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struggle4progress

(118,318 posts)
Thu Dec 31, 2020, 01:08 PM Dec 2020

Haley's mind-numbing inanity

Jennifer Rubin
Dec. 29, 2020 at 12:22 p.m. EST

Republicans have made clear for years that they lack constructive ideas to respond to Americans’ real-world concerns. In lieu of rational responses to rising health-care costs or falling K-12 test scores or income inequality, they rant about Confederate flags and the New York Times’s 1619 Project ...

Nikki Haley .. once had a reputation for sane conservative views. She removed the Confederate flag from the state capitol’s grounds and even denounced then-candidate Donald Trump’s proposed Muslim ban ... She actually scolded Trump for his moral equivalence regarding the neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville.

Now, she is reduced to hollering about socialism ...

... mindless denunciation of policies Democrats are not pursuing, appealing to White grievance, reiterating delusions of Christian persecution and uttering empty platitudes about capitalism are what pass for Republican “ideas” these days. And .. Haley is one of the smarter and saner Republicans. She simply lacks .. intellectual integrity, creativity and courage ...

... She might consider coming up with an actual agenda that improves the lives of the people to whom she is pandering. That would be novel in today’s GOP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/29/nikki-haleys-mind-numbing-inanity/

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Haley's mind-numbing inanity (Original Post) struggle4progress Dec 2020 OP
One of the few things Bolton gets right in his book Mike 03 Dec 2020 #1
I Faux pas Dec 2020 #3
Just the way the media CONSTANTLY tries to level the playing field Cosmocat Dec 2020 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Dec 2020 #2
PERFECT for manipulating a lazy and complacent country Cosmocat Dec 2020 #6
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Haley, Hawley... czarjak Dec 2020 #4

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
1. One of the few things Bolton gets right in his book
Thu Dec 31, 2020, 01:34 PM
Dec 2020

He was onto Nikki Haley early on, recognizing her to be a lightweight that pundits took too seriously. There are some good zingers against her in that book.

Cosmocat

(14,566 posts)
5. Just the way the media CONSTANTLY tries to level the playing field
Thu Dec 31, 2020, 01:56 PM
Dec 2020

she is easy on the eyes and has a calm demenor, that is enough for them to be WAY to happy to portray her as above the lunatic fringe.

Same with Paul Ryan, had the bookish looks and soft voice, so he was anointed some kind of intellectual.

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