This one gets filed under “Dancing With The One That Bought You“:

The Darjeeling Darling

  The money being left on the nightstand is still common practice, correct?

How does Nikki Haley square the circle of betrayal she committed against the people who elected her?

Romney’s decisive defeat Saturday immediately got dropped in part at the feet of the South Carolina governor, who provided him a high-profile endorsement — though a controversial one among the local tea party forces who propelled her into office in 2010. But in this first test both of translating her appeal and playing on the national stage, she flopped.

As Open Secrets noted back in 2010, Romneybot version 08.b was slow playing the buy in anticipation of Romneybot v11.c needing her endorsement in South Carolina a short year away.  It’s very clever the way Romneybot applies his business acumen to purchasing the important properties early and cheap.

ROMNEY LOVE: Former Massachusetts GOP Gov. Mitt Romney has contributed $42,000 to Republican Nikki Haley’s campaign for governor in South Carolina, Politico reported. Currently, Romney has one federal political action committee and five statewide PACs, each contributing $3,500 to Haley’s campaign.

The maximum amount that PACs can contribute to campaigns is $3,500. However, the South Carolina Ethics Committee found that Romney’s five statewide PACs and one federal PAC could each max out their donations to Haley, despite sharing the same leadership and office space.

If the GOP retains the governorship of South Carolina, the new governor will be highly influential with the party’s base. This fact is not lost to potential 2012 GOP presidential candidates like Romney who are backing Haley in her governorship bid in hopes of an endorsement if they run in the GOP presidential primary in 2012.

I cannot fault the CGI of candidates exploiting his highly-beta tested programming and almost lifelike facial gestures to short fuse the electoral process.  It works on paper.

She may have even hurt Romney’s case in the state — there’s a sense that a handful of state legislators who would have backed Romney but refused to out of principle, simply because they hate Haley so much, and mock her for moves like requiring state employees to answer their telephones, “It’s a great day in South Carolina!”

Romney’s state campaign chairman, State Treasurer Curtis Loftis — a political rival of Haley, despite both backing the same presidential candidate — couldn’t resist taking shots at Haley. Less than an hour before the state’s polls closed, Loftis couched his criticisms of Newt Gingrich in terms that sound surprisingly like the way other local operatives describe Haley.

Any “Tea Party” candidate should understand that the establishment hates them.  They don’t like you but they still bought you.  Because you’re charming or something?  Riiiiight.

Haley’s and DeMint’s purchase of Romneybot’s operating license for 2011 shows that they clearly did not read the Tea Party EULA.  Any damages to their electoral hard drives as a result of the software conflict between Romneybot v.11c and the Operating System that got them up running in the first place is purely intentional.

WPBA Hall of Famer Karen Corr:  Not SC Gov. Nikkie Haley

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