I'm Voting For Nikki Haley

[initforme]

Vote for whoever you want. Despite what others tell you. The more they try and sell you the more you disagree. That's how it should be.

 

[Dagosa]

A conservative Republican used to be the smartest person in the room. And they still are.

Trump Republicans are not the slightest bit conservative. They don't even know what conservatism is.

Celebrating a serial adulterer who stole from the elderly and cancer kids, and molests and rapes women, and who doubled the federal deficit, and then completely bungled his one and only crisis, is not the behavior of a conservative.

Nor is supporting a mass murdering war criminal KGB thug. Trump Republicans were idolizing Putin long before Trump came into the picture.

Adam Kinzinger is my idea of a conservative Republican. He stood up for what is right, knowing it would cost him personally while the others around him who knew Trump is evil chose to buckle like the submissive cucks they are.

Liz Cheney is also a conservative. Her voting record was more conservative than the lickspittle they replaced her with, Elise Stefanik. Stefanik was a conservative who quickly did an about face and became one of the most submissive cucks in Congress.

The guiding light for Trump Republicans is power over principle, power over country. And I don't just mean our elected officials. I also mean everyone who supports Trump.

Nikki Haley has some serious flaws, but they are relatively minimal next to the other candidates.

I've been watching Haley ever since she was running for governor of South Carolina. That race is proof that the GOP devolved into bigotry, psychopathy, idiocy, and hypocrisy before Trump came along. The dumbing down of the GOP began during the Bush administration and the stupidity has accelerated since then, which is why I stopped voting on the federal level in 2006. And I am embarrassed it took me that long to have an awakening.

I was a Bill Buckely/Ronald Reagan conservative Republican my entire life until 2017. In 2017, I switched my voter registration to Independent.

I'm voting for Nikki Haley regardless if she is the nominee. If she is not the nominee, I will write her name in on my ballot, or I will just stay home on election day 2024.

When Nikki Haley was running for governor in 2010, she was way behind the pack. She didn't have a chance, but somehow she pulled it off.

She was helped by one of her primary contenders who went on live radio and said, "We already have a raghead in the White House (Obama), we don't need another raghead in the governor's mansion."

That level of ignorance (she's not a Muslim, she's a Protestant) and bigotry clinched it for her.

Nowadays, that kind of stupid hate no longer shocks the sensitivities of the voters. And for that, we can thank Donald Trump who has fostered ignorance and hatred to a whole new level.

Conservative republicans gave rise to Trump. Trump is just a gross egocentric version of yesterdays republican…
They made up shit then and still committed in house crimes.

 

[Dagosa]

Another factor in voting for Haley is that she would raise the retirement age. This is something I have been advocating since coming to this forum.

HALEY’S FREEDOM PLAN

Socialism kills the middle class. Haley’s Freedom Plan will revive it. Bidenomics gives morepower to Washington bureaucrats. Haley's plan will return power to the people.

Cut middle-class taxes.
● Cut income tax rates and consolidate brackets for middle-class families.
● Eliminate the federal gas and diesel tax to give middle-class families relief inflation and disastrous energy policies.

○ The vast majority (around 75%) of highway money comes from state and local funding. Federal funding will continue to be a small part of infrastructure spending. Federal highway funding should come from general revenues, forcing it to compete with other spending priorities.​

○ It will require all Americans to pay for roads and bridges—not just the drivers o fgas-powered vehicles. And we’ll stop diverting money to green giveaways, bike paths, and hiking trails.​

● Make small business relief permanent.

○ The 2017 Small Business Deduction allows taxpayers to exclude up to 20 percent of their pass-through business income from federal income tax. Without action, this provision is scheduled to expire after 2025 and would increase small business tax rates from 29.6% to 37% for individuals in the highest tax bracket.​

● Cut unfair distortions in the tax code.

○ Example: The SALT deduction allows high-income earners in high-tax states to claim their state taxes as a deduction on their federal taxes. It forces low-tax states to subsidize tax-and-spend policies in high-tax states.​

Reduce inflation and debt by cutting spending. Democrats and Republicans bear responsibility for our country’s record-high $33 trillion debt.
● Place a limit on federal spending linked to a percentage of our economy.
● End taxpayer bailouts for special interests.
● Veto any budget that doesn’t take our country back to pre-COVID spending levels.
● Eliminate Biden’s $500 billion in green energy subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act.
● Implement mandatory zero-based budgeting, requiring government programs to be justified in every budget, instead of basing budgeting decisions on the previous year’s funding level.
● Withhold Congress’ pay if it fails to pass a budget. No budget, no pay.
● Implement entitlement reform. Social Security starts to run out of money in 2033 and
will require a 23% cut in benefits if no changes are made. Medicare starts to run out of
money in 2031 and will require an 11% cut in benefits.

○ Raise the retirement age for younger generations and index Social Security and Medicare benefits to life expectancy.​

○ Limit the growth of benefits for higher-income beneficiaries.​

○ Expand Medicare Advantage and increase competition.​

○ Match cost-of-living increases for Social Security to actual inflation rates by using chained CPI.​

● Push the Fed to maintain a strong dollar. Reduce federal government control of our lives.
● Enact term limits for politicians and bureaucrats.

○ No bureaucrat should hold the same position for more than five years.​

○ Make it easier to fire federal bureaucrats who are not performing.​

● Force Congress to vote on new rules and regulations by implementing the REINS
Act.

○ The REINS Act requires congressional approval for any proposed federal agency rule with an economic impact of $100 million or more.​

○ During the first two years in office, the Biden administration finalized rules amounting to nearly $10,000 per household. In 2021, the Biden administration finalized 69 regulations costing more than $100 million or having a substantial effect on the economy (more than any recent president).​

● Push federal programs down to the states.

○ Instead of the federal government deciding where and how tax money is spent, use block grants to give states the freedom to decide the best way to use federal​

funds.​

● Implement an all-of-the-above energy plan that makes America energy dominant.

○ Stop the demonization of the oil and gas industries, and empower American producers.​

○ Open up oil and gas production within federal lands.​

○ Reinstate the Keystone XL pipeline and speed up permitting and building of interstate pipelines. Prevent radical environmental groups from stopping new energy projects.​

○ Roll back Biden’s wasteful green energy subsidies and regulations.​

○ Stand up to energy dictators in Russia, Iran, and Venezuela, and don’t sell our oil​

reserves to our enemies.​

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You never saw specifics like that from Trump, and you never will. Just empty promises and self-aggrandizing chest thumping.

You never saw Trump push legislation to achieve these things.

This is what conservatism looks like.

Only had to read the first one to know how delusional even so called normal republicans are..ESPECIALLY ABOUT TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS.

Eliminate the gas and Diesel tax? Get real. The price of gas and petro won’t go down. It always goes up as far as the market will bear and with out the tax, you will eleiminate dedicated funding for road maintenance…who’s going to pay for that ? Right, no one.

 

[Thanos]

A conservative Republican used to be the smartest person in the room. And they still are.

Trump Republicans are not the slightest bit conservative. They don't even know what conservatism is.

Celebrating a serial adulterer who stole from the elderly and cancer kids, and molests and rapes women, and who doubled the federal deficit, and then completely bungled his one and only crisis, is not the behavior of a conservative.

Nor is supporting a mass murdering war criminal KGB thug. Trump Republicans were idolizing Putin long before Trump came into the picture.

Adam Kinzinger is my idea of a conservative Republican. He stood up for what is right, knowing it would cost him personally while the others around him who knew Trump is evil chose to buckle like the submissive cucks they are.

Liz Cheney is also a conservative. Her voting record was more conservative than the lickspittle they replaced her with, Elise Stefanik. Stefanik was a conservative who quickly did an about face and became one of the most submissive cucks in Congress.

The guiding light for Trump Republicans is power over principle, power over country. And I don't just mean our elected officials. I also mean everyone who supports Trump.

Nikki Haley has some serious flaws, but they are relatively minimal next to the other candidates.

I've been watching Haley ever since she was running for governor of South Carolina. That race is proof that the GOP devolved into bigotry, psychopathy, idiocy, and hypocrisy before Trump came along. The dumbing down of the GOP began during the Bush administration and the stupidity has accelerated since then, which is why I stopped voting on the federal level in 2006. And I am embarrassed it took me that long to have an awakening.

I was a Bill Buckely/Ronald Reagan conservative Republican my entire life until 2017. In 2017, I switched my voter registration to Independent.

I'm voting for Nikki Haley regardless if she is the nominee. If she is not the nominee, I will write her name in on my ballot, or I will just stay home on election day 2024.

When Nikki Haley was running for governor in 2010, she was way behind the pack. She didn't have a chance, but somehow she pulled it off.

She was helped by one of her primary contenders who went on live radio and said, "We already have a raghead in the White House (Obama), we don't need another raghead in the governor's mansion."

That level of ignorance (she's not a Muslim, she's a Protestant) and bigotry clinched it for her.

Nowadays, that kind of stupid hate no longer shocks the sensitivities of the voters. And for that, we can thank Donald Trump who has fostered ignorance and hatred to a whole new level.

A conservative Republican was NEVER the smartest person in the room.

The vast majority of the greatest achievements in this country over the past 100 years have come from Democrats.

Not only that, it's conservative Republicans that created the toxic political environment over the past 60 years that made someone as dangerous and evil as Trump possible.

Haley is worthless, by the way. She stands for absolutely nothing and she is terrified to stand up to Trump.

 

[Kondor3]

I just watched a video of her lying like 20 times.
You liking a liar? I thought you were against that?
JK I knew you werent.
You were just being disingenuous.
Now go bomb some countries and pay for more death, FREAK.

Compared to the Rumpian BIG Lie, well...

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

There's not one word in your post regarding any policy position, either foreign, domestic or monetary.

Hold Trump and MAGA to that, and we can talk. Otherwise, overruled and dismissed.

 

[eagle1462010]

A conservative Republican was NEVER the smartest person in the room.

The vast majority of the greatest achievements in this country over the past 100 years have come from Democrats.

Not only that, it's conservative Republicans that created the toxic political environment over the past 60 years that made someone as dangerous and evil as Trump possible.

Haley is worthless, by the way. She stands for absolutely nothing and she is terrified to stand up to Trump.

 

[Dagosa]

A conservative Republican was NEVER the smartest person in the room.

The vast majority of the greatest achievements in this country over the past 100 years have come from Democrats.

Not only that, it's conservative Republicans that created the toxic political environment over the past 60 years that made someone as dangerous and evil as Trump possible.

Haley is worthless, by the way. She stands for absolutely nothing and she is terrified to stand up to Trump.

Haley is trying to ingratiate herself as a candidate to Republican women voters who have been condition to feel they are inferior to men in the political arena as well as many other arenas. It’s tougher for her to get their vote than males who just need a break from Trump’s shit. That’s what she faces.

Conservative women in other democratic countries don’t have as much a problem.

 

[Thanos]

Haley is trying to ingratiate herself as a candidate to Republican women voters who have been condition to feel they are inferior to men in the political arena as well as many other arenas. It’s tougher for her to get their vote than males who just need a break from Trump’s shit. That’s what she faces.

Conservative women in other democratic countries don’t have as much a problem.

Her biggest problem is that she just isn't a very skilled politician. She has zero sincerity about anything that she says. It's plainly obvious that everything that comes out of her mouth is completely calculated and poll-tested.

And that just isn't going to work against someone like Trump.

 

[Dagosa]

Her biggest problem is that she just isn't a very skilled politician. She has zero sincerity about anything that she says. It's plainly obvious that everything that comes out of her mouth is completely calculated and poll-tested.

There aren’t many skilled politicians…..The effective communicators can be bull shit artists. She’s walking a tight rope. If Chris Christy was not so physical obese, he’d have as many votes as Haley and still be in the race. . Voters are shallow, very shallow. When was the last time a candidate did not try to portray himself as physically fit….

 

[Thanos]

There aren’t many skilled politicians…..The effective communicators can be bull shit artists. She’s walking a tight rope. If Chris Christy was so physical obese, he’d have as many votes as Haley. Voters are shallow, very shallow.

I don't think Christie's weight has much to do with it. About 15 years ago, he was the biggest star in the Republican Party. The Republican Party has become too crazy and extreme for someone like Christie to survive anymore.

 

[Dagosa]

I don't think Christie's weight has much to do with it. About 15 years ago, he was the biggest star in the Republican Party. The Republican Party has become too crazy and extreme for someone like Christie to survive anymore.

Really ? And how far did he get ? State politics is much diferent than national. Appearance will get or lose you 15% to 20%( and I’m being low side generous ); of the vote of uninvolved voters….Independents are the largest affiliation. Appearance gets you in the door…..for nearly everything.

 

[Thanos]

Really ? And how far did he get ? State politics is much diferent than national. Appearance will get or lose you 15% to 20%( and I’m being low side generous ); of the vote of uninvolved voters….Independents are the largest affiliation. Appearance gets you in the door…..for nearly everything.

If Christie had run for the Republican nomination back in 2008 or 2012 he probably would have won. He was a rising star back then and nobody was excited about McCain or Romney.

 

[Dagosa]

If Christie had run for the Republican nomination back in 2008 or 2012 he probably would have won. He was a rising star back then and nobody was excited about McCain or Romney.

He didn’t because he was too fat. He ran now just as a service to the nation. That I give him credit for. You’ll have to do better I need to see gop polls with such a high ranking. Fat is a killer in politics. Romney was the rising star and the most Trim appearing.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

I said she has flaws, as do all humans. But she has about 40,000 more lies to go to catch up to Trump, hypocrite.

My problem with her is that she’s said she would pardon Trump.

 

[Thanos]

He didn’t because he was too fat. He ran now just as a service to the nation. That I give him credit for. You’ll have to do better I need to see gop polls with such a high ranking. Fat is a killer in politics. Romney was the rising star and the most Trim appearing.

LOL...man, you are just wrong. Trump is fat himself. Republicans take pride in being fat asses.

Christie would have defeated Romney.

 

[Dagosa]

My problem with her is that she’s said she would pardon Trump.

She still needs the MAGA crowd.

 

[Dagosa]

LOL...man, you are just wrong. Trump is fat himself. Republicans take pride in being fat asses.

Christie would have defeated Romney.

Trump the fat ass does well because the MAGA crowd is LITERALLY blind. We had four years of Pence calling Trump strapping, and they buy that sit. When he says he is six foot three and pictures show him as short as Obama who is 6 feet, they’re blind. No one is blind about Chris Christy. He’s morbidly obese….morbidly. He has two strikes agaisnt him when he walks through the door with a deciding vote with any group. Romney was the darling. He had it all, but no one from the right could beat Obama. Not only was he slim, he was a regular stand up comedian. That’s a deadly combination with more than half the public……women.

 

[kyzr]

Nimarata "Nikki" isn't white enough to be the GOP nominee.

She'll be there long enough for the still sane Republicans to support. After she loses to Trump, then sane Republicans will have to either vote for Trump, knowing he's crazy, or suck it up and realize they can live with Biden for four more years.

Nope.
Trump will win in November unless he's convicted of some bullshit felony. Then at the GOP "declared open" convention delegates would need to decide if Trump is still good, or if Nikki or Ron would be better.
The only democrat play is to hope Biden is still on the right side of the grass in November, and Trump still has a felony on his record. Even then, I wouldn't bet against Trump. The US will be in even worse shape by November.

 

[Dagosa]

Nope.
Trump will win in November unless he's convicted of some bullshit felony. Then at the GOP "declared open" convention delegates would need to decide if Trump is still good, or if Nikki or Ron would be better.
The only democrat play is to hope Biden is still on the right side of the grass in November, and Trump still has a felony on his record. Even then, I wouldn't bet against Trump. The US will be in even worse shape by November.

You’re right. We‘ve been three years without a recession….you must love that shit. Humpers Must have been abused as children.