{"id":56670,"date":"2024-03-03T14:33:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T14:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56670"},"modified":"2024-03-03T14:33:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T14:33:43","slug":"pledge-what-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56670","title":{"rendered":"Pledge? What pledge?"},"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>Nikki Haley is now hinting that the &#8220;pledge&#8221; she made earlier in the Republican Party presidential primary to support the eventual nominee isn&#8217;t really, well, worth honoring.<\/p>\n<p>Haley was one of a gaggle of GOP candidates to make the pledge to endorse and presumably campaign for the nominee. Well, the nominee now appears to be the ex-POTUS, the guy who was impeached twice and who is indicted and awaiting trial on four felony allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Not so fast, said the former South Carolina governor and former U.N. ambassador. After all, she didn&#8217;t sign a legal document. There&#8217;s nothing on paper that binds her to some bogus promise to back the party nominee.<\/p>\n<p>If she chooses to back away from the pledge, well, I cannot really blame her. Not that I care one damn bit whether she keeps the pledge or chooses to back someone else.<\/p>\n<p>The nominee in waiting is damaged goods to be sure. I get that he leads President Biden in most of the public opinion surveys we see. However, as they say, a week is a lifetime in politics.<\/p>\n<p>This is one weird political season for certain. The idea that a once-great political party could nominate a potential convicted felon for the presidency is something I never would have imagined even two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>I am still going to hold on with both hands as we travel the rest of this electoral journey.<\/p>\n<p>As for Nikki Haley &#8230; you do what you must.<\/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>Nikki Haley is now hinting that the &#8220;pledge&#8221; she made earlier in the Republican Party presidential primary to support the eventual nominee isn&#8217;t really, well, worth honoring. Haley was one of a gaggle of GOP candidates to make the pledge to endorse and presumably campaign for the nominee. Well, the nominee now appears to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56670\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pledge? What pledge?<\/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":[1941,7419,3313],"class_list":["post-56670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-gop","tag-maga","tag-nikki-haley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56670","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=56670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56671,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56670\/revisions\/56671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}