Smart, successful politicians many times take one for the Gipper to get two back later. There's much to be said for the old saw, "win some, lose some, but live to fight another day".
Too many conservatives, who like nothing more than to immediately leap to eat their own without pausing to intellectually connect this dot and that, always love to decry their own conservative representatives as being lousy strategists and lousier tacticians....but when one of them, like Miss Nikki, actually pulls the rug right out from under a juicily-brewing liberal cause celebre at little to no cost to herself and her party, and the libs are deflected and are left fighting air, the tory knives and forks to jab her come out faster than a Twinkie would remain intact at a Weight Watchers meeting.
With this move, the governor cut further losses from a situation that could have no victors in the end, anyhow.
I swear that some posters here would have the GOP lose the governorship of this crucial state than to use strategic political forward thinking to undercut and stymie the enemies of the Republic.
Good for Governor Haley!
Leni
A leader. Powerful caring statement. Says the talking heads
She can be recalled.