SC GOP Governor Runoff: the last weekend, turning comfortingly strange

The Republican Governors Association has a new ad out, Ben Smith reports, that makes clear their choice in the SC governor runoff is not Gresham Barrett.

The ad's an odd one, its opening shot an odd juxtaposition of photos of Ronald Reagan and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The flag at Iwo Jima, and men on the moon over the title, "Remember the Dream." They must not remember how Reagan opened his 1980 presidential campaign in Philadelphia, MS.

All of that's not half as odd- verging on incoherent as a Haley endorsement that begins with this:

By FITSNews || So let’s get this straight … we know for a fact that S.C. Rep. Nikki Haley is lying through her teeth every time she denies our founding editor’s claim that she had an “inappropriate physical relationship” with him in the Spring of 2007.  On top of that, we also know for a fact that her political career could very well go down in flames if (and more likely “when”) this ticking time bomb goes off …

And yet we’re endorsing her for the 2010 S.C. Republican gubernatorial nomination anyway?

Correct.

Wait a minute … have we lost our minds?  Seriously … HAVE WE LOST OUR FRIGGIN’ MINDS?

Indubitably so, but the fact remains that this election (at least to us) isn’t about whether Haley is telling the truth regarding Sic Willie’s claim – or a subsequent claim made by lobbyist Larry Marchant – it’s about the hundreds of millions of dollars that will likely be saved as a result of her winning the general election in November.

Odd, when the man who says he had the affair- and had the goods to prove it, is apparently going to see if anyone else will do it for him.

Or is it a threat to be a gnat hovering around Haley for the next four years, ready to drop another tidbit when the reader numbers need goosing or it wants to earn some national media?

Oh, and while Folks is they're endorsing Haley, they toss in a rumor that Barrett had an affair, too.