Erick Erickson throws his weight behind SC gubernatorial candidate, Nikki Haley, who took some hits recently because of her close ties with Mark Sanford.
But Haley seems to be weathering them just fine now.
After all, Mark Sanford's talk about the stimulus package wasn't just code. It was ideology, and, at this point, Haley seems to be his heir.
Republicans in South Carolina punished her for daring to push for fiscal restraint and transparency in the state legislature by yanking a prime committee position in the State House, but she kept on pushing till she won. She got her start in state politics by challenging and beating the longest serving state representative in South Carolina — and she did it in a Republican primary.
.... The GOP needs Nikki Haley in the South Carolina Governor’s Mansion. The grand coalition that last put the GOP in power needs someone of Nikki Haley’s integrity and spine to get us back both on the path of small government and back into a position to lead the nation.
