{"id":6549,"date":"2011-05-18T22:50:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6549"},"modified":"2011-05-18T22:52:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:52:38","slug":"nikki_haley_kin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/18\/nikki_haley_kin\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Haley, kingmaker 2012?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/custom?hl=en&#038;safe=off&#038;client=google-coop&#038;cof=FORID%3A13%3BAH%3Aleft%3BCX%3ASepia%2520Mutiny%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fintl%2Fen%2Fimages%2Flogos%2Fcustom_search_logo_sm.gif%3BLH%3A30%3BLP%3A1%3BKMBOC%3A%23336699%3B&#038;adkw=AELymgWd0NiBEDJvmSwyNu8675MxMK_xrLMX6QO5vcTGkc6Lucuz87lm1R5aGhCayClafecbuk0FxBWBQxNHutSeUS_53OyUVQkERTohq7RBgAPTlwrFQIM&#038;boostcse=0&#038;q=%22nikki+haley%22&#038;btnG=Search&#038;cx=016152447450613227378%3Adpwagjvv5hy\">Nikki Haley<\/a> has been the subject of posts on this blog going back to the middle of the last decade. Now <i>Politico<\/i> has the first of what are probably going to be many similar stories leading up to the 2012 South Carolina primary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0511\/55263.html\">Nikki Haley muscles up for 2012<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>With noted smackdowns of two top GOP 2012 contenders, a high-profile presence at the May 5 Fox News debate and a schedule heavy with cable news show appearances, the first-term Republican governor is signaling her intent to use South Carolina&#8217;s key early presidential primary to claim a place on the national stage.\n<br\/><br\/>\nHaley&#8217;s recent muscle-flexing came at the expense of Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, both of whom are still licking their wounds after her frank&#8211;and non-constructive&#8211;criticism of them.<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki Haley has been the subject of posts on this blog going back to the middle of the last decade. Now Politico has the first of what are probably going to be many similar stories leading up to the 2012 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/18\/nikki_haley_kin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}