NYT's Frank Bruni considers those hoping to gain the ear of what Russell Baker used to call The Great Mentioner:
Vying for as much TV time as Ryan is Nikki Haley, the South Carolina governor. She endorsed Romney early on and was welded to his side during the days before her state’s Republican primary—which, despite her efforts, Romney lost by a large margin to Newt Gingrich. And she has timed the publication of her autobiography, which she has been out promoting this week, to a presidential election year and, better yet, the span of months during which vice presidential chatter begins to swell.
Her book’s title, “Can’t Is Not an Option,” affirms her power-of-positive-thinking approach to governing. She’s optimism’s emissary, a role she established with her edict, after taking office, that state workers in South Carolina answer phones with the greeting, “It’s a great day in South Carolina.” And she’s lately all over the talk show circuit, an omnipresence being ridiculed by South Carolina Democrats, who recently sent out an email with a link to a YouTube clip of Haley’s many appearances, set to the tune of the Carly Simon classic “You’re So Vain.”
On Fox News on Wednesday morning, Haley rehearsed the role of Obama attacker, which any Romney running mate would have to be able to nail. Appropriating a word that’s been much in the news of late, she repeatedly branded Obama a bully, and said he was “bullying” Ryan and the Supreme Court.
Vying for as much TV time as Ryan is Nikki Haley, the South Carolina governor. She endorsed Romney early on and was welded to his side during the days before her state’s Republican primary—which, despite her efforts, Romney lost by a large margin to Newt Gingrich. And she has timed the publication of her autobiography, which she has been out promoting this week, to a presidential election year and, better yet, the span of months during which vice presidential chatter begins to swell.
Her book’s title, “Can’t Is Not an Option,” affirms her power-of-positive-thinking approach to governing. She’s optimism’s emissary, a role she established with her edict, after taking office, that state workers in South Carolina answer phones with the greeting, “It’s a great day in South Carolina.” And she’s lately all over the talk show circuit, an omnipresence being ridiculed by South Carolina Democrats, who recently sent out an email with a link to a YouTube clip of Haley’s many appearances, set to the tune of the Carly Simon classic “You’re So Vain.”
On Fox News on Wednesday morning, Haley rehearsed the role of Obama attacker, which any Romney running mate would have to be able to nail. Appropriating a word that’s been much in the news of late, she repeatedly branded Obama a bully, and said he was “bullying” Ryan and the Supreme Court.
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