Thread: Nikki Haley Confirms She Targeted Donald Trump In SOTU Response; GOP Leaders Approved

Nikki Haley Confirms She Targeted Donald Trump In SOTU Response; GOP Leaders Approved

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by JOHN NOLTE
13 Jan 2016

Nikki Haley, the South Carolina governor hand-picked by House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to give the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union addressed, confirmed Wednesday morning that she did indeed target GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and that the speech was approved in advance by Republican leaders.Probably because Chris Cuomo isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, Don Lemon was rousted out of bed early to interview Haley on CNN’s “New Day.” Haley not only confirmed she was targeting Trump, she seemed to compare him to the rioters in Ferguson and Baltimore.

LEMON: I think I want to start with that soundbite. You said the ‘loudest voices in the room.’ Was that comment directed at Donald Trump?

HALEY: Partially him, but a lot of people. You know, a lot of what I was talking about is that we’ve seen across our country — if you look at Ferguson and Baltimore we are seeing that people have to be loud, they have to be angry to have their voices heard.

Haley want on to say that, “I’m very thankful Speaker Ryan and Senator McConnell let me give the speech I wanted to give.” When asked if the GOP leaders approved of her text in advance, she confirmed, “They did.”

On NBC’s “Today Show,” Haley told Matt Lauer, “Mr. Trump has definitely contributed to what I think is just irresponsible talk.”

Haley enjoyed a nice round of love of love from both NBC and CNN.

If Haley wants to endorse a GOP presidential candidate, hit the stump for that candidate, and rip into Donald Trump, no one is going to begrudge her that. But to use the State of the Union response to publicly attack her own frontrunner must be unprecedented, and certainly serves as more proof to Trump’s supporters that the Republican Establishment is much more interested in DC Media love than winning elections and advancing their legislative agenda.

The eyes of the entire country were on Haley Tuesday night, and rather than use that time to make a case against the Democrats, Haley squandered it by attacking the frontrunner, which is all anyone is talking about tonight.

Haley’s unconscionably selfish behavior reminds me of Chris Christie’s keynote address for Mitt Romney at the 2012 convention. Rather than make the case for Romney or against Obama, he used the opportunity to puff himself up.
The GOP Establishment has lost the popular vote in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections.

For the good of the country, this suicidal Republican Establishment temple must come down and be ground into dust.

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Trump looms behind both Obama and Haley speeches
Reuters By James Oliphant
10 hours ago

By James Oliphant

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump was not in the room during U.S. President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union speech, but the Republican presidential front-runner was a looming presence nonetheless.

Both Obama’s speech on Tuesday and, for that matter, the Republican response by South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, took pains to rebuke Trump, the real estate billionaire whose red-hot rhetoric has endeared him to some and dismayed others in the campaign for the Nov. 8 presidential election.

Obama and Haley, although from different parties, offered a defense of establishment politics, a plea for optimism and a quest for common ground.

Obama seemed to refer specifically to Trump’s call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration following a deadly shooting attack last month in San Bernardino, California, by a couple authorities said had been radicalized.

“We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness," Obama said.

Trump has mounted much of his insurgent candidacy on the notion of America losing ground, both economically and in terms of global influence. Obama rejected that idea outright.

“It’s easier to be cynical,” Obama said, “to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter."

Soon after Obama concluded his remarks in the chamber of the House of Representatives, Trump tweeted: "The State of the Union speech was one of the most boring, rambling and non-substantive I have heard in a long time."

While consistently criticizing Obama’s record, Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants and a potential Republican vice presidential choice, also seemed to indict Trump's message.

“Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference,” she said. “That is just not true. Often, the best thing we can do is turn down the volume. When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying. And that can make a world of difference."

Like Obama, Haley did not mention Trump by name during her address but she criticized him in an interview on NBC's "Today show" on Wednesday while calling on the Republican Party to be more inclusive.

"Mr. Trump has definitely contributed to what I think is just irresponsible talk," she said.

Trump responded shortly afterward by telling Fox News that Haley has been "very weak on illegal immigration" for a long time.

Paul Sracic, chairman of the politics department at Youngstown State University in Ohio, said Trump was dominating "our political discourse in a way that no one would have predicted even a year ago."

"Donald Trump must be smiling tonight," he said, pointing out that the candidate managed to make himself the target of not just the State of the Union address, but also the Republican response.

The White House gave Haley credit for defending "American values" in her speech. "She was willing to do something that a lot of other Republicans - leading Republicans - have been unwilling to do," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Wednesday.

But he stressed that the administration disagrees with many of Haley’s positions.

Obama flew on Wednesday to Nebraska, a Republican "red state," to promote the big-picture ideas he laid out in his speech.

CRUZ WEIGHS IN

On Tuesday night, Obama also appeared to single out conservative Texas Senator Ted Cruz, the top challenger to Trump in the Republican race. Cruz has called for a massive bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria to wipe out Islamic State forces.

Meeting the threat of Islamic State, Obama said, “needs to be more than tough talk or calls to carpet-bomb civilians.”

Democratic strategist Brad Bannon said Obama “made the argument very well that leadership is not bombing the crap out of someone.”

Cruz quickly countered in a statement. Obama, he said, “lectures us on civility yet he has been one of the most divisive presidents in American history.”

Both Trump and Cruz, who are topping opinion polls weeks before the early nomination contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, have pledged to push the Republican Party in a more confrontational direction, and seek to undo much of what Obama has accomplished as president.

Both candidates are likely in coming days to hammer the Obama administration on its approach to Islamic State.

Obama’s defense of pragmatic politics may also help his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, who is trying to stave off a challenge from self-described democratic socialist Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential contest, said Bannon.

“He’s taking about holding up the establishment,” he said. “When the president makes a good case, it helps Hillary more than Bernie.”

But John Geer, an expert on voter opinion at Vanderbilt University, thought Obama, in his bid for unity, damaged Clinton’s prospects by not making a stronger case for continuing the Democratic agenda. “He didn’t put forward an argument why there should be another Democrat for four years,” Geer said. “I think she would have liked to see that.”

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Instead of listing the countless acts of tyranny which Obama has engaged in, the latest one is giving aid and comfort to ten more enemies of the United States by releasing them from GITMO, Tricky Nikki chose to reprimand those who are expressing their outrage at a President and Administration which is intentionally weakening and destroying America from within.


I wonder if Tricky Nikki would publically reprimand THIS GENTLEMEN for being loud and expressing his outrage over Obama.


JWK


Here is a VERY, VERY LONG LIST of Obama’s evil and outrageous doings!

Originally Posted by johnwk

Instead of listing the countless acts of tyranny which Obama has engaged in, the latest one is giving aid and comfort to ten more enemies of the United States by releasing them from GITMO, Tricky Nikki chose to reprimand those who are expressing their outrage at a President and Administration which is intentionally weakening and destroying America from within.


I wonder if Tricky Nikki would publically reprimand THIS GENTLEMEN for being loud and expressing his outrage over Obama.


JWK


Here is a VERY, VERY LONG LIST of Obama’s evil and outrageous doings!

Johnwk, you need to start a thread with that video and ask Jean or Newmexican to help you post the video inside the post so people can click on it. That is a fabulous video that tells the absolute truth about this immigration nightmare and what's happening to black Americans as a result of both illegal immigration and excess legal immigration.

Here is a VERY, VERY LONG LIST of Obama’s evil and outrageous doings!

This is complete article in a new thread instead of a link.

http://www.alipac.us/f9/president-ba...ted%5D-327411/


The video as a thread.
http://www.alipac.us/f9/chicago-resi...0/#post1487536

Originally Posted by Judy

Johnwk, you need to start a thread with that video and ask Jean or Newmexican to help you post the video inside the post so people can click on it. That is a fabulous video that tells the absolute truth about this immigration nightmare and what's happening to black Americans as a result of both illegal immigration and excess legal immigration.

Let’s not forget the scolding words directed at Obama from Bernadette Lancelin [CLICK HERE]


JWK

Originally Posted by johnwk

Let’s not forget the scolding words directed at Obama from Bernadette Lancelin [CLICK HERE]


JWK

Good for her!!! Tell it like it is!!

I loved the one where they're talking to the Latino reporters who asked a white guy "are you racist" because they want the illegal aliens out of the country and blacks stepped up to defend him and then called her racist for even asking the question. Then asks her "are you here legally?"