Hang In There, Haley!

​       Last Tuesday night when the news came in that Nikki Haley had lost the New Hampshire Republican primary election to Donald Trump, I was hit with a considerable case of the blues.

   True, the polls had predicted that Haley was going to be trounced royally by Trump in New Hampshire:​

    Still, as I listened to the election returns on Tuesday night hope, that thing with feathers, was singing its tune in my soul where it stayed perched right up until 15% of the vote was in and Trump was already so far ahead of Haley that the election was called for him on the spot. ​

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          I had really been wishing, hoping, praying and rooting  for Nikki Haley to win the New Hampshire primary and was mighty down when she didn't. And I don't even like Nikki Haley.
          I don't like her policies on climate change, education, health care, immigration, you name it, I probably don't like it. And her promise if elected  to pardon Donald Trump of his numerous federal charges makes me want to lose my oatmeal.

       And even though I'm a Biden supporter (yeah, yeah, he's 81 years old, I know  already) and even though I believe that if Nikki Haley became the Republican Presidential candidate she'd have the chops to beat Biden in the election, I still hope she becomes the Republican candidate
         Because I don't believe there's any danger that President Nikki Haley would destroy our democracy and turn it into her own personal dictatorship. But because there's every danger that President Donald Trump will do just that - he's all but promised to - I, for one, don't want him anywhere near a Presidential race. He could beat Biden. But even if he were to lose to Biden it's a given that, once again, he'll declare the election stolen and have his followers spring into action in an attempt to overturn the election results just as he had them do after the last election. Who's to say this time they wouldn't succeed?
          So I'm hoping against hope, and against the polls, that somehow Nikki Haley will hang on, come racing up from behind at the next turn, beat Donald Trump at the finish line and become the Republican Presidential candidate. Even if it means sacrificing Joe Biden and putting up with Nikki Haley for the next four or even eight years. Because at the end of those eight years we'll still live in a democracy ruled by law where our votes count and our elections are secure.
​                 You understand, don't you, Joe?