You've Got to Be Kidding?

After causing quite a stir a few weeks ago when she told an audience member that the Civil War was fought over “States Rights,” refusing to even mention slavery, Republican Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley continued raising eyebrows again this week when Fox and Friends host Brian Kilmeade asked her if she thought the Republican Party was racist or if America was a “racist country.”   Astonishingly, Haley immediately said, “No!   We’re not a racist country, Brian!   We’ve never been a racist country.” Wow!  The new “female Mike Pence” just said what?   That said, and in all fairness, she may have just raised an interesting point here.   I mean, other than the slavery, repressive Jim Crow laws, the systematic slaughter and expropriation of Native Americans from their land, the segregation, the lynchings, the laws against interracial dating and marriage, discrimination in housing, education, and hiring, the negative and condescending portrayal of people of co...

When asked directly by a 9-year-old at a town hall in New Hampshire Thursday evening, Republican candidate for president Nikki Haley said that she “ would issue a pardon” for Donald Trump if she becomes president.   Ron DeSantis, while doing his best to be evasive, implied something similar a few months ago.   Haley then added that she would do this because having an 80-year-old man sitting in jail would continue to divide our country, and our nation needs healing. Oh, I get it.  She feels putting an 80-year-old man in jail would further divide our country.   That is, unless that 80-year-old man just happens to be named Joe Biden - and then it’s “Lock him up!”   But I get the point she and the Republicans are making here.   They don’t want a criminal like Trump “dividing the country” while he’s in jail.   They’d prefer he be walking the streets as a free man when he’s “dividing the country." So, Nikki Haley says she will pardon Trump because even if he...