{"id":15381,"date":"2012-08-07T19:08:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T23:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15381"},"modified":"2012-08-07T19:08:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T23:08:36","slug":"why-romney-won%e2%80%99t-pick-sc%e2%80%99s-nikki-haley-for-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15381\/why-romney-won%e2%80%99t-pick-sc%e2%80%99s-nikki-haley-for-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Romney Won\u2019t Pick SC\u2019s Nikki Haley for VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Besides her Sarah Palin-esque rise to prominence as South Carolina\u2019s Governor \u2013 and the fear that she\u2019s too green to be Romney\u2019s vice president \u2013 there\u2019s another, more salient reason Nikki Haley isn\u2019t being talked about as Mitt\u2019s running mate: she\u2019s using Barack Obama\u2019s stimulus formula and getting worse results.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/08\/06\/sc-conservative-groups-feel-betrayed-by-haley\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Caller<\/a>, since becoming governor in 2011, Haley has tried to dole out more than $70 million in tax incentives and grants to businesses as a way to create jobs in South Carolina.\u00a0 Still, the state\u2019s unemployment rate sits at 9.1 percent, much higher than the 8.3 percent national average.<\/p>\n<p>Some Palmetto State conservatives have had enough, including Harry Kibler, a Tea Party member and founder of RINO [Republican In Name Only] Hunt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cShe basically is running all over the state trying to make sweetheart deals with corporations to entice them to move to South Carolina and start business here,\u201d said Harry Kibler, a tea party activist and founder of the conservative group RINO Hunt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a heartfelt philosophy that if we get government intrusion out of the business culture in South Carolina, that business will move here on its own,\u201d Kibler told The Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governor seems to think that the only people in South Carolina that create jobs is the state legislature and the government,\u201d RINO Hunt\u2019s Kibler countered. \u201cMake South Carolina the freest state or the cheapest state to do business \u2014 for all business \u2014 and business will naturally be attracted to South Carolina.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don\u2019t expect Mitt Romney to invite that kind of criticism from the Right by picking Nikki Haley as his vice president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides her Sarah Palin-esque rise to prominence as South Carolina\u2019s Governor \u2013 and the fear that she\u2019s too green to be Romney\u2019s vice president \u2013 there\u2019s another, more salient reason Nikki Haley isn\u2019t being talked about as Mitt\u2019s running mate: she\u2019s using Barack Obama\u2019s stimulus formula and getting worse results. According to The Daily Caller, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,2710,1309,160,3382,2729],"class_list":["post-15381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-crony-capitalism","tag-job","tag-mitt-romney","tag-nikki-haley","tag-vice-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15384,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15381\/revisions\/15384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}