Nikki Haley Said What?

Some quotes from Nikki Haley:

• "As a voter, I put my priorities on a president who's going to have the backs of our allies and hold our enemies to account."
• (I want) "a president who supports capitalism and freedom - a president who understands we need less debt, not more debt."
• "President Trump has surrounded himself with the political elite, but they're the same political elite that have spent like drunken sailors. They've raided Social Security, and continue to waste taxpayer dollars. Everybody talks about the economy when Trump was president - he put us 8 trillion in debt in just 4 years.
• "If you mock the service of a combat veteran, you don't deserve a driver's license, let alone being President of the United States."
• "We can't have someone who sits there and mocks our men and women who're trying to protect America."
• "He was completely wrong because every time he was in the room with him (Putin), he got weak in the knees.We can't have a president who gets weak in the knees with Putin. We have to have a president who's going to be strong with Putin in every sense of the word."
• "He sided with a thug that arrests American journalists and holds them hostage. And he sided with a guy who wanted to make a point with the Russian people - don't challenge me in the next election, or this will happen to you too."
• "It is unconscionable to me to have a candidate who would spend 50 million in legal fees. It explains why he's not doing many rallies - he doesn't have the money to do it. It explains why he doesn't want to get on a debate stage - because he doesn't want to talk about why he's doing it."
• "I don't know if he waited too long, but I'll tell you, Donald Trump is everything we hear and teach our kids not to do in kindergarten."
• "That means Donald Trump is going to side with a thug, where half a million people have died or been wounded because of Russia invading Ukraine. That means Donald Trump is going to side with a mad man."

Also Nikki Haley:

"Meh - fuck all that - I'm gonna vote for Trump."

Just Make Shit Up

Now that Trump is playing the other side of his Unpredictability Game, the apologists have been widely deployed to explain that everything Mr Un-PC-I-Tell-It-Like-It-Is said during the Scampaign® was really just election-year rhetoric and metaphorical language - he didn't really mean any of it to be taken literally. C'mon.

When Newt Was Bullish On The Individual Mandate

Where did this Gingrich go? Well, he had to hide because the rubes who're running the GOP now drank the KoolAid that he insisted they drink on a constant basis thru the 90's. And he knows he doesn't stand a chance if he doesn't completely abandon even the appearance of the kind of rationality he used to talk about. He doesn't even try to sound reasonable any more - the rubes won't let him. (hat tip - Little Green Footballs)