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"ZOMBIE SPOTTED AT LEXINGTON COUNTY REPUBLICAN MEETING LAST NIGHT!"
Ugh! I think I may have political leprosy. "Foghorn Leghorn" McMastah was making the rounds in the small crowd at last night's Lexington Co. GOP meeting and I (out of sheer politeness) shook his hand.
A friend of mine there attempted to engage him in meaningful conversation and was severely soundbit in the process. Luckily for my friend, he knew exactly what he was risking in attempting the endeavor and has built up quite an immunity over the past several years. It's still painful, however.
I must say that McMastah is even less impressive in person. He spoke for 7 minutes after being given 5 and bragged about all those things he'd done and I can't for the life of me remember anything he claimed to have done--nothing was impressive. I might have remembered if he'd spoken about his Craig's list debacle or his insistence that the tens of thousand$ in donation$ from lawyer$ he hired on the $tate dime were legit but not a peep from him on those subjects.
It was all good ol' boy truisms--and jokes. He may not remember to tie his shoes in the morning but he's always got a funny story to tell. If such talent were the prerequisite for being a good governor, he'd have won the election already.
His first joke during his mini-speech involved a talking dog that was sold very cheaply due to the fact that all he told were lies. McMastah declahed that the point of the joke is that sometimes people "miss da POINT!." A friend pointed out to me afterwards that the real point people missed last night is that they were themselves being lied to by an old dog. Perhaps the choice of joke for the occasion was a Freudian slip on McMastah's part.
McMastah has no plans to stand up for us against the federal government nor to fight the system. He's had his whole career to make a real difference and has done ZILCH, NADA, NOTHING!
McMastah's entire career has been far surpassed by Nikki Haley's single, partially successful and ongoing attempt to pass a law to require on-the-record voting so that the crooks in the statehouse cannot continue to hide their votes. No one but Nikki comes close in having a real record of fundamental reform to restore essential rights to the hard working people of this state.
McMastah, on the other hand, is part and parcel of the system. It has, clearly, broken him mentally and physically--if there was any real resistance on his part to selling his soul in the first place. He is well trained under the good ol' boy yoke and he dares not rise up against his corporate and political masters.
McMastah is a political zombie wandering around from one job on the public dole to another. He's old enough, gray enough, and foggy enough to retire yet still he stumbles on. His plan for the future is to simply proclaim that "South Carolina is open for BIDNESS!"
Oh, he went into some detail about getting committees together and otherwise creating a new bureaucracy but it's all the same old big government drivel--literally in his case. I doubt, at his age, he's making plans much further than having warm milk before going to bed.
McMastah's gub'nahship would be analogous to a urine-soaked nursing home patient mumbling and gyrating his limbs during drug-induced sleep. Nothing in reality would be accomplished and our corrupt government would only further decay in its prolonged destruction of our economy. The only change we'd get would be if Andre Bauer stopped by on one of his senior citizen pandering tours to change Henry's diapers.
McMastah, I have been reassured on many occasions, is a nice fellow who is beloved in his community and church. However, even giving him the benefit of a doubt regarding his public record of corruption, (especially in regards to his outlandish and embarrassing pandering in what are obviously politically motivated state legal cases) there are a lot of really good folks out there whom I'd love to know and have as neighbors but who would be perfectly incompetent to be governor.
McMastah is one of those old school political prostitutes who think that, after decades of self-serving public service, they are somehow "entitled" to a promotion to higher offices. Being governor in South Carolina should not be based on something akin to a state employee "merit system." In a true (1776) American Revolutionary system, time in public office should be looked upon with suspicion rather than in terms of qualification.
The governor in South Carolina is constitutionally weak. It's going to take someone with more energy, intellect, and pure, conscience-driven stubbornness to get anything done from such a leadership position. Sanford was more energetic in his earlier days but even he, since making governor, has grown increasingly lazy and obviously distracted in office despite his reform-minded political agenda that has now come to naught--all thanks to his own multiple personal and political failures.
McMastah is a toothless old establishment dog who's been lying on the porch his entire political life. I sure can't see him suddenly coming to life and chasing anything down. He has the double liabilities of a record of obedience to the corrupt system and not, even now while running for office, claiming to have a reform agenda.
McMastah has done nothing significant in the past and plans to do nothing significant in the future to return real power to the people of this state. He is just corrupt good ol' boy business as usual. After looking at his record, it should be obvious to all that voting for McMastah would be damning our state to the hell of further economic ruin and continuing national scandal.
wtc
3-2-10
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