Everyone enters the race for the presidential nomination thinking they can win. Okay, not everyone, some come because they know they will sell books and/or get them a great job in the administration of the eventual winner, which will ultimately translate into cash in their pocket.
But everyone else comes in thinking they can win. Then reality happens. If you’re not Nikki Haley, you’re simply ignoring reality and the will of the voters and spending your time punching yourself in the face in front of an ever-dwindling following.
You almost feel sorry for her until you realize she’s doing this to herself. It’s a sluggish, auto-erotic asphyxiation that Haley engages in; destroying its political future and rendering irrelevant its past achievements.
At one point, someone whispered in her ear that she had a chance, that only she could defeat Donald Trump. Everyone has to campaign as if they are the only ones who can win, but sooner or later those who don’t win have to come to terms with the reality that they won’t win. She avoided this reality.
Nikki Haley will never be the Republican Party’s presidential nominee, not in 2024 or ever. She might have had a chance in 2028, but she blew that chance by turning into former Ohio governor and insufferable 2016 candidate John Kasich, who wasted endless time and money on a campaign to get a contract with CNN and wouldn’t shut up how his dad was a postman. Well, a worker’s sweat isn’t passed down in DNA, it’s earned.
Kasich was, for lack of better words, annoying as hell. Haley has reached this level.
In a recent appearance on “Meet the Press,” Nikki showed how cowardly she really is. When asked if she would ultimately support Donald Trump, she threw out the following word salad: “Well, I think first of all, if you’re talking about an endorsement, you’re talking about a loss. I do not think so. When you run a race, you don’t think about losing. You think about moving forward. I can tell you: I don’t think Donald Trump or Joe Biden should be president. I don’t think we need two candidates over 80. I don’t think we want a Joe Biden who calls his opponents fascists, or a Donald Trump who calls his opponents vermin. Nobody wants that. “I think people want a new generational leader who will return to what the American dream is, what we want for our children and a place that we can be proud of again.”
The only problem with what Haley says is that given every opportunity to vote for her, people pass. Maybe the public actually wants a younger candidate, that’s not clear, what’s clear is that if so, they don’t want it to be Nikki Haley. It’s the only other game in town, and the extensive majority don’t want to play it.
Asked if she would keep her signed pledge to support a possible candidate, she again responded slimily: “The RNC pledge – I mean, during the debate, we had to take it to the place: ‘Will you support the candidate?’ ” and to get to the debate stage, you said “yes.” The RNC is not the same RNC anymore.”
So she lied to get on the debate stage? Or does he believe that pledges are only valid if the head of the organization to which the pledge is made remains the same? Every time there is a new pope I think every Catholic marriage needs to be at least renegotiated?
As a father of two daughters, I don’t want my children to grow up to be like Nikki Haley. It wasn’t always like this, her career was something to be admired and by extension so was she. She, as a person, is no longer a person.
Nikki Haley stopped being a role model of what girls can aspire to, and became a warning about arrogance and self-destruction. It’s a pity, really. She could have helped defeat Democrats and supported causes she said she cared deeply about over the past year. Now she has shown that she is the only cause she truly cares about and everything else was just a means to that end. She should be ashamed of what she has become, but no one who could achieve that level of self-awareness would become what Nikki Haley should have started with.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (Subscribe!) and the author of the book, Outrage, INC.which exposes how liberals utilize fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and the host of the weekly “A week in the fucking review”, a podcast where the news is presented the way it deserves. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
