This phrase struck me as I read an article in Real Clear Politics about Nikki Haley. “Lying in wait and hoping for disaster.” That’s flat ugly. Haley’s warning that it is suicide for our country to nominate Trump again. And, Miss Tricky Nikki is pushing for Trump’s trumped up legal cases to be heard before the 2024 Presidential Election.

Nikki Haley is the Liz Cheney of Hillary Clintons. https://t.co/rZZ6MYJZe1

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) March 1, 2024

Yesterday, I wrote about John Fetterman’s use of the phrase “recreational cruelty” to describe the gleeful meanness on Social Media. Nikki’s tough chick/mean girl act doesn’t suit her, or should I say didn’t suit her, because she sure wear’s it like a crown now. A spider with a crown lying in wait and getting others to do her dirty work.

Here are some bits from the Real Clear Politics article, “Haley: Nominating Trump Means ‘Suicide for Our Country’“:

As Nikki Haley stubbornly clings to life ahead of Super Tuesday, warning that nominating Donald Trump for president a third time would mean “suicide for our country,” some of her closest supporters take solace in the fact that the future is unknowable.

Perhaps there is a “fatal landmine” that the former president “could step on at any minute” or a lurking controversy that could “land him deep in the bottom of a well,” speculated Michigan State Rep. Mark Tisdal, who served on Haley’s leadership team for that state. “She is an alternative,” added Utah state Sen. Todd Weiler, who campaigned with Haley earlier this week, “and nobody knows what the future holds with the lawsuits and the age of both of our leading candidates.”

Such are the unrealized hopes of the anti-Trump coalition. He will turn 78 in June, just three years younger than President Biden. He faces 91 felony counts in total among his four criminal indictments.

He has swept the first six nominating contests regardless.

I didn’t understand why Haley would think that would be “suicide” for our country so I went looking for more. I found this at State of the Union:

Haley insisted, “You have to see the writing on the wall, you have to see the hole in the ship.”

“And if you don’t see the hole in the ship, we’re all going to go down,” warned the former ambassador.

Maybe Nikki Haley doesn’t see it, but she is mixing metaphors all over Hell and half of Georgia there. Me, I see a hole in the ship and Donald Trump has a boatload of caulk.

Back to the Real Clear Politics article:

Her campaign rejects outright any suggestion that Haley is waiting for catastrophe, legal or otherwise, to fall on Trump. They point to her dogged cross-country schedule and her seven-figure national ad campaign as evidence she hasn’t adopted a rear-guard strategy. They say Haley plans to win.

“There’s a lot at stake this election. Nikki is fighting for the future of the Republican Party and long-standing conservative principles like fiscal discipline and a strong national security,” said spokeswoman Olivia Perez-Cubas. “If we don’t right the ship, Republicans are going to keep losing and that means Democrats and the far left will keep winning.”

I would like to vote some of these people off of our ship. If Nikki is not lying in wait for a catastrophe, etc. then why do GOP consultants say that she is:

An accountant before politics, Haley points to the percentages in her favor as evidence of Trump’s weakness. In Minnesota Monday, she told a crowd, “You can’t win the general election if you can’t win that 40%.” Of course, unless the arithmetic changes in a hurry, Haley can’t win a primary with those numbers, either. As one prominent GOP operative put it to RealClearPolitics, requesting anonymity to speak frankly, “She’s not building a big movement. What she’s doing is lying in wait and hoping for disaster.”

Trump has been very fortunate in the incompetence of his enemies. We are watching the denouement of Fani Willis today:

This will be continued. If I were Miss Nikki Haley, I would quit lying in wait and look for work in the private sector. We MAGA types are not suicidal, but clear eyed. In case of calamity, we know we don’t want Nikki.

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