LR FOLLOW-UP

From Eric Dondero:

Updates on two very important news stories we've been following feverishly here at Libertarian Republican:

Firstly, looks like it's all crashing down around SC political trouble-maker Will Folks. RedState has the goods. Seems he was on someone's payroll after all. This last-minute attack on libertarian-leaning Republican and frontrunner for SC Gov. Nikki Haley has failed.

From Erick Erickson, RedState:

The consultant who last year was telling people about Will Folks’ story worked or works for Andre Bauer. Bauer himself admitted this week he has known about the rumor for a year... another blogger notes this: “Bauer seems to have cut some kind of deal with blogger Bill Folks.”

Three days before the Palin endorsement, Folks is singing the Bauer campaign’s praises.

Sadly, Lt. Gov. Bauer is a libertarian-leaning Republican, and one whose candidacy had been looked upon positively by Libertarian Republican.

As if there's not enough irony in this whole sordid tale, it now appears that there's a strong likelyhood that both libertarian-leaning Republicans Nikki Haley and Andre Bauer will face each other in the run-off. From Josh Painter at Texans for Palin:

South Carolina voters don't appear to be buying claims made by blogger and political operative Will Folks that he had an affair with state Rep. Nikki Haley. A new InsiderAdvantage/Statehouse Report poll shows Haley, who has the endorsement of Sarah Palin, with a 10.6 percent lead over Andre Bauer, in the GOP primary race for governor. Just before Folks' made his allegations earlier this week, a poll showed that Haley had jumped into the lead by nearly 10 points, so, despite the negative press coverage, her lead has actually grown.

Results of the poll show Haley ahead with 31.3 percent, followed by Bauer in second place at 20.7 percent. Gresham Barrett had 14.1 percent, and Henry McMaster 13.8 percent.

Secondly, some poll numbers have been released since the Rand Paul civil rights law flap hit last week. Seems Paul is holding steady in the Kentucky Senate race with a 3% lead over Democrat Ken Conway.

The poll was conducted by far leftwing Daily Kos. So, a 3% lead, can be viewed as decent considering all that has gone on this past week.

Amazingly, others on the far left are trying to conjure up another "Rand Paul scandal." Seems he made some comments on a foreign television interview a while back, and said he believes children born to illegal immigrants should not be given automatic citizenship status; that they should earn it. Presumably that could mean a stint in the military, or passing a citizenship/history test, or maybe paying a small fine.

But the bombastic headline at CNN reads: TRENDING: Paul says No citizenship for Children of Illegal Immigrants.