A McClatchy Newspapers report out of Washington says that many people have decided they won’t visit South Carolina on account of what Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) said:
State and local tourism officials are being flooded by emails and calls from people across the country, saying they won’t vacation in South Carolina because they’re upset by GOP Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst at President Barack Obama.
The officials said that a number of the out-of-state e-mailers have said they’ve taken beach trips for years in Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head and other South Carolina resort areas, but don’t plan to return.
Now, though I take pride in my Georgia roots, my family is actually not from Georgia; they’re from South Carolina. They didn’t move to Georgia until the late 1790s, 20 years after the Revolutionary War; my ancestors fought against the British as members of the South Carolina militia. So I do have a connection with the Palmetto State.
So, I’m going to weigh in on the whole “Boycott South Carolina” thing.
I’m going to agree with Michelle Malkin that most of the threats are from those that wouldn’t go to South Carolina anyway. I wonder how many are already on record for boycotting South Carolina on account of the “Confederate Flag” (which, if you know your history, was never actually used by the Confederacy — the design is the Confederate Navy Jack while the colors are from the flag of the Army of Northern Virginia — nor is it the Stars and Bars).
I also wonder how many have actually been to South Carolina — other than to drive through on their way to haul drugs from Florida.
And I wouldn’t mind one little bit if Democrats or liberals had nothing whatsoever to do with South Carolina. Or Georgia. Or Alabama. Or Florida. Or Tennessee. Or any of 45 other states.
Imagine all the good that could come out of such a boycott.
It’s 57 states.
Welcome to the club. Frommer’s said he was going to boycott Arizona after that AR-15 toting townhaller made the news. Of course the real punishment is that its an empty threat and we’ll probably see these people tainting our states anyway.
BUY-cott South Carolina! I like Pimentos. What else does South Carolina produce?
[Boots, tobacco … Harvey has more about South Carolina here. – B]
Wrong, Patrick. It’s 58. Kenya’s been a member of the Union for quite some time.
I wasn’t aware that basement-dwelling ghouls and those with their hand out to the government doll would be able to vacation anywhere. Considering the latest news about ACORN, though, South Carolina is probably better off without an invasion of pimps.
I personally suspect that South Carolina may just have gotten a lot more popular as a conservative vacation spot.
In any event, I’m with you Frank J. I would be deeeeeeelighted if progressives decided to haul their patoots out of the overrun and beleaguered state of Wisconsin–also neighboring Minnesota and Illinois, because, well, let’s face it, they have cooties.
I’d be thrilled if we could get them all to come here to sunny California. I have Lex Luther’s home address.
Oops! Did I say Frank J.? I meant Basil. Sooooorrrrryyyyyy!
Cool, is that all it takes to get rid of Liberals? Calling the Prevaricator-in-Chief a liar?
On behalf of Harry Reid*’s state of Nevada, “Obama is a liar! Obama is a liar! Nyeah, nyeah, nyeah!!
*dont blame me he was already in the Senate before I got here
Great….So, people I don’t like and don’t agree with me will not be vacationing where I own property and like to vacation?
This is great! I guess Greg Russel was right. Harbour Town, Hilton Head Island really is Republican yuppity doo daa land! 🙂
I’ve been there. I was askeered to stop for gas in every town I stopped at. There was Negroes. Lots of them. Conversations ended at McDonalds and Travel America when I walked in. I mean absolute silence. Even the friolaters were quiet. I said, ‘It’s okay. I’m a Republican. We freed your asses back in the day. ‘member?’ They settled right down and went back sharpening their shivs.
Lucky for me I wasn’t transporting drugs. I was transporting guns.
South Carolina is nowhere near LA, NY, Aspen or Las Vegas, so technically it doesn’t even exist in the tiny minds of liberals. So, how could they ever visit there to begin with?
Hmmmmm, so according to the knobs that wrote the McClatchy story:
“State and local tourism officials are being flooded by emails and calls from people across the country, saying they won’t vacation in South Carolina because they’re upset by GOP Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst at President Barack Obama”
A flood is 147 emails and calls. Geezuz, only in Washington. I wonder whether Gibbs wrote the copy for them.
So I suppose this means that business at South Carolina’s gay bars and abortion clinics will be dwindling soon…
Wish I lived in SC.
I moved to SC 20 yrs ago from Massachusetts……never looked back. Have a great career, 25 PRIVATE acres, low taxes, and VFL (very few liberals)……..
“And I wouldn’t mind one little bit if Democrats or liberals had nothing whatsoever to do with South Carolina. Or Georgia. Or Alabama. Or Florida. Or Tennessee.”
Moved down to Alabama from the Empire (state) in ’99 and lived there seven years. Only after that did I realize I’d been living not in but next door to Eden on Earth, i.e., Mississippi (which has some incredibly deep and rich literary and other creative things ongoing as well as Evil Snakes; interesting place, great cooking and music and lots of other stuff, watch where you step, etc.). All of which is to say, the folks down in the South try to hush up all the good stuff and play along with the prejudices so “those people” won’t come down and ruin it all.
I can’t call ’em liberals, since Paul Greenberg, a columnist based in Little Rock, pointed out, that because America doesn’t have a monarchy, we’re all liberals, in the true sense of the word. That was kind of a source of unity back at the start, wasn’t it. You know what really spoiled it? Read V (yes, that’s the name of it — the fifth poem) in Stephen Crane’s “Black Riders and Other Lines.” We’re all still crying.
Well anyway, it’s going to be real hard to clear Democrats out of the South, for a reason (Yellow Dog Democrat hangover from the old days and an awful lot of people, black and white–but as far as I could see thus far, not Hispanic or Asian, which are the other two large groups you notice on the streets every day–who believe living on government welfare is the American way, and this dates back to the New Deal [check out the lyrics to Alabama’s “Song of the South” and their video on You Tube]). Haley Barbour in Mississippi is doing a good job, and so are Gov. Riley and Sen. Sessions in Alabama — just speaking about a few that come to mind right off — but we so need more of those Republicans at work down there. Well, they’re needed everywhere, of course — Jules Crittenden, for instance, posted a good slam of the Massachusett GOP recently — but there’s real fertile ground down South, if enough people can be found who have the backbone and grit to farm it.
What!?!?! People are boycotting South Carolina? How can Waffle House maintain a resurant every half mile with out a steddy flow out of out of state wack jobs comming through?
I’m wondering how I can get my Senators or Representatives to PO the liberals in my state and encourage them to take their failed policies, their moral ineptitude and their fuzzy thinking somewhere else.
Maybe Joe could give them some pointers, do a seminar or a couple of workshops. There could be a lot of money in this. He might make more as a consultant than as a senator. He would at least have a better reputation and no one would call him a racist, bigot, homophobe conservative.
His only mistake was in thinking that the same rules apply to conservative that apply to liberals. They can call the sitting president a nazi, a monkey, a jackass, a dupe, stupid, moronic, a hypocrite and a liar ( I could go on and on and on, any one here remember Bush lied and people died? If it wasn’t said originally on the floor it was repeated often enough) on the floor of Congress but only if he’s conservative and only when they deem it necessary.
There’s a small island out in the coastal marshes of South Carolina that produces the World’s Finest Fighting Force on the planet.>>>> Hippies and Libtards have been boycotting that location since the 60’s.
Yeah, I can imagine who’s doing all the boycotting…a bunch of “Concerned Christian Conservatives who voted for Bush”. Right.
Regrettably, the last time I was in SC was for Basic Training. Nice clay soil, BTW. Lots of fun for digging foxholes. Thanks. And the wild dogs on post were a treat, too. I’d come back in a heartbeat, provided there is no digging involved, and the libs stand by their word (Yeah, right!), and boycott the state.
…and how pathetic is it to “Boycott” a state, anyway? Like you were going to go in the first place. It’s like giving up yogurt for Lent when you’re lactose intolerant…it means NOTHING!
I wish libs from CA would have banned Idaho years ago…the place is crawling with ’em, now. Their voices are pretty well quelled and they’re sequestered at the universities, however.
If the dems left the south that would be a good day, if they left the country that would be a great day.
I just called South Carolina and told them that I WOULD be visiting solely because of what Rep. Wilson said. I encourage others to do the same.
As a South Carolina resident, I encourage not only libs, but also Sen. Graham to boycott this state!
If NY state gives NYC the boot will the Libtards boycott upstate? Pleease. Not that they really know there is an upstate.
I wish libtards would bycott America and leave.
South Carolina gets all the luck
So his shout-out improved the state…well that’s not fair.
I’m moving to North Carolina within a year…I may have to see if it’s possible for me to head south.
Texas is pretty good too. We’ve probably got only a handful of undesirables left, a few deadbeats and the (surviving) criminal element leftover from Katrina.
(See if we ever volunteer to do THAT again! The idiots in charge let the New Orleans convicts just walk right off the buses into the cities. Of course they voluntarily turned themselves back in a few days later when the administration finally got their pants pulled back up. )
Several members of those bad-ass New Orleans gangs didn’t survive the introduction to Texas shop owners, who keep their guns locked and loaded behind counters. After a few months of clean-up, most of the others decided New Orleans was a safer place to conduct their business after all.
Very funny true story…….
After Katrina, Houston opened it’s doors to the flood of New Orleans refugees, and there wasn’t an unrented apartment or hotel room to be found in town. Officials were looking everywhere to find places for all of the displaced, who were, for the most part, black. (I’m not being rude, the fact is that the areas that wound up underwater in New Orleans were largely inhabited by black people.)
So one of our liberal media representatives was reporting on a group of black refugees, who had been offered free housing for a couple of years, to help them get back on their feet. The reporter proceeds to interview this exhausted looking black guy, (obviously hoping for some gratitude from the poor victim for the free housing), and he says that he hates it here because of “all the damn Mexicans” he’s forced to live with!
(The news anchor recounting the story did a REALLY good impression of a goldfish!) Then she turned to the other anchor and said “That sounded almost…..prejudiced.”
I laughed myself sick.