Tim Scott: Meet the New Senator From South Carolina

[Valin]

WSJ:

Tim Scott, the newly appointed Republican, will give liberals fits. His first priority is working for tax reform.

STEPHEN MOORE

12/21/12

 

Washington

 

Republicans in need of encouraging signs for the new year need look no further than Tim Scott. He was appointed by Gov. Nikki Haley on Monday to succeed Jim DeMint as U.S. senator from South Carolina. Mr. Scott is a charismatic and principled economic and social conservative from the Deep South. He owes his rapid political rise in part to the tea party movement. Oh, and he is black.

 

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Another influence was the late, legendary Sen. Strom Thurmond. "In 1992, I was the vice chairman of his last re-election," Mr. Scott says. Really? He worked for the formerly staunch segregationist? "He was a complicated man," Mr. Scott says, "but people change their minds. They embrace truth. In the end he received around 30% of the black vote. I'd like to get there. If Strom Thurmond could get 30% of the black vote, any Republican can."

 

Mr. Scott has also been active in the tea party, and he bristles at the suggestion that its influence is waning. "No. I think almost every American is a part philosophically with the tea party." How so? Because of what the tea party stands for, he says: "Limited government, free markets, entrepreneurship, capitalism, and making the government smaller, less intrusive and keeping it out of your pockets." Those are enduring American principles, he says. As for charges that the tea party is racist, he laughs. "I was warmly embraced by the tea party. They openly seek more minorities."

 

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[Valin]

TWS: Great Scott

12/31/12

 

The Scrapbook did not expect that the New York Times would express much joy at the appointment of Rep. Tim Scott of South Carolina to the Senate seat vacated by Jim DeMint. Mr. DeMint is a conservative Republican, Mr. Scott is a conservative Republican, and the governor who anointed Scott, Nikki Haley, is a conservative Republican, too.

 

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No, The Scrapbook welcomes Tim Scott to the Senate not because of the color of his skin but because he is Tim Scott: a successful businessman-turned-conservative-politician of particular skill and widespread appeal.

 

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From The Scrapbook’s perspective, Tim Scott will not be a black delegate to the black encampment in Congress but the United States senator from South Carolina. And we wish him well. Of course, we’re sorry that the New York Times clings to blood rather than brains when pondering the politics of African Americans. But we’re also thankful to the Times, and to Prof. Adolph L. Reed Jr., for depicting so vividly the racist dogma of the left.

[Draggingtree]

December 24, 2012

Tim Scott and the Case of the Black Republican

 

Posted by Kelefa Sanneh

Last Monday, Nikki Haley, the Governor of South Carolina,

to announce the identity of the state’s next U.S. Senator. Everyone already knew the identity of the state’s next ex-U.S. Senator: Jim DeMint, who is giving up his seat to become president of the Heritage Foundation. And most people already knew the name of his replacement: Tim Scott, a recently elected congressman who had quickly emerged as the consensus choice. Scott, who is forty-seven, is a former businessman, having worked in insurance and real estate, and he has strong ties to the conservative movement. He is also African-American, which is one reason why Haley said, on Monday, “It’s a historic day in South Carolina.” Only three states (Mississippi, Massachusetts, and Illinois) have ever sent African-American senators to Washington; now, South Carolina will become the fourth.

Jim Geraghty, blogging for the National Review, predicted that snip

New York Times Op-Ed, the political scientist Adolph L. Reed, Jr., explained why he wasn’t celebrating. Reed, who is black

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/12/tim-scott-and-the-case-of-the-black-republican.html

[Valin]

December 24, 2012

Tim Scott and the Case of the Black Republican

 

If Democrats believe that racial diversity is important, shouldn’t they want the Republican caucus to be more diverse, too?

 

 

Major Assumption Alert!!!! Racial diversity is only important to Democrats and the Left as a club.