Sep 15 2008
A Man Without a Party
For all his talk of diverse backers, Conley is a man without a base.
He once ran as a Republican for an Indiana state House seat, then bolted for the Reform Party. After moving to North Myrtle Beach, he joined his local GOP committee and backed Ron Paul in this year’s South Carolina presidential primary.
Five months later, he won a lackluster contest to become the Democratic pick to face powerhouse Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham in November.
“He is naive and inexperienced,” state Democratic Party Chairwoman Carol Fowler said last week.
Naive and experienced as opposed to Lindsey Grahamnesty who labeled the vast majority of his constituents bigots and racists for wanting our immigration laws and borders enforced? Does Carol Fowler realize that when she cuts down her party’s candidate that she is backhandedly helping Graham get reelected. Of course she does. That’s precisely what she wants. Bob Conley is a threat to the Democratic establishment in South Carolina because he represents the Democratic Party of old, not the far left Kos crowd of today.
“I’m not sure where his votes are coming from.”
I’ll tell you exactly where his votes are coming from. They are coming from people like me who are sick and tired of the status quo and not being effectively represented by the people we put in office to do so. Graham is no longer in Washington to represent the citizens of this state. He is part of the entrenched establishment looking out for his own interests, not ours.
“I think the American people and the people of South Carolina are recognizing there’s a certain strata in the political class that doesn’t represent them,” Conley said.
Well that couldn’t be more obvious, but the underlying question is will the sheep break from herd on Election Day.
