GOP must agree: No more Nikki
Brady Leonard
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Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley is living in an alternate universe. Once considered one of the Republican Party’s rising stars, Haley is becoming more and more out of touch with her party as her long-shot presidential campaign drags on.
In fact, Haley’s pitch to GOP primary voters sounds more like a pitch to a 2004 version of the Grand Old Party rather than an appeal to modern voters concerned with the problems of the day.
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During the Republican presidential primary debates, including Wednesday night’s debate in Alabama, Haley has resorted to regurgitating worn-out Democratic National Committee talking points against her fellow candidates. The former South Carolina governor attacked Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) by using what Democratic activists have called the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, a law signed by DeSantis that prevents the sexual indoctrination of public school students under the age of 8.
She sided with Disney against DeSantis despite the fact that the mega-corporation has been caught red-handed multiple times intentionally including radical leftist sexual content in its children’s programming.
DeSantis correctly called out Haley’s long record of cultural liberalism, including her veto of a bill in South Carolina that would have prevented biological men from using women’s bathrooms. “They had a bill to try to say that men shouldn’t go into girls’ bathrooms, and she killed that bill, and she bragged that she killed that bill — even to this day, she bragged,” DeSantis said.
Haley wants the government out of the child-protecting business, but she is fine with the state policing trolls on social media. The former governor received well-deserved backlash after calling anonymous speech on the internet a “national security threat,” a move as delusional and out of touch as it is unconstitutional.
Haley supports unlimited funding for Ukraine, often uses early-aughts style language such as “peace through strength,” and when attacked by Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy for her ties to corporate megadonors and her support of foreign wars, Haley actually responded by saying, “I love Boeing.” Believe it or not, this is a real quote.
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Haley’s campaign staffers are doing their candidate absolutely no favors by continually reverting to boring, girl-power identity politics, which the overwhelming majority of GOP voters find insufferable. Haley even received the kiss of death, a ringing endorsement from conservative-turned-hard-left activist Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post.
Cede the culture to Democrats, loot the Treasury in favor of funding proxy wars, and attack fellow Republicans from the left. This brand of conservatism left the GOP and the nation poorer, weaker, and less free. It is incredible that America-last “compassionate conservatism” had a place on the Right to begin with, and it certainly has no place now. Go home, Nikki Haley, and leave your rhetoric in the dustbin of history where it belongs.
Brady Leonard (@bradyleonard) is a musician, political strategist, and host of The No Gimmicks Podcast.