Is it conceivable that South Carolina gubernatorial hopeful Nikki Haley had an affair with blogger Will Folks?
Erick Erickson of RedState.com has your answer backed by this irrefutable proof:
It’s a Rule of Nature: Hot Women Don’t Have Affairs With Ugly Poor Guys
I thought the official Tea Party doctrine was that the affairs of men (and women) were dictated by the will of God, so this Rule of Nature sticks out (and up). Seems even a RedStater can fool around with some Gaia worship on the side. Except, unlike Nikki Haley’s husband, God’s gonna know.
When it comes to South Carolina politics, Erick’s got a pretty dull axe to grind. He fell hard for the Luv Gov’s excuse about ‘hiking the Appalachian trail’, while the rest of us were parsing the gooey details of Mark Sanford’s Argentinian emailationship. But he is right about one thing. As far as boytoys go, Will Folks is far from hunkalicious.
So Erick’s chivalrous defense of Nikki hinges upon what a complete loser Will Folks is, and by extension, all balding, blogging, thirtyish men in a baseball cap who hunch over their computer keyboards in mom’s basement. He’s poor! He’s sleazy! That Sic Willy’s got a pornhub window hidden in the toolbar as he cuts and pastes yet another right-wing diatribe about how that Marxist Obama......now just hold on a second. Something’s not right here. Hey RedState fanboys! Erick’s talking about you!
And that’s why the RedState troops aren’t exactly marshalling in neat formation to Erickson’s clarion call for chivalry. To many of them, Will Folks is, well, a folks’ hero. He’s the nerdy homunculus who actually scored with the sultry cheerleader. Many of the comments lead with lusty admissions along the lines of – “Hey, I’d hit that!” Witness this bit of fratty insubordination, posted by a RedState contributor-
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Is this just another parochial and tawdry South Carolina GOP greased pig wrestle? Not exactly. Haley’s forni-gate, specifically the conservative reactions to it, bodes poorly for the Republican strategy of promoting sexually attractive yet politically naïve women as a ‘new brand of feminism’, the so-called ‘Grizzly Mama’s’ as a way of preserving power under patriarchy. Just as GOP leaders are feverishly trying to stuff the genie of racism back into the Rand Paul Tea Party bottle, Erick Erickson is battling the very misogyny that he and other Dittoheads have so gleefully dispensed against the likes of Hilary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.
This is why the Kaiser’s generals abandoned chemical warfare during World War 1: when the winds shift, you can find yourself breathing your own poisonous gasses. And here’s a whiff for you, try not to inhale:
I agree that it’s a pretty cheap shot to use this piece of fratty conservative propaganda to portray Republicans as neanderthalic misogynists and Democrats as enlightened womynists. But we didn’t popularize the term ‘feminazi’. Most Democrats agree that a woman's attractiveness isn't a valid basis for arguing about the correctness of her political beliefs. But for a lot of conservative guys, looks and sex appeal are campaign bonafides . If it weren’t for an inconvenient sex tape, Carrie Prejean might be their California gubernatorial candidate, not Meg Whitman.
As Gloria Steinem pointed out,
"Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere."
This jewel’s for all the Rushbo fanboys, because Gloria Steinem was a Playboy bunny once, so there’s her RedState street cred.
Speaking of street cred, here’s some machinamation that Will Folks posted. It puts a real spotlight on the issues involved, especially in view of Sic Willy’s own history of domestic violence. As you’ll see, Will Folks is hardly the leftist tool that Erickson tries to paint him to be:
That was pretty creepy wasn’t it? But Sic Willy has shown glimmers of enlightenment in the past as he’s broken ranks with his party. He notoriously called out SC State Senator Catherine Ceips when she, in typical Eagle Forum fashion, introduced a resolution to censure the country music group The Dixie Chicks back in 2003.
Let’s go back to when the Dixie Chicks made their famous criticism of George Bush and his ginned-up war in Iraq. A simple exercise of the 1st amendment was judged by many of their own fans as no less than treason.
Here’s Bill O’Reilly weighing in with the GOP brand of fairness and balance:
Hmmm. To the Dixie Chicks’ considerable credit, they never backed down from their remarks. But if they had, it would have been along the lines of this Tina Fey-ism:
“We’re sorry-we forgot out fan base was comprised of hillbillies and morons.”
I’d like to present Erick Erickson with that gift-wrapped apology. He’s gonna need it because there’s a man who has truly forgotten just who his fan base is. A virtual world of Will Folks. And they’re getting restless.
As for Nikki Haley, the fact that her favorite band is ABBA bothers me a bit more than her choice of sexual partners.