Posted on 12/13/2023 9:10:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The media are trying to pick the GOP nominee for us just like they did with John McCain. (Remember how great that worked out?) Once again, their pick is the whiny warmonger -- this time, Nikki Haley.
No wall and guaranteed to lose! What's not to like? (Democrats: Please! Anyone but Gov. Ron DeSantis!)
This week, headlines hyped the results of a Wall Street Journal poll showing Haley beating Joe Biden by 17 points!
Does anyone think that Haley will beat Biden by 17 points? The only presidential election decided by anything close to that in the last half-century was in 1984, when Ronald Reagan smashed Walter Mondale, winning by 18 points and 525-to-13 in the Electoral College.
We shall not see anything like that again in our lifetimes, unless it's Biden's margin over Donald Trump next year.
Didn't the WSJ pollsters say to themselves, How did we screw this up? Oh well, I guess we'll have to take another poll ...
Nope! The media are push-polling for Nikki.
Like their former "It Girl" McCain, whatever Haley does is adorable.
-- Haley flips out at a debate and calls Vivek Ramaswamy "scum" after he makes a completely legitimate point against her.
Media in unison: He IS scum! How dare he make a devastating point against a female candidate?
-- Haley petulantly refuses to answer a question from Ramaswamy at another debate.
Media in unison: Yay, Nikki! She refused to take the bait!
-- Haley becomes the favorite of the donor class (HATED by actual Republicans).
Media in unison: That's it. DeSantis is done. (Remember everybody, do NOT mention that he's still beating her in the polls.)
Of course Haley's a hit with megadonors! She wants to start wars on three continents and keep the illegals flowing. So do billionaires! And for that matter, so do the media.
Everyone forgets this, but the secret to Trump's surprise win in 2016 was that he was the only candidate who opposed open borders and nonstop military interventions. (At least, that's what he said. How were we to know Trump was like ABBA, just mouthing words he didn't understand?)
Thus, the Koch network loathed him. By October 2015, members of this billionaires' club had already given multiple millions of dollars to every GOP candidate -- except Trump. According to The Hill, "The most popular presidential candidates among the Koch brothers' conservative donor network are Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio."
(This may be why we don't have the expression, "As go the megadonors, so goes the country.")
Sorry for the digression into the mind of the plutocrats, but their issues are also key factors in the media's admiration for Republicans like Haley and McCain -- plus one more. In addition to their near-obsessive focus on any country other than ours, both Haley and McCain would lose.
I know it's hard to believe that journalists, who are 99.9999% Democratic, wouldn't have your best interests at heart, Republicans, but keep in mind that the fawning over this or that Republican ends sharply the moment the primaries are over.
Before McCain sewed up the nomination, the press's flattery knew no bounds! Quotes from a February 2007 Vanity Fair article were typical:
"PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE ... Honest-to-God American Hero ... the American media's favorite politician ... the maverick, freethinking ... a political star ... McCain remains irresistible ... palpably, pungently human."
Then on Feb. 7, 2008, Mitt Romney dropped out, effectively making McCain the GOP nominee.
Precisely 12 days later, The New York Times launched a major front-page expose, suggesting that McCain was embroiled in a long-term affair with a lobbyist. (This had apparently just come to the Times' attention.)
"A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fundraisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client's corporate jet. ... Mr. McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40, both say they never had a romantic relationship."
And so it went:
CNN, June 15, 2008, "Sen. John McCain's age, 71, has been highlighted in the presidential race"
CBS, July 22, 2008, "Critics Pile on as McCain Gaffes Pile Up"
Politico, Oct. 22, 2008, "Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press"
Right now, Haley's getting the McCain treatment -- not to be confused with the Michelle Obama treatment, which lasts forever.
Republicans, you want the candidate the media fear -- and not fake-fear, like with Trump, where their hyperbolic attacks are calculated to gin up the base. (See Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo.)
Ever since he kept Florida open during Trump's COVID shutdown, DeSantis has terrified the media. How is President Senile Dementia going to debate him?
It's manifestly obvious that the one man the media do not want Biden to face is DeSantis. Please let that be your guide, Republicans.
Don’t know why you bothered to post this article. There’s so much vitriol and hatred directed toward Coulter on FR, all of the time.
Happened to hear a few minutes of Mark Levin blasting Haley and repeating his name for her: George W. Bush in a skirt.
He listed five or six bad things she supported and they sounded worse than Bush.
From a recent X post by Levin:
The real Nikki Haley has revealed herself. She won’t fight the culture wars. She won’t be tough on China (regardless of her political statements). She won’t be tough on the border (her first instinct was to invite Palestinians into the country despite all the inhumanity on the border already unleashed by Biden). And she will owe all those uni-party billionaires whose support she is soliciting and who are offering her support — and who despise the conservative base. All you need to do is look and it becomes quite obvious. And there’s a reason Romney, Rove, and a growing list of their ilk are lining up behind her, if not officially through surrogates, public comments, and in the shadows.
Ann’s TDS has made her irrelevant.
<< We shall not see anything like [an 18% point victory] again in our lifetimes, unless it’s Biden’s margin over Donald Trump next year. >>
Bitter broad has Stage 4 TDS.
Well, Ann, when you act and talk like Liz Cheney, it’s hard to call you anything else.
So, Hi, Ann Liz...
You're two cheeseburgers light, MAnnie.
Man Coulter.
Doesn’t make her wrong.
In the good not-so-old days there was an unwritten rule on FR that any post by A.C. had to be accompanied by an eye-candy worthy picture of the authoress.
Ah, those were the days!
Correct on Haley, but not yet letting go of the irrational TDS.
LOL
Well Ann, you sound as dumb as Haley, so I don’t understand what the problem is.
She’s fake, that’s why.
I can respect a different opinion, but she goes whichever way the wind is blowing.
Haley wants to keep southern border open? Or wants to allow 6 million unvetted illegals into USA? REALLY?
That’s the beauty of FR. We see the whole spectrum. In that sense, we’re no echo chamber. Valuable!
How were we to know Trump was like ABBA, just mouthing words he didn’t understand? …Way to casually insult both the man and the musical group. I would say that Agneta Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson all have better understanding of reality than she who hurls insults for no good reason, never mind a better grasp of the English language.
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