Posted On: Wednesday - February 21st 2024 6:03PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Trump
Henry McMaster has been a long-time GOP and State elected official in South Carolina. He was the first US Attorney appointment by President Ronald Reagan, of all people, so he's not a young guy (76 y/o)*. In 1988, he was nominated by the State GOP to run for US Senate against the venerable old-school Democrat Ernest Hollings but lost bigly.
After/during some other political positions (later on State Attorney General), Mr. McMaster ran for Lieutenant Governor back in 1990 but lost that one pretty handily too, to the Democrat. At that time the Governor, one Carroll Campbell, was a Republican though. The deal until very recently, 2018, in S. Carolina was that these positions were voted on separately.
After many other elections of various sorts, Henry McMaster did win the election for Lieutenant Governor of the State in '14, on a separate ticket from Nikky Haley. Therefore, on January 24th of '17, the day after Nikki Haley was confirmed by the Senate as US Ambassador to the UN, she resigned and Lieutenant Governor McMaster became Governor. He was re-elected in '22.
Henry McMaster is a true Southerner from the capital Columbia - born there and having gone to undergraduate school and Law School at USC (THE USC, that'd be, the Univ. of S. Carolina). In a video I watched recently, as he spent 5 minutes or so introducing Donald Trump, he not only sounded Southern but I'd say overly so.
One can peruse McMaster's Wiki page to see that he's been traditionally Conservative, but with an addition of being Conservative in this modern world of Woke madness too, a bit unlike predecessor Nikki. After simply giving the wiki links in this and the Nikki post, I will finally note our disclaimer that, though pretty good on basic biographical facts (when people were born, their attendance at college, etc.), opinions get in there based on the politics of the leftist editors, be they independent volunteers or wiki censors, I'm not sure.** We ran into, and explained this same thing, back a year ago, in How to use Wikipedia. That's a post that I'd almost forgotten about which was also written to praise Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Back to Governor McMaster here, rather than 1, as I'd written, let me give you 3 nice wiki quotes that are more attempted disparagement of the SC Governor - there's much more - that have back-fired, at least during my reading.
McMaster successfully led the fight to ban same-sex marriage in South Carolina. He also said that South Carolina should "secede" over Don't Ask, Don't Tell.Hey-oh! That's not so awfully PC, in more ways than one!
Regarding the Kung Flu, the SC Governor was somewhat wishy-washy, but in general pretty non-Totalitarian and against those who attempted to be. I like this one:
In 2021, McMaster said he would block the federal government from sending people door-to-door to promote vaccinations. In September 2021, he criticized federal vaccine requirements, saying, "Biden and the radical Democrats [have] thumbed their noses at the Constitution." McMaster pledged to fight Biden "to the gates of hell" over the vaccine requirement.I don't think you'd have ever heard that stuff out of Nikki. She doesn't have that kind of fight in her. Here's one more back-firing attempt at disparagement:
In May 2023, McMaster angered Democrats after saying at a convention at River Bluff High School [Lexington County, SC]: "I look forward to the day that Democrats are so rare, we have to hunt them with dogs." Democrats demanded an apology and compared the comments to slave catchers who would use dogs to hunt escaped slaves. A spokesperson for McMaster said that he "has been making this joke at GOP conventions for years, and everyday South Carolinians understand that it's a joke."Don't they mean "escaped enslaved people"? I sure hope so. Anyway, yeah I imagine they can all take a joke, all but those demanding leftists with bugs up their asses.
Did Henry McMaster somehow not get himself into the GOPe ("e" for Establishment) environment as Nikki Haley did? He may be old enough to know better or old enough to not care anymore that the Establishment doesn't like REAL Conservatives. I wonder if Henry McMaster would have vetoed the "remove the Rebel flag" bill anyway, even with that 90-20 veto-proof majority in the SC State House.
I trust the Conservatism of Henry over Nikki's, even disregarding what she's been up to since January '17. President Trump did South Carolina a favor getting Nikki out of there. That'll be the last post - was that really a smarter than I've been thinking?
* He is old enough to have worked as a lawyer for Strom Thurmond back in the day.
** Commenter Adam Smith did some experimenting with this long ago and regaled us with his stories and short glimpses of his handiwork. (I'll try to find it.)
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