skippy the bush kangaroo: quote of the day

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

quote of the day

via steve benen, here's some sage advice for all politcal aspirants:

it prompted david kurtz to advise campaign consultants everywhere: "do not have written communications with the alleged lover of your candidate."

we would file that advice under 'd' for 'duh!'

for those late to the story (which dbk discussed here), south carolina gubernatorial candidate nikki haley is finding herself embroiled in a sex scandal (what is it about the south carolina governership and illicit affairs? was she "hiking the appalation trail," so to speak?).

only this time, the sex scandal is with...wait for it...a blogger!!

the blogger claiming to have had an affair with south carolina gubernatorial candidate nikki haley has posted a series of text messages between himself and haley's campaign manager that appear to show the two men colluding about how to handle the forthcoming scandal.

the messages, covering a nine-day period earlier this month before conservative blogger will folks went public with his accusation against the republican hopeful, were posted wednesday morning on his website, fitsnews.com.

"i'm telling you man, we keep this under wraps and nh is going to win," reads one text message from haley campaign manager tim pearson to folks on may 15.

pearson and folks swap worried messages about different reporters chasing the story, and one exchange suggests there may be a newsworthy photograph of haley and folks.

pearson confirmed to cnn the authenticity of the text messages.

damn! we never get the good perks of blogtopia, and yes, we coined that phrase!

posted by skippy at 9:30 AM |