New Hampshire To Issue Verdict On Nikki Haley’s Best Shot – TPM – Talking Points Memo

Granite State voters have the best (maybe, only) chance to infuse the Republican primary with some drama Tuesday, when former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley makes her (possibly, last) stand against former President Donald Trump.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1478658

The situation’s rather sticky
For former MAGA hottie Nikki.
Her opponent’s more than icky
The whole thing makes me sicky.

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I devoutly wish Haley beats and humiliates Trump, gets the nomination and that then Trump spends the rest of the year seeking vengeance on her. But, you know, whatever.

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Trump for the drubbing.

Trouble with rainmaking is that eventually, eventually the rain has to fall.

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“…the best (maybe, only) chance to infuse the Republican primary with some drama…”

And there you have it, what it’s all about: Drama. The ultimate high, the gotta-have drug. Americans are addicted to drama, and if their habit-pushing teevee enablers can’t find any…well, Hell, they’ll just manufacture some!

This race was never in doubt, but that didn’t stop our infotainment cable and broadcast industry from laughably pretending otherwise – with a shoutout to their print co-conspirators, of course, scouring rural diners across our nation’s Pink Belt for the most provincial, low-information rubes imaginable.

(“…where they discussed politics over peach cobbler and iced tea…”)

The “verdict” is already in, but it has nothing to do with Nikki Haley.

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Trump is the cuckoo being raised in the GOP’s nest. The longer he remains in their clutch, the more destructive his presence will be. The base is convinced he’s one of them, but he’s going to suck all the wealth and influence from the party as the base continues to dote on him and eschew their actual political candidates.

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You say that like it’s a bad thing.

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You say this like Trump is actually a cuckoo instead of a manifestation of what the Republican party has become.

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Trump is a cuckoo but are you sure the rest of the Republican party aren’t cuckoos too? They don’t seem to be sparrows.

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Look at Trump’s election track record as the de facto “head” of the GOP since 2015 / 2016.

Abysmal results, outside of the 2016 presidential election and that one, he lost the popular vote.

The GOP will continue shedding voters until the party kicks Trump out or he dies.

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I would say that he’s not, because he doesn’t have any true attachment to the GOP. If the Democrats tomorrow all came to him and said they wanted him to be their leader and they’d give him billions of dollars, he’d flip in a heartbeat and start saying the things he thinks the Dems want to hear. He has a more “natural” fit with the GOP since they align with his dominance schtick, but he wanted to be loved by the intelligentsia of NYC (i.e. liberal Democrats) long before he co-opted the GOP’s messaging to steal their base from under them.

He’s only in it for himself and the Dems have made it clear in no uncertain terms that they want nothing to do with his histrionics. So he’s stuck with the GOP rubes, who are more easily appeased by his antics. But he’s not a member of those base voters either. He’s just getting his ego-stroking from them, but he would never live among them and he doesn’t really understand their world. He just riffs until they respond to it. Then he milks the “winning” line for all it’s worth.

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“[money] does give you latitude to keep running for a while. But it’s hard to see what her argument is at that point.”

In case Donald’s not allowed?

No one’s going to tell Donald J Trump he’s not allowed, especially not allowed to wantonly break the law.

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Best Wishes, Nikki …lol

They get tremendous value out of their association with him, while the rallies are more in the way of a personal connection.

In the early days, when he did the rallies at airports, he gave them a real thrill turning up like right off the TV to talk like some prick at the end of the bar.

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Who ever did?

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“Not my circus, not my monkeys!”

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I think we’re going to have to analyze Biden’s norm-busting gap.
It’s 2024, already. Is it too late for him to get with it?

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Questions For The Candidates

Q: Mr. Trump. You’re familiar with Loren Boebert’s incidence at the theater?

TRUMP: Oh yes. I’ve watched it many times.

Q: Have you ever done something like that with Melania?

TRUMP: Who?

Q: Mrs. Trump.

TRUMP: With my mother??

PRESS CORP: He’ll be fine.

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Here in New Hampshire I made it to the polls first thing this morning to write in Joe Biden on my Democratic primary ballot. I’ll check tonight to see the results of course but I could hardly care less what the margin Nikki Haley loses to Trump by ends up being. What does interest me is how Dean Phillips does. His name is the 12th down the list of 21 candidates on the Democratic ballot. My sense is that he’ll win against most of those 21 others, which include folks like the perennial Vermin Supreme, from Rockport, MA, and, a newer entry, Paperboy Love Prince, from Brooklyn, NY. But I think Biden, as a write-in candidate, most likely will beat all of them, including Dean Phillips.

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Seriously, right? I mean, the dude’s been in office for three years now (and two stints as Veep before that) and he hasn’t trampled on even a single constitutional principle or incited even one lousy insurrection yet.

It’s as if he isn’t even trying. I’m gonna vote for Sarandon, at least she’s a fighter.

(I don’t really need to say “/s” there, do I … ?)

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