Anyway, she was busy mining for the core functions of government.

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 Dissed, both of 'em

Not a good CPAC for SC Governor Nikki Haley, alas.

She wasn't one of the 48 "featured speakers, who included luminaries like actor and comedian Steven Crowder; Katie Kiefer (not identified as anybody); former libertarian goofball and 2008 VP nominee Wayne Allyn Root; and Chrystal Wright, editor and publisher of conservativeblackchick.com."

She wasn't among the scores more who sat on panels in the 18-page program (even Dinesh D'Souza, who had to resign his university presidency after getting caught adulterizing at a Christian conference in Spartanburg last year, was on the program).

The governor polled behind Sarah Palin in the annual conference straw poll. Palin got 3%.

Mrs. Haley was part of a 14% lump of candidates called "Other." Over sixty names were written in on the ballot.