I have been a lifelong Republican. As co-chairman of the state Reagan for President campaign in 1980 and the youngest Republican elected to the SC House of Representatives, I have a message for the people of South Carolina: “Don’t trust the Republicans.” Since the days of Abraham Lincoln, they have, at least covertly, always aided their cronies in big business to make money. They have engaged in ”corporate welfare,” if you will, to line their pockets and advance personal political agendas.
Yet, Republicans have recently stepped further and stooped lower to achieve their monetary and political aims. Nikki Haley has “remade” herself at the expense of the honor and good names of South Carolina’s 22,000 Confederate dead by colluding with the enemy as an anti-South “civil rights” figure. With the staging assistance of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, her shameless exploitation of the families of the nine victims gunned down by a deranged lone-wolf shooter have branded her as a “national” Republican figure.
Yet the Republican masquerade continues. I knew Carly Fiorina personally when she was a contract officer for AT&T. She was then a liberal, pro-abortion Democrat. Few, if any, of the Republicans are really what they seem. They, together with the Democrats, will continue to betray the trust and traditional values of South Carolinians. As the Scripture admonishes us, “put not your trust in princes.”