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Nikki Haley on Impeachment
“You’re going to impeach a president for asking for a favor that didn’t happen and — and giving money and it wasn’t withheld? I don’t know what you would impeach him on” — Nikki Haley to CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell
The impeachment inquiry is like “Seinfeld”; a show about nothing. Actually, “Seinfeld” was better – it was the original show about nothing, whereas this is the Democrat’s second show about nothing when it comes to Trump.
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Schiff is a corrupt loon, Trump is stupid and Nikki is right.
Your score: 2/3
Nikki also dinged Trump back in early August over his Elijah Cummings tweets. Don’t know if that was because Haley was among those who knew how bad Cummings’ medical condition was, but it does show if she was trying to be a 100% Trump backer 100% of the time, she wouldn’t have posted this when she already knew her book was coming out in three months:
I only disqualify the full throated proponents of Trump. The ones that won’t dare criticize, that think that even his dumbest moves are brilliance.
Now Trump wants his minions to say his Ukraine call was “perfect”. He wants a complete denial defense. Nikki is not doing that. Her argument is “sleazy, but not impeachable”. That may be enough. As long as a Republican goes with that angle, at least I wouldn’t disqualify them.
She needs to put some more meat on those accusations against Kelly and Tillerson though. Looks like a cheap shot right now.
Btw, TV Ukraine hearings start Wednesday.
You can add “when he wasn’t supposed to.”
My wife and I listened to the Ricochet podcast on the way home today. Joel Stein was painful to listen to (because he was so wrong on many things), but David Limbaugh really got me going. I’m with him. When I hear Never-Trumpers tell me I should vote for a Democrat Presidential candidate because Trump is so bad, I feel just like David. Here’s the crux of the argument:
How can you (Never-Trumpers) claim to be standing on principle, when you ask me to vote for a Democrat Presidential candidate who wants to implement policies that go against every principle I have, just because you don’t like a Republican President who acts on and embraces my conservative principles?
This is why several “conservative” pundits and politicians have been crossed off my “Listen to and respect their position” list . . .
You an’ me both, Stad. You an’ me both.
I know this is really, really, really jumping the gun, but I can see 2024 being something of a Haley vs. Hawley battle, in that the new Missouri Senator seems to be the one making the most consented effort in 2019 to position himself as the guy to take up the Trump coalition, either after 2020 or in 2024, while Haley seems to be trying to carve out more of a lane where she might lose some of the extreme Trump voters (the ones who most enjoy the bad behavior), at the same time she’s trying to win back at least the Trump-skeptic part of the GOP coalition (I’m assuming she already thinks Jen Rubin and Max Boot are lost causes). Hawley already seems to have irked some of the people in the #NeverTrump coalition with some of his actions, and we’ll see how they feel about Haley after her book hits the stores.
Of course there are going to be other faces — Pence will probably get in, Cruz might run again, the harder-core #NeverTrump types might decide to run their own candidate or roll out Mitt again, and given the president’s mercurial nature, he could decide that Don Jr. is the best one to succeed him and throw the whole 2024 primary season into a turmoil. But of the first-time presidential hopefuls, I think Nikki and Josh will be the two who make the biggest impact.