As Nikki Haley teases a 2024 presidential run, one thing can be said immediately in her favor: she is only 51 years old. When she was born, Old Joe Biden was just a member of the New Castle, Delaware County Council. So if she were elected president, a break from the gerontocracy that has dominated American politics of late would be more important, and refreshing, than her status as the first woman to be elected president. But is Nikki Haley really the change we need? Probably not, at least not any more than is John Bolton or Mike Pence. The last thing America needs is another establishment voice, and Nikki Haley is very much an establishment voice.
Haley is, however, positioning herself as the precisely the cure for what ails us. “When you’re looking at a run for president,” she proclaimed in a Fox News interview Thursday, “you look at two things. You first look at, ‘Does the current situation push for new leadership?’ The second question is, ‘Am I that person that could be that new leader?’” She quickly summarized all the problems the new president would face: “You know, on the first question, you can look all across the board, domestic, foreign policy. You can look at … inflation going up, economy shrinking, government getting bigger … small business owners not being able to pay their rent, big businesses getting these bailouts, all of these things warrant the fact that, ‘Yes, we need to go in a new direction.’”
Not surprisingly, Haley anointed herself as the new leader who can fix all that for us: “Can I be that new leader? Yes, I think I can be that leader.” Epoch Times noted that this was a reversal from Haley’s April 2021 statement: “I would not run if President Trump ran.” Explaining why she has departed from that position, Haley said: “I had a great working relationship with the president,” that is, Trump. “I appreciate all the foreign policy issues we worked on together. But what I will tell you is, the survival of America matters. And it’s bigger than one person. And when you are looking at the future of America, I think it’s time for new generational change.”
Haley added that she had said she wouldn’t run if Trump was running “before we surrendered to Afghanistan, it was before we saw this high inflation and high crime, it was before we saw drugs infesting all of our states, it was before we saw our foreign policy in disarray, so a lot has changed. And when I look at that, I look at the fact if I’m this passionate and I’m this determined, why not me?”
Let me count the reasons. The biggest reason why not is her readiness to play along with the Left’s lies and propaganda. One of the biggest and most damaging smears among many that the Left floated to take down Trump was the false claim that he had said that the Charlottesville neo-Nazi and white nationalist protesters were “fine people.” Old Joe Biden, as dishonest a man as there has ever been in American public life, repeatedly cited this propaganda fiction as if it were fact, even claiming that he decided to inflict himself upon us as president because of it.
Whatever one may think of Trump, he didn’t say this, and patriotic candidates should never, ever play along with the Left’s Big Lie machine. Haley, however, uncritically accepted the claim that Trump said this, and criticized him for it. According to an August 2020 report in Politico, “in her recent memoir, Haley recounted how ‘deeply disturbed’ she was by Trump claiming that there were ‘very fine people’ on both sides of the white supremacist protest in Charlottesville that saw a counterprotester get killed. ‘A leader’s words matter in these situations. And the president’s words had been hurtful and dangerous,’ Haley wrote that she told the president at the time, lamenting that Trump’s ‘moral clarity’ from the day before when he had denounced the KKK and neo-Nazis had disappeared.”
Is that enough to disqualify Nikki Haley as a viable America-First candidate for president? Yes. And it’s not about Trump. It’s about not willing to dance to the Left’s tune. If America is to be saved in 2024, it will be by someone who is not willing to give an inch to the serial liars, propagandists, saboteurs, and America-Last forces that dominate the scene today. Nikki Haley had a chance to be one. She fumbled.
Yeh, it’s time for generational change. George Washington for president!
I can be that new leader unless you’re calling for some vain form of integrity. Maybe then again not so much. Whatever one may think of Trump he said less than nothing about anything other than getting elected which is what his elected require of him.
Go back and read his speech in Poland, about six months into his term.
You were the one who ripped up his speech and didn’t even read it.
You deserve a corrupt career politician on the take like Biden and Pelosi and the Clintons . . .
Remember, Haley quit her ambassador job that Trump gave her after just 2 years – if she can’t stay with a coffee drinking job for longer than that, what makes anyone think that she could take the pressures of the oval office for 4 years??
They’ve been grooming her for the presidency since Trump. The Ambassadorship was given to her to get some international bonafides. She’s a snake.
Thanks for this article. She’s fumbled far more than just that one time. Many times when the left smeared president Trump, Haley chimed in repeating the smear.
Thanks to Haley for being a vocal supporter of Israel at the UN but no thanks to leftwing RINO smears and lies.
That’s the same old generation at any numerical age!
Her skin is the wrong colour.
If memory serves, her parents are Sikhs who emigrated from India to the US. Does that count?
Haley is a RINO. She’s an establishment RINO. Yes, she will play along with the Left and will not fight back. Haley will “reach across the isle.”
Lastly, she’s a woman. Women are overly emotional and do not make good decisions. I’m referring to most women; not all women.
The only thing I remember about Haley is the brouhaha about the expensive drapery in her office. She said she didn’t choose it, someone else did.
Haley is the moron who started the tear down the South movement. She had the Confederate flags removed from the state capitol in a showboat publicity stunt and everyone was off and running. Were both her parents US citizens when she was born? If not, then she is constitutionally ineligible to serve as President.
SHE USED SC AS A STEPPING STONE. I’LL PASS. I DON’T TRUST THE GRAHAM CRACKER EITHER.
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Your comment added a bunch to the conversation.
Once you cross your own president, you can’t!
Sorry.
The republican party must get rid of its crypto-democrats.
Correct, no more establishment voices, no more Republican wimps.
Another reason is her cowardice in removing the Confederate Flag from the South Carolina State House. No matter what one thinks of the Confederacy and I would be among the first to say I am NOT a fan, that was sheer cowardice and kow-towing to Reverse Racism on her part.
Methinks she has the spine of cream cheese despite her big words.
Agree. . . .a big fail surrendering the flag – a decision, made worse by its being done on a ‘faster than ,light’ turn of a dime. She lost me then – and still. A finger to Leftist winds is not leadership.
This Gal is not a Conservative. She will NEVER be President with my VOTE.
So we need a generational change is going to be her hustle. I wonder how many consultants it took to cook that up? Last thing we need is an ambitious back stabbing Rino liar running the country.
¡LadyJeb! is not needed.