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AG SAYS GUV ‘ATTRACTIVE’ CANDIDATE IN 2012
Anybody who regularly reads The Palmetto Scoop knows that I am an unabashed supporter of Attorney General Henry McMaster. I am also not a fan of Gov. Mark Sanford.
But occasionally, these two things collide and leave me in a precarious position. Like yesterday when McMaster showed Sanford some serious love to Jason Spencer of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal.
I asked McMaster almost as an aside if he’d seen the Web site to draft [Sanford] to run for president in 2012. He said he hadn’t, but that Sanford would make an “attractive” candidate.
“He’ll get a lot of support nationally. People will be very interested in him,” McMaster said. “He is a Southerner. He will have been a two-term governor of a prominent Southern state. On a number of highly principled issues, he is right. And personally, he is a very attractive, personable man.”
That sound you just heard was my gag reflex. An “attractive candidate”? “A lot of support nationally”? “Highly principled”? Are we talking about the same Sanford here?
Once again, if Sanford paid RQA, not only would he be a strong candidate but also McMaster would be a likely Sanford cabinet member.
uh elroy, doesn’t mcmaster pay McFogles beloved rqa? I dont get why hes attacking him.
Wrong, Adam, the correct response is to ignore things that don’t fit into your worldview.
“A conflict?! No there isn’t! I can’t hear you! Na na na na na.”
I think it’s wierd for one guy to call another ” attractive”. Aside from that, is that all there is to Republicans these days? Palin= pretty face. Sanford= attractive??
Thomas Ravenel moved to halfway house
Former state Treasurer Thomas Ravenel apparently has been moved from the federal lockup in Jesup, Ga., to a halfway house.
A posting on the Federal Bureau of Prisons Web site Wednesday indicates Ravenel is now at a community corrections site.
No other details were immediately available. A family member who was contacted Wednesday was not aware of the move. Ravenel began serving his 10-month prison term in May.
Ravenel, 46, was elected state treasurer in 2006 and was in office for about six months before he was indicted by authorities who’d been tracking his drug use and the reputed cocaine use in the bars, clubs and mansions of Charleston. Officials say Ravenel used and shared the drug with friends but did not sell it. He pleaded guilty to one federal count of conspiracy with intent to distribute cocaine and was sentenced in March.
His release date is listed as March 27 on the prison Web site.
McFogle + McMaster – Sanford = embarrassing defeat should McMaster run for Governor.
Its simple McFogle……you cannot live without Mark Sanford…..you damn sure cannot get your idiotic candidate elected without pandering to his 80% approving public…..
you’re an idiot.
Adam,
Could you explain the appeal of Henry McMaster to you? He just seems like a vestige of the old guard status quo, kind of like a Southern-fried alderman everytime he opens his mouth. There is nothing dynamic about him as a leader. He seems like your typical good ol’ boy attorney and not “with it” like the dynamic new faces emerging in the Republican Party, whether it be Jim DeMint or Michael Steele or Bobby Jindal.
I’m all for Sanford running. He’s principled, conservative, Southern, and could easily become perfect if were to raise the Confederate flag back over the State Capitol. That and leave Ben Tillman’s statue alone.