That is the only motivator to change the behavior of politics. The way Senate Republicans are conducting themselves at this very moment is a prime example. What is it that they are missing that they continue on their merry way towards helping Democrats pass health care? Fear. It’s plain and simple, but the Washingtoncrats such as Mitch McConnell, John Kyl, and a host of others are not only counterproductive to the Republican platform, but to the idea of America as our founders set this place up. It’s not that the GOP’s phone lines should go silent, but ring loudly and continuously by callers telling them they’ll get no more money. I’m not paying for our own demise.

I received an email from an “organizer” of the Charleston Tea Party last week announcing that they had endorsed Grooms for the GOP Gov nomination already. I do not know much about him. He served on the transportation committee and road the tea party bus to Washington apparently. He may very well be a great guy, but as a Nikki supporter I was a bit miffed.

I wrote back questioning the prudence of direct tea party involvement in a wide open primary so early. No response.

I thought that the tea party focus was on D.C. i.e. Cap and Tax, Stimulus, Obamacare. Are other Tea Party organizations behaving similarly?

I keep writing about the need for we Americans to take our country back from the control of the Leftists who seek nothing less than to overthrow and destroy and discard everything this country stands for, but we also have to take back the Republican Party from the squishes, useful idiots, and fellow travellers who run it.

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while you’re spreading the SC love, Erick

Jim Lee is the real deal, a conservative to the core, an Air Force veteran, small business guy, non politician who is running against Bob Inglis in SC Congressional Fourth. He’s a tea party patriot who says on his website “Bi-partisanship, collaboration, and cooperation on bad legislation still produces…bad legislation.”

Nikki Haley has been my district’s representative in the SC Statehouse since she was elected in 2004.

I have seen Nikki only a handful of times in person but I have emailed her on many occasions concerning issues regarding limited government and standing up for the people in our state. Nikki has been on the right side of the issues and has always welcomed my comments, responding in a way that makes it obvious that she reads my emails and considers the issues.

Nikki Haley is highly intelligent, VERY energetic (I can’t keep up with her and I know very few who can) and highly motivated to do what’s right instead of what is politically expedient as career politicians do.

Nikki told me that when she got to the statehouse and saw what was going on, she was outraged.

I imagine she saw the pigs feeding at the trough and reacted like most regular, everyday, hardworking citizens of this state would have reacted.

Unlike most politicians who go there with good intentions, she did not cave in to the system. She showed strength and resolve and determined to do something about making the government better instead of letting the system corrupt her.

In her fight to end voice votes in the statehouse, she took on her own party’s leaders who did not want “we the people” putting pressure on our elected officials by knowing the simple facts of how they have voted. Accountability is something the state legislature does not want as they work to increase our budget and our indebtedness by a billion dollars a year in pork and special interest favors.

Nikki, by working for a bill and calling on people all over the state to show their grassroots support, SHAMED the leadership in both houses into making rules changes to allow more and easier calls for recorded votes.

Nikki still wants a law to record each and every vote and, knowing her, she’ll get it before it’s all said and done.

Nikki was punished by the house leadership for defying them. She was stripped of important committee assignments and ostracized by all but a few other elected officials. Nikki, however, doesn’t care about all that good ol’ boy cronyism.

I asked her once why she was fighting the system like she is and her response was simply that it is the right thing to do. She wants to be able to sleep at night knowing that she’s done the right thing no matter how difficult that task is. She’s putting it all on the line as one of us.

Nikki will treat the office of governor as a JOB instead of a “reward” or “promotion” like the other candidates would. She is NOT a career politician and after eight years of being governor, that will be all for her though she will continue afterward to work to get other good people in office to take their turn at public service.

I am a working poor man, myself. I’m not, nor ever will be, a player in big business nor politics though I am an outspoken critic at times. I have a regular day job that I scrape by on during these tough times and would not be surprised if I’m laid off when things get worse.

The only candidate for governor that I trust to get in front of the situation we’re in and make things happen based on true American principles of liberty and personal responsibility is Nikki Haley. That is why, despite my lack of resources, I have scrimped, saved, and have given up some things and sent her a donation of several hundred dollars.

I would not expect others, especially working folks from out of state, to match my efforts but every little bit, even if it’s just the $20.00 bill you have in your wallet right now, will help.

For those of you making more than I am–which, unfortunately for me, is the far greater majority of you–then you should be able to make a sizable contribution as well.

In any case, please, send in what your heart and your mind tell you to. Nikki makes sure the money is spent wisely. She is, believe it or not, very frugal with other people’s money–something practically unheard of with politicians. You won’t regret your investment in doing the right thing.