She’s definitely a trumpite who doesn’t know what extortion looks like.
“There was no heavy demand insisting that something had to happen. So it’s hard for me to understand where the whole impeachment situation is coming from, because what everybody’s up in arms about didn’t happen,” Haley said.
“So, do I think it’s not good practice to talk to foreign governments about investigating Americans? Yes. Do I think the president did something that warrants impeachment? No, because the aid flowed,” she said, referring to nearly $400 million in sidelined military aid.
She did issue a statement about Khashoggi at the time we learned the Saudis murdered him, but like everything else in this maladministration it’s up to the occupant who decided not to act.
She’s betting that sticking with Trump is the way forward, that you can’t buck him or the rank and file will reject you. It’s a gutless, shortsighted view, but it’s the conventional wisdom in the party now and she’s going along with it. Me, I think maybe, just this once, she got confused.
You either have the greatest memory or the very best cross-referenced stockpile of pictures, news stories, tweets, memes, and video clips of anyone around.
Every now and then a political figure comes out and makes a head-scratching calculation that makes people realize that his/her ambition overtakes actual common sense.
If I were Republican, I would not vote for someone like Haley…a person with what is, essentially, severe mental and emotional unbalance.