Of course it has nothing to do with Tim Scott having one of the strongest conservative voting records in the Senate.
Do Republicans Lower the Bar for Blacks? – Bloomberg View
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has a Tea Party primary challenger. Speaker of the House John Boehner just dispatched one of his own this week in Ohio’s Republican primary. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, facing opposition from the right, has six candidates vying to unseat him in South Carolina’s June primary.
You know who doesn’t have a serious primary challenger, Tea Party or otherwise? Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina. That’s intriguing. Appointed in 2013 by Governor Nikki Haley to fill the seat vacated by former Senator Jim DeMint, Scott is the first black Republican in the Senate since Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, who served in the era when Dino-RINOs of the Nelson Rockefeller and Charles Percy persuasion roamed the earth. (Randall Young of Greenville has filed papers to challenge Scott in the primary; according to the State newspaper, Young, who received 24 votes last time he ran for office, gave election officials only a post office box and a nonworking telephone number.) […]
Affirmative action based on race has taken quite a beating at the Supreme Court, in state legislatures and at the ballot box. In the Republican Party, however, affirmative action can punch your ticket like nobody’s business.
HT: Twitchy