What in the name of Santa Claus’s Sainted Aunt Golda is going on in the world? In what mirrored universe would anyone think that Nikki Haley would be a good pick for his Vice President? In what box-ticking, sanitized for your protection candidate world did the consultants come up with Trump/Haley. No. No. NO. Deal Breaker. Y’all know me. I am a Trump girl. Nikki is an effin’ deal breaker.

I understand why Nikki Haley is running for President. Box-ticking is a core competency these days. Nikki was a very mid Governor for South Carolina. She should have been grateful that Donald Trump named her as Ambassador to the United Nations. Nikki was a better Ambassador than Samantha Power. Low-bar. Nikki gave a couple good speeches and she didn’t give anything away. So yay, Nikki. Then Miss Haley went off to make money the old fashion way, according to Forbes:

How did she make so much money in so little time? By following a tried-and-true playbook for politicians looking to cash in on their fame. Speeches to companies like Barclays and organizations such as the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs provided more money in a day than Haley had previously earned in a year. It’s not clear how many talks she gave from 2019 to 2021, but Haley hauled in $2.3 million from just 11 events in 2022.

She wrote two books after leaving the Trump administration. A 2019 memoir sold more than 100,000 copies. A 2022 title provided more than $350,000 in advance payments. Haley also offered consulting services, generating more than $700,000 in fees. Then there were corporate boards. She became a director of Boeing in 2019, then stepped down the next year, collecting over $300,000 in cash and stock. Haley remains on the board of the United Homes Group, which has provided her with more than $250,000, as well as the promise of earning much more as equity grants vest down the road.

Good on her. We all like people who make money the old fashioned way. Nikki also is a fangirl for Big Government. Our Darleen told you how much Nikki wanted to verify every person: on social media should be verified by their name” because of “national security.”

Can you say fascism, sure you can.

Look, none of my friends or blogging sisters are pro-Haley. One of my high school guy friends messaged me this morning. I asked him if he hates Nikki Haley and he said “with a passion”. So, okay. It seems many of the articles written about her may be puff pieces. I don’t hate Haley or DeSantis. I don’t LOVE Trump. I think he would be a great President again. I love my husband, my son, my brother and my brother’s boys. I am too jaded to love a politician.

I want Trump to be President again, but Haley is a definite deal breaker. I agree with Tucker Carlson on that one:

The former Fox News host’s newfound support for the candidate leading primary and general polls, he promised this week during a live recording of “Timcast IRL” at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2023, will be threatened if Trump chooses the wrong running mate.

“Would you vote for Trump if he chose Nikki as VP?” Host Tim Pool asked

The question stems from Lara Trump’s refusal during a TV interview earlier this week to dismiss Haley as a VP prospect.

“I would not only not vote for that ticket, I would advocate against it as strongly as I could,” Carlson told the AmFest audience, receiving several shocked “wows” from his fellow panelists.

According to Carlson, adding Haley to the Trump ballot would be “poison” to his campaign.

“I mean, here’s someone who’s actively opposed to the interests of the country I grew up in, who endorsed the BLM riots, and who is not left, but is neoliberal in the darkest, most — speaking of nihilist — nihilistic way, and has no real popular supporters, is a creature of the oligarchs,” Carlson explained. “So yeah, that would be reason to oppose the ticket.”

When Pool asked once again if “even Trump-Haley is a no-go?” Carlson doubled down.

“I just can’t imagine a world where that could happen,” he said. “That would be so crazy. Anything could happen of course, but picking Nikki Haley, who’s utterly treacherous and utterly dismissive of like, the interest of Americans, yeah.”

Another panelist suggested that Trump would “get assassinated immediately.” His suggestion that the deep state would be willing to knock off Trump to install Haley as president recalls Carlson’s exchange with the former president in August, in which Carlson mused that “Indictment is not working … do they have to kill you now?”

Turning Points Charlie Kirk suggested Tucker as Veep. No. Two loose cannons firing in all directions. Hard pass.

And I don’t even know why Ron DeSantis did this. Completely unnecessary.

Final word today goes to American Island Man from X (Twitter):

I’m seeing a lot of people saying Trump might pick Nikki Haley as his VP. I’m telling you I don’t think Trump will do it but if he does he will not get my support. I do not and never liked Nikki Haley.

— American Islandman (@N76247476Man) December 19, 2023

If Trump picks Haley, I have been wrong about him for the last 30 years. And, that will be a deal breaker.

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