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Nikki Haley’s Fascist-Flirting Flip-Flops

September 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Overestimating herself. (Facebook)

By Dick Polman

I’ll go out on a limb and take a wild guess that you didn’t watch Nikki Haley make a fool of herself on TV last weekend. I was reminded of a sentence penned centuries ago by none other than the Marquis de Sade: “Those who have no principles are never more dangerous than when they reach the age when they lose all sense of shame.”

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Only a truly vacuous candidate can bring to mind the Marquis de Sade.




Haley won pundit praise for her recent GOP debate performance – at times she sounded saner and smarter than some of her rivals (an admittedly low bar). But then she hit the wall. She described Inmate #P01135809 as “the most disliked politician in America,” someone who would not be electable in 2024 – but she signaled, by raising her hand, that she’d still support Trump as the party’s nominee, even if he were criminally convicted prior to the election.

How was it possible for someone of allegedly sound mind to declare it would be nuts to fall in line behind a convicted felon…and then proceed to say that she’d fall in line behind the convicted felon? How can someone see Trump so clearly for what he is…and then proceed to shove her head up her own rear end?

She did it again this week.

On CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” host Robert Costa asked: “Do you stand by your decision to hold up your hand on (the debate) stage and back Trump? Should he be the nominee and be a convicted felon?”

Haley: “What you saw were candidates on that stage said that they would do exactly what they signed and pledged to do, which is support the Republican nominee. That’s what we are saying…I will tell you that any Republican is better than what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are doing.”

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Costa: “Even if they’re convicted of a crime?”




Haley: “You are implying that the American people are not smart. The American people are not going to vote for a convicted criminal. The American people are going to vote for someone who can win a general election. I have faith in the American people. They know what they need to do. And so, I think that, yes, I will support the Republican nominee always…”

Let’s try to unpack that.

ocd flaglerliveOn the one hand, she says it would be wrong to support a convicted felon and that the American people are “smart” enough not to vote for one. On the other hand, she would “always” support whoever the Republicans nominate, even if it’s a convicted felon, and, if that were the case, she would willfully breach her own “faith” in the “smart” American people and try to persuade them to be stupid.

Or something like that.

Haley also said, a few minutes later, that Republicans want to “go back to law and order,” which is a tad odd because it doesn’t quite jibe with her willingness to support someone who, at the present time, stands criminally accused in four court jurisdictions of committing 91 felonies; someone who has even been helping to raise money for the Jan. 6 terrorists – all of which is the precise antithesis of “law and order.”

But none of this is surprising, given the fact that Haley is little more than a weathervane who whirls with the prevailing winds. Back in 2016, she said, “Donald Trump is everything we teach our kids not to do in kindergarten.” Then she went to work for him and later, “I was absolutely thrilled to see him win.”




She has also said stuff like this (yes, she really has said stuff like this): “He would never knowingly lie…I understand that genuinely, to his core, he believes he was wronged (in the 2020 election results). This is not him making it up…This would be different if he was being deceptive…I mean at some point, give the man a break. I mean, move on if you truly are about moving on.”

She was “disgusted” (her word) with Trump’s behavior during the Jan. 6 insurrection, until she was not. On the one hand, she said in 2021: “When I tell you I’m angry, it’s an understatement. (Trump) went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.”

But a few months later, Haley’s spine shrank again. She said simply that “President Trump’s always been opinionated.” And today she’s willing to support the guy who’s been criminally charged with fomenting the coup plot that culminated in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Would Nikki Haley, presumably having failed as a presidential candidate, lobby for a job in the administration of a convicted felon? Why bother to ask. If anyone can trump the Marquis de Sade, it’s Groucho Marx:

“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them – well, I have others.”

Dick Polman, a veteran national political columnist based in Philadelphia and a Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, writes at DickPolman.net. Email him at [email protected]

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Comments

  1. Dennis C Rathsam says

    September 9, 2023 at 6:02 pm

    Oh Dear…. Another GOP candidate ripped apart on Flagler, not so Live! Co,mon Pierre, your better than this. Have you nothing better than to go after candidates you disaprove of? This lady has been there, done that, served our country, no scandals in her closet, like your buddy Joe Biden! All I ask is to be fair….How can you possibly support this corrupt administration? Where there,s smoke….Theres FIRE!

  2. Bill Boots says

    September 10, 2023 at 9:26 am

    Flaglerdead.com………. Inmate #P01135809, aka Trump, is a convicted Felon?

  3. Michael Cocchiola says

    September 10, 2023 at 10:09 am

    So, Dennis, you’re saying where there’s no evidence, there are beliefs and opinions. Is this enough to convict the Biden family?

    Whatever happened to Republicans’ love for law and order? Oh, yeah, Trump.

  4. Laurel says

    September 10, 2023 at 4:10 pm

    BB: Give him time.

  5. Laurel says

    September 10, 2023 at 4:18 pm

    The article is accurate. I watched the debate until I could no more, about 45 minutes. It was monitored badly, and it was chaotic. Just when Nikki Haley began to sound good, she raised her hand in support of Trump for President (I mean what the hell where these people running for President for, if they support Trump?). She has a tendency to sound reasonable, then states something stupid. Actually, Christie was a disappointment as well. That left Asa Hutchinson as the only sane person on the stage. Did that change later?

  6. Dennis C Rathsam says

    September 10, 2023 at 5:45 pm

    As an attorney U of all people would look at all the evidence. You claim theres none, then why all the stone walling of the GOP? Did you listen to the 3 IRS whistle blowers, how about the prosicuter from Ukraine? Why all the shell companies, from a family of public service. Obviously your no Perry Mason but if it walks like duck, and it talks like a duck…. its a duck Mike!!!!!! Lets wait & see before we make up anymore hearsay. Stick to real estate, and killing Palm Coast

  7. Sherry says

    September 10, 2023 at 7:16 pm

    Excellent article! And, it’s not just about Nikki Haley. . . trump’s Republican party= the place where honesty, integrity, ethics and law & order went to die. . . by the millions!!!

  8. jake says

    September 11, 2023 at 6:19 am

    If it wasn’t for the corrupt DOJ, we would already be suffering under Kamal’s limited leadership skills.

  9. Dennis C Rathsam says

    September 11, 2023 at 8:06 am

    Wheres my comment to this story????

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