South Carolina Sexytime Saga Update!

As we’ve chronicled tirelessly in this space, hypocrisy is the nucleotide of wingnut DNA: Rentboy.com customers collecting taxpayer funds to testify that gay couples are too depraved to adopt children… Half-term petro-socialist state governors / avid deregulated offshore drilling proponents shrieking about socialism and blaming environmentalists for oil spills … “Family values” GOP politicians boinking each other like kinky bunnies on an ecstasy binge while scolding liberal pols for straying from biblical morality standards…

The list goes on and on. And so does our South Carolina sexytime saga: Another GOP cad has come forward to claim that he, too, had an “inappropriate physical relationship” with gubernatorial frontrunner and Palin protégé Nikki Haley.

From TPM:

So much for “What happens in Salt Lake City stays in Salt Lake City” ...

A second South Carolina GOP political consultant is claiming he had an affair with gubernatorial hopeful Nikki Haley—a one-night stand in her hotel room at a June 2008 school choice conference in Salt Lake.

Here’s the twist: the consultant, Larry Marchant, worked until his resignation yesterday for Andre Bauer, the current lieutenant governor and one of Haley’s opponents in the Republican gubernatorial primary, which is just five days away.

The school choice conference in question was sponsored by the far-right American Legislative Exchange Council. This organization was “founded by conservative state lawmakers who shared a common belief in limited government, free markets, federalism, and individual liberty.” So it goes without saying that it sponsors debauchery and fornication on a scale not seen since the reign of Caligula. 

Is the latest kiss-and-tell accusation true? Who knows? Haley denied it and accused rival GOP candidate (and current Lieutenant Governor) Andre Bauer of being behind the smear. Bauer didn’t exactly cover himself in glory in his response:

As I mentioned last time we watched our Wingnuts Gone Wild stories, I’m starting to develop a sneaking admiration for Naughty Nikki. Yeah, she’s a reactionary, teabaggin’ Palmetto Palin, but damn, did you see how she rubbed the sleazy Bauer’s face in it —in honeyed tones and with a smile on her face? Julia Sugarbaker couldn’t have done it any better.

Will Folks, the GOP operative and blogger whose hunka-hunka-burnin’-wingnut love accusations ignited the serial scandal, posted this plaintive update on his site when the Marchant imbroglio came to light: “Wow.” I guess it sucks when you realize you’re not so special after all…

If the next South Carolina governor has to be a hypocritical wingnut tool—And it does! It’s South Caro-fucking-lina!—please let it be Nikki!

[H/T: J-TWO-O]

Posted by Betty Cracker on 06/03/10 at 10:59 AM • Permalink

According to Palin’s new robocall for Haley, this is “made-up-nonsense to try and knock you down.”

And, somehow—in a weirdly retroactive, never-mind-what-I-said-about-making-the-whole-thing-up sort of way—this accidentally vindicates Erick Erickson for publishing a total crock-of-shit “news alert” on his site, in hopes of shaking loose a “scoop.”

Btw, I also enjoyed the NYT’s Gail Collins’s column on the subject, titled “Palmetto Political Passions.” (I swear you two were separated at birth.)

“He’s Spartacus!”

In a bizarre twist, I was having a similar conversation with a friend the other day; I said that in the position of Spartacus, as soon as the next guy stood up, I would’ve said, “Wait, did you say Spartacus? I’m Sporticus, you want that guy.”

Everyone remembers about Andre Bauer, right?

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