For those hoping that Nikki Haley is the Great GOP Hope

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You mean the War of Northern Aggression? - czeche 2023-12-30 08:34:06
- I mean the War of Southern Rebellion, sir! - sprack 2023-12-31 15:08:26
  - I agree with your label - czeche 2023-12-31 23:08:32
It won't matter at all - dulac89 2023-12-29 12:38:19
- If by some stretch of the imagination she is the Republican - Manor76 2023-12-29 22:47:58
  - She has an entire year to do damage control * - dulac89 2023-12-30 01:05:08
    - Which won’t erase the original video * - sprack 2023-12-30 21:19:43
- She needs everything to break her way to win - AquinasDomer 2023-12-29 13:42:11
  - Absent trump she will not be the nominee. - airborneirish 2023-12-30 01:32:04
  - Maybe, maybe not. - Kali4niaND 2023-12-29 14:15:17
    - Or maybe she’s just running for vice president * - sprack 2023-12-29 16:30:20
      - This is the bad take. - IrishApache 2023-12-29 17:21:32
        Youngkin is actually campaigning for vp - Nyirish08 2023-12-30 13:57:21
        If true... I find this a touch depressing. - IrishApache 2023-12-31 11:13:36
        I saw an ad about "Tricky Nikki" yesterday during a football - Milhouse 2023-12-30 11:35:34
She's a "normal" politician in the sense that it appears... - Kbyrnes 2023-12-29 11:23:18
- I don’t think she’s “normal” - acrossdmiddle 2023-12-29 12:30:40
  - I just meant normal in the dichotomy between... - Kbyrnes 2023-12-30 10:36:08
She has proven herself to be a Trump apologist. - IAND75 2023-12-29 10:26:38
You have a very selective outrage meter. - IrishApache 2023-12-29 02:58:50
- Right back atcha - sprack 2023-12-29 13:20:40
  - Nonsense. - IrishApache 2023-12-29 15:14:21
    - Wow, what a bad take - sprack 2023-12-29 16:38:14
    - Sprack still recovering from - shillelaghhugger 2023-12-29 15:35:37
      - Something I never commented on at the time, but OK * - sprack 2023-12-29 16:31:32
She was always a lost cause. - Angel 2023-12-28 19:54:30
- It's really frustrating to me... - ewillND 2024-01-02 13:27:41
- excellent pun * - ravenium 2023-12-29 00:43:16
  - I liked it. * - Angel 2023-12-29 15:11:11
It was cowardice and a colossal screw up. * - Barrister 2023-12-28 18:48:03
She screwed the pooch. - Revue Party 2023-12-28 18:12:47
Not all of us lived through the war. * - EricCartman 2023-12-28 17:59:10
- Also, why was she asked about the civil war? - EricCartman 2023-12-28 18:05:40
  - Well it does seem very much to be unfinished business, - sorin69 2023-12-29 22:46:23
    - The avoidance and downright denial of Wilson’s - Barrister 2023-12-30 11:13:54
      - "Why did the professors admire (Wilson) so much?" - Revue Party 2023-12-30 19:43:11
    - IMO, reconstruction is the unfinished part. - EricCartman 2023-12-30 09:31:14
  - I’m reminded of the Faulkner quote - ufl 2023-12-29 07:08:05
  - Can we screen candidates on 5th grade history ? - DBCooper 2023-12-28 19:37:56
    - When was the last time this question was asked of anyone? - EricCartman 2023-12-28 20:04:51
      - History questions are asked all the time - sprack 2023-12-28 20:29:07
        Right - El Kabong 2023-12-29 12:37:16
        That isn’t the point * - sprack 2023-12-29 13:22:06
        Exactly * - MDDomer 2023-12-29 12:39:57
  - It should be a softball question - sprack 2023-12-28 18:07:21
    - “ The Rise of American Civilization” makes the case that… - EricCartman 2023-12-28 18:55:30
      - Eric Foner is "fundamentalist" in his view of the war and - sorin69 2023-12-29 22:40:08
        My post below might help. - EricCartman 2023-12-30 08:57:57
        It's the name of a school of thought - AquinasDomer 2023-12-30 13:02:31
        I’m reading Varon’s book right now. - EricCartman 2023-12-30 13:24:32
      - If she truly was going there she would have said, - DBCooper 2023-12-28 19:42:14
      - “Two plus two equals six” logic - sprack 2023-12-28 19:04:01
        I’ll mark you down as a fundamentalist. * - EricCartman 2023-12-28 20:05:15
        Wha? * - sprack 2023-12-28 20:30:21
        "For the fundamentalist, slavery is front and center; - EricCartman 2023-12-29 10:45:27
        I have no idea who Edward Ayers is, and don’t really care - sprack 2023-12-29 13:23:28
        Obama gave him a National Humanities Medal. - EricCartman 2023-12-29 14:15:25
        I didn’t say he was - sprack 2023-12-29 14:17:29
        I think it is fair to say the south were belligerents and - airborneirish 2023-12-29 11:07:17
        What the hell are you talking about? - sprack 2023-12-29 13:27:01
        I suggest you consider dropping beef with posters - airborneirish 2023-12-29 15:03:21
        The Republican long game - AquinasDomer 2023-12-29 13:48:29
        I agree with everything you wrote. To add just a bit to it, - Barney68 2023-12-29 12:07:30
        Lincoln's statement to Greeley - 88_92WSND 2023-12-31 12:37:11
        Having said all that... - El Kabong 2023-12-29 12:40:33
        I am unbothered by Haley's tightrope walking. It was ... - Barney68 2023-12-29 20:40:17
        She served while the confederate flag and monuments came - airborneirish 2023-12-30 01:34:44
        Gaffes - AquinasDomer 2023-12-29 13:55:56
        One only has to read the words of the Confederates to - BigBadBrewer 2023-12-28 19:30:12
        The economic differences - DBCooper 2023-12-28 19:45:27
        The founding fathers knew it was likely, too - wcnitz 2023-12-29 08:06:22
        This might be vague memories from 4th grade - AquinasDomer 2023-12-29 10:39:47
        Especially this from Alexander Stephens - it’s unequivocal (link) - sprack 2023-12-28 19:37:09
      - As usual, the Simpsons writers nailed it - BigCLumber 2023-12-28 18:57:52
        beat me to it! * - ravenium 2023-12-29 00:51:09
She trying to win a primary, you want to talk about Biden's - Jeash 2023-12-28 17:16:43
- I don't think this was a gaffe or mistake - Tarascan 2023-12-28 17:51:57
  - You think this response is bad, what about Biden describing - Jeash 2023-12-28 22:21:27
    - And he would need to answer for it if Republicans ran ads - wpkirish 2023-12-29 07:16:08
      - My point of view is that she is the only person that stands - Jeash 2023-12-29 11:04:11
- I think you’re missing the overall point - sprack 2023-12-28 17:23:33
  - Maybe because - vermin05 2023-12-28 17:40:47
Not surprised - vermin05 2023-12-28 17:15:54
She's still preferable to Trump * - Jimbo Irish 2023-12-28 16:42:44
- Oh, no doubt. It’s why it’s so disappointing * - sprack 2023-12-28 16:47:40
We get the candidates that we deserve. It takes a special - Grace91 2023-12-28 16:08:15
- No, we don’t. I hate that “we get what we deserve” crap - sprack 2023-12-28 16:10:49
  - So, why are we getting the candidates that we are? - gregmorrissey 2023-12-28 18:45:39
    - We get bad candidates because they win primaries. * - Barrister 2023-12-28 18:49:28
  - "We", as in the voters. I have (limited) experience running - Grace91 2023-12-28 16:31:32
    - And what exactly, would be a better process? - sprack 2023-12-28 16:37:49
      - At a national and state wide level our media is to blame. - Limbosmullet 2023-12-28 20:00:59
        You know, not everyone elected to office - sprack 2023-12-28 20:36:21
        They most certainly do - Limbosmullet 2023-12-28 21:00:32
      - I agree with you regarding Haley, by the way. In my opinion - Grace91 2023-12-28 16:54:12
  - You're a relatively normal person - El Kabong 2023-12-28 16:22:40
    - I have a good friend who is in the NE senate. - Angel 2023-12-28 20:01:25
      - I was physically assaulted during a semi-political gathering - Grace91 2023-12-28 20:11:36
    - It’s no different now than it ever has been - sprack 2023-12-28 16:35:53
      - I'm not being fatalistic, I am noting that in my opinion the - Grace91 2023-12-28 17:43:18
      - It was a heck of a lot easier to get away with things - 88_92WSND 2023-12-28 16:48:37
        I really think people have a rose-colored view of past - sprack 2023-12-28 16:52:28
        The press was complicit in concealing FDR being - Nyirish08 2023-12-28 17:07:46
        That was more of an abnormal period than our present one - AquinasDomer 2023-12-28 17:21:34
        Exactly. People might want to read about the 1884 election - sprack 2023-12-28 17:28:40
        we still didn't have social media * - ravenium 2023-12-29 00:55:03
        I think the trends in officehilder quality - AquinasDomer 2023-12-29 10:43:10
        So only bad people run for office now? - sprack 2023-12-28 17:11:18
        No. But you have to be willfully obtuse to not know - 88_92WSND 2023-12-28 19:24:04
        Again I refer you to the 1884 election - sprack 2023-12-28 19:50:10
        I'm aware of the 1884 election - 88_92WSND 2023-12-28 20:15:45
        Prior to the 20th century - AquinasDomer 2023-12-28 19:30:39
        People died in an election fight in Philly - 88_92WSND 2023-12-28 19:53:48
        I don't believe that is true * - El Kabong 2023-12-28 16:55:17
        No one here is making that argument. Try again. * - krudler 2023-12-28 16:53:49
      - During Abe Lincoln's time we had cameras listening to - krudler 2023-12-28 16:43:32
        You don’t think anyone was listening to every word - sprack 2023-12-28 16:46:34
        Great response that didn't address a single thing I said. - krudler 2023-12-28 16:50:23
        Did Tad Lincoln have people hassling him? * - El Kabong 2023-12-28 16:49:31
        Tad Lincoln was 7 years old in 1860 - sprack 2023-12-28 16:56:56
        Barron Trump was attacked by multiple people in the - krudler 2023-12-28 17:00:05
        Seriously? - El Kabong 2023-12-28 16:59:34
        It really wasn’t that bad - sprack 2023-12-28 17:00:59
        Chelsea was horribly mocked on national tv for her - krudler 2023-12-28 17:04:55
        What, so only bad people want to expose their - sprack 2023-12-28 17:09:08
        What are you talking about? Your arguments are all over - krudler 2023-12-28 17:14:24
        Here’s a simple answer for you, then - sprack 2023-12-28 17:17:53
        Well now I need a safe space! * - krudler 2023-12-28 17:19:30
        In your opinion - El Kabong 2023-12-28 17:01:49
        I think it is 100 percent relevant - sprack 2023-12-28 17:07:01
      - I just read the book Founding Partisans - AquinasDomer 2023-12-28 16:40:43
      - Sorry, Abe didn't have to deal with 24/7 news & social media - ndgenius 2023-12-28 16:40:26
        The partisan press before 1900 - AquinasDomer 2023-12-28 16:58:04
        Was everybody a member of the press? - El Kabong 2023-12-28 17:00:43
        What the hell difference does that make? - sprack 2023-12-28 17:15:46
        So what you're saying here... - El Kabong 2023-12-29 12:45:02
        I really think you need to read a book on it - sprack 2023-12-28 16:42:44
        Was the local school board attacked daily? How about the - ndgenius 2023-12-28 16:52:07
        The original design assumed that distance and time - 88_92WSND 2023-12-28 16:50:40
        Was it 24/7 and inescapable? - El Kabong 2023-12-28 16:48:38
        I don’t agree with that last part - sprack 2023-12-28 17:32:51