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Nikki Haley Nukes Her Campaign, Sides With Disney in Ridiculous Attack on Ron DeSantis
Red State ^ | 04/26/2023 | Bonchie

Posted on 04/26/2023 8:00:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

I’ve never been much of a Nikki Haley fan. She’s always been a milquetoast neoconservative, who would have been perfectly at home serving in the George W. Bush administration. Still, I’ve tried to be nice. In other articles, I’ve described her as “fine” and otherwise given her a fair shake even though she’s far from what I’d prefer in a national politician.

That all got nuked on Wednesday afternoon, along with what little was left of her fledgling presidential campaign. In one of the most tone-deaf, ill-advised attacks I’ve ever seen in politics, Haley decided to side with The Walt Disney Company against Ron DeSantis, urging the woke multi-national corporation to move to South Carolina.

(See: Disney Sues Ron DeSantis, Claiming a ‘Targeted Campaign’ of Government Retaliation )

With party members like these, who needs enemies?

Hey @Disney, my home state will happily accept your 70,000+ jobs if you want to leave Florida.

We’ve got great weather, great people, and it’s always a great day in South Carolina!

SC’s not woke, but we’re not sanctimonious about it either. pic.twitter.com/uf1PWQjGc5

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) April 26, 2023

In a short few seconds, Haley managed to personify everything that is wrong with the modern GOP. What an absolutely cowardly move for her to pull that stunt. She had a chance to do what was right and back DeSantis’ play (or at least shut up about it and let him work) while showing Republicans that she can be counted on to deliver in the tough fights. Instead, she sided with a company that openly brags about grooming children and hates normal people with traditional values.

This should have been a lay-up. It should have been an issue all Republicans could come together and agree on. And what did Haley do? The weakest, most self-serving thing imaginable. That she also copied Trump’s silly “sanctimonious” attack against DeSantis only makes it more pathetic. Does this woman have an original bone in her body, or is she truly just a product of over-paid consultants? That’s rhetorical, of course, because we all know the answer to that.

Ask yourself, given what Haley just did, can you trust her to stand up to the deep state? To corporate tyranny? To social media censorship? To foreign threats? I don’t see any evidence she’d do anything but fold at the first order of her donors if she felt it would benefit her personally.

And to be clear, that’s what this is about. Obviously, she thinks if she sucks up to Trump enough and hits DeSantis by siding with Disney, she can secure a vice-presidential nod. It’s a clownish attempt to boost herself after her presidential campaign flopped like a fish out of water. More laughably, it has no real chance of succeeding.

Call me old-fashioned, but some things should be off-limits, even in a presidential primary. That includes fluffing far-left political opponents to score a cheap shot on a party member who is infinitely more popular and effective. If that’s the game Haley wants to play, she can fade into obscurity as the manufactured, non-entity that she is.

Again, I tried to play nice. I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt despite my concerns. That’s all over, and the gloves are off. If she wants to go down this road, then let’s go down this road.

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TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 2024; disney; donatedonaldtrump; donatetrump; election2024; fail; florida; nikkihaley
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To: NWFree

She’s toast with butter and jelly.. washed down with Bud Lite.

DJT can survive that wrong move but she won’t.

Both took bad advice from bad advisors.

Those advisors need to be fired, like .. last month.


21 posted on 04/26/2023 8:35:45 PM PDT by Surrounded_too (Low priority)
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To: alstewartfan

Trump didn’t side with them. He said they might decide to leave.

She, however, welcomed them to move to her state.

Big difference.


22 posted on 04/26/2023 8:47:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She’s a quitter and a RINO. So quit! If she quits being a RINO, she may resuscitate her wobbly political career.


23 posted on 04/26/2023 8:55:40 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: SeekAndFind

Her and Trump siding with woked out Disney all for personal gain......2 peas in the same pod. Get outta here.


24 posted on 04/26/2023 9:04:06 PM PDT by vespa300
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To: SeekAndFind
Just another "Ditzy" DIP$HIT politician running her mouth without engaging her brain.


25 posted on 04/26/2023 9:11:18 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: SeekAndFind

DeSantis better get his armour on, because the long knives will be out for the little bull.

Also, many of the stiletto wounds won’t have Orange fingerprints on it.


26 posted on 04/26/2023 9:18:20 PM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: vpintheak

Knew she was RINO. Didn’t know she was pro-pedo.


27 posted on 04/26/2023 9:36:27 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: SeekAndFind

Clueless.


28 posted on 04/26/2023 10:32:23 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: SeekAndFind

hey groomers are donors too


29 posted on 04/26/2023 10:50:04 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Churchillspirit

Honestly: this move by Nikki Haley will eliminate her meager chances. It definitely vaults fellow South Carolina candidate Tim Scott to a clearly higher level than Nikki.


30 posted on 04/27/2023 1:34:33 AM PDT by AFPhys ((Liberalism is what Smart looks like to Stupid people - ® - Mia of KC. Rush - 1:50-8/21/15))
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To: SeekAndFind

Icky Nikki sides with Disney groomers and pedophiles who demand their own state within a state. Much like the backstabbing, no Trumping, media hog Nancy Mace (Sc 1), icky Nikki’s first instinct is to surrender to the left’s cultural agenda.


31 posted on 04/27/2023 3:24:32 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s should go to Mexico and sneak over the border. )
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To: DeplorablePaul

Icky Nikki

Perfect.


32 posted on 04/27/2023 3:58:24 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: SeekAndFind

She never stood a chance anyway. No nuke necessary. Her campaign was going to implode the moment a light in the loafers breeze came her way.


33 posted on 04/27/2023 4:03:31 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: SeekAndFind

Objecting to the sexualization of children is now considered sanctimonious?


34 posted on 04/27/2023 4:05:29 AM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: SeekAndFind

Further proof she’s only auditioning for VP…


35 posted on 04/27/2023 4:16:23 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Florida is where WOKE goes to DIE!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“SC’s not woke, but we’re not sanctimonious about it either.”

WTF is she talking about? She’s lost her mind.


36 posted on 04/27/2023 4:18:21 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worrying doesn't take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace.)
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To: alstewartfan

“She and Donald siding with the groomers?”

How did Donald do that?


37 posted on 04/27/2023 4:19:45 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worrying doesn't take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

“Nikki started the take down of historical statues.”

And had the Confederate flag removed from state facilities.


38 posted on 04/27/2023 4:20:32 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worrying doesn't take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The problem with Nikki is that she’s not an American at heart. She’s just not. She doesn’t get it.


39 posted on 04/27/2023 4:21:40 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worrying doesn't take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Nikki ‘cancel culture’ Haley.


40 posted on 04/27/2023 5:15:58 AM PDT by Yolanda (Jussie Smollett hoa)
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