Senator Scott, a class act

Via Mediaite

Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), who was appointed by South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley after former Senator Jim DeMint stepped down to join the Heritage Foundaton, brushed aside the NAACP’s North Carolina President Rev. William Barber II’s criticism of him as a “ventriloquist’s dummy” for the “extreme right wing.”

“You just can’t really respond to someone who’s never taken the time to get to know you,” Scott said on Meet the Press Sunday morning. “He wasn’t there when I was growing up in a single=parents household, struggling through high school. He wasn’t there when I started my business working 85 hours a week. He wasn’t there when I was running for Congress against long odds.”

Host David Gregory asked if there was a “dark vein of intolerance” in the GOP, quoting Colin Powell’s characterization.

“The GOP really has become the Great Opportunity Party,” Scott replied, going on to tell an anecdote of the conservative who mentored him as a teen exposing him to the possibilities of politics.