Posted on 02/20/2021 10:01:30 AM PST by Moseley
Nikki Haley appears to have discarded her political career by faithfully following what establishment insiders and political “experts” have believed and taught for decades. The former South Carolina governor and UN Ambassador seems genuinely baffled that former President Donald Trump refused to meet with her after Haley very publicly trashed Trump.
Isn’t that simply how the game is played? Well, yes. Haley is doing things correctly the way they used to be done. You posture for the media, distance yourself from any controversy, then later patch it up after the storm blows past. You cynically abandon your friends, hoping that the alligators will eat you last. Then you have a summit meeting and cut deals behind closed doors.
However, the Republican Party’s base is writing her political obituary. Haley quickly wrote an article in the insider-leaning Wall Street Journal redefining what she said and then wanted to go down and hoodwink Trump. It’s all just part of the game, right?
But that’s the problem. Republican voters have been fed up with inside the beltway games for years. The norms of politics are exactly what the conservative base is hopping mad about. And this is by no means just about Haley. It’s about a whole school of thought affecting thousands of Republican elites at the federal and state level. It’s about the consultant class teaching candidates that this is how it’s done.
Republican voters want leaders who lead, not hide under their desks playing “duck and cover.” They want Republican politicians to decisively challenge and defeat Leftist lies, not run for the tall grass. Year after year, we watch easily-answered lies from the Left spread as truth because the Republican establishment has no stomach for robust debate.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The Republican base wants candidates with fire in their belly. Show me what you’re willing to fight for. Democrats fight like hell. Republicans cower in fear. Apparently they don’t really believe what they believe in.
So Republicans were mad as a volcano when Mitt Romney allowed Barack Obama to roll all over him. The conservative base was ready to turn its back on insiders many years before Trump rode down the escalator to announce his candidacy in 2015. This is not about crossing Trump. It’s about being fed up with those who won’t even try. And the voters are never, ever going back.
But establishment Republicans have perfected the art of pretending to be conservative when they are really not. Therefore, the conservative base is searching for a “tell.” Are you a fighter? Or are you a wimp?
bueno!
Looks like the cancel culture will get to her. From the conservative side. Cause she sure ain’t.
Shes never had to deal with a principled leader before that holds his constituents higher than his party.
Bye bye Nikki Haley. You had potential but now your political career is done. You took bad advice from your spin doctor (if you have one).
Let me in, said the snake!
The Indian bimbo obviously didn’t read any of PDJT’s books. The subject of loyalty is YUGE.
It’s the first fight-going too far
Her name is Nimrata Randhawa.
Actually Grant had a physical aversion to alcohol. A little bit of it made him sick.
Did she hire Rove or Schmidt?
The smartest thing she could have done was not say a word about what she believed.
I would have loved to see her in Congress. I don’t she had what it took to be President, but she would have been a good senator, if she had kept her mouth shut.
She never respected Trump. She was a never-Trumper before he got the nomination.
She wants to be president real bad...not going to happen.
Well said.
Very well said.
Are You a man or a mouse?
Nikki: “Squeak!”
Nimrata would have been right there to stick a knife between America’s shoulder blades when Collins, Murkowski, Romney or their ilk was otherwise occupied.
It would have been bad enough if Haley was just an establishment Republican hack. What made it far worse was that she combined the disingenuous fakery of the GOP establishment with the brazenly lying, two-faced dishonesty that is apparently endemic in Hindu culture. If Nikki Haley had been a man, she never would have gotten anywhere in politics. Instead, she'd be running a convenience store in Los Angeles or scamming elderly American retirees out of their savings from a call center in New Delhi.
Good riddance to this putrid sh!tbag.
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