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Nikki Haley is too much of a warmonger for me to take seriously.

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I prefer Nikki over Trump or DeSantis, but I don't believe she can win a primary unless the completely kills the debates and then one of the other two drop out.

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Mar 13, 2023·edited Mar 13, 2023

I enjoyed the interview. But I’m going to tell you she has about 0% chance of even coming 2nd in the R primary here in our her own state of South Carolina. Edit to add - she’s just marketing herself for her next job offer.

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Love Ambassador Haley but she is NeoCon........never ending war. Never get my vote. Peace!

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I love your interviews. They always show a side of the interviewee not usually seen or not at all anywhere else. Thank you.

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This was a great interview. I'm excited to see what Haley and Ramaswamy bring to the debate stage. Should be an interesting Republican primary

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WEF stooge, look it up!

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I want a candidate that has the guts to give a full-throated repudiation of Trump. Haley calls him a 'friend'. As she says herself, the genuinely Trump faithful will never be wooed. So why not just point out the obvious about Trump and Jan6? The fact is that no politician who wants to be president will risk alienating the Trump Faithful, so I'm reconciling myself to the fact that any choice I have will be feckless. Ugh. Considering that, though, I do like what Haley has to say, but I'm far from convinced. (As always, Bari's interview was great.)

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Haley is just another self-serving war monger in American politics. Just like all the rest. She's an opportunist too, that's why she first associated herself with Trump and tried to distance herself from him later.

America needs principled trustworthy politicians with a clear vision what that country can be and should be. But there aren't any. America has always been a corrupt land, but since political corruption became legalized with "citizens united" it produces only one type of politician, the one that easily bends to all kinds of lobby groups. It's rotten to the core now.

And no, Trump is not that politician America needs, he's the most corrupt of them all and his voters don't bother, which makes them part of the problem, that's dragging down America.

What will be the outcome of next pesidential election? I already know. Nothing will change, no matter who wins. The NRA will continue to write the gun laws, the Pharma lobby will continue to write the regulatory laws concerning pharmaceuticals, the fossil fuel lobby will continue to write the environmental regulations etc. and the politicians will continue to line their pockets with lobbyist money and Nicky Haley is just one more who is heading for the feeding trough.

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NO MORE NEOCONS.

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Well Nikki, as a 67 year female, retired from 40 years as a Journeyman Boilermaker/Welder, I gotta tell you that if I can see that you are a female, no matter your ethnicity, there is no reason ever to announce who and what you are to anyone.

In my eyes you've simply pointed out how you feel the political points you score for speaking these words are important to you.

It makes you less in my eyes that you feel you had to use this to strengthen your position.

I'm sorry you don't have the faith in our ability to actually see you for ourselves without being told.

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Forgive me for telling you what my gender is. I felt it neccessary as my name is generally a man's name in my age group and you cannot see me in a photo to determine my gender.

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I left the US at age 18 and have never voted in an American election, but if Nikki Haley receives the Republican nomination I will register to vote by absentee ballot for the first time. She is the most passionate, sincere, accomplished candidate we have seen in a very long time.

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Her take on Trump makes a lot of sense. Everyone wants her to define herself in relationship to Trump, to be pilloried or praised for that definition, but she's just interested in defining herself. Shows a lot of what I believe to be the most important quality someone can take to the White House - common sense.

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Haley is the worst representation of the Uniparty. She has few true core principles. Her main ambition is power. She was pro Trump and MAGA when it suited her. UN Ambassadorship was her reward. She was Never Trump when she sniffed the winds shifting. Haley, like Harris, will never break 10% in her own party's primary. The only way she gets into positions of power is if someone appoints her as VP (a la Kamala). Haley and her ilk are already extinct. They just don't know it yet.

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I'll take Haley, DeSantis, Youngkin, Kemp and just about any other Republican (other than um...is it Devolder or Santos this wee?) over Trump. The GOP has a host of great current and ex governors that are light years more competent than Trump

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Well, then-- are we properly patronized now?

"It’s so funny that everybody thinks that I’m avoiding anything. I’m actually being very true to who I am. So first of all, do I agree with Trump on 100 percent of things? No. Do I disagree with Trump on 100 percent of things? No. I don’t agree with my husband 100 percent of the time either."

LOL! No "avoiding" anything going on _there_! With such a low bar to clear (don't agree with anyone 100% of the time), I gather that every one of us can be "very true to who (we) are". But that doesn't say much about "who we are" beyond the fact that we're not perfect clones of another person.

"I think it also helps people understand me more when I talk about being a woman."

Really? Why?

One's gender--male or female--as a simple matter of fact, is about the least interesting thing about one. Why should I understand a candidate for the presidency of the United States "better" by her talking about "being a woman"? I want the candidate to talk about "being a _president_ of the United States. Or is she running to be elected to "be a woman"? I'm really very weary of such pandering to nonsense.

..."it’s just loving who you are. I love being a woman."

Who cares? I don't. And if a woman--or a man, for that matter--told me about the things he or she doesn't like about being who he or she is, I'd learn just as much--if not more--about the person.

... "I’m proud of being a woman."

Why? What did you have to do with this? Wasn't it merely the happenstance of birth?

What is it about that accident which makes it a source of "pride"?

..."my mom would say to me, 'Your job is not to show them how you’re different; your job is to show them how you’re similar.'"...

Well, Mom had a winning formula: be all things to all people, from sea to shining sea. So, whether in Seattle, or Skokie or Selma or Tucumcari or Tisbury, figure out what the locals are "like" and stress one's similarities with them. More "being very true to who (you) are"?

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