By Workin’ Tommy C. || Ugh! I think I may have political leprosy. Henry “Foghorn Leghorn” McMastah was making the rounds in the small crowd at last night’s Lexington Co. GOP meeting and I (out of sheer politeness) shook his hand.
A friend of mine there attempted to engage him in meaningful conversation and was severely soundbit in the process. Luckily for my friend, he knew exactly what he was risking in attempting the endeavor and has built up quite an immunity over the past several years. It’s still painful, however.
I must say that McMastah is even less impressive in person. He spoke for 7 minutes (after being given 5) and bragged about all those things he’d done and I can’t for the life of me remember anything he claimed to have done – nothing was impressive. I might have remembered if he’d spoken about his Craig’s list debacle or his insistence that the tens of thousand$ in donation$ from lawyer$ he hired on the $tate dime were legit – but not a peep from him on those subjects.
It was all good ol’ boy truisms – and jokes. He may not remember to tie his shoes in the morning but he’s always got a funny story to tell. If such talent were the prerequisite for being a good governor, he’d have won the election already.
His first joke during his mini-speech involved a talking dog that was sold very cheaply due to the fact that all he told were lies. McMastah declahed that the point of the joke is that sometimes people “miss da POINT!” A friend pointed out to me afterwards that the real point people missed last night is that they were themselves being lied to by an old dog. Perhaps it was a Freudian slip on McMastah’s part.
McMastah has no plans to stand up for us against the federal government nor to fight the system. He’s had his whole career to make a real difference and has done ZILCH, NADA, NOTHING!
McMastah’s entire career has been far surpassed by Nikki Haley’s single, partially successful and ongoing attempt to pass a law to require on-the-record voting so that the crooks in the statehouse cannot continue to hide their votes. No one but Nikki comes close in having a real record of fundamental reform to restore essential rights to the hard working people of this state.
McMastah, on the other hand, is part and parcel of the system. It has, clearly, broken him mentally and physically–if there was any real resistance on his part to selling his soul in the first place. He is well trained under the good ol’ boy yoke and he dares not rise up against his corporate and political masters.
McMastah is a political zombie wandering around from one job on the public dole to another. He’s old enough, gray enough, and foggy enough to retire yet still he stumbles on. His plan for the future is to simply proclaim that “South Carolina is open for BIDNESS!”
Oh, he went into some detail about getting committees together and otherwise creating a new bureaucracy but it’s all the same old big government drivel – literally in his case. I doubt at his age that he’s making plans much further than having warm milk before going to bed.
McMastah’s gub’nahship would be analogous to a urine-soaked nursing home patient mumbling and gyrating his limbs during drug-induced sleep. Nothing in reality would be accomplished and our corrupt government would only further decay in its prolonged destruction of our economy. The only change we’d get would be if Andre Bauer stopped by on one of his senior citizen pandering tours to change Henry’s diapers.
McMastah, I have been reassured on many occasions, is a nice fellow who is beloved in his community and church. However, even giving him the benefit of a doubt regarding his public record of corruption, (especially in regards to his outlandish and embarrassing pandering in what are obviously politically motivated state legal cases) there are a lot of really good folks out there whom I’d love to know and have as neighbors but who would be perfectly incompetent to be governor.
McMastah is one of those old school political prostitutes who think that, after decades of self-serving public service, they are somehow “entitled” to a promotion to higher offices. Being governor in South Carolina should not be based on something akin to a state employee “merit system.” In a true (1776) American Revolutionary system, time in public office should be looked upon with suspicion rather than in terms of qualification.
The governor in South Carolina is constitutionally weak. It’s going to take someone with more energy, intellect, and pure, conscience-driven stubbornness to get anything done from such a leadership position. Sanford was more energetic in his earlier days but even he, since making governor, has grown increasingly lazy and obviously distracted in office despite his reform-minded political agenda that has now come to naught–all thanks to his own multiple personal and political failures.
McMastah is a toothless old establishment dog who’s been lying on the porch his entire political life. I sure can’t see him suddenly coming to life and chasing anything down. He has the double liabilities of a record of obedience to the corrupt system and not, even now while running for office, claiming to have a reform agenda.
McMastah has done nothing significant in the past and plans to do nothing significant in the future to return real power to the people of this state. He is just corrupt good ol’ boy business as usual. After looking at his record, it should be obvious to all that voting for McMastah would be damning our state to the hell of further economic ruin and continuing national scandal.
Author’s Note: Workin’ Tommy C. is a longtime FITS commenter. Check out more of his work by clicking here.
By Hans March 2, 2010 at 5:39 pm
If you do the same thing over and over again, you are doomed to repeat your history.
It seems we are stuck in a cycle where we never tire of putting the same old bastards into office, and yet we expect our government to change. McMaster, Bauer, Barrett, Chells, Wilson etc…they are the same old bastards that got us into our present situation and yet we we are seriously thinking about letting them stay in office.
Screw those old worn out dogs. Bring in new blood, and then throw them out if needed. The only way to change our government is TO CHANGE OUR GOVERNMENT! Vote them all OUT!
By BIN News Editorial Staff March 2, 2010 at 5:51 pm
The great thing about blogs is that one or two paid political pimps can masquerade as eleventy brazillion political pimps.
The bad thing about blogs is that one or two paid political pimps can masquerade as eleventy brazillion political pimps.
Blogs make it hard to tell one political pimp from another.
But political pimps all look the same.
sic(k) willie is a great example.
By BIN News Editorial Staff March 2, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Hans sounds like a VietNam vet our Funding Editor used to date.
He once told her his attitude was “Kill’m all. Let God sort’m out.”
Two of her brothers served honorably in Viet Nam. When he told her that she kicked him in his b@lls and called a cab.
Our Funding Editor thinks a good kick in Hans’ b@lls might make him think a little more clearly. It might clear out his political pimp rhetoric.
By General Washington March 2, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Dude, (Will)
You nailed it, this should be a comment on one of your posts, not a post, it undermines your obnoxious yet enjoyably witty ability to push your agenda and keep it enertaining.
As if Lexingotn County can say a single word about electing “corrupt good ol’ boy business as usual” politicians.
It would be like Tyler letting one of his regular posters talk about how hot Megan Fox is: it goes from funny to creepy and boring in about 2 seconds.
By WorkingTommyC March 2, 2010 at 7:05 pm
BIN:
I’ve never masqueraded as anyone else though I find it flattering that you would consider me talented enough to pull it off.
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GW:
Regarding my having or not having the right to “say a single word:”
If I, an individual, were in fact the entity known as “Lexington County” your criticism might have some validity. As it stands, however, I’m one of the meanest critics of our county’s corrupt elected officials and am ready to clean house. If you can help us to that effect, I would welcome it, sir!
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Hans:
Your sentiments do sound remarkably similar to my own, even to the point of my wondering if in reality I had some sort of sleep-walking alter-ego similar to Edward Norton’s character in “Fight Club.”
But I checked and found no bruises nor cuts on me nor any plane tickets to D.C. so I’m pretty sure you’re really someone else. Keep on truckin’! Right now we ain’t losin’ any ground with your most excellent attitude.
By fitsnews March 2, 2010 at 7:18 pm
GW-
This is a marketplace of ideas. Workin’ Tommy C. hit the nail on the head, in our opinion, and so we published his piece.
-FITS
P.S. Don’t like it? Get your own marketplace …
By walter March 2, 2010 at 7:46 pm
NIkki HAley needs to get back in the kitchen and paint that dot between her eyes and then cook me a sammachich!!!!
By Frank March 2, 2010 at 7:56 pm
I refuse to vote for the following incumbent constitutional officers: They are all perverts ( Eckstrom, Bauer, Chellis). I will leave the ballot blank before I vote for people I could not leave my daughter (or son) with for an hour without worrying about the kids safety!
Walter, give it a rest. That is sick talk.
By scooter March 2, 2010 at 8:46 pm
Funny. Sad, but kinda true. I disagree that Haley has merit. No one that can’t remember how she flew (with her favorite Gov.) needs to be in charge. She is just way to conservative and right wing to suit me. Only one of the Republicans can handle the job. And it ain’t ‘old Henry, or Miss Nikki.
By Lily March 2, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Walter, please. You and all the other boys who share office space under the Speaker’s desk need to quit making us South Carolinians look like toothless swamp-dwellers who pee on our kitchen floors. Enough racist vomit, boys. I honestly can’t believe the Speaker would condone this stuff. Or do you work for Andre? Now, that I might believe….right, Scooter?
By redneck1 March 2, 2010 at 9:37 pm
A night at the Haley’s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx-NLPH8JeM
By BIN News Editorial Staff March 2, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Wankin TommieC hasn’t pulled off anything but his dirty underware according to reliable sources in sic(k) willie’s “marketplace of ideas.”
More like the marketplace for sic(k) willie’s porn and voucher scam.
And our Funding Editor never suggested Wankin TommieC is talented.
What a f@gh@rn legh@rn p@litical p@mp.
By WorkingTommyC March 2, 2010 at 10:42 pm
BIN:
Your envy is showing. And you have a lot to be envious of.
By by nice guy March 2, 2010 at 10:51 pm
The best job for henry is dog catcher or chicken catcher. He seems to good at both task.
By R March 2, 2010 at 11:36 pm
I’m beginning to see why there’s so much voter apathy out there and so many have just quit voting. It’s the same crap every four years. We’ve now got a Wilson #2 wanting to start a career in politics, a dumb-ass of a Campbell (a Tumpy at that) and a Strom #2. It’s like a small inbred herd that just thinks because they are who they are they have a right to occupy every office in the state. I’m absolutely convinced that the Legislature is keeping our schools stupid for the sole reason that if people in this state were actually educated they wouldn’t vote for the crooks that infest our Legislature in the first place. I hope SC Tea Party members realize that the entire Legislature is their enemy and every damn one of them needs replacing.
By Ynotfirst March 3, 2010 at 7:09 am
Henry McMastah- wrong for South Carolina.
Henry McMastah- refuses to investigate crimes.
Henry McMastah- another cog in the wheel of corruption.
Good job Tommy C.
By Toyota Kawaski March 3, 2010 at 8:39 am
Perhaps working Tommy-C should get back to work!
By CNChapin March 3, 2010 at 10:27 am
Anyone who wants more of the same old business as usual with the shriveled balls inbred boys deserve the continued record unemployment, disastrous school system, federal encroachment, anti business, cronyism that comes with it. These old bastards have run our state into the ground and should be tarred, feathered and rode out of town on a rail. I say off with their heads. Career politicians are leeches and thieves who seek to live off of the public dole and would not dare rock the boat since their wrinkly, viagra popping ass is sitting in it. It is time to drop some C4 in that boat and leave the butt pirates to try to swim their decrepit bags of bones out of the abyss.
Enough with the niceness about these people. Let’s be vocal and loud about calling them for what they are! They are the worst form of low life and they have done NOTHING for this state. Furthermore, for people like BIN, Walter, and the similar lot who support them, I am impressed. I did not know that so many generations could survive constant inbreeding, but your families have proven that theory wrong. You are truly medical miracles. Hold your head high and know that even if your family tree has not roots or branches, you can still survive and even function enough to have some sort of idiotic opinion. Keep that family log rolling along you cranial rectal interference survivors!
By WorkingTommyC March 3, 2010 at 10:53 am
R:
You nailed it! I have an extra antipathy for dynasties unless the individual family members, if otherwise are capable and knowledgeable of the law, were to severely limit their years of public service (which they rarely if ever do, of course, making it a moot point =:>).
IMHO, as a principle, it’s always best to vote against the heirs of political aristocracy such as the princes born to the houses of Wilson, Campbell, Thurmond, etc.
“Tumpy?” That reminds me of Beau Brummell’s famous line from 1813 referring to the Prince of Wales who had just snubbed him, “Alvanley, who is your fat friend?” THAT is the attitude we all need to have when dealing with these petty tyrants and wannabes.
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Ynotfirst:
Thanks! You’re much too kind–a statement Toyota K would surely agree with.
By jeffy March 3, 2010 at 2:40 pm
shut up BIN. we dont care.