She could do the right thing and endorse Biden to keep the US from turning fascist. She could, but she won’t. She thinks that if she doesn’t rock the boat then she can run again in 2028 or 2032. She’s wrong- the MAGA cult will never forgive her and without them, no nomination is possible. So to keep her impossible dream alive, she’s going to toe the line and not do the right thing. She’ll talk about how much she agrees with most of DJT’s policies. What fucking policies? To make it so that the wealthy pay as little taxes as possible? To allow Putin to reconquer eastern Europe? To destroy NATO? To be as cruel as possible to immigrants? To nominate more extremist judges to oppress anyone who isn’t a white straight Christian male? Screw you, Haley. You’ve got a chance to tip the scales against the dark side but you won’t do it because you lack the character
Couldn’t agree more, BLD.
“I’ve never wished anyone dead, but I’ve read some obituaries with a great deal of satisfaction.” - attrib. to Clarence Darrow
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Exactly. (My bolding.)
‘It hasn’t happened yet therefore it can’t happen’ is a line of thinking delightful to dictators, exploiters, and all other evildoers.
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Well, yeah. Pretty much. Haley would dress all those up in 'it’s sad we have to do this but we must be strong in our patriotism and proceed’ language, but: yes. She certainly would do all those things–with the possible exception of helping out Putin (and destroying NATO, which comes to the same thing). She’d do that only if her major donors told her to do it; it’s not her natural instinct.
But if the big-money boys think they’ll be better off by putting Europe into chaos (and helping Putin), then Haley would obediently work to make that happen.
(I fully endorse your entire post.)
She will have no legacy in history, since she’ll be completely forgotten as another pol of no consequence, but if she had one, it would be as another coward who enabled Trump.
Apparently Bill Maher suggested that President Biden should replace Kamala Harris as VP with Nikki Haley.
I think that it is an insane idea, and would hurt him more than it helps. But, would it be an insane idea to offer her a cabinet position and announce it now? As far as I can remember, she did an ok job as UN Ambassador. I’m sure it wouldn’t pull any Trump voters away, but if it pulled even a small percentage of Haley’s voters from swing states, it would be a huge advantage.
Note: I accept that there’s pretty well a 0% chance that Biden will switch his VP. That said…
Maybe Kamala Harris was excellent as a senator - I don’t know. But, as a senator, your job is mostly do to research and to negotiate. As an Executive, it’s to pick good people, listen to them, and lead.
That we’ve seen of Harris, in the VP role, she was given the task of cleaning up the Southern border and, so far as I can tell, she announced a few meetings and then dropped the whole thing or was yanked out by Biden - it was never clear. Certainly, she never accomplished much and now Biden’s having to deal with it in a hurry on an election year.
Around the same period, during the start of her tenure as VP, there was some drama among her staff and she ended up looking pretty bad over that as well.
In general, she hasn’t sent any particular signals that she’s a good leader who picks good people.
And, in general, I don’t know that there’s anyone who will vote for Joe Biden because he’s got Kamala Harris behind him. Most of what he got out of hiring Harris was to get her to stand down during the primaries and endorse him. That’s already long behind us.
Versus, the 30% of Republicans who are anti-Trump, they can claim a legitimate concern about Biden’s age. I’d expect that most of them aren’t truly worried that Biden is senile, but they probably do recognize that an old guy can keel over unexpectedly. Scalia and RGBs’ deaths both threw the political world for a scare because we expected the two to just keep hanging in there to 200 years old. When you’re dealing with people of great age or poor health, you have to consider what happens when you flip to the next page.
Knowing that Haley would be there would be a big comfort to those voters and, plausibly, some of them might switch over or bow out. Just shaving a few percentage of Republicans off - or even getting them to abstain from the vote - might be the difference between winning or losing a reasonable number of battleground states.
I’d venture to guess that Biden would have a much easier time beating Trump by replacing Harris with Haley.
I’m not sure that this is the only question, though. Another important question, are there voters in Biden’s coalition that would stay home if he replaced her? I think that there would be a number of African American voters who would be very upset with her being replaced. I don’t have polling to support that, but I think it would be a very bad idea.
Why would I, who with rare exceptions, has voted solidly Democratic for 50 years, trust a Vice President who campaigned for a year raging against the physical and policy weaknesses of the President I want to vote for.
If you think there’s a percentage of Democrats disappointed by the current choice, try putting a lifelong Republican on the ticket.
Everything else aside, regardless of what Biden wants, there is absolutely zero percent chance that the delegates to the Democratic National Convention would vote to make Nikki Haley their Vice-Presidential nominee.
Fully agree. I was asking about a cabinet position for her. Secretary of State perhaps.
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Great reason to NOT do that.
Agreed. Which is why I said it was an insane idea. I am asking about a cabinet level position for her.
She has done her job damned well.
What can she do so well that a Democrat couldn’t match her ability?
As Secretary of Whatever, nothing. The hope would be that she would bring some of her supporters with her.
Can we just create a new cabinet post like that? 
I can’t imagine that announcing he would appoint Haley Secretary of State would get Biden many additional Haley voters that he wasn’t going to get anyway. Especially since most Haley voters in the primaries were Democrats or Dem-leaning independents.
I’m pretty sure Liam Lynch has the post sewn up.
Other countries have Ministers without Portfolio. I guess the US would call her Secretary without Portfolio. But again why? The appointment is after the election and why would Haley commit political suicide by accepting? Would the Dem voters in 2028 say, “Thanks Madame Secretary for doing us a solid. We’re going to vote for you for President.”?
How many SD dollarbucks do I get knowing what the link was just by his name?