{"id":12364,"date":"2016-01-13T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12364"},"modified":"2016-01-13T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T14:46:08","slug":"you-go-gov-haley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12364","title":{"rendered":"You go, Gov. Haley!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160112-nikki-haley-rd-1240a_8b761c93c15a723b6244a57473578e61.nbcnews-ux-600-480.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12366\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12366\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160112-nikki-haley-rd-1240a_8b761c93c15a723b6244a57473578e61.nbcnews-ux-600-480-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"160112-nikki-haley-rd-1240a_8b761c93c15a723b6244a57473578e61.nbcnews-ux-600-480\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160112-nikki-haley-rd-1240a_8b761c93c15a723b6244a57473578e61.nbcnews-ux-600-480-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/160112-nikki-haley-rd-1240a_8b761c93c15a723b6244a57473578e61.nbcnews-ux-600-480.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If I were inclined to\u00a0form a political fan club, I think I&#8217;d start with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican governor delivered a response to President Obama&#8217;s State of the Union speech last night that &#8212; get ready for it &#8212; was <em>not<\/em> filled with the rancor we&#8217;ve heard from so many of the president&#8217;s critics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/haley-defends-sotu-attack-irresponsible-trump-n495591?cid=sm_fb\">Haley hits the right note<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is it any surprise, then, that the sharpest criticism of her speech came from conservatives within her party?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no. She saved her sharpest barbs for one of her political brethren, GOP presidential campaign frontrunner Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Haley cautioned against listening to the &#8220;angriest voices&#8221; who rail against immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of Indian immigrants talked of how the nation was built by people just like her parents.<\/p>\n<p>She showed herself to be an impressive politician who &#8212; were I inclined to advise Republican presidential candidates &#8212; should be considered a top-drawer vice-presidential possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Except, of course, if the GOP presidential nominee is Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I were inclined to\u00a0form a political fan club, I think I&#8217;d start with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. The Republican governor delivered a response to President Obama&#8217;s State of the Union speech last night that &#8212; get ready for it &#8212; was not filled with the rancor we&#8217;ve heard from so many of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12364\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You go, Gov. Haley!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[540,1424,2245,3313,4314],"class_list":["post-12364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-nikki-haley","tag-sotu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12367,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364\/revisions\/12367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}