“Bad Romance” For Republicans

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta – a.k.a. “Lady Gaga” – turned down $1 million to perform at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida last year. That’s according to a slew of documents unearthed as part of a lawsuit involving entertainment at the quadrennial partisan event.
The suit – first reported by The Washington Examiner – was [...]

Savannah River Sellout Overturned … For Now

 BUT CAN THE DAMAGE NIKKI HALEY HAS DONE TO SOUTH CAROLINA EVER BE FIXED?
The “Savannah River Sellout” – S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s most flagrant betrayal of our state’s economic competitiveness – was overturned late last week by the South Carolina Supreme Court, although it may be too late for the damage to be undone.
Last November, [...]

Nobody Watched The RNC

OK WE’RE EXAGGERATING … BUT THE NUMBERS WERE WAY DOWN
Mitt Romney’s big speech this week accepting the Republican presidential nomination has been praised by pundits and GOP partisans.
“On the biggest night of his political life, Mitt Romney delivered,” National Review editor and Fox News contributor Rich Lowry wrote.
We’ll let you be the judge of that [...]

Haley Speech: All That?

NOT ACCORDING TO FOX VIEWERS
The reaction of national and state pundits to S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s big speech at the Republican National Convention earlier this week has been predominantly positive.  In fact even this website – no friend of Haley’s – gave the governor some credit for her performance.
Of course pointed out several of its [...]

Nikki’s Big Night

GOVERNOR DELIVERS WELL-RECEIVED SPEECH TO REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley made the most of her big moment on the national stage this week – delivering a rousing, well-received address to the assembled delegates at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.  The governor needed a big night, too, as the one-time vice presidential [...]

Nikki Haley’s Speech To The 2012 Republican National Convention

Below is the prepared text of S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s speech delivered on August 28, 2012 in Tampa, Florida to the 2012 Republican National Convention …
I am the proud daughter of Indian immigrants who reminded my brothers, my sister and me every single day how blessed we were to live in this country.
They loved the [...]

What You Won’t Hear Nikki Haley Say In Tampa

THE SELECTIVE HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA’S “CONSERVATIVE” GOVERNOR 
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley will have her moment in the national spotlight this week in Tampa, Florida when she addresses the 2012 Republican National Convention.
Haley is viewed as a rising star by national Republicans – a “tea party favorite” who ostensibly supports fiscally conservative policy.  ”Just a Reminder: Nikki [...]

Anarchy In Florida?

GOP CONVENTION TO BE TARGETED?
It’s not just a brewing Hurricane that “Republicans” will have to deal with when they gather in Tampa for their quadrennial national convention next week … according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the anarchists are coming, too.
According to a national intelligence bulletin obtained [...]

The Republicans Are Coming

… READY THE STRIPPERS
Republicans still claim to stand for good old fashioned family values, but preparations for the 2012 Republican National Convention would seem to indicate that the leaders of the “Grand Old Party” don’t always abide by those moral moorings.
From The Tampa Bay Times:
Across the Tampa Bay region, many of the estimated 50 strip [...]