I didn't know much about Kristi Noem, who has been touted as a possible VP pick for Donald Trump's 2024 presidential run. Then I watched a video of her speaking (at CPAC, I think), and I was pretty impressed by her articulateness, her priorities, and what seemed to be her values. I began to see her as a plausible choice: if we couldn't have someone like Vivek Ramaswamy or Kari Lake, we could at least have Kristi Noem.
Her memoir is about to come out, and previewers have pointed out that there's a passage in it in which she describes shooting both a dog and a goat twenty years earlier. I discussed the dog in an earlier post, and while the passage caused a stir among liberals and even some dog-loving conservatives, many on the right saw this as something Noem could fight through. Then again, others said that, even if the incident itself wasn't a problem, the incident's optics would make Noem into kryptonite for the Trump campaign: she'd be a liability as a VP.
In the end, though, it's not the animal-shooting that will have done Kristi Noem in. Her memoirs apparently also include some outright lies:
Lol. Yikes pic.twitter.com/xLGKzfWbxn
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 5, 2024
The leftie media are all over this and having a field day, and from where I stand, Noem is, as you see above, lying through her teeth and squirming around as she's confronted with one of several of her book's untruths, which she tries to spin as a mistake while avoiding the simple yes/no question of whether she ever really met Kim Jong-un.*
At this point, I think it's safe to say that Kristi Noem is indeed toast. I've certainly lost whatever tentative respect I'd held for her. From what I can see, there's no way Trump will ever pick her as a running mate now, and it seems Noem's longtime critics may have been right about her: she's a fake.** I think the leftie media did its job and dug until it found something truly damning, and I don't resent them for doing this. What I do resent, though is how those same media go soft and handle dirty Democrat candidates with kid gloves. If only the media worked just as hard to bring down bad Democrats.
All my posts mentioning Kristi Noem are here in reverse chronological order.
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*What's really galling is that the quoted passage in her book says she's good at handling "little tyrants" because she'd been a youth pastor. Are youth pastors usually serial liars?
**That's her character, but she's apparently been a very good governor for South Dakota. As is often the case with politicians, character is a separate issue from competence. (Hell, maybe that's a good reason for Trump to pick her for VP, anyway!)
3 comments:
I agree the lies are more concerning than the dog kill. And I no longer think she is a viable VP option. That said, it is certainly telling how the leftist media focuses on her lies while ignoring the daily lies of Biden, which are every bit as blatant as Noem's tall tales.
She took an untrained dog into the wild/public, it failed to be an angel, so she killed it.
She finds other people’s kids (boys) to be a nuisance, and equivalent to Despotic National Leaders.
She seems like the Karen-equivalent to Martin Sheen’s would-be president in the movie version of Stephen King’s “The Dead Zone”.
Andy-in-Japan
Andy,
From what I'm hearing, the dog was killing the neighbors' chickens and biting people, including Noem herself. It was utterly untrainable, and so had to be put down. I'm fairly sympathetic to Noem on this score, and as alt-media commentators have said, even in the cities, if a dog is constantly attacking neighbors, chances are that it gets put down.
Thank you for not saying it was a "puppy," by the way, which is what many in the media are saying. At 14 months, it's a full-grown dog.
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