The 2020 Goat Rodeo!
Here’s the announcement:
Can you feel the excitement? Yeah, the Bulwark cannot, either:
On paper, Nikki Haley should be a top-tier contender in the 2024 Republican primary. She’s a successful former governor from an important, early primary state. She has an impressive personal backstory, solid foreign policy chops, and great candidate skills, too. This used to be an extremely attractive package for GOP primary voters.
Used to be.
But not anymore.
Instead, Haley’s candidacy represents the best of the “meh” middle tier of 2024 candidates, which for now includes the notional campaigns of Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, and Chris Christie. No one is really asking any of those guys to run. But they don’t have anything better to do. So they’ll eventually put exploratory committees together and take a joy ride that may or may not make it to Iowa.
And Haley, despite how good she is on paper, finds herself in that same tier: No one is asking for what she’s selling. Why is that?
No political figure better illustrates the tragic collapse of the modern Republican Party than Nikki Haley. There was a time not very long ago when she was everything the party thought it needed to win. She was a woman when the party needed more women, a daughter of immigrants when the party needed more immigrants, a young changemaker when the party needed younger voters, and a symbol of tolerance who took down the Confederate flag when the party needed more people of color and educated suburbanites.
Then she threw it all away.
So I guess she has that working for her, because there is no way that the party of male White Christian Nationalists/grievance is going to vote for a Skirt of Color, no matter if she was Saved By Jeebus .
Mock Paper Scissors 
Fred Thompson has a great prop pickup truck under a tarp in his barn…great for tooling around during those low-energy “runs” for President.
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😄Thompson could run as the ghost candidate!
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She didn’t throw it away so much as the Republican party declared that it didn’t want any of that “woke” shit, preferring to stick with white christian supremacy/resentment.
The same deluded political pundits who insist that there are moderate Republican’s lurking out there to ‘bring the party back from the precipice’ are the ones praising her credentials up and down.
The feral rage addicts of the base don’t want anything to do with any of that…and they run the party now, whether the leaders and pundits like it or not.
What THEY want is a hellish mashup of “Idiocracy” and “The Purge”
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I found this quote (From the Bulwark) quite telling…
“While many Republican voters may be moving off Trump the man, the forces that he unleashed within the party—economic populism, isolationist foreign policy, election denialism, and above all, an unapologetic and vulgar focus on fighting culture war issues—remain incredibly popular with GOP voters.” Yeah, she doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in Hell…
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If Ms. Haley had a sex change operation, and wore a nice, tailored suit…
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Still won’t pass the manila folder test.
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…she still wouldn’t get the nomination.
Rgds,
TG
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I cannot warn against Mike Pompeo enough, but I think I actually have done that here, so I’ll leave it at that.
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Never worry about repeating your warnings. I do it all the time, Ali! And on Pompeo, you are a local authority.
Rgds,
TG
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Don’t count him out – he’s Mohammed Bone Saw’s favorite tool, er, candidate. Most mid-tiers fade from lack of cash – there’ll be an endless supply of Super Pac money following him.
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What Stony says. There will be deep pockets funding that asshole.
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Umm. I see next gen republicans come preloaded. Nothing new to see here.
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