Three Reasons I Oppose Nikki Haley
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Her website claims she won the August 23 debate, “no question.” Um, not so much. One poll I saw said that DeSantis “won” (29%) with Vivek Rawaswamy in “second place” (26%). Nikki Haley finished third with 15%. However, a recent CNN poll (certainly to be trusted, right?) found that Nikki Haley was the Republican candidate that led Joe Biden by the largest margin in a hypothetical matchup—a substantial 49% to 43%. But she remains far behind Donald Trump in the polls for Republican nominee for President.
Polls are what they are now, of course, and I don’t trust them very much. They may tell what some people think right now, but since most Americans are probably not paying a whole lot of attention to the political races at the moment (surviving Biden’s economy is a priority), I find the polls only mildly interesting. In fact, for the most part, they are incredibly irritating because every one of them is in the news and we are still four months away from the first primaries.
Yet, any port in a storm and Nikki Haley is grasping for one. Her claim that she “won” the debate is expected bluster, but she did get a higher percentage (15%) than I would have given her. She is—like Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson—better than Joe Biden, but so is a dead rat. Nikki Haley is, to me, a “hold your nose” candidate. I’ll hold my nose and vote for her (I guess) if she is the Republican nominee, but I sure hope she isn’t. Here are three reasons I do not want her to be the Republican selection.
1. She supports the Ukrainian war, and apparently whole-heartedly (so do Democrats). She and Vivek had it out over Ukraine in the debate with her claiming that Rawaswamy has no experience in foreign affairs (neither did Donald Trump in 2016) and “it shows.” No, it doesn’t. What that exchange demonstrated to me is how deeply entrenched in the Washington Deep State mentality Nikki Haley is, and I do NOT want a candidate like that. I don’t care if she WAS United Nations Ambassador at one time (that’s a positive??). Intelligence isn’t determined by either experience in anti-American organizations or a big mouth. Indeed, one of the reasons I supported Donald Trump in 2016 was he WASN’T a political hack, and it is one motive why, currently, Vivek Rawaswamy is my second favorite choice for the Republican nomination. I’m sick of “experienced” politicians like Nikki Haley. They are the very people who got America into the mess the country is in right now. Supporting the Ukrainian war is a terrible policy; it isn’t our war, it has nothing to do with America’s vital interests, and Washington is already 30+ trillion dollars in debt. Quit wasting my money on a war that has nothing to do with me. ANY politician that supports giving more money to Ukraine automatically loses my support. And that includes Nikki Haley. I may have no choice but to—hold my nose—and support a candidate like that, but right now, I am dead set against more money for Ukraine. Nikki Haley is dead set for it. She has totally lost my support because of it.
2. She believes in climate change. Vivek was the only candidate on the stage August 23 that had the guts to say what needed to be said—“climate change is a hoax.” Haley came right out and said she believes in it. That makes her not only “too experienced” but also too gullible. If she isn’t smart enough to know that “man-made climate change” is probably the biggest lie of our time, then she isn’t smart enough to be my President. Her belief in “climate change” is a complete and total turn off.
3. Remember Disney? We all recall (or at least we should), several months ago, when Ron DeSantis took a firm stand against Disney perversion in Florida and retracted many of the state’s benefits to that now-godless, corrupt corporation for its support for “grooming” America’s children (something Disney has not backed down from, to my knowledge). That gained Mr. DeSantis a lot of support in the Republican Party, put him on the “political map” perhaps more than anything else he has done (his brilliant Martha’s Vineyard ploy was another great move). But after DeSantis opposed Disney, do you remember what Nikki Haley did? She invited Disney to move to South Carolina! Remember that? Now, I haven’t followed everything she has done since then, and perhaps she has retracted that invitation. I don’t know. I hope so. But the fact that she didn’t stand with Mr. DeSantis at the time, and even offered Disney a place in South Carolina (instead of in hell where Disney belongs right now)—well, right then, I knew Nikki Haley would never be my first choice for Republican candidate for President. Supporting Disney against DeSantis was sickening, and not a little angering. And with her support for the Ukraine war and belief in climate change...she is at the bottom of my list of candidates, right down there with Asa and Krispy Kreme Christie. No, absolutely, NO! to Nikki Haley.
She shouted a lot in the debate. It’s always been said that, when you don’t have a good argument, shout and people will be impressed. That is the way Nikki Haley struck me in the debate. High-strung, emotional, and weak. And wrong about some very critical issues to America. She does accept some conservative Republican ideas (so do Hutchinson, Pence, and Christie), and she couldn’t be any worse as President than Joe Biden. But she isn’t who we want at the top of the ticket, and I think most Republicans, who aren’t RINOs, recognize that.
Stay in South Carolina, Nikki, with your Ukraine-loving buddy Lindsey Graham. We don’t want a RINO in the White House.