By FITSNews || Try as we might, we’ve never understood the visceral hatred that some Republicans feel for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. In fact, “Hizzoner” was one of our favorite GOP presidential candidates in 2008, although let’s be honest – that’s not really saying much, is it?
Between former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s flip-flopping and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s Bible-beating, there weren’t a whole lot of compelling choices out there.
Anyway, for whatever reason (abortion?) Giuliani remains a pariah among a sizable swath of the SCGOP base – as evidenced by this anonymous column we published last March. More recently, though, Giuliani’s name is cropping up in the race for the S.C. Fourth Congressional District, in which incumbent Rep. Bob Inglis (RINO-Greenville) is facing a swarm of challengers including the slightly less-than-hinged Christina Jeffrey.
According to the website The Conservativist, Jeffrey not only bears the “mark of Rudy,” but she and her supporters have gone to great lengths in an effort to conceal her affiliation with his campaign. They’ve even called the website’s editor a liar and accused him of “trying to destroy a good candidate.” Jeffrey herself is in on the misdirection, too. At a recent radio debate in Greenville, S.C., she claimed to have supported the presidential campaign of former U.S. Rep. Duncan L. Hunter, not Giuliani.
Hmmmm …
Well Thursday morning, Conservativist editor Gary Coats countered those claims with some photographic evidence – specifically, a picture taken by Spartanburg Herald-Journal photographer Alex Hicks that shows Jeffrey decked out in pro-Rudy garb at a 2007 campaign event.
Interestingly, this was the same 2007 event at which Jeffrey granted an interview to Mike Littwin of the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News – a question and answer session that included her now-infamous “South Carolinians are inbreds” quote (editor’s note: it’s funny because it’s true).
From that story:
Christina Jeffrey has found her candidate. She’s serious enough about Giuliani that she’s standing in the Dorman High School gym, pulling the tape from the back of “Rudy” posters and stacking them for the next event.
Seems pretty cut and dried to us.
Again, for the life of us we don’t see the problem with candidates having supported Giuliani … but there’s clearly a credibility problem that goes with supporting a candidate and then lying about it later.
So … who should voters support in the Fourth Congressional District race?
Clearly Inglis and Jeffrey are out, as is longtime RINO State Senator David Thomas.
Who does that leave?
Sheesh … we’ve got nothing, people …
Can somebody get Krista Cogdill to jump into this race?
Pic: Alex Hicks, Spartanburg Herald Journal
By No Name April 22, 2010 at 11:00 am
Not sure Bob is out …..as long as Bob Taylor and Wendy Nanney can deliver the 30K Bob Jones Choir vote ….Bob makes it to the run off.
If Trey Gowdy gets in the run off also it will be up to Jim Lee…. who could swing it too Trey by endorsing Trey and bringing with him the large Tea party\RHINO hunting faction in Greenville.
This would cause the BJU mafia to lose the seat and the national reputation of being able to gift wrap the Greenville County GOP for whoever they please …..something promised to Lindsey for 2012 when they ran Sam Harms out of the office with the fraudulent election of Pinnicheo Haddon.
Jim Lee is the Kingmaker here….as too the barking loon Jeffries…..well you have to have some comedy in every race.
Just as a rapid endorsement by Ravanel won the Senate race for Demint….Lee must be ready to pick a side or go Independent.
If he goes that way….. Bob wins with the unshakeable choir vote.
Look for Lindsey to show up with some Obama dollars in Cap and Trade that Bob can hug and talk about his hot air hydrogen jobs program.
Although I am not always for lawyers….Trey’s prosecutorial back ground could come in handy if the GOp wins back the House.
By ManWithoutaPArty April 22, 2010 at 11:46 am
Any way you slice it, The Fightin’ Fourth has another two years of shitty representation in Washington.
By Memories April 22, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Remember back when Bob Jones and Bob Taylor endorsed Romney? A lot of good that did him.
By Better B Glad April 22, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Best laugh of the day…Krista Cogdill..pfffffff (do I need to go there again?)….guaranteed Guiliani win against that unqualified wanna be…..why keep giving her air time????…she is part of the nut jobs that are wrong with this party today! What republicans need to do is buckle down and just hash out the issues. We need to stop casting stones against democrats and the president and let our actions speak for themselves. Take the high road. Start debating the issues not the gossip. The only thing good I can say about Guiliani is he is a established honorable (as in image people). It is to late in the game for an entirely new candidate….so yes were screwed.
By Upstate Conservative April 22, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Jeffrey’s supporters are freaking nuts. I don’t think I’ve met one yet that wasn’t yelling, waving a Bible, or playing the gender card. They were walking around the Upcountry Tea Party & making the fact she was not allowed to attend a private dinner a tragedy.
Inglis & Gowdy aren’t much better with their he said/he said drama. Gowdy is running on this “I’m not a politician” BS. If you were elected by the people, you are a politician.
By Matthew April 22, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Not sure where No name is getting his/her info, Taylor has endorsed Gowdy.
This hurts Cristina more on the credibility factor than anything eles, makes her look like just another one of those lying politicans. Maybe that is unfair, but she has doe it to herself on this one.
By The Conservativist April 22, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Sic, I could care less who she supported, until it was discovered she can’t decide who she supported.
Thanks for the coverage, enjoy the wedding.
By WorkingTommyC April 22, 2010 at 7:45 pm
I’ve got to go with Jeffrey in this race. She is not in my district so all I can do is hope she wins. She’s the most conservative and Constitutional of the bunch and was “tea party” before the tea parties began.
I’ll admit that some things she said that I’ve read recently made me wonder but I’ve got an offbeat sense of humor as well so I can’t really fault her for that. From everything I’ve heard her say at meetings and from what I’ve read of her positions, I don’t think there’s anyone closer to Ron Paul and fundamental Constitutional politics running for office in the state of South Carolina.
She’ll be another “NO!” voice for people and a fighter against the tyranny from D.C. The only really crazy vote is to vote for someone who’ll be another self-centered deal maker like Bob Inglis, Jim Lee, or one of the other RINOs running.
I’ll take a fighter over anything else being offered in politics. If we don’t get people with guts willing to stand up and change things back to a Constitutional, law abiding government in D.C., we’re lost.
By Ynotfirst April 22, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Sic, it’s 911, 911, 911. Biden got that exactly right.
By Matt April 22, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Those of us that had conversations with her in the past…she wasn’t just a reluctant Giuliani backer, she was an enthusiastic cheerleader for Rudy’s campaign. Apparently she thinks that it’s better to lie about who she supported so she can claim to be the “tea party candidate” (her self-professed moniker in this campaign) regardless of the fact that so many Republican activists in Spartanburg know full and well about her support for Rudy.
By Marjorie April 22, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Well, I suppose as Christina’s daughter, I have a bit of a different take on this. The full version can be found here: http://www.speroinverum.blogspot.com
“It shouldn’t surprise anyone, and is has ceased to surprise me, that this sort of thing is what you do to a conservative woman. With Sarah Palin, they attacked her family. With Christina Jeffrey, since you can’t seem to get her on a real issue, you take her working for a candidate out of context. Context was? She was working at the Palladian Group for Karen Floyd when TPG got the Giuliani South Carolina contract. So yeah, she and I both worked at a few Giuliani events — she was not allowed to do any of the fundraising visits or calls, as the campaign didn’t want someone as conervative as Christina Jeffrey doing that sort of work for them, which suited her fine. But she helped set up events, along with the rest of the TPG staff.”
By Matt April 23, 2010 at 9:01 am
Marjorie: you act as if no one involved in Upstate GOP politics knows your mother or has ever had a conversation with her. She doesn’t operate in a bubble. I had a conversation with her where she told me all about why she was supporting Giuliani. Not TPG, but her. And I’m like not the only one.
This whole thing is ridiculous anyway–Jeffrey isn’t going to make it into the runoff.
By WorkingTommyC April 23, 2010 at 9:47 am
It seems to be what happens to a true conservative in a one-party state (which South Carolina essentially is right now).
Anyone willing to fight the establishment and the flow of corrupt money is persecuted with fervor, it seems.
By The Conservativist April 23, 2010 at 11:52 am
Marjorie,
The fact remains she tells the people one thing and does another. She said she was with Hunter (for 1 month now from your own account). And that was who she supported in the WORD debate.
The campaign uses E. Ray Moore to defend that she “NEVER” worked on the campaign and now he’s lying too? Oh, he just was not specific enough.
And because she worked with them and help set up, she gave a detailed interview with the Rocky Mountain News describing her support. Jeffrey claims she was never paid to do campaign work, but by your own admission, she was as an employee of TPG.
By Nathan Earle April 23, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Bob Inglis will not make it to the runoff–very few upstate voters will tell you otherwise. He has simply lost our trust and has defied the will of the people on issues from the troop surge in Iraq to the TARP bailout. And while he denies it, he has also publicly tinkered with the idea of an (unconstitutional) federal individual health insurance mandate and until recently was a firm believer in “climate change.” We’ll have no more of that!
I predict that Trey Gowdy and Jim Lee will duel it out, and my hope is that Jim will emerge as the Republican nominee. If you haven’t met Jim, I hope you will take the time to get to know him before casting your vote on June 8.
By sid April 23, 2010 at 4:48 pm
I can think of two reasons why many Republicans don’t like Rudy. The first, which was mentioned, is abortion, and the second is guns. Rudy is a RINO, which I thought FITS doesn’t like.
By Max The Dog April 23, 2010 at 11:52 pm
By The Conservativist on April 22nd,
Sic, I could care less who she supported, until it was discovered she can’t decide who she supported.*Conservativist aka Gary Coats
Can’t you stop lying? You are like a mad dog in the summer running to and fro chasing Dr Jeffrey. And stop thinking that you are political expert since you are a very young neo-con local establishment child with no real political experience nor any impressive educational knowledge that has no clue to what is going on in this country and this planet…Let’s see now, you have been out of the local Jr community College for 5 years, held 3 jobs and ran one little political campaign in Spartanburg….And you continue to think that you are the big dog in a declining political party that will save the day for a western civilzation Republican Paradise.
By WorkingTommyC April 24, 2010 at 8:16 pm
No one but Jeffrey is talking about taking the fight to the establishment.
Ron Paul has shown what one person can do in making a difference. His persistence has paid off and he is being proved correct on every point as time passes. We need another fighter like him in Congress. Jeffrey is the one.
The others are just the same old deal makers and power brokers supported by the same old establishment hacks. If there is to be real change, we need Jeffrey in Congress.
By DaSchmuck April 25, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Marjorie, I’ve seen you around. You’re a little hot, but I hear that blogger Earl Capps likes his chicks on the thick side. You should get to meet him and worry less about your mother.
By The Conservativist April 26, 2010 at 11:43 am
Max The Dog, Connie Mac Berry Jr, Cary, NC fringe campaign supporter.
Enjoying the personal character attacks, Mr. I can’t pay my parking ticket fines.
The only person’s ego who precedes them would be yours my friend.
You know, your starting to sound like an “Elitist”….
By Elmo April 26, 2010 at 1:01 pm
If you wanna win , don’t let Rudy endorse you. You remember Rudy, he wanted to stay mayor(king) of NYC after 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 and ignore the laws of the land as well as the voters right to put in someone else.
I see where Rudy(along with Dick Cheney) endorsed the fellow running against Rand Paul in Kentucky ,too.
The best part of Rudy’s presidential campaign was when he would go to an event and there would be more Paul supporters there mocking him than actual folks out to see Rudy.
Stick a fork in Rudy, he’s done.
By Southeast Research Group April 26, 2010 at 8:16 pm
Southeast Research Group
April 26, 2010
Supporters?? She has almost none. Recent polling shows her name id is in the dirt. Projections are she will not even break 5% of the vote. Why is anyone wasting time talking about this lying, has-been of a politician?* Thomas
Odd? A recent poll shows the Jeffrey campaign is now in a firm 3 rd place and closing fast on the two establishment candiates and within a striking distant of 3 points. This poll was conducted last week after various factions of the Lee Campaign attack Jeffrey as a liar on South Carolina Conservative Blog sites…
This poll was conducted by the Southeast Research Group and was among 1598 Republican Voters in the 4 th district by phone contact.
For more information on this poll and questions ask along with poll numbers. Contact Jack Dawsey Media at jackdawseymedia@hotmail.com
By Max The Dog April 26, 2010 at 8:24 pm
You know, your starting to sound like an “Elitist”….* Gary Coats
You sound like the half/governor Sara Palin on a bad day using the Orwellian Doublespeak term ” Elitist”
I must be getting to you kid since you continue the personal attacks and if you tell your mother that I am abusing you. I will report you to the local Sissies of American chapter for attacking senior citizens in a open refrig
you should really consider another career besides politics, since you are not very good at it…..
By Earl Capps April 26, 2010 at 10:24 pm
One could get a statistically valid sample without having to poll more than a few hundred voters.
Not only that, but what kind of major league pollster or strategist would use a hotmail email address? That’s so 90s. Spend the $15 a year to get your own domain.
By Max The Dog April 26, 2010 at 11:43 pm
By DaSchmuck on April 25th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Marjorie, I’ve seen you around. You’re a little hot, but I hear that blogger Earl Capps likes his chicks on the thick side. You should get to meet him and worry less about your mother.
Lee Schmuck! You just called a candiate daughter a HO and Fat! No doubt you are pillow of Jello for the Lee Campaign or just a piece of fecs lost in neo-con republican politics, So much for Gary Coats and you as the Angels and Demons of Spartanburg Republican politics………
By Max The Dog April 27, 2010 at 2:47 pm
One could get a statistically valid sample without having to poll more than a few hundred voters.
Not only that, but what kind of major league pollster or strategist would use a hotmail email address? That’s so 90s. Spend the $15 a year to get your own domain.* Earl the Pearl of Republican politics in South Carolina
Oh come neo-con dude! You are a political failure and think as a 39 year old hotshot in South Carolina politics when frankly your IQ level is that of a retarded conservative fool who really believes that he is saving the Republic and making South Carolina a Republican Paradise. You should move to Arizona as it fits your want to be desires to be the boy in the Hood on the internet. And what makes you think that any group with a hotmail address is a enemy of the State? Are you aware that Homeland Security uses hotmail addresses? And another stupid thing you said about fewer numbers in a political poll will give you the same numbers as a large poll. If one believes that? Than a poll with you as the lone interviewer would be the most used and simple poll ever desire on the planet….lol!!!! Get life dude and get a real job and buy gold before you end up lost in a food riot in front of a Bi-Lo parking lot…….
By Earl Capps April 28, 2010 at 9:31 am
Hey, Max, Rachael or whoever you are, update that lame-ass website and learn to write content. That’s so 1998.