Post by LFC on Feb 16, 2023 21:45:55 GMT
Oh, Nikki. You're such a Sikhophant. 
Donald Trump may already be taking nasty jabs at his 2024 competitor Nikki Haley, but she couldn’t bring herself to lob one back on Fox News on Thursday. Haley, the Trump administration’s UN ambassador, said she had “no reason to believe” her former boss would fail the mental competency test she wants every politician over 75 to have to take. “I think he did great the last time he did it. I have no reason to think he wouldn’t do well this time. But I do think we need it,” she told Fox & Friends. In her campaign launch, Haley pushed for “new generational leadership,” suggesting cognitive tests for lawmakers and term limits for members of Congress. “When people send someone to Washington, they need to know they’re at the top of their game. That’s why I think those competency tests are important,” Haley said.
And ouch. Just ouch.
Is There Such Thing as a Nikki Haley 2024 Voter?
Former South Carolina Governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley seems to be knowledgeable, competent, and personally pleasant. But who, precisely, wants her to be president? Who’s a Nikki Haley voter in 2024?
The anachronistic feel of Haley’s campaign for the GOP nomination has been widely noted since its official launch on Tuesday. She’s “the perfect Republican presidential candidate (for 2015),” wrote Sarah Longwell, publisher of the never-Trump site, The Bulwark. She’s the candidate Republicans would choose if they’d absorbed any of the conclusions of the party’s 2013 autopsy of its loss a year earlier, argued Damon Linker, an observer of the American right (and my former colleague at The Week). And at The New York Times, Modern Age editor Daniel McCarthy pushed Haley all the way back to the George W. Bush years: She’s “the running mate they wish John McCain had,” he said, “in 2008.”
But this broad sense that Haley is chronologically out of step with her party, the victim of a Rip Van Winkle draught or a Thanos snap, isn’t her campaign’s only weakness. In one detail after another, it’s hard to see what constituency she expects to claim among the Republican base of 2024.
Former South Carolina Governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley seems to be knowledgeable, competent, and personally pleasant. But who, precisely, wants her to be president? Who’s a Nikki Haley voter in 2024?
The anachronistic feel of Haley’s campaign for the GOP nomination has been widely noted since its official launch on Tuesday. She’s “the perfect Republican presidential candidate (for 2015),” wrote Sarah Longwell, publisher of the never-Trump site, The Bulwark. She’s the candidate Republicans would choose if they’d absorbed any of the conclusions of the party’s 2013 autopsy of its loss a year earlier, argued Damon Linker, an observer of the American right (and my former colleague at The Week). And at The New York Times, Modern Age editor Daniel McCarthy pushed Haley all the way back to the George W. Bush years: She’s “the running mate they wish John McCain had,” he said, “in 2008.”
But this broad sense that Haley is chronologically out of step with her party, the victim of a Rip Van Winkle draught or a Thanos snap, isn’t her campaign’s only weakness. In one detail after another, it’s hard to see what constituency she expects to claim among the Republican base of 2024.
