Haley Endorses Romney for President
The Romney campaign announced the support of the state's first female governor on Friday morning.
Gov. Nikki Haley, one of the few remaining big-name Republicans who had not endorsed a candidate for president, today threw her support behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Haley will serve as co-chair of Romney for President’s National Steering Committee.
“It is an honor to have the endorsement of Governor Haley,” said Mitt Romney, in a news release. “As a successful businesswoman who entered public service so government could better serve the people, Governor Haley’s career-long efforts to reform government, make government more accountable to the taxpayers, and fight wasteful spending should be examples for leaders across the country. These conservative principles of smaller government are what I am fighting for in my campaign and will be the basis for restoring economic prosperity and fiscal health.”
Despite her own troubles in the polls, Haley's approval has been highly sought after, according to a Washington Post story.
Haley has played "hostess" (her word) as she welcomed for overnight visits Rep. Michele Bachmann, Newt and Callista Gingrich and Ann Romney -- in 2008, Haley backed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who dropped by Haley's office recently, the newspaper reports.
“The election next November will have ramifications for generations,” Haley said. “Neither South Carolina nor the nation can afford four more years of President Obama, and Mitt Romney is the right person to take him on and get America back on track. He is a conservative businessman who has spent his life working in the economy, and he understands exactly how jobs are created. He is not a creature of Washington, and he knows what it means to make decisions – real decisions – not simply cast a vote. Our country will need real leadership to undo President Obama’s failed policies, and replace them with the conservative principles Mitt Romney learned turning around businesses and a failing Olympics and successfully, conservatively governing a Democratic state. I am proud to endorse him and will work my hardest to ensure he is elected so we can turn around our country.”
The endorsement couldn't come soon enough for Romney, in need of a lift as he now trails frontrunner Newt Gingrich in polls in four of the first five voting states, including South Carolina. With just six weeks remaining before voters here head to the polls, nearly half of them say they are undecided about who they will support in the election.
Romney embarks on a Palmetto State tour Friday with an appearance in Greenville and town hall events in Charleston and Myrtle Beach on Saturday.
Joe
7:54 am on Friday, December 16, 2011
There goes Romney! Kiss of death!
Richard Hayes
9:40 am on Friday, December 16, 2011
This is very surprising -- he is the least conservative of the GOP circus. Makes no sense, unless.... maybe he offered her the VP slot!
Joe
9:50 am on Friday, December 16, 2011
No what probably happened is Newt didn't kiss her ring.
Eddie Bennett
10:39 am on Friday, December 16, 2011
Everyone has their favorite candidate, there is no logical reason why one should slander another because of their choice. Stick with your candidate and leave the others along.
Joe
11:22 am on Friday, December 16, 2011
Hey Eddie, did someone shred the Bill of Rights while I was sleeping?
Eddie Bennett
11:26 am on Friday, December 16, 2011
Be blessed Joe.
Joe
11:36 am on Friday, December 16, 2011
I'll try
Karen
1:16 pm on Friday, December 16, 2011
I have decided to forgive Newt of his past because if God can forgive him, so can I. I believe that he is the best candidate in the field for not only beating Obabma, but also for leading our country out of this mess.
Joe
3:34 pm on Friday, December 16, 2011
I really do not understand the conservative message, I want the government to be conservative i could care less what the elected person is! I have gay friends who are conservative, they believe in small government, medicare reform, private SS accounts etc etc, what we end up getting is conservative candidates who think they know how to run our lives!
stanley seigler
5:56 pm on Friday, December 16, 2011
@Karen: "...God can forgive him, so can I.
COMMENT
tho not a religious scholar, nor a fan of organized religion...believe one has to repent for God to forgive...
newt has not repented...he is his old arrogant, narcissist, a-hole, self...the pillsbury dough boy's evil twin...butbutt;
i'm pulling for newt. he is the best candidate to ensure BO's re-election...DEMs "cheer, cheer for old/new newt..."
BTW
"Gingrich, showing a distrust for his fellow Republicans' judgement, saw fit to supply the leaders with two lists of keywords,..." for the DEMs:
"Anti-flag, anti-family, anti-child, anti-jobs, betray, coercion, collapse, consequences, corruption, crises, decay,...etcetc..." http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/000013.php
and the GOP sheep follow newts judgement...
LEXINGTONBOB
9:58 am on Saturday, December 17, 2011
Great! The more support Rommney receives the better chances for Obama. Go Nicki you picked another loser, just like yourself. Tea party is dead just like Bachman
Joe
10:00 am on Saturday, December 17, 2011
Bob, Bob, Bob, Tea Party is alive and well, we do not need someone to tell us who to vote for, in fact that is the essence of the tea party, we are tired of people telling us what to do!
George Grace
12:20 pm on Saturday, December 17, 2011
Boy - do we need an FDR now. 1934 elections, just a little over a year since FDR won the presidency from a Republican, Herbert Hoover.
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"No one was prepared for the actual results. Expected to pick-up a few score (House) seats the Republicans lost thirteen instead. In the Senate the rout of the GOP was even more devastating. There the Democrats won better than a two-thirds majority. The nine new Democratic Senators -one was Missouri's Harry Truman-swelled the parties total to a dazzling 69 seats."
Joe
12:27 pm on Saturday, December 17, 2011
FDR was a Communist, not even a socialist! He destroyed this country and we are till paying for his grandiose ideas!
Joe
12:29 pm on Saturday, December 17, 2011
Hoover was correct, we should have let Hitler and Stalin destroy each other, instead we recognized Stalin as the lesser of 2 evils and then payed the price for the next 50 years! George, PLEASE go take a history course!
George Grace
12:55 pm on Saturday, December 17, 2011
We declared war on Germany, 1941, after Germany declared war on us. In support of Japan just after 3 days or so after Pearl Harbor.
George Grace
12:33 pm on Saturday, December 17, 2011
1934.
"The voters elected a new House of 322 Democrats to 103 Republicans, and 10 Progreesives or Farmer-Laborites. Never in the history of the Republican party has its percentage of House seats fallen so low."
FDR and the new Deal, William Leuctenburg, Page 116.
Joe
12:55 pm on Saturday, December 17, 2011
And Roosevelt lied to the AMerican people swearing that he would not end our boys off to fight the European fight, he sided with the Russians and sold our soul!
George Grace
9:25 pm on Saturday, December 17, 2011
Once again Joe - you seem obtuse today - Hitler (Germany) declared war on us two days after Pearl harbor. What do you think FDR and the US should have done - ignored it? Pretend it didn't happen?
Joe
12:55 pm on Saturday, December 17, 2011
Thousands of Communists infiltrated our highest levels of Government under Roosevelt.
stanley seigler
2:00 pm on Saturday, December 17, 2011
@George Grace: "...we need an FDR now..."
we have one: BO...many similarities in the first 3 years of FDR and BO's administrations...and in their compassion for the least...BO may be closer to po folks than FDR...as FDR came from the super rich...possible the 1% of his day.
BTW unemployment during FDR's first three years, around 25%...same period for BO around 9%...FDR was elected to 4 terms...GOPtpers give thanks presidents can only be elected to two terms now...
would like to see a little more of FDR's "i welcome their hate" in BO...
George Grace
5:01 pm on Saturday, December 17, 2011
"we have one: BO"
I agree. Now the question is how to get the vote out to get those Congressional numbers i quoted above - the majorities.
stanley seigler
4:56 am on Sunday, December 18, 2011
@George Grace: "...how to get the vote out to get those Congressional numbers..."
COMMENT
just let the GOP candidates continue to debate...what a reality show...
i would love to hear the backroom DEMs and GOPs discussions re the debates...the DEMs probably are laughing all the way to the 2012 election and the GOPs are crying...
Eddie Bennett
6:41 pm on Saturday, December 17, 2011
The Demos had the majority in the senate, the house and a Dem President in 2008 and we know what happened.
stanley seigler
11:48 pm on Saturday, December 17, 2011
@Eddie Bennett: "The Demos had the majority in the senate, the house and a Dem President in 2008 and we know what happened'
COMMENT
for the record
GOPs controlled house from 1995 til 2006 and 2011 to present; the presidency from 2001-2008
DEMs controlled house from 2007-2008; presidency from 2009 to present...
senate: GOPs 1997-2007; DEMs 2008-2011
kinda hard for DEMs to turn the ship of state around after the GOPs steered it into the shallows for 8-10 years...then handcuffed (block BO congress) the helmsman for 2-3 years...ie,
drove our great country into a ditch...and their policy to get it out is to make their JOB#1 to make BO a one term president...and return to the 1929 (great depression), 2008 (great recession) policies
seems the GOPs took governance lessons in wonderland from the red queen and humpdy dumpty...
George Grace
11:27 pm on Sunday, December 18, 2011
This is serious. Lindsay Graham and the other SC "twits" have gotten the "detention" provision in the Nat'l Defense Auth Act up for Obama's signature. All it takes is suspicion of terrorism, not a judges signature much less a trial. We are getting real close to fascism people. Who's to say they couldn't use the bill against the Occupy movement?
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"According to a Forbes report the NDAA contains provisions that would allow anyone, even American citizens, to be arrested without having committed a crime. Those arrested could be imprisoned for life without charges or trials. They would disappear, never to be seen again, without due process of law. "
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How can we get these guys out of office?
stanley seigler
12:45 am on Monday, December 19, 2011
@George Grace: "Those arrested could be imprisoned for life without charges or trials. They would disappear, never to be seen again, without due process of law. "...How can we get these guys out of office?"
COMMENTS
what the F are levin and mccain thinking...besides “denigrating the very foundations of this country"...it was/is a diversion from JOBS, JOBS, JOBS...
CLIPSs
I seriously don’t care if you’re a liberal or a conservative or a libertarian or a Zen anarchist. So long as you aren’t Carl Levin or John McCain, the bill’s architects, you can join the Civil Liberties Caucus. Spencer writes:
Weirder still, the bill’s chief architect, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), tried to persuade skeptics that the bill wasn’t so bad. His pitch? “The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the United States,” he said on the Senate floor on Monday. The bill would just letthe government detain a citizen in military custody, not force it to do that. Reassured yet?
Civil libertarians aren’t. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said it “denigrates the very foundations of this country.” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) added, “it puts every single American citizen at risk.” [end clips]
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/12/05/the-national-defense-authorization-act-is-the-greatest-threat-to-civil-liberties-americans-face/
Joe
8:07 am on Monday, December 19, 2011
I agree with George, this law throws out the Constitution once and for all and it shows both parties are complicit in the betrayal of our land!
Strange N. Stranger
7:11 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
To see how Romney's Mormon faith would affect him in the White House, go to mittromneycult.blogspot.com
Joe
10:57 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
spare me your ignorance
stanley seigler
10:48 pm on Wednesday, December 21, 2011
re: go to mittromneycult.blogspot.com
if anyone has not gone to above link...DONT...unless you are a bigot...
james l. young
11:06 am on Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Too bad she decided to give Romney cover on his stand, expressed in Nevada
to not send our nuclear waste to the high yield repository there. We've got
it all, and DOE has promised to move it to the completed repository in Nevada.
Obama has blocked it, and Haley has sworn to get it moved. Jim Y.