Republicans: The second non-affirmative action Governor of color since reconstruction?

Nikki Haley:  Born of Punjabi Sihks, she's the front runner for the Republican nomination for Governor and therefore for Governor of the State of South Carolina.  Following in Ayup "Bobby" Jindal's footsteps.  By contrast to "The One" she's faced racial slurs and scurrilous whispering campaigns fomented by the press.  They, of course, fear her.

Just you watch, she'll be smeared as Palin number 2 if she wins.  Damn narrative just won't stay put.

More information from S. Carolina courtesy of Mike Barone.

Interestingly, Haley is the daughter of Sikh immigrants from India. If elected governor she would be the second Republican governor of a Southern state, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, to be the child of immigrants from South Asia. Who’d a thunk it? And when you’re putting your mind around that, consider that the leader in the Republican primary for the open South Carolina 1 seat relinquished by retiree Henry Brown is Tim Scott, who may be the most conservative and assuredly is the only black Republican in the South Carolina legislature. He led Paul Thurmond, son of the late Governor and Senator Strom Thurmond, by a 31%-16% margin; in third place with 14% was Carroll Campbell, son of the late Congressman and Governor Carroll Campbell.

What would Strom Thurmond (born in 1902, allowed to parachute into Normandy in 1944 after getting leave for being too old, State’s Right Democratic candidate for president in 1948 as Trent Lott reminded us in December 2002) have thought of this? Or what would his father’s good friend and his own friendly acquaintance Pitchfork Ben Tillman (born 1847, governor 1890-94, U.S. senator 1895-1918, “censured by the Senate in 1902 for assaulting another Senator on the Senate floor,” as the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1789-1989 informs us) have thought? The mind reels. This is a great country and South Carolina, for all the trouble it has caused the rest of us, is a great state.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Some-thoughts-on-the-June-8-primaries-95935064.html#ixzz0qMrvjpDH