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Quote of the Day: “Bless Your Heart”
“And should life get dicey, I have a couple surefire strategies for coping. You can say almost anything with both strength and dignity if you start with, ‘With all due respect.’ And a well-timed ‘Bless your heart’ will keep your enemies guessing. So live your life with grit and grace. Count your blessings. Love your family. And remember: Even on our worst days, we are blessed to live in America.” — Nikki Haley
Every time I think of these two comments, I can’t help smiling. The “Bless your heart” comment is apparently one she uses in a sardonic way, Southern woman-style. She said it to President Trump after he attacked her during his first Presidential campaign when she wasn’t yet supporting him. The “With all due respect” comment, if I recall correctly, was her reaction to Larry Kudlow, after he publicly called her “confused” because he was unsatisfied with something she reported. It wasn’t his best moment, and she wanted him to know it. Eventually, she persuaded him that he had to publicly correct the record.
I admire Nikki Haley because she has an iron will and loads of grit. She is also compassionate and sensitive, actually suffering from PTSD after attending the funerals of the victims of the South Carolina church shooting. She has also learned that when she has a strong reaction to something that happens or something said, she tries to wait 24 hours before responding.
Her intellect, patience, humor, and dedication to this country have served her, and all of us, very well.
I hope she runs for President in 2024.
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Exactly. Thanks.
Southern ladies occasionally use the phrase “bless your heart” instead of “drop dead” because “drop dead” isn’t ladylike.
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In the Courtroom there are three levels of “respect” one can use to politely express disagreement with the Judge-
“With respect”= You are somewhat mistaken;
”with all due/great respect” = you are wrong;
”with the greatest respect”= did you even go to law school?
PS I got my copy of Nikki Haley’s book last week-to add to my two Sarah Palin books. Maybe I’ll read them after I retire
I can’t remember the phrase Obama used, but when he used it, you knew the next thing out of his mouth would be a lie.
Um, uh, ah…
Am I close?
Surely you mean the daughter of immigrants from India.
Count me among the wary, and yes, there are worse ideas out there for sure.
So many uncertainties surround 2024 talk, including (obviously) not having any information about the voters’ electoral choices to be made in November 2020.
It’s long been my opinion that President Trump revolutionized the Republican Party, sort of in the manner which George Washington revolutionized the 13 colonies. Following that model, the obvious John Adams is Mike Pence. Surely we can rule out anyone was a Tory in the War. I’m not going to name Never names, but that would include some characters whose mugs look at us from their podcast ads.
I believe the Trump-loving, Limbaugh-listening, MAGA cap-wearing Republican winners circle of our time will not tolerate a watered-down / ex-“Never” / GHWB styled successor to the great man, this time around. We’ll require “more so” and not “kinder, gentler.”
I’m not even sure that Pence, the most obvious blend of a “Trump loyalist + Ryan buddy + committed SoCon = faction uniter” has enough heart-pounding media presence to become a true Trump successor in the hearts of the voters who gave The Donald his decisive edge.
Because it’s January and not December, I can’t suggest an alternative at this time, inside the beltway or beyond. I’ll say this about Nikki Haley: she’s not a talking head I yearn to see more. Compared with Steve Bannon, or Maria Bartiromo, or Charles Payne, she’s just not someone who, when discussing politics, seems fully on board with the revolutionary economic vision, sharp-edged Americanism, and populist touch of our great, and very unique President.
I believe it was “let me be clear…..”