Nikki Haley, Sex and Race: The Last Gasp of the Good Old Boys?

It's interesting that you describe Ms Haley as "slender candidate." Is this an admirable personal and political quality? Or just a subjective observation? It is a descriptor with a slant. What I do find disturbing is Ms Haley's counter-intuitive example of immigrants, people like her parents, who did it the right way and those immigrants in Arizona who are, supposedly, doing "it" the wrong way. How's that? Ms Haley is going with the anti-immigrant tide, one which equates "alien" with skin color and culture. She may not have appreciated state Sen Knox's "*******" epithet but Haley's support of the Arizona Law means she has something in common with the good ol' boys, after all. This Tea Party-approved, fiscally conservative candidate, first generation American who just happens to be a woman proves she is another politician determined to win.

What has this country become? The inspiration to vote for Nikki Haley and the only one is the statement made in the last paragraph of Ms. Curtis's article.

Do not let the internet sway common sense in this country. We do not need to have our political decisions finalized by the internet. Go to the polls and vote. I'm beyond baby boomer but oh how I'd love to be in the challenging days before the boomers. Get off the internet - read books - read a newspaper everyday and plan your future retirement days where you might be able to have some fun. Stay healthy too! Internet research regarding health conditions is the greatest event since the invention of the electric typewriter. Be prepared for lots of research as you get older on the health sites - you may live to be 100. Until then, unless you're an expert in the everyday political world - quit your criticizing. Like blaming President Obama for the oil spill - are you living on Mars? Dolores M. Finn

Aloha Ms. Curtis,

Kudos to you for a job well done in reporting! As an Asian American, it is very hard for me to believe that an Asian female having extramerital affais, especially a Siksh female! One could almost feel the pain her children and her parents must be experiencing.

while i do not agree with ms. haley's politics i am appalled at the vicious ethnic and religious slurs spouted by her obviously demented opponets . by the way , sikhs are not muslims , and those slinging this mud are not christians, although they probably claim to be.

She might be an interesting candidate if she weren't going to be so shackled by the impracticable hodge-podge of policies that are the "Tea Party". Don't tell me you are going to bring back "commonsense" or "family values". Tell me whether you are going to bring the budget into balance, what you are going to cut and what taxes you are going to raise. You are not running (all of you new conservatives) for Junior Class President. We need to know more than how nice you are, how you understand us, and other useless information. Your philosophy of governance has proven not to be the panacea it was cracked up to be--now we need details besides "Freedom" "Less Taxes" "Less Government" "Real America".

I am quite sure that Ms. Haley and I disagree on most matters of public policy but may I suggest that South Carolina change its state motto to "Men Behaving Badly."

Last gasp of the good old boys by a woman accused of not one but two affairs? I think not and if so how embarrassing of a choice. Sounds like more republican family values to me.