“Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” is proud to present our 546th original profile today to close out 2016, and we’re going to be talking about Nancy Mace, a challenger in the 2014 U.S. Senate Primary in South Carolina to Senator Lindsey Graham for his seat in Washington, D.C. Now, at first glance, Nancy Mace’s resume as a challenger looks pretty good to challenge Sen. Graham, himself a career JAG officer. Nancy Mace, though, is also from a military background with some impressive details, like say that she was the first woman to ever graduate from The Citadel back in 1999. But of course, things are never as simple as what you pick up at first glance.
Nancy Mace was far from the only one vying to take down Lindsey Graham, as the field of challengers included extremist South Carolina State Senator Lee Bright, Constitution-waver Bill Connor, and ice-cream salesman Richard Cash, all three of whom were kooky enough to earn their own CSGOPOTD profiles, and all of whom were desperate to run to the right of Sen. Graham, which is no small feat for a man who advocates the United States going to war whenever anything spooks him, even if it’s a raccoon in his trash. The sad part was, Mace thought she could distinguish herself from the pack by hopping into the race to run to the right against those jamokes.
Mace was the first to attack Lindsay Graham for admitting climate change exists, and tried claiming that a “recent freeze” disproves the phenomenon.
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Factor in also, that Nancy Mace’s background in South Carolina politics comes from being the co-owner of FITSNews, a “news” outlet in South Carolina best known perhaps for, while under Mace’s Leadership, leading a smear campaign in 2010 against gubernatorial candidate (and future South Carolina Governor) Nikki Haley, insisting that she had taken part in a series of extramarital affairs. Of course, that sort of tactic wouldn’t work against a lifetime bachelor like Lindsey Graham, so we were spared a repeat of that sort of seedy attack from Mace. No, instead she was one of a pair of primary candidates who decided to gay-bait Graham. While Mace reblogged a post from a supporter that called the Senator a “nancy boy”, at least she didn’t go as far as Dave Feliciano, who said that Graham is “ambiguously gay“.
I think at this point, we’d like to stop talking about South Carolina politics before we need a shower, and just finish by saying that Nancy Mace finished fifth with 6.2% of the vote. She could still emerge in another Republican primary to challenge another incumbent soon.