Nikki Haley confuses name of basketball
star with CNN anchor in Iowa - after being
slammed for refusing to name slavery as
primary cause of Civil War in New Hampshire

Nikki appears to be dumber than AOC and a pile of rocks. Next, she will be eating a pizza with a fork ala John Kasich.

There were a number of causes for the American Civil War, and slavery was a major one, but in regard to the economics of slavery. The war was not fought for the sole purpose of freeing the slaves. The industrial North exploited the agrarian South.

She wouldn't be a bad president because of some minor verbal gaffe. I don't care if she mixes up 2 celebrity's names. It is because she's a neocon RINO.

NIikki is clearly not ready for prime time.

Nikki is the Republican Kamala. Sleeps around for career advancement. In addition to being a Bushie neocon uniparty.

This is an example of pandering at its finest...signaling to the crowd "hey I'm one of you" a la the current Resident. A few days ago, she was campaigning in a town in NH known for its multiple ski resorts. She felt compelled to wear a sweater with the word "ski" in huge letters on the front...again, "hey I'm one of you" ("even though I'm from South Carolina but try to ignore that"). So I'm not impressed...a candidate for the highest office in the land is expected to do better, and voters deserve more respect.

Somebody on her staff is going to get spanked for this. They were tasked to dig up some local "stories" as someone didn't tackle do diligence. That's how gaffes like this are created,

Nikki Haley is right. The Civil War was fought because of the North inflicting its will on the South with bailiffs protecting the northern manufacturers. Slavery was disappearing in the South as industrialization was being adapted and farming was using the technology. Since the paper that printed this is British, perhaps they should do some more reading on the history of this country before trashing Nikki.

Why is what caused the Civil War an issue when the war ended over a 150 years ago? This was a typical gotcha question from a leftist media person designed to create a controversy where none existed. Haley's best response would have been to ask the reporter why they were asking the question and comment on the current economic problems caused by the demosluts.

The quicker we are rid of this bimbo the better.

She's not ready for the big stage just like RdS

Niki New Tax is really hitting her stride!

I heard her backpedaling on the slavery question on a talking heads show a day or two ago. I was humiliated for her. She would have been better off saying nothing at all. Pandering to grievance groups is not a good look.

I have no stomach for backstabbers. That goes for my personal relationships, as well as work and politics. They cannot be trusted, and any kindness and fairness shown to them means nothing. This woman is loathsome, and the sooner she is cast to the curb the happier I'll be.

Nikki seems to be a Cue Card Expert but has NO CLUE what she is saying.

Come on this is stupid, she knows the difference between Caitlin and Kaitlan and what the civil war was about. The left is really afraid if her and out to bring her down for some reason, guess they think their illegal tricks may be able to stop Trump. Try any of these issues on old Joe and and you'll get a made up story if you can even understand what he says.

I would never mix up the names of basketball players or CNN personalities because I don't know or want to know any of them. The cause of the uncivil so-called Civil War is as irrelevant to our current problems as the cause of the Peloponnesian War. The only knock on Nikki is she said she was inspired to enter politics by Hillary, Satan's Prom Date. Either she was pandering to the left wing media or she has s screw loose.

Slavery had been "solved", at least temporarily, by the 1850 Compromise, as series of laws which defused the issue largely, well before the Civil War. State's rights were being trampled totally by Northern merchant and manufacturing states getting high tariffs on imported goods. This meant that a southerner who needed something that was manufactured in both Europe and more expensively in the northern states couldn't buy the cheaper imported item, but had to subsidize the northern manufacturing states which were trying to stomp on the southern states in other ways, telling them how to live and act. The proximate cause was economic, with a LOT of bad will from the slavery issue. I do not support the use of slaves by the south, but I also am very clear that the north was using tariffs and their manufacturing capabilities to hammer the south in many ways. The south had much fewer of the fast flowing and large volume rivers with substantial elevation change needed to power mills, as almost all mills were water powered in those days. The relatively flatter southern states were not good for water power and this made mills harder to locate, and much fewer. History is complex, has many variables, and inevitably, lazy, dim minds want to "boil it down" to some simplified "cause".....which is is generally partially true, but also more largely at least "incomplete", up to essentially false. Slavery was a major contributing and underlying problem. But it wasn't the leading problem. And if it was so serious, so fundamental, why didn't Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation until two years into the war?

Replies like #18's is why I hang out at this news forum. Some LDotters are among the world's greatest teachers. I, too, love reading history, learning things. More Americans should become educated on the history of this great Republic.

Yep, excellent Post by #18. Speaking of knowledge of history, I miss Ldot Hall of Famer, CaptMarineTet68. Excuse me if I misspelled his username.

They knew she had spent time in the South and had learned it's history. So they asked her the question purposely to box her into a corner. We know(and NH knows) that it was actually a very small number of people who owned slaves. Most people were very poor and picked their own cotton. All my ancestors did. The North kept manipulating cotton prices. And kept the poor so poor they couldn't afford shoes. Then when England offered more money for cotton than the North had been paying the South jumped on it. But immediately the federal government imposed tariffs on exporting cotton and the poor Southern farmers were right back to where they had been. And they were done with the union. In short, those poor farmers didn't go to war to keep the right to eventually own slaves if by some miracle they got rich enough to buy one, they went to war to eventually be able to buy shoes.

I don't know about slavery, but I did read somewhere that the reason for the civil war wasn't slavery but the the North was strangling the South economically.

Not making mistakes means you are not doing anything. That sums up the Haley recently mistakes.