, you alone. I’ll repeat – you are the only person who is touting your own name as a candidate for SCGOP Chairman, which is a party you are not a member of, a party that hates your guts, and a party you have basically spent the past two years bashing on your blog. And this is an “announcement” you made on April Fool’s Day against a candidate you have worked with professionally in the past. Is all of this sounding right?

SIC: Sure. Sounds right.

LR: Alright, and on top of all that your website has a picture of a Rhino that is, um – how do I say this for people who don’t watch the Discovery Channel – it has a picture of a Rhino that is, um, “mounting” an elephant from behind.

SIC: That’s right.

LR: Yes.

SIC: (Smiles) Yes. And it says “No More!”

LR: Right. No more.

SIC: Right.

LR: So, with all of that on the table, how can people … you know … take you seriously?

SIC: I don’t know. I’m not sure that they do.

LR: A few do.

SIC: Well then a few is a start.

LR: So let’s just get it out there, then – are you or are you not running for this post?

SIC: Absolutely … maybe.

LR: Alright. You wanna try that again?

SIC: No.

LR: You sure?

SIC: Yes. I’m comfortable leaving it at that.

LR: But isn’t that kind of an indecisive answer? You know, coming from you … you’re – what did that guy call you – a so-called “gunslinger.” Aren’t you a gunslinger? A straight shooter?

SIC: No.

LR: What?

SIC: No to your first question.

LR: Um …

SIC: No it’s not “kind of” indecisive, it is indecisive.

LR: I’m sorry, what?

SIC: I said it’s not “kind of” indecisive. It is indecisive. I haven’t decided. I can’t be decisive if I haven’t decided.

FG: Alright.

SIC: Aren’t you going to ask me the percentages?

LR: Like what?

SIC: You know, percentages, like is there a percentage of my mind that’s made up? And if there is a percentage of my mind that’s made up, what is that particular part of my mind going to do? You know, compared to the other parts of my mind that might not have decided yet what they’re going to do.

LR: Uhh … no. I’m not going to ask you that.

SIC: Alright.

LR: (Stares at tape recorder)

SIC: (Stares at FITS Gals)

LR: You know … this is going about as well as that Billy Bob Thornton interview.

SIC: Or Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman.

LR: (Stare over at Mrs. Sic, who shrugs)

SIC: (Smiles)

LR: Look, are you running or are you not running, you crazy person?

SIC: I don’t know.

LR: Don’t you think you’re kind of jerking everybody around doing this?

SIC: No, I think I’m kind of jerking myself around (smiles).

LR: Alright, moving on …

SIC: Look, sometimes my job involves making a point.

LR: Okay, and the point you’re trying to make here is … what?

SIC: That somebody who isn’t even a Republican is more Republican than the people who are running to lead the Republican party in what is supposed to be the most Republican state in the nation.

LR: You don’t think Karen Floyd is a real Republican?

SIC: She’s a real Republican based on what the party has become, sure.

LR: Ummm … what does that mean?

SIC: It means exactly what I said. Republicanism isn’t what is once was and it’s certainly not what it’s supposed to be in this state … I mean, this is the so-called ‘reddest state in the county’ where the Republicans are technically ruling the roost but in reality nothing could be further from the truth. We are run by a RINOcrat majority – a totally liberal, totally corrupt cabal of party-switching Democrats who now have all the power in the GOP because the GOP a) let them in, and then b) sacrificed its principles to them. It’s the same crap we’ve got in Washington, but the lines are even more blurred down here. They say it’s fractures in the GOP, but the GOP doesn’t exist anymore in this state. As a less government, individual liberty, pro-taxpayer outfit, It’s finished.

LR: Finished?

SIC: Absolutely. Stick a fork in it. They may retain the titular offices and a ‘majority in name only,’ but there are only about a dozen lawmakers in South Carolina who would actually be able to call themselves Republicans if we’re going by the Reagan standard.

LR: What is that standard?

SIC: A belief that government is not the answer to everything, that government shouldn’t do everything, that government is already way too big and hopelessly inefficient and yet here we are, two decades after Reagan, and all that either party in Washington or Columbia has done is just grow it, grow it, grow it never once stopping to say ‘hey, is this something we should be doing,’ or ‘hey, is there another way we could be doing this.’ Those two questions are never asked in government. It’s the same ideology as a cancer cell- mindless growth. And that’s what we’ve got here – and in D.C. No difference. Both parties have totally sold out the taxpayers, but the liberals at least come by their big government addiction a little more honestly. Most Republicans are 100% full of it.

LR: You think you’re going to get elected among Republicans by saying things like that?

SIC: Do I care? With the exception of DeMint and occasionally Sanford, Republicans are all talk anyway.

LR: That’s a pretty bold statement.

SIC: I back it up every day on my blog.

LR: So you put Karen in that mix, a RINO?

SIC: I think she’s pandering to that establishment to get elected, yes.

LR: So how would you describe her?

SIC: She’s attractive (smiles). You know. I mean, you know, she’s an attractive candidate.

LR: You look like the cat who swallowed the canary.

SIC: (Smiles)

LR: Now you look like a kid with a crush.

SIC: I mean, she’s a beautiful, beautiful woman. She’s smart. She’s strong. She’s sexy. I have a mammalian pull towards her, definitely.

LR: What do you think of her consultant, Robert Cahaly.

SIC: I like him. Nice guy. He’s not her consultant, but I like him.

LR: Who is her consultant?

SIC: Jon Lerner.

LR: What do you think of him – or we know that – so what do you think of her team?

SIC: I like them. Not Lerner, but the rest of them. I like Kristin McGuire, particularly. I think she’s got a brilliant mind. That girl who runs her Facebook page is cute, too. Ashley something. Martin? Russell? I can’t remember. And Joe St. John is a great guy. I like him a lot.

LR: And you’ve worked with Karen?

SIC: Yes.

LR: Recently?

SIC: Yes.

LR: Did you do any work on her campaign?

SIC: (Smiles)

LR: So … aren’t you worried about pissing a lot of these people off?

SIC: Do I look like I’m the kind of guy who worries about pissing anybody off? I’m not saying anything bad about her or any of her people.

LR: Did you do any work for any other candidates in this race, because you were accused of that, too.

SIC: (Smiles) Look, I am out of the political consulting business. Seriously. Look at Viewpolitik.com. I don’t even know what’s up there on that website anymore. It hasn’t been updated in nearly a decade. Political consulting is a crappy business model. Lots of work, little pay, lots of dumb drama, very little reward, plus I’m lazy. I like to sleep. I don’t take instruction well. And I’ve got enough money I don’t need to work for people like that anymore. Like I said, too, you’re dealing with a political landscape where very few good people ever end up running and the few that do you’ve got these establishment hacks – of which there are hundreds - who line up and try to eat them alive. Take Nikki Haley, right? I worked for her for eight months – over a year ago – just to fill in while her consultant was doing a presidential campaign and the Bobby Harrell brigade and all those other inbreds over at the State House are still in a feeding frenzy over that. It’s crazy. Totally ridiculous, but crazy.

LR: I was going to ask you about Nikki because the knock is that you don’t like women candidates, you know, like Mandy Powers Norrell or Catherine Ceips. You were involved in both of those races, weren’t you?

SIC: (Smiles) Come on.

LR: Weren’t you?

SIC: Two of my friends who were in those races.

LR: Boyfriends?

SIC: Funny.

LR: Or friends with benefits?

SIC: Look, like I said, I’m retired.

LR: You can see why people call you out on a lot of this stuff, though. You’re pretty evasive.

SIC: That’s not why people call me out – people call me out because they don’t like what I do on the blog.

LR: Which is?

SIC: I call it like it is. I tell them what they don’t want to hear. I piss everybody off, and I’m not afraid of any of them. And so they hate me, which is fine. I mean, f*ck them. I’m not sitting in the State House lobby wearing white bucks and a seer sucker suit begging for a taxpayer-funded handout. I don’t need that. But I am a big ray of sunshine illuminating a raised middle finger to all this mess, and they hate that.

LR: Alright, you obviously think you’re Billy Bad Ass, I get that. I was just trying to ask you about women in politics …

SIC: Look, of course … of course there should be more women in politics, particularly in this state and particularly in the GOP, and of course there should be more blacks in the GOP but this whole ‘outreach’ nonsense is ridiculous. Republicans look like such posers, like total fakes when they talk about ‘outreach.’ Seriously, don’t go up to some black guy and say ‘we want to include you in our party because our party needs a token Negro,’ go up to a black guy and say ‘look, man you’re getting screwed by this ass-backward government just like I am, your kids are getting failed by this ass-backward government just like mine are, whadd’ya say we get together and stick it to them for a change? Go and really get ours, you know?

LR: Stick it to the man?

SIC: Why not?

LR: That’s actually pretty funny.

SIC: Look I don’t pull punches.

LR: Yeah … we know. About that. Let’s go ahead and talk about your CDV …

SIC: Oohhh …

LR: Yup …

SIC: (deep breath)

STAY TUNED FOR MORE …

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