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S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley fuels Republican VP talk
McClatchy DC ^ | 09/03/2015 | BY WILLIAM DOUGLAS AND DAVID LIGHTMAN McClatchy Washington Bureau

Posted on 09/03/2015 2:39:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Is she selling the New South or auditioning for a 2016 presidential campaign spot?

Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina is generating buzz that she’d be in the mix for the Republican vice presidential spot in 2016, following her successful handling of the removal of the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds after the shooting deaths of nine African-Americans inside a historic Charleston church.

Appearing Wednesday at the National Press Club, Haley teetered between deflective and receptive to the VP talk, at first dismissing it as a way-too-early political exercise, given that 17 Republicans are still elbowing each other to win the Republican presidential nomination.

“I’m not wasting any energy or any time thinking about that because I’ve got too much to do,” she said after her speech. “I’m trying to continue to heal the state, we’re trying to get back on track because we lost time, getting ready for a legislative session. . . . I’ve got a son in middle school, I got a daughter who’s a senior in high school, I’ve a husband who just came back from Afghanistan.”

That said, “If there’s a time where a presidential nominee wants to sit down and talk, of course I will sit down and talk,” she added.

Since the Confederate flag debate erupted, Haley has seen her star rise on the national stage.

(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; haley; nikkihaley; southcarolina; vp
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1 posted on 09/03/2015 2:39:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Good thing because she could never be elected for another office in SC!


2 posted on 09/03/2015 2:42:48 PM PDT by 4everontheRight (And the story began with..."Once there was a great nation......")
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To: SeekAndFind; wardaddy

Yeah, pulling down that flag will endear you to a lot of us.

Not.


3 posted on 09/03/2015 2:42:56 PM PDT by Salamander (...and He who made kittens, put snakes in the grass...)
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To: SeekAndFind

The cowardly, but submissive,
sweetheart of the DNC, MSM, and GOPe.


4 posted on 09/03/2015 2:43:16 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Her gutless capitulation on the Rebel Flag leaves much doubt.


5 posted on 09/03/2015 2:43:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 4everontheRight

Whoever would take her on as VP is toast.


6 posted on 09/03/2015 2:43:44 PM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: SeekAndFind

WHO is going to vote for a gal who doesn’t understand her culture? This is the whole problem with immigrants. Even first generation Americans often don’t get the culture.


7 posted on 09/03/2015 2:44:49 PM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: SeekAndFind

A little early, don’t you think? McClatchy has an ulterior motive in this as they could give a damn who the best candidate for Repub VP is.


8 posted on 09/03/2015 2:44:49 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: SeekAndFind

Since the Confederate flag debate erupted, Haley has seen her star rise on the national stage.
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A shooting star maybe. You know, like the ones that plunge through earth’s atmosphere and burn out.


9 posted on 09/03/2015 2:47:50 PM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: SeekAndFind
pointless. SC is already reliably republican. unless you think that women vote with their word for genitalia and only support other women, and you think that would score "the woman vote".
10 posted on 09/03/2015 2:49:23 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: lakecumberlandvet

Haley’s comet eventually leaves a smoking crater somewhere.


11 posted on 09/03/2015 2:49:34 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: SeekAndFind

Please not Nikki Haley - a nasty woman who has only contempt for our history. It wasn’t enough for her that the South lost and went through a rough period. No, she had to stick it to the South again and denied them even a battle flag. Were her parents citizens when she was born?


12 posted on 09/03/2015 2:49:58 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: SeekAndFind

Nikki!

Give me my $100 contribution to your political campaign back!

What a mistake you are to those outside of S.C. and those inside who supported your campaign.


13 posted on 09/03/2015 2:55:00 PM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and slinkies: they're good for nothing, but you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: SeekAndFind

To me, that’s when I saw her star fading.


14 posted on 09/03/2015 2:56:08 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: SeekAndFind

Nikki’s star was already heading down after her shocking endorsement of Romney in 2012. Our Tea Party candidate—NOT.


15 posted on 09/03/2015 3:01:43 PM PDT by georgiegirl
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s right Nikki, you play us backward toothless barefoot rednecks for the rubes we are.

Like Jim Hodges and David Beasley, you dared to touch the third rail in South Carolina politics. Cowardice and stupidity have consequences. You’re not getting any support from this corner of the world ever again.


16 posted on 09/03/2015 3:01:49 PM PDT by angryoldfatman
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To: SeekAndFind

Graham - Halley 2016
that’s the ticket......

for dog catchers


17 posted on 09/03/2015 3:03:51 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: SeekAndFind

Proven coward and surrender monkey. A door mat. A quisling. If she is or can become a drunk or closet homosexual, she is absolutely perfect as a member of the Republican nomenklatura.


18 posted on 09/03/2015 3:05:32 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I will sit out any ticket with Haley for VP no matter who heads it.


19 posted on 09/03/2015 3:07:45 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: 4everontheRight

You are correct. She’s a mini Obozo only not as feminine.


20 posted on 09/03/2015 3:08:17 PM PDT by strings6459
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