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.
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.
Trump didn’t side with them. He said they might decide to leave.
She, however, welcomed them to move to her state.
Big difference.
She’s a quitter and a RINO. So quit! If she quits being a RINO, she may resuscitate her wobbly political career.
Her and Trump siding with woked out Disney all for personal gain......2 peas in the same pod. Get outta here.
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.
Knew she was RINO. Didn’t know she was pro-pedo.
Clueless.
hey groomers are donors too
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.
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.
Icky Nikki
Perfect.
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.
Objecting to the sexualization of children is now considered sanctimonious?
Further proof she’s only auditioning for VP…
“SC’s not woke, but we’re not sanctimonious about it either.”
WTF is she talking about? She’s lost her mind.
“She and Donald siding with the groomers?”
How did Donald do that?
“Nikki started the take down of historical statues.”
And had the Confederate flag removed from state facilities.
The problem with Nikki is that she’s not an American at heart. She’s just not. She doesn’t get it.
Nikki ‘cancel culture’ Haley.
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