As we reported earlier today, S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster’s gubernatorial campaign is at long last up and running with a spiffy new campaign commercial, website and new media offensive.
The ole Kneejerkin’ sumbeeyatch even has ads running on FITS, for crying out loud! How’d he do that!?!?
Anyway, we can’t help but be impressed by the production value of McMaster’s operation – which is about as slick a campaign launch apparatus as we’ve ever seen.
The only problem for the McMaster campaign?
Their candidate is Henry McMaster, who even when reading prepared remarks off a teleprompter (with some ripoff of the Batman Returns score playing in the background) sounds every bit as dumb as he is in real life.
Seriously, you’re not running for “Guhbnah,” Henry.
Sheesh.
There ought to be a law that says you have to correctly pronounce an office before you can run for it, but that would disqualify 90% of the state’s elected officials, wouldn’t it?
Anyway, to watch the “McMaster for Guhbnah” ad, click here …
By Matt August 24, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Henry McMaster may be a South Carolina native going back who knows how many generations, but I don’t care…I still think that accent is phony.
“Guhbnah”? Even as a proud Southern-boy I want to scream when I hear that man talk. Dude can’t pull off that kind of accent. Sounds like he is still living on a plantation or something.
By duh August 24, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Take the money, run the ad, pretend you dont like him.
All works in his favor.
Nikki might pull her funding.
By 1+1=3 August 24, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Is he any dumber than Nikki who announced today she’s running but can’t remember if she flew coach or first class?
By Workin' Tommy C August 25, 2009 at 10:00 am
McMaster is the absolute personification of the gutless, spineless, back-scratching good ol’ boy stereotype! McMaster ignores reality like fox: he cannot tell the truth or he’d be castigating himself. He tells you what you want to hear with no more conscience than Andy Griffith’s “Lonesome” Rhodes character from “A Face in the Crowd.”
In fact, his face fades into the crowd of him, Barrett, and Bauer. McMaster is the “all of the above” choice for the good ol’ boy wing of the Republican Party.
This Foghorn Leghorn caricature of a career politician actually thinks people will fall for his folksy humor while he evades this state’s real problems and his do-nothing role in perpetuating them.
We DO have a true candidate from among us:
Nikki Haley has a record of defying politics as usual and will fight the powers that be. She has guts. She’ll fight for us. It’s on the record. Look it up!
“1+1,” Check this out if you want the truth:
http://www.nikkihaley.com/truthinfacts
QUOTED FROM THE SITE:
“Nikki, along with several South Carolina CEOs, Commerce Department officials, the Governor, and other legislators attended the World Economic Forum in China in 2007. The trip was run by the Commerce Department, which means all her travel arrangements were scheduled by Commerce. During the trip Nikki flew Business Class, as did all legislators asked to travel to China. Nikki was proud of the policy and economic development lessons and information gained by the trip to China then – as evidenced by this press release sent out when she got back – and remains so now.
“The Facts: When asked by a reporter, “How did you fly?,” Nikki, who did not schedule the trip and therefore was not sure if her seat was classified as First or Business Class, responded that she did not know and that the reporter should contact the Commerce Department to get an answer to any question he had about her travel. There is absolutely no wrong-doing on Nikki’s part in this trip.”
END QUOTE
So, “1+1″ What does the whole first/business/coach airplane ticket question got to do with the price of tea in China, anyway?
By Cooter Brown August 25, 2009 at 10:44 am
“Guhbnah,” now dat’s as gud a dialect as ol’ Cooter could do on his bestest day! Nic werk, Mista Willie. We sho’ dont need no McMaster(bator) fer gob-ner… evben wit dat accent ov hiz…
By Zach August 25, 2009 at 10:58 am
It seems Henry Mc wants to be governor so he can live and entertain in the big house. He likes having people wave to him when he is in parades in the state’s innumerable local festivals. That’s okay. Let’s allow him to do that for four years. He can be sort of our queen of England. Then let’s get some really qualified people to operate the state behind the scenes for him.
By Commonman August 25, 2009 at 11:05 am
Where I come from we don’t call it folksy humor. We call it BS.
By scooter August 25, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Nope, not a vote from this family. Don’t think he has that much on the ball, bless his heart.
By Tom Pickett August 31, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Godspeed Henry.