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“Whatever is in the water in South Carolina makes you wonder why there aren’t more South Carolinians,”  Juanita pondered this morning after news that the female Republican gubernatorial candidate might be hiking the Appalachian trial in Salt lake City.

A second South Carolina GOP political consultant is claiming he had an affair with gubernatorial hopeful Nikki Haley — a one-night stand in her hotel room at a June 2008 school choice conference in Salt Lake.

Here’s the twist: the consultant, Larry Marchant, worked until his resignation yesterday for Andre Bauer, the current lieutenant governor and one of Haley’s opponents in the Republican gubernatorial primary, which is just five days away.

“I think you lose 5 percentage points at the polls if you’re a political candidate not doing the wild thing in South Carolina.  I think it’s kinda expected.  You know, like in Texas it’s expected that your Governor be dumb as bean dip.”