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Subscribe to RSSSouth Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will endorse Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney today.
Haley’s endorsement was coveted among Republican presidential hopefuls given her popularity among Tea Party supporters in South Carolina and around the country.
“The election next November will have ramifications for generations. Neither South Carolina nor the nation can afford four more years of President Obama, and Mitt Romney is the right person to take him on and get America back on track,” Haley said in a release from the Romney campaign.
But while she still enjoys support among many grassroots groups, her statewide approval rating among all voters stands at 35 percent according to a recent poll from Winthrop University. Republicans gave her a 53 percent approval rating while 22 percent disapproved of her job in a poll conducted in late November/early December.
Haley rode a wave of Tea Party support to an unexpected 2010 primary victory over three establishment South Carolina Republicans: Attorney General Henry McMaster, former U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett and Lieutenant Gov. Andre Bauer (she defeated Barrett in a primary runoff election, 65 to 35 percent).
Romney endorsed the then-state representative’s campaign in March, three months before South Carolina’s June 8th primary and two months before Sarah Palin’s endorsement catapulted her candidacy to a national scale.
In 2008, Haley served on Romney’s South Carolina Women’s Leadership Team and was a co-chair of his “Women for Mitt Team.”
Haley leveraged her state’s first-in-the-South primary status into a bit of a kingmaker’s role, inviting all presidential candidates to stay at the Governor’s Mansion overnight. Romney's wife Ann stayed at the mansion in late September on a solo trip to the Palmetto State. Newt Gingrich and his wife Callista, as well as Michele Bachmann, also took her up on the offer.
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Mitt Romney has received a real dud of an endorsement. Any basic understanding of South Carolina politics will reveal that Haley is deeply unpopular and overwhelmingly opposed by Palmetto State voters. Her approval ratings are among the worst of any of the batch of radical Tea Party governors that were swept into office last year; and of whom the public is already experiencing severe buyer's remorse. Romney is grasping at endorsement straws, whether it is Christine O'Donnell or Gov. Haley. http://www.sunstateactivist.org
I say f--k this two faced bitch. The Tea Party gets her elected and then this idiot endorses the anti-Tea Party liberal candidate. I hope the people of SC aren't as stupid as her! Also, f--k you mattpfl for calling the Tea Party radical. If anybody is radical, it's the demowit party.
Help save the country - Tea Party 2012 and beyond.
The Tea Party may be called "grassroots," and in some aspects it is, but a recent study has shown it to be mainly comprised of longtime Republican activists, and deeply racist.
In American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam and David E Campbell, the authors reveal that the Tea Party movement is hostile to Blacks, immigrants, and is largely fundamentalist Christian. They didn't set out to "discover" that information - they originally researched the party group to see what influence religion had on it.
In addition, they learned that the majority of the Tea Party was made of white, older Republican activists, males.
This is a group that has been behind the destructive Miltron Friedman corporatist state economic ideology, too. The Tea Party philosophy, which is also leavened by the fringe involvement of militia groups and skinhead organizations, is essentially to "tear it all down and start over." It is comprised of both deeply disaffected people as well as those who have for 30 years attempted a coup d'etat through public policy and economic measures.
The Tea Party represents barely one-fifth of the country's electorate. It exercises influence far beyond its weight because it represents a vital "swing" vote for Republicans, much as the religious right did in prior years.
And the Tea Party is a deadly threat to the United States of America.
I guess no one told Richard the Tea Party movement is dead. It has become the voice of the right wing lunatic fringe and politicians are distancing themselves from any taint of it. The TP has, in fact, become an anchor around the neck of the GOP and the Republican Party does not even mention Tea Party when it discusses its voter base.
Face it, Richard, you are merely the face of a failed political ideology that only appeals to blowhards and cranks like you. REad 'em and weep, little man.
Didn't Gingrich have a sleepover with this governor? And given his history with the ladies, I wonder what might have conspired that night in the mansion.
And now she turns around and endorses Romney. I wonder what happened. Perhaps Gingrich refused to divorce his third wife.
The Tea Party is through. The country sees them as a big joke.
John -
Repeating what you are told by politically motivated manipulators does not make things true.
Sailcat
Don't you wish? 40% of the Republicans are Tea Party participants. The reason you are seeing such radical lead changes is because they are looking at each candidate. If they prove wanting, they move toward the next one.
Notice That Santorum and Ron Paul have picked up in Iowa. Last night Ron Paul gave a clear view of his foreign policy. I expect to see increases in share to Bachmann, Santorum, and Gingrich because Ron Paul's foreign policies are outside the acceptable limits of being electable in the republican party.
You will see the tea party gear up somewhere after the first of the year - they are very practical people and are only going to spend on events at the appropriate time.
Haley landed the job of being the Governor by very simple means: 1. She is a woman and women voters voted for her. 2: She is another lying Republican and Republicans NEVER believes that another Republican would ever lie to them. 3. Her mentor was skirt chasing adulterer X-Governor Sanford. 4. She is anti-Public Education (properly educated voters would never have voted for her in the first place).
snicker.
I voted all Democrat last election and mid term but, with Obama signing the DEFENSE BILL that ELIMINATES Due Process for American Citizens he has shown time and time again what he is about.
He and all of the other candidates are FAKES accept for RON PAUL "although unorthodox" & HUNTSMAN who I don't know much about.
But, OBAMA really isn't fighting for the common man but continues to give us the hand and telling us to just wait!!!!
He eliminated taxing the rich in order to compromise on the middle class tax cuts and all the Democrats are going to get is probably 2 months of tax cuts.
He always have an excuse too, " The Republicans Got My Hands Tied"!!!!!!
Stop being a BROAD and let the Republicans allow for unemployment to run out for 160 million Americans.
I think the Republicans would have trouble to the 100th power if they allowed for them to run out besides they don't feel threatened by your little flinches Mr. President!!!!!!!
Therefore in 2012 I'm voting for RON PAUL!!!!!
Oh Yeah I'm taking this topic to social networks so that the FAKES can be EXPOSED!!!!!!!!
Taxing the rich is like oving the meat from vegetable soup. Taxing middle class is like removing the vegetables. All you are left with is hot water that has been heated for no useful purpose.
Ron Paul is a Libertarian running in a Republican primary. He could conceivably run as a third party candidate.
I do not agree with his SS and Medicare issues. A deal people pay into for decades should be honored.
However, on many subjects he is spot on.
If he did run third party , It would make for a very interesting election!
I think Ron Paul would win, if he wasn't carrying around his foreign policy beliefs. At least he is honest about them instead of other show try to minimize how bad some of their thinking has been.
What the Republicans appear to be doing is weighing which candidate with what flaw they are willing to live with. Ron Paul's positions on foreign policy will not be acceptable.
"The reason you are seeing such radical lead changes is because they are looking at each candidate."
...and the public has discarded each one in turn. The Tea Party's fortunes have plummeted since it revealed itself to be a platform for reactionary ultra-conservatives rather than a force for governmental change, as was once hoped. Former Tea Party activists are now playing down their connection to the TP and mainstream Republicans try to pretend it doesn't exist any more. The bottom line is, the Tea Party has utterly failed and it is only the butt of jokes these days.
The only people who still cling to the TP are the feeble minded members of the right wing lunatic fringe, and this is a scathing indictment against the movement in general as these individuals are public embarrassments to the GOP and represent liabilities for the Republican Party's future political ambitions. This is precisely why the GOP has lost its old core group of voters, the moderates, who are moving away from the Republican Party and its new constituency of crazies, cranks, and blithering idiots. After all, who wants to be associated with a party who values slobbering lunatics like O'Donnell, Palin, Bachmann, Perry, and Boehner over the moderate principles of middle America? Obama is a far more reasonable choice for the vast majority of Americans than the collection of losers the GOP is currently fielding. The most current polls overwhelmingly support that statement, by the way.
Obama really should send the RNC Christmas cards this year and thank them! Obama by default in '12! America is hold an election and the GOP isn't going to show up!
DB Akron
I gave a source. I do not use talking points as you do. I paraphrased those authors and said so. You are a liar, sir, and a troll. You are not worthy of further discussion. You stink up these pages.
Good 'un, John!
Maybe Arnold the Gropennator will be next.
da Establishment is for Romney and tea party for honest Conservatives, who has the most power?
The party establishment, but it's close.
S.C. Governor endorses Romney: Romney defeated. Newt is elected: Dogcatcher in Outer Mongolia.
In the final pages of Animal Farm, the pigs were acting so human, the other animals couldn't tell the difference between them anymore.
As we're seeing, some who rode the tea party wave were just surfing out of convenience, and once gaining what they could gain, we're destined to simply join the establishment.
looks like another moderate repub will be nominated for president?
Romney or Hussein?
I Quit!
Hussein? Who is Hussein?
I am Tea Party, but side with the repubs because they are not completely out of control, and if our candidate is Romney or Gingrich I will not vote. I will let this country see what happens when they continue listening to the media and allowing the establishment candidate to win. I will set back and continue to let Obuttwad do his destruction. After four more years of his crap, I think the establishment will finally get behind a real conservative. Not these Rhino progressives like Romney, Gingrich and McCain.
Help save the country - Tea Party 2012!!!!
Da Noid - the answer is - Barry Barak Hussein Sotoro Obuttwad, that's who.
2BadpPole-
Happy to read that.
Don't let the door hit you in the can on your way out.
Richard Gozinyou -
Nothing would serve our nation better than for you, whose screen name is disgusting, to stay home. Go sit on the levee and drink beer and eat moon pies on Election Day, thank you so much.
Hmm...nope, never heard of him.
Voting is a duty, as well as a right. That said, it's apparent from the "Hussein" crack and your other postings that your absence from the polls will increase the average intelligence of the electorate!
@john a ole
thanks for the compliments!
Seems you get off on people like me?
Ask Hussein for a welfare check and buy some toilet tissue to get the j izz off yor face.
Ron Paul for 2012 or stay home and vote all party incumbents out!
It appears that some foul-mouthed, low-IQ, skinheads have been let out of solitary for the day. After reading through all of the comments thus far, I am certain of it. Well, trash is trash, no matter where in the gutter it lands. I betcha Ron Paul would be soooooo proud of his stalwarts.
skinheads are citizens too, just like illegals!
This Country will never have a real conservative President. They may say they are conservative, but they are not. So the tea party might as well pack it up.
President Regan was a moderate Republicans that we use to respect? Today such figures as Ronald Regan and John Warner would be thrown out of the Republican Party as being too moderate.
Richard Gozinyou: Thank God. We don't need idiot voters electing idiot Candidates. Maybe YOU will defeat the Corporate takeover simply by not voting.
I'm glad he is not voting. That's his choice. However, his type would love to suppress our votes.
This endorsement will make him far more palatable to sections within the Tea Party and will move him higher in SC polls as the Newt Gingrich balloon deflates. A 10+ point swing should be easy to accomplish. The tortoise is outlasting the hares.
On another note, calls were made in NH asking voters how they felt about possible GOP Candidates as President. The three choices were Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and hold on to your hat ... Jeb Bush.
Bush? BUSH!! He oughtta be at least as radioactive as the Fukushima nuclear reactor!
@Auntie
Perhaps they need someone who can glow in the dark.
Skinheads: AKA Neo-Nazis or Neo-Facists, or White or Black Supremacists.
Libertarians: AKA Anarchists who don't believe in any form of Government or as an anarcho-capitalist libertarians whose view holds that a government is unnecessary because private companies working for profit should provide the court systems, military, and police forces.
Why should anyone with a conscience care who this phony endorses? Have any of you heard how she supposedly set up a committee to figure out how to set up health care exchanges for her state under the new health care reform act. However, it has recently come to light that an internal memo outlines how she most definitely told her staff to NOT find a way to establish these communites.
She is running a state that has some of the lowest graduation rates in the country. She is anti everything that has made this country great. Surprising since I believe that she is a person of color. Too bad she has that "Horray for me, the hell with you mentality", so prevalent in the republican party.
Hard to think this does anything for Romney except for TP voters. Considering these newly minted TP governors' approval/disapproval numbers are in the dumpster, there's a lot of buyer's remorse out there.
I'm not sure which governors you are talking about, but the people who electedd them are very satified. It's the idiots like you and the other bozos who lost that have buyers remorse.
This, of course, explains the following approval ratings...
Rick Scott, Florida - 26%
John Kasich, Ohio - 38%
Nikki Haley, South Carolina - 41%
...hell, Scott Walker of Wisconsin is freakin' "Mr. Popularity" with a 48% approval rating.
Good morning Richard...it appears that you need your mouth washed out with soap. Are you capable of stating your point without using foul language and calling other good people names?
If you can't...please take your garbage somewhere else!
Obama/Biden 12
Where do you get your numbers, MSNBC, CNN, Huffington post and just for you Chrissy, other s--tbag left leaning outlets like that. If you only poll demowits, the numbers would be low.
I saw those numbers on FOX news, how the hell could you have missed them DICK gozin DICKS mouth.
The tea party is already going for my rep, the one they just got elected in 2010. Apparently I am not the only voter who has flooded his email with disgust at the teaparty. He has become a little more moderate in an effort to gain support from all his constituents and not just this lunatic fringe. Good going.
Breaking NEWS: “A major leader in the Tea Party movement was arrested at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Thursday after he tried to check in for a flight while carrying a gun,” The Hill reports. “Prosecutors charged Mark Meckler, the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, with felony weapons possession after he told a Delta ticket agent early Thursday morning that he had a weapon in his luggage.”
Wonder if he was being paid to make a hit on someone. TPers are crazy enough to try it.
Insane Hussein or Libservative willard!
Let me off B4 I throw-up!
well, that says alot...with an approval rating in the 30s, country club, silver spooner, dimwit romney is so desperate even this endorsement is seen as helpful....
Even though I will not vote for Romney or Gingrich, either would be better thean Obuttwad. Hell, Jethro Bodine would be better that Obuttwad.
Using a term like "Obuttwad" shows why you would hold Jethro Bodine in such high esteem..
It is obvious you have used him as a role model, mentor and most likely as your tutor.
I'll bet Richard can even multiply ought times ought. Well that might be stretching it.
I'm sure he coudld do it Mo....he'd just come up with the wrong answer!
Da Noid: Polls are about as dishonest as you can get. Polls skew questions and answers to fit THE OUTCOME THAT THEY WANTED because the pollsters would not be paid otherwise. Even the TV Neilson Ratings are skewed if the money is right.
M0-681343: Most Politicians would come up with the wrong answer such as multiply 2 x 2 = 22. His answer would probably be 1. Politics do not include any intelligence, only a botox grin. Ever notice that Governor Haley, SC. always has her teeth clinched together. That is to keep her from biting her tongue. The Candidates are always smiling, that is from the botox and the result keeps them from biting their tongues also.
Let's see - these new Tea Party Govs have one thing in common...
They all seem to be polling in the mid 30's...
Richard? Why?
The difference between Hussein and Willard is the rate at which the middle-class will bent over and — — — _
2BadpPole, you can see why no one take either you or Richard serious don't you? All you do is use vulgar statements, and asinine ones at that. It is people like you and Richard that give the GOP a terrible rep. And you wonder why.
Well isn't that something! Her latest approval rating in the polls in SC is a whooping 33% as of yesterday! All these new teabagger GOP Governors are getting killed in the polls with one particular idiot on the way to recall! Tea Party is done!
I have to put up with Mrs. Kill Public Education every day! But aren't all of the candidates leery of or loathing of Public Education. Could they be afraid that a proper education could signal their DOOM if applied rationally at election time?
Better keep a close tab on her ratings. They are dropping faster than a lead weight. SC Voters are not fully awake as of yet.
Gov Nikki Haley endorsing Mitt Romney is not exactly a ringing endorsement. Her incompetence and unpopularity is the primary reason President Obama is leading Larry, Moe and Curley Joe er uh I mean Mitt, Newt and Ron Paul in the South Carolina Presidential polling currently.
Rick,
Gov.Haley is still popular. Get your facts straight.
"Asked if they could “do last fall’s election for governor over again,” 49 percent said they would vote for Haley while 43 percent said they would vote for Sheheen. Eight percent were not sure."
Read more: #ixzz1giJVLV6vthe state.com
Leona
You spin that 35% girl....
You want a "fact"? 35% repeat 35%!
bdune,
If you stop reading the LEFT leaning propaganda and fake polling numbers , you'll get the truth....
OUTSIDETHEBELTWAY.COM: "Just over 20 percent of those polled said they had no opinion of Haley’s performance. “Of those who have an opinion, her approval rating is 44.6 percent,” Huffmon said."
"20% of those polled had no opinion of Haleys performance"....there's a real vote of confidence!
Is she hiding in a cave? What does that say when 1/5 have "no opinion"? You have an attractive female governor and 1/5 give a ratsazz?
As far as fake polls go Leona - I'm sure you only follow those from Fox News or Tea Party Nation!
On the 20% - she got better ratings on her performance from her former campaign staffers she slept with!
Let me leave you with one number again - 35%!
Leonia maybe is the blog name used by the SC Governor. Her ratings are dropping faster than a lead weight. Lest she is a blithering idiot in need of some mental rewiring.
Leona-
Thank you for demonstrating how the lack of a public education affects your ability to do simple mathematics.
In #35.5, you quote OUTSIDETHEBELTWAY.COM as saying "Of those who have an opinion, her approval rating is 44.6 percent". But what percentage of all people answering the survey does that 44.6% represent? Here's the math - follow along at your own speed:
80 (% of people who have an opinion) times 44.6 (% who approve of her performance) divided by 100 (% of total people answering the survey) equals...wait for it: 35.68!
Now let's give Gov. Haley the benefit of the doubt, and round that up to 36; 36% of the people surveyed approve of her performance.
Would you agree that 36 is closer to 35 than it is to 44.6? If not, I'll be happy to provide a mathematical proof for that as well.
Bill & bdune,
As everyone knows, there are many people who have no interest in politics and "have no opinion" in these polls because they lack the information needed to have an opinion.
Stop all your partisan rhetoric and nonsense.
BTW, I have 2 bachelor degrees and a masters degree. So, don't assume things about people you don't know.
Who cares? She may not even be elected the next time because her Tea Party affiliation is loosing steam. Some of the extreme right wing laws she has enacted (i.e. Voter ID Law-ALEC) are too extreme for her state.
Is voter fraud ( i.e.ACORN) extreme too?!
LEONA you know your finished when you have to bring up the now defunct Acorn.
Mo,
ACORN is still alive and doing their dirty deeds. (under a new name, of course)
And the fact that she confuses voter registration fraud with voter fraud.
Leona
Will you show examples of actual "Vote Fraud" by Acorn?
Will be waiting....
If you debated only yourself — I'm betting you would lose 60% of the time!
There is no voting fraud. That's just an excuse to suppress voters.
BUT not too extreme(?) for a Republican President to enact. Our new Constitution will have a change made to it: Gone will be "Of the People, For the People, and By the People". the revised version will read: "Of the Corporations, For the Corporations, and By the Corporations".
Our Court and Justice system will be owned and managed by Corporation. Our Military will be owned and managed by the Corporations. In fact even your Freedoms will occur and exist only under Corporate control. H**l to Corporations.
Live Free or Die Free. Much better than Live in Slavery. I'll never owe my soul to the Country Store or to a Corporation again.
bdune & job1,
Stop acting like you just woke up from a 3 year dream......
The Indiana Democrat Party (among others) is being investigated right now for voter fraud.
Put down the kool aid, read the news and maybe you'd know that voter fraud exists.
These mid-term govs get lucky due to low turn-outs in mid-term elections! and once the masses see what they do, then the people turn on them the same way people are turning against Hussein and Willard.
maybe you should read the polls about Obama........most people are afraid of another 4 years of FAILURE (except welfare recipients and Union thugs, of course).
I read the polls
Hussein at 44%, 40 for willard, 9 for congress, 35 for tea
They all suck!
and half of america that dont vote suck too!
We should be real proud of a party willing to throw the poor under the bus :)
Leona
Have seen polls regarding Obama.....good thing he has the Republican House around to make his numbers look good.
Since he does lead Gingrich by 10 pts guess you Repubs have thrown someone out there who people are even more afraid of!
Keep throwing numbers out - you'll get one right sooner or later!
Everyone on that stage except Ron Paul is a complete MORON....I think that people running for office should have to pass a series of tests. If you don't get above a certain score...too bad....I hate these debates because they don't give equal chances for all runners. This is why our government is so f-up...we get these tools that are in the pockets of special interests and understand how their choices are slowly but surely destroying any remnant of what the USA used to be...
Also be wary of Ron Paul.
I find it hilarious when people blog that the Tea Party Govenors are unpopular. I suppose they'd rather have the Democrat version of a Govenor like Corzine !
Tea Party Govenors are unpopular with Union thugs and welfare recipients only. The rest of us are taxpayers and want the Govt. OUT of our lives, except where border security , infrastructure and the needy are concerned.
Let's bring private sector jobs back to life . We need JOBS JOBS JOBS.
LEONA you need to get your tea people GOP republican talking points straight. You're all over the place with not one coherent post.
Mo,
What makes you the editor here?
BTW , is former Gov.Corzine your hero? LOL
If we need private sector jobs to work on infrastructure, why won't the repubs endorse Obama's jobs ideas?
Leona, "except where border security , infrastructure and the needy are concerned. You left out the part about wanting the government to tell women what they should and should not do with their bodies. Did you have a memory lapse??
Girl? You are too crazy to land a proper job. Besides you are just another shill put up by Republican TYRANT-WANT-TO BE'S.
“A major leader in the Tea Party movement was arrested at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Thursday after he tried to check in for a flight while carrying a gun,” The Hill reports. “Prosecutors charged Mark Meckler, the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, with felony weapons possession after he told a Delta ticket agent early Thursday morning that he had a weapon in his luggage.”
Who was he supposed to make a hit on? Did he bring his own silencer or did he plan on using an Irish Potato?
Leona #18
"Hilarious that blog believes TP Govs are unpopular"
Haley SC
Scott Fl
Waler Wisc
Kasich Ohio
All polling in the 35% range - guess in your mind that is "popular"!
Leona #18
Referencing Corzine
1. He is not a sitting Governor nor seeking any office
2. While he was in office there were no ethic violations against him
3. As of now he has not been convicted nor even charged with any wrong doing
However - the GOP does have its leading candidate for POTUS who was not only charged with ethic violations in the House of Representatives - but was found "guilty", fined $300,000 and forced to resign!
Do you think you and the party you represent really want to stand on the Mountain top and lecture the rest of us on "ethics"?
It is becoming painful to watch you flounder - don't you think you should consider quitting while you are behind as a tribute to who I am sure was your personal hero - Sarah Palin?
With Holder as AG, the Democrat criminals will go unindicted.
Heck, Holder himself is a perjurer and thinks he's above the law.
Leona is pro-choice?
Yes she want to be able to choose between lunacy and idiocy.
Leona is just another Republican escapee from the insane asylum that is being used as a shill or else some Republican Politician doing the commenting. Can't tell the difference.
any endorsement from haley will help Obama
Leona, are you from South Carolina? Well I am from SC. The voters here are having buyers remorse. This woman has done nothing but cater to the tea party while neglecting her constituents. Oh and talk about morals, she has had more acts of adultury than Newt. Republicans and Democrates hate this woman. So if you do not live in this state, you cannot comment on her popularity.
It's funny your name is "the truth" when you are spewing lies and seem to have no problem with it.
I am from N.Y., the state where tax and spend Dem/liberals are causing people to move away in droves.
Hey. The looney-tunes are, seemly, finally gone. Thank God for the men in the white coats carrying the straight-jackets. Next stop the looney house.
Haley has a lot of credibility. She has a great deal of support in the Great State of South Carolina.
I really don't think the Republican governors around the country are too worried about their poll ratings right now. I know politicians say that they don't read polls...and they are not.
With all these voter registration laws that they pass targeting minorities, students, the elderly...everyone who is not affluent and white, when all the votes are counted, they'll win a landslide victory.
Then again, they could do what Jim Demint did and get a plant like Greene so ensure they do win. With all the money that's floating around, I wouldn't put it pass them
Listening,
Your logic is twisted. It must be the kool aid.
What prevents any person from voting?
A voter ID simply insures that organizations like ACORN ( under a new name) are not signing "Mickey Mouse" up to vote.
Nikki Haley is just a re-branded Sarah Palin. Ms. Haley is discovering that being Gov is not much fun when your state's electorate has seen through you and thoroughly disapproves. What to do? Oh....guess Nikki should endorse a flailing GOP candidate for POTUS, so she can be tapped as his VicePrez running mate. Sound familiar???????