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Nikki Haley received some coveted "conservative" endorsements. And who else would endorse her? She's not conservative. She is like a human windsock who blows in whichever direction she thinks the donors are huffing and puffing. For those "conservatives" who endorsed Nikki, do these guys ever learn? There's this idea out there that somehow, we're all going to jump in the Wayback Machine and go back to 2004. I remember 2004 (because I'm old); it was a different kind of conservatism. It was still very hawkish about everything and still kind of running on fumes in a twisted version of President Ronald Reagan. I'm not into managed failure, I'm not into managed decline, but that's what the Republicans of 2004 were. Today, we're tired of this kind of soft-spine conservatism.
