We are 7 months away from a Presidential election.\u00a0 It looks like our choices will be Trump and Biden.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 Bleh.\u00a0 Grandpa Sleepy vs. Grandpa Felon.\u00a0 What a time to be alive.<\/p>\n
For reasons unknown, Nicki Haley is still technically in the race on the Republican side.\u00a0 She hasn’t won a state yet, not even her home state of South Carolina.\u00a0 Barring Trump actually being behind bars- and maybe not even then – I don’t see Haley being the nominee.<\/p>\n
But I do find her interesting.\u00a0 And even more shocking, there are some things she’s said that I actually agree with!<\/p>\n
I agree with her 100% that we need term limits and age limits for Congress.\u00a0 Here in Iowa we have Chuck Grassley.\u00a0 \u00a0He is 90 years ago and has been in the Senate since 1981.\u00a0 That is WAY too long.\u00a0 The average age of the Senate is 64.\u00a0 The average age of Americans?\u00a0 38.\u00a0 How is this representation of the people?\u00a0 It’s representation of our grandparents.\u00a0 Think about how out of touch they are on, well, just about everything.\u00a0 \u00a0We need new blood to address the challenges of today, not the challenges from 40 years ago.<\/p>\n
Haley is in favor of supporting the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.\u00a0 She understands that if Putin won’t stop if the world just decides to give him Ukraine.\u00a0 He has been very vocal about putting the old USSR back together.\u00a0 No one in any nation on Earth should want that.<\/p>\n
Haley supports limiting Medicare for very wealthy retirees.\u00a0 I’ve always wondered why millionaires need Medicare.\u00a0 It seems like a waste of money to me.<\/p>\n
Of course, Haley has said a lot of things I don’t agree with either.\u00a0 \u00a0Most notably her position on women’s reproductive rights- although she IS more reasonable than many other Republicans on that topic- and her comments that America “has never been racist”.\u00a0 How someone from South Carolina- the first state to secede from the Union because they wanted to keep black people as slaves- can say that is beyond me.\u00a0 It also directly contracts her own accounts of being bullied as a child for being Sikh and having an ethnic name.<\/p>\n
I am choosing to see the positive here.\u00a0 Here is someone “across the aisle’ from me in many ways with whom I can see clear common ground.\u00a0 \u00a0I choose to be hopeful this won’t be the last time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are 7 months away from a Presidential election.\u00a0 It looks like our choices will be Trump and Biden.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 Bleh.\u00a0 Grandpa Sleepy vs. Grandpa Felon.\u00a0 What a time to be alive. For reasons unknown, Nicki Haley is still technically in the race on the Republican side.\u00a0 She hasn’t won a state yet, not even her home state of South… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t