[Moseley]

The Republican base wants Winston Churchill, faults and all, not Neville Chamberlain. There was no guarantee that Churchill would defeat the Third Reich. But it was a sure bet Chamberlain wouldn’t even try. They want General Ulysses Grant, accused of being a drunk, not the dapper, preening General George B. McClellan who amassed a great army but wouldn’t attack the Confederacy. The first Republican President Abraham Lincoln sided with the dishevelled General Grant with whiskey on his breath over the vain, do-nothing, respectable General McClellan.

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?

[SteveH]

bueno!

[rktman]

Looks like the cancel culture will get to her. From the conservative side. Cause she sure ain’t.

[patriot torch]

Shes never had to deal with a principled leader before that holds his constituents higher than his party.

[Enterprise]

Yo Nikki:

[MinorityRepublican]

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).

[MayflowerMadam]

The Indian bimbo obviously didn’t read any of PDJT’s books. The subject of loyalty is YUGE.

[EEGator]

Her name is Nimrata Randhawa.

[jmacusa]

Actually Grant had a physical aversion to alcohol. A little bit of it made him sick.

[bray]

Did she hire Rove or Schmidt?

[Jonty30]

The smartest thing she could have done was not say a word about what she believed.

[LongWayHome]

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.

[_longranger81]

Well said.
Very well said.

[rockrr]

Are You a man or a mouse?

Nikki: “Squeak!”

[Alberta's Child]

For the life of me, I never understood why anyone with an ounce of intelligence and conservative principles ever thought this misfit was even a minimally credible presidential candidate, let alone a "frontrunner" of any kind. Even Stevie Wonder could see that she was a transparently awful candidate.

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.

[tennmountainman]

Linda Graham’s favorite Presidential candidate is done, just like he got a
fork stuck in him too.(Linda was only polling at 1% in SC when he dropped out)

[Bob434]

Too bad so sad Mitt Haley

[vetvetdoug]

She won’t be able to screw herself into the WH as did Kamala Harris.

[moovova]

“Numbnutta” Nikki Haley done burned up her bridges.

[Howie66]

I bet a dollar to a donut hole that Cornyn, McConnell, Cheney, Graham and Sasse missed the message, here. I seriously do not see those people and several more just like them, being that sharp and savvy.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Year after year, we watch easily-answered lies from the Left spread as truth because the Republican establishment has no stomach for robust debate.

That sentence deserves its own op-ed.