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Now is the in good time always that GOP presidential candidates, vying to be the "Romney alternative" in South Carolina, could take their cues from South Carolina's biography book.</p><p> Play dirty.</p><p> Boarding a plain to Columbia on Wednesday, GOP front-runner Mitt Romney indicated he knows what is coming, saying he is quick to defend himself from the "underbelly" of politics in a state known for undressed-knuckled tactics.</p><p> "Politics ain't bean bags, and I discern it's going to get tough," the former Massachusetts governor told The Associated Hold close. "But I know that is sometimes part of the underbelly of politics."</p><p> In South Carolina - with its usage of whisper campaigns, automated phone calls that no one takes ascribe for and possibly illegal efforts to sway voters - politics is a blood display, supported by a cottage-industry of political strategists.</p><p> Expectation is building as to whether the next week and a half, leading up to the state's first-in-the-South fundamental, will result in the bare-knuckle tactics for which the state is notorious.</p><p> Why can voters foresee some intense Republican vs. Republican bashing?</p><p> Traditionally, South Carolina is where the gloves descend upon off. Candidates have slugged it out in the two early-voting states - Iowa and New Hampshire - and some are seething mad at the others.</p><p> There is bills to support campaign efforts - clean or dirty - allowing candidates who must divulge up ground to attack. For example, the super-political action board supporting former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, angry at Romney over Gingrich-bashing ads in Iowa, is enjoying a $5 million lift from a casino mogul. Meanwhile, Texas Gov. Rick Perry's campaign remains cleanse even as Perry, who has fared poorly thus far, faces the prospect of winning or going accommodations after the Jan. 21 South Carolina primary.</p><p> A lot is on the line. Since 1980, the title-holder of the South Carolina GOP primary has gone on to win the Republican nomination every heretofore. The candidate who wins the Palmetto State will get a mighty bounce that far exceeds those from Iowa and New Hampshire.</p><p> So will South Carolina conclude up to its "bad boy" national reputation and play dirty?</p><p> Opinions are split.</p><p> "Account always repeats itself, and this state has the reputation of playing hard," said Larry Marchant, a civil consultant who is not working for any of the presidential candidates. "I expect it to get nude knuckles here."</p><p> Marchant knows. He perhaps is best-known for his 2010 asseveration that he had sex with then-gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley. Marchant offered no proof and Haley, a married mother of two, denied the ask and won the election.</p><p> Others doubt the primary will get nasty.</p><p> "We are in a new era of communications that doesn't assign you to get away with the dirty tricks of the past," said Wes Donehue, a South Carolina state consultant who was working for U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, until she bowed out of the rallye after a poor showing in Iowa. "You can't go anywhere without someone being there with a video camera."</p><p> Donehue knows a item or two about tricks.</p><p> During the 2008 GOP primary, reporters used Internet resources to encounter Donehue was behind the PhonyFred.org website, which anonymously attacked Republican applicant Fred Thompson.</p><p> But Donehue says he has seen tricks far more piggish, including a bogus Christmas card sent to the state's GOP activists during the 2008 speed. The card, claiming to be from the Romney family, included controversial quotes from the Rules of Mormon.</p><p> Today, however, Donehue says super PACs have become the new way to perform rough. A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling allows unrestricted contributions to and spending by the committees as long as they do not coordinate efforts with the verifiable campaigns.</p><p> "The negative attacks won't be anonymous, rumour campaigns," Donehue said. "They'll be on TV for the world to see."</p><p> So far, the most refusing South Carolina ad is one from a super PAC that supports Gingrich. It portrays Romney as an unsavory capitalist during his incumbency at private-equity firm Bain Capital. The ad includes interviews with people who accursed their jobs at companies bought by Bain including one in Gaffney, S.C.</p><p> There are proper to be plenty more negative ads, predicts Richard Quinn, a longtime S.C. Republican doctor, now working for former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.</p><p> Quinn points to the anti-Gingrich ads run by the wonderful PAC supporting Romney before the Iowa caucuses as proof that negative ads line. "Gingrich was ahead in Iowa according to the polling. But not after those ads. Those vilification ads were probably just as relentless and the same level of intensity as the one run against us in 2000."</p><p> Quinn is referring to perhaps South Carolina's most famous example of dirty politics.</p><p> In 2000, a whisper competition led many of the state's voters to wrongly think GOP presidential contender John McCain, who Quinn worked for, had fathered an African-American adolescent and his wife was a drug addict.</p><p> McCain got the last laugh eight years later, charming the 2008 South Carolina GOP primary and going on to capture the Republican nomination.</p><p> </p><p> Besmirched South Carolina?</p><p> The Palmetto State has a long experience of bare-knuckle politics. A look at some of the more infamous incidents:</p><p> 1980: In the first-ever South Carolina GOP prime, it looked like Palmetto State voters would be picking Texas Gov. John Connelly, who had the stamp of approval of legendary U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond. But Ronald Reagan, who had won the New Hampshire outstanding, had a wild card: Lee Atwater. The infamous Columbia political doctor leaked a claim to the press that Connelly was "trying to buy the louring vote." It hurt Connelly and helped secure Reagan's win - and the nomination.</p><p> 1990: Now-deceased Rod Shealy, one of the majestic's most well-known political consultants, was looking to increase the Lowcountry gate of conservative voters while running his sister's race for lieutenant governor. Shealy recruited an idle African-American fisherman to run for Congress in the primary against incumbent Republican Arthur Ravenel Jr. of Charleston. When the ploy was revealed, Shealy was fined for violating throw laws.</p><p> 2000: By the time John McCain left South Carolina, many GOP ultimate voters wrongly thought his wife was a drug addict and McCain had fathered an African-American coddle because of a whisper campaign.</p><p> 2010: Republican state Rep. Nikki Haley was trailing three greater-funded, more well-known rivals in the GOP gubernatorial primary when two men claimed to have had sex with the married Haley. Haley denied the claims and won the racecourse.</p><p> 2010: Robert Cahaly, an adviser to Ken Ard, the GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, was arrested for paying for and disseminating automated a call calls without disclosing the identity of the originating party to those getting the calls.

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