Nikki isn’t the usual brand of ethics dunce, selected based upon a single episode of throbbing ethical duncery. She’s the other kind: someone who had proven that as a general proposition such core ethical values as honesty, integrity, respect and responsibility have not sufficiently settled in her cognitive process, and likely never will. She is, in a word, untrustworthy. Or, in crude terms, as I have framed the diagnosis before here, Haley is a weasel.
She has flip-flopped repeatedly regarding whether she is a Trump supporter or a Trump condemner. She purports to be a loyal Republican, but the only Republican Presidential candidate in decades who has shattered Ronald Reagan’s so-called 11th Commandment (“Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican”) more egregiously than Haley has been Donald Trump. Her ethical instincts are rotten: she was perplexed when a questioner insisted that she lay at least a portion of the blame for the Civil War on the question of slavery; she airily dismissed the principles of the First Amendment by advocating requirements for citizen use of social media. Haley can’t claim fair combat points, as she has been more uncivil than, again, any candidate since Trump. Of late she has been accomplishing nothing but bolstering the prospects of Joe Biden and the Democrats by launching attacks on Trump that could be turned into Biden ads by just changing the name on them.
She just had the audacity to crow about her sole primary victory, getting a majority of Republican votes among a pathetic showing of 2,000 in the District of Columbia. 2,000 is fewer than the population of charming Friday Harbor, Washington, which calls itself a town but is more accurately defined as a village.
Now, the former U.N. Ambassador says she no longer feels bound by a pledge made to the Republican National Committee that she would support the GOP presidential nominee. In an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Haley reversed what she had said in July, that she would support Trump if he were the nominee “because I’m not going to have a President Kamala Harris.” Even though she signed a mandatory pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee as a condition of being allowed to participate in primary debates, she told “Meet the Press” today that she would not, because “the RNC is not the same RNC”—it’s now “Trump’s” RNC.
Oh.
That is legal, ethical and logical nonsense. She signed a pledge with an organization that has the same structure and the same organizing articles now as the day she signed. Nothing has happened that permits Haley to renege on a pledge. If she were a lawyer, violating a signed pledge likethat would be grounds for suspension, even disbarment. Of course, maybe she’ll flip-flop again. That’s what she does.
Haley isn’t a lawyer, but she’s also not credible public servant. She’s hanging around the nomination race hoping Trump’s legal problems, the unethical result of the Democratic party’s totalitarian tactics to oppose him, will work.
The last GOP candidate who embraced such disgusting conduct and unethical rhetoric was…Donald Trump.
Talk about becoming the thing you most hate…
Ethics Alarms 
Queen of the swamp is an appropriate moniker.
Calling Haley “queen” of anything, even in mockery, is too respectful. She is an example for the ages of someone who, seeing an opportunity to achieve power, quickly proves in her frantic efforts to exploit the situation that she she is unfit to hold it. She’s as disgusting and disappointing as Chris Christie, which is quite an achievement.
And DC trends greater than 90% Democrat, so it’s possible that many of her votes came from Democrats, who will NOT vote for her in eight months. Haley’s win there is – as Solomon would have told her – meaningless, like trying to catch the wind.
Say what you will about The Donald, you know exactly what you’re getting, warts and all, every single time.
Republicans are so sick and tired of the Nikki Haley bait and switch, the snatch defeat from the jaws of victory trope that’s come from the party, it’s no wonder lots have thrown their lot behind Trump.
Let’s also call it being sick of the John McCain Syndrome, talk a great game until it matters, then plunge a knife in the middle of the back of the party, and twist it.
If Sinema is anywhere close, this life long Republican in Arizona who disagrees with most of what she stands for is incredibly likely to cast my ballot for her. I know that when it really matters, she has integrity. Kari Lake feels an awful lot like McCain, whom I can’t stand as much as he felt that way about Trump.
Love him or hate him, Trump does what he says he’s going to do.
Speaking of candidates, SCOTUS just ruled on the Trump/Colorado ballot issue. I went to the SCOTUS and scanned the opinion. It appears to be a 9-0 vote against Colorado, but I was hoping someone would confirm/revise that.
Nikki Haley is just a corporate shill. She says what she is paid to say and she does what she is paid to do. She has really dumb sponsors. Citibank, now they knew how to work a corporate shill of a politician into something people could believe.