In the final hours of their battle for the hearts and minds -- and delegates -- of South Carolina Republicans, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney demonstrated once again there is no love lost between them, and that Gingrich is more than willing to bait his opponent every step of the way.
As polls opened in South Carolina, Gingrich all but called Romney chicken Saturday after the former Massachusetts governor came and went at a campaign stop where both candidates were expected to meet.
"Where's Mitt?" Gingrich said mockingly, as he arrived at a Greenville diner just minutes after Romney's bus rolled out.
In a coincidence of scheduling, both Romney and Gingrich had booked events at Tommy's Ham House shortly before 11 a.m. The campaigns only realized the issue a day earlier, though insisted they would not change their schedules.
However, Romney showed up 45 minutes early Saturday morning. He gave a pep talk to the crowd, casting himself as the "real world" candidate running against a field of Washington insiders. Then he left, missing Gingrich.
Once the debate is over, the lily-white horde of reporters comes face to face with the lily-white horde of campaign staffers and supporters, guys like our own Jack Hunter and former South Carolina GOP chair Katon Dawson. For some reason, the press corps still treats Dawson with respect despite the fact that he's an asshole who was a member of an all-white country club in Columbia and who was the state campaign chair for Rick Perry, a racist dickhead who owns a house out in the boonies called Niggerhead Ranch.
And that more than anything symbolizes the GOP's problem: they not only still allow bigots among their ranks, but they think one of them is fit to be chairman of the Republican Party or, even worse, the president of the United States.
Yes, they can trot out Tim Scott, and Tim Scott will shuck and jive like they ask. He's good at that. And they can call Nikki Haley to the stage to dazzle the sideshow crowd like shes an exotic beauty from the Orient who will give you a lap dance for a dollar. But the GOP is still a whites-only club.
As polls opened in South Carolina, Gingrich all but called Romney chicken Saturday after the former Massachusetts governor came and went at a campaign stop where both candidates were expected to meet.
"Where's Mitt?" Gingrich said mockingly, as he arrived at a Greenville diner just minutes after Romney's bus rolled out.
In a coincidence of scheduling, both Romney and Gingrich had booked events at Tommy's Ham House shortly before 11 a.m. The campaigns only realized the issue a day earlier, though insisted they would not change their schedules.
However, Romney showed up 45 minutes early Saturday morning. He gave a pep talk to the crowd, casting himself as the "real world" candidate running against a field of Washington insiders. Then he left, missing Gingrich.
Once the debate is over, the lily-white horde of reporters comes face to face with the lily-white horde of campaign staffers and supporters, guys like our own Jack Hunter and former South Carolina GOP chair Katon Dawson. For some reason, the press corps still treats Dawson with respect despite the fact that he's an asshole who was a member of an all-white country club in Columbia and who was the state campaign chair for Rick Perry, a racist dickhead who owns a house out in the boonies called Niggerhead Ranch.
And that more than anything symbolizes the GOP's problem: they not only still allow bigots among their ranks, but they think one of them is fit to be chairman of the Republican Party or, even worse, the president of the United States.
Yes, they can trot out Tim Scott, and Tim Scott will shuck and jive like they ask. He's good at that. And they can call Nikki Haley to the stage to dazzle the sideshow crowd like shes an exotic beauty from the Orient who will give you a lap dance for a dollar. But the GOP is still a whites-only club.
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