Tag Archives: South Carolina

Think Progress alerts us that Gingrich is lying again.

And he’s not really running. But then even funnier poll result is below. It seems at least one-third of South Carolina GOP voters agree that “corporations are people.” Ron Paul supporters disagree the most vehemently, unsurprisingly.

I don’t know what the photo is supposed to mean, but Rick Perry is tweeting out denials that he has actually quit the race. Sorry, world.

According to South Carolina’s Republican voters, Rick Perry will dominate that state’s GOP primary, no matter how the pollsters jiggered the final lineup of candidates.

Embiggen for the details.

Andrew Sullivan points us to the above wedding announcement published by South Carolina’s largest daily newspaper. Rather than smile at the image of all those good ole boys freaking out over today’s paper, let’s wish the happy couple our best. (Whoops, smiling anyway.)

Earlier this year the GOP awarded next year’s presidential convention to Tampa. But now GOP state organizations in Iowa and South Carolina say the convention must be relocated if Florida doesn’t move its primary to a date after theirs. Currently Florida’s primary is scheduled to be the first, an issue the GOP also squabbled over in 2008. Florida’s 2012 GOP …

Tea Party-backed South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley was dogged by accusations of extramarital affairs during her successful 2010 campaign, prompting her to declare that she’d resign if the charges were ever proven true. Today a man who claims to have had an affair with Haley has published “steamy details” of their encounters and has dared Haley to sue him for …

A South Carolina woman says that God told her to murder her nephew’s dog because it chewed on her bible. Miriam Fowler Smith, 65, told cops on Monday that she hung and burned her nephew’s pit bull after the animal took a bite out of her bible. She claimed God urged her to kill Diamond, a 1-year-old female dog, because …

Wonkette reports that outing kingpin Mike Rogers finally has the goods on Sen. Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina’s favorite lifelong bachelor and former military prosecutor, is always reliably against homosexuals having any basic human rights in America because Lindsey’s a Republican, y’all. Anyway, famous outer-of-self-hating-queers Mike Rogers says he’s got pictures of one of Lindsey’s boy toys leaving Lindsey’s …

One of Andrew Sullivan’s readers sends him this billboard from South Carolina.

Emboldened by Tea Party wins in the midterm elections, the loons of South Carolina’s secession movement have issued their “plan for independence” from the United States. Currently, South Carolina and her people are controlled by the federal government of the United States, which is controlled by the votes of the citizens in a few select populous states. California, New York, …

Responding to a burglary call, cops in South Carolina say they were forced to taser and club a deranged naked man that they later said may have hallucinating on mushrooms. After transporting the man to a hospital, a small discovery was made. During a medical exam at a nearby hospital, medical personnel found a mouse tail hanging from Smith’s rectum. …

Saying that Tea Party hero Sen. Jim DeMint is facing attacks from within the GOP because his support for anti-gay teabaggers cost them their Senate majority, the Family Research Council is asking for one million of their followers to pledge to pray for the asshat bigot every day. After what should have been a proud moment for all Republicans on …

The South Carolina Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a street preacher who was arrested and fined after screaming anti-gay epithets at a lesbian couple. Greenville Circuit Judge Edward Miller had previously upheld Joseph D. Bane’s 2008 conviction, but the Supreme Court said a city rule against remarks that “humiliate, insult or scare” was too vague. All five of …

“Common sense and clear thinking dictates that if we love America’s teenagers, we will resolve to put healthy, mature role models in front of them right at the time when they are making sexual decisions of enormous and lasting impact. I’m happy to openly, publicly and unreservedly declare that Sen. DeMint is right. We should see to it that our …

GOP Sen. Jim DeMint told a group of South Carolina pastors on Friday that “open homosexuals” and unmarried women should not be allowed to teach in public schools. In addition to reiterating anti-choice talking points on abortion and backing “traditional marriage,” according to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, the senator went further and “said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn’t be …

The Washington Post tracks the states looking to copy Arizona’s racist anti-immigrant law. Lawmakers in Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah, which have already taken steps against illegal immigration, say that Arizona-style measures have a realistic chance of passing when their legislatures reconvene in 2011. The Obama administration sued Arizona in federal court Tuesday, charging that the state law usurps federal …

“I know it’s really gonna upset a lot of gay men — I’m sure hundreds of ’em are gonna be jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge — but I ain’t available. I ain’t gay. Sorry.” – Sen. Lindsey Graham, speaking to the New York Times. (Via – Politico)