Tag: South Carolina

Tea Party needs to refocus its eyes on THE TRUE PRIZE

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Brant Clifton

In a slow news cycle, just in front of the South Carolina primary, a couple of loudmouth local yokels calling themselves “Tea Party leaders” are

GOP: Get On the bandwagon — or else …

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Rush had the theory some time back that the DC Republican Ruling Class is putting out the following message to Republican activists and officials around the country: Get

SC Voter ID law blocked by USDOJ; NC efforts @ voter ID under assault

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Brant Clifton

*Sigh* The Left is working overtime here at the end of the year to finish pushing our country into the ditch. US Attorney General Eric Holder

DeMint: Big-spending business-as-usual in Congress

Posted on December 21, 2011December 21, 2011 by Brant Clifton

U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), writing in The Hill over the weekend, says The Tea Party needs to finish what it started in 2010 if real change

SC : Nikki LOVES Mitt ( Tea Party falling OUT of love with Nikki?)

Posted on December 17, 2011December 17, 2011 by Brant Clifton

In North Carolina, Republican Renee Ellmers was unexpectedly propelled past Democrat Bob Etheridge in the 2010 race for the state’s 2nd congressional district seat in Washington.

An epidemic of Gingrich Fever sweeps into the Carolinas

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Brant Clifton

South Carolina’s primary is in January. North Carolina’s primary is in May. Yet, we have a ‘Team Gingrich’ — composed of some of the usual NCGOP establishment suspects — being

DeMint stands alone against ‘pandering’

Posted on November 17, 2011November 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

No one can accuse South Carolina’s U.S. Senator Jim DeMint of being a typical Washington politician — wetting his finger and holding it up to see which way the wind

Former S.C. First Lady speaks out on Herman Cain and media’s scandal fixation

Posted on November 6, 2011November 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Jenny Sanford was speaking from experience when she penned her op-ed that appeared Thursday in Columbia’s State newspaper. She was The Palmetto State’s first lady when her now

First it’s Kotter. Now it’s Bauer. (Welcome back, Andre?)

Posted on November 5, 2011November 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Former South Carolina lieutenant governor Andre Bauer appears to be trying for a political comeback by running for Congress in 2012: The race for who

Jim DeMint: Common sense’s lone voice in the U.S. Senate

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Brant Clifton

For North Carolinians like me who appreciated Senator Jesse Helms — and are dismayed by what we now have representing us in the Senate, South Carolina’s Jim DeMint