H2 - Charlie James discusses Republican party struggles, local tax issues, oil production, and the Anderson 200-year event.

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Transcript Pledge of Allegiance Lead / Crowd: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Singer: O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain! America, America! God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea! Recorded Clip: America is back! Charlie James: Yes, sir! We are trying, we're trying our best. All right, welcome back to the program. Now, I gotta take full responsibility for this. I didn't know if Casey Widener was going to be on the show today or tomorrow. Looks like she's going to be on tomorrow. Casey Widener is the Libertarian candidate who is running for Senate for South Carolina. And that does raise—so you got 24 hours to get ready for that interview. That does raise a question. Lots of people are out there talking about how, you know, the House and the Senate... You know what the big thing about the Democrats was? "I didn't leave the Democrat Party, they left me." I think a lot of people are starting to feel that way about the Republican Party. Because the Republicans don't fight! They just—there's no fight in them! And if there is no fight, what's the use? Why should—every four, every six years, every two years, they'll come to us and ask us to go to the polls and vote for them. "Please, cause I will fight for you! We'll get to Washington and I will fight for you!" And then they get up to Washington, and what's the last thing they do? Fight. They don't even get to the whole fight part. They just go along to get along. I remember, I remember a couple of cycles ago, had all these people running for Congress. William Timmons was running, and all I heard was, "When we get to Washington, you give us the House, and we will stop all of Joe Biden's ridiculous spending bills. We'll stop them in their tracks, we will use the power of the purse." What did they stop? Nothing. They stopped absolutely nothing. So my big question is, do you think maybe, do you think maybe it might be at least worth a clip, at least worth a thought of more than just two parties? Do you think? You think it might be time to actually give a look at another party? Now, here's the thing about the Libertarians that I've never been able to understand. Under the whole Libertarian blanket, you've got conservative Libertarians, and you've got liberal Libertarians. You've got middle-of-the-road Libertarians. And that's the thing that's always concerned me about them, because I don't really know what their platform is. I don't know if they're conservative, I don't know if they're liberal, right? So, I don't know. But we are going to be talking with Casey Widener coming up tomorrow to find out exactly what she wants to do as a United States Senator. But here's—this is going to shock you. Just because you vote Republican does not mean that you are a Republican. And I'll explain that in just a second. Just because you're a Democrat, you vote Democrat, does not mean that you are a Democrat. Now, you think you're a Democrat, you think you're a Republican, but they don't think you're a Republican. The establishment. The folks in Columbia, the South Carolina GOP, the National GOP. They don't consider you a Republican. Unless you're a big donor, then you're just kind of a peon. You're what they use to keep them in power. They don't really care about what you think, they don't care about how you feel. None of that bothers them. You can make all the phone calls—I wonder how many phone calls John Thune has gotten from the state of South Carolina? Probably hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands. Doesn't matter! That doesn't matter. I wonder how many phone calls Tim Scott has gotten that said, "Hey Tim, get off your duff and start fighting!" Because one thing I haven't seen Tim Scott do is get on and talk about doing aw ...

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