Saturday, January 21, 2012
Stephen Colbert asked South Carolinians to vote Herman Cain, which was a vote for 'Corporations are People.'
Some voters in the Palmetto state were in on the joke. TV host and conservative spoofer Stephen Colbert made a last-minute push to have voters vote for Herman Cain. He told supporters at the College of Charleston Friday that if that was a joke, then the Supreme Court decision that allows the formation of unlimited fundraising and spending from Super PACs is also a joke. That's why he asked S.C. voters to vote for Cain and support the soundbite "Corporations are People." And judging by Cain grabbing more votes than any other dropped-out candidate, including Texas Gov. Rick Perry who dropped out earlier in the week, some of the voters in the state agree. South Carolina's open primary process, which allows Democrats and independents to also …
Friday, January 20, 2012
Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain joins Stephen Colbert on stage at the Cistern Friday.
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON — Coming to the S.C. GOP presidential primary too late to appear on the ballot, South Carolina native and conservative TV host Stephen Colbert asked the 3,500 people who attended his rally Friday at the Cistern to cast their ballots for Herman Cain, who also joined Colbert on stage. A vote for Cain is a vote for Colbert and his principles of corporate personhood. Colbert has been flaunting his not-coordinated Definitely Not Coordinating with Stephen Colbert Super PAC and the Citizens United decision with the Supreme Court that, as he said, was a big push for "corporate civil rights." While the 3,500 people waited for more than three hours for Colbert appeared warm to the candidate, who is still in the exploratory …
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Charleston's own GOP spoofer Stephen Colbert hosts 'Rock Me Like a Herman Cain' Friday at College of Charleston.
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON — Stephen Colbert, host of the "Colbert Report" and conservative character, will host an event dubbed "Rock Me Like a Herman Cain" at 1 p.m. Friday at the Cistern, according to the college's media relations office. Colbert is running for President of the United States in South Carolina, but he threw his hat into the GOP presidential primary too late to appear on the ballot. So he's told his audience members that a vote for now-dropped out candidate Herman Cain is a vote for Colbert. Colbert is a Charleston native and has previously meddled in the 2008 Democratic primary when he ran as a Republican, but was denied being placed on the ballot. In late 2011, he sought to gain the naming rights of the S.C. GOP debate and …
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
After roller-coaster ride in South Carolina, Gingrich fights to reclaim his Palmetto State frontrunner status ahead of Saturday primary
In Newt Gingrich's own words, he "must win" South Carolina's primary this Saturday. Despite a bravura performance in a national TV debate Monday night in Myrtle Beach, at least one new poll shows frontrunner Mitt Romney's lead widening with just three days left. What not too long ago appeared Gingrich's state to lose increasingly appears lost. Yet Gingrich supporters and admirers in the state remain ever hopeful that the candidate — who bills himself "the conservative alternative" to Romney — can still prevail. "I think there is going to be a big surprise come Saturday," said Lexington GOP activist Deborah Myers, who is wavering between supporting either Gingrich or Rick Santorum. "I think conservatives will either coalesce behind Newt, …
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
After Cain announced the suspension of his presidential bid, his supporters began to look for another candidate to back.
Former leaders in businessman Herman Cain's S.C. campaign are turning their support to Congresswoman Michele Bachmann after Cain announced Saturday that he is suspending his presidential bid. Nineteen former Cain state leaders have joined Bachmann's S.C. team, the Bachmann for President campaign announced Tuesday. Among them is Matt Gottlieb, the former Herman Cain Richland County chairman. "The best indicator of a person’s future actions are their past actions," Gottlieb said. "We need a president who has always been, and who always will be, a consistent conservative.” State Representative Ralph Norman (York County) also joined Bachmann's S.C. campaign as 5th district chairman. “We need a president with the specific ideas to reform our …
Monday, December 5, 2011
Newt Gingrich is surging in the GOP field with the help of some Tea Party leaders, and Michele Bachmann is not happy about it.
If members of the South Carolina arm of the Tea Party were prepared to vote in a bloc, with nearly half of the state’s Republicans identifying with the movement, the GOP nomination would be theirs to decide. But with less than seven weeks to go before the Jan. 21 South Carolina primary, the group is looking more decisive than ever. The only belief they apparently share: Obama has got to go. "The Tea Party is all over the place," Charleston Tea Party chairman Mike Murphee said. Murphee said most people are still looking for the best candidate to beat Obama. "You've got a real tough decision," Murphee said. "But any one of them in the debates now, I'll take any of them that they give me." Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Minnesota Rep…
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Cain headed to S.C. for Town Hall Friday, despite rumors
Boxes filled with more than 12,000 yard signs arrived at Herman Cain's South Carolina headquarters in Columbia on Tuesday and despite rumors that Cain might drop out of the presidential race, his campaign director said the signs would be put to good use. "When I watched the news yesterday, it was all about reassessment," said William Head, Cain's South Carolina campaign director. "Reassessment has been a part of this whole campaign." Head said the media took Cain's words out of context during a conference call Tuesday, which was intended for senior staff only but quickly leaked onto Twitter. "The media has essentially taken that word and run with it to say that Mr. Cain is assessing whether he is going to drop out of the race or not," Head…
With with wheels falling off of Herman Cain's campaign amid allegations of an affair, his possible departure could help further fuel Newt Gingrich's surge or help Ron Paul or Rick Perry.
Presidential politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum — as evidenced by the constant ebb and flow at the top of the GOP race for the White House. And nothing creates a vacuum like a serious contender dropping out of the race. In light of some flops on foreign policies issues, as well as multiple accusations of inappropriate conduct and a new allegation of a protracted extramarital affair, Georgia businessman Herman Cain said Tuesday he is "reassessing" his campaign. This, of course, is leading to wide speculation that the end of his run may be imminent. So we asked South Carolina political experts to speculate on who stands to benefit the most from Cain's potential departure. At the top of the list Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House…
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The Palmetto State's run of choosing the eventual GOP nominee could end after 32-year run.
Streaks are a big part of sports lore. Joe DiMaggio hitting in 56 straight in 1941; the UCLA basketball team winning 88 in a row over three years in the 1970s; Oklahoma football winning 47 consecutive games in the mid-1950s. Politics, compared quite often to sports in many respects, has streaks of its own. And the one that all South Carolinians know about, irrespective of which candidate they are backing, is the Palmetto State’s streak of selecting every Republican nominee since 1980. Reagan, Bush, Dole, Bush and McCain all won here en route to the nomination. This election season, the only refrain heard from presidential candidates more than the desire to put Barack Obama on the unemployment line has been the recognition of South Carolina…
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich gave a strong performance Saturday night
On a day when GOP presidential canididates criss-crossed South Carolina prior to debating at Wofford College, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's meteoric rise through the ranks of the Republican candidates could have taken another step. If this 10th debate, hosted by CBS News and the National Journal, had a winner, the early reactions suggest it was Gingrich, who continues to rise in the polls and opened an office in Greenville earlier on Saturday. “Newt is a master of facts,” said one Twitter follower. Every debate attendee who stopped to talk to Patch following the event in Spartanburg said the night belonged primarily to Gingrich. Insiders also praised Gingrich, who sparred briefly with one of the debate's moderators Scott Pelley. “'I…
Michael Lewis
4:54 pm on Sunday, January 22, 2012
Stephen Colbert is media royalty exempt from the campaign laws he mocks. We the people are the butt of his jokes. Mainstream media corporations are the ultimate Super Pacs! From 1791 to 1886 1st Amendment freedoms of speech, press and assembly were the sole rights of flesh and blood citizens. From 1886 to 1973 flesh and blood citizens and media corporations enjoyed equal freedoms of speech and … more ›