Republican primary candidate Nikki Haley came all the way up from South Carolina to sell transphobic bigotry to New Hampshire, but New Hampshire isn’t buying.
Haley spoke today at Saint Anselm College – which is normally the Jerry Falwell University of the north – but the particular event she spoke at was Politics and Eggs. David Weigel described the program as a “nonpartisan breakfast speech/Q&A series – a polite crowed of businessmen and nonprofit people, not a GOP base crowd.”
So it fell flat when she tried to throw some red meat from the culture war to what turned out to be a more broad-minded audience than she expected. After warming up with a standard racist attack against “Critical Race Theory” (so six months ago) she decided to pitch her brand of malicious transphobia.
"Everybody know about Dylan Mulvaney? Bud Light? That is a guy, dressed as a girl, making fun of women." she said.
Haley was referring to the recent stupid thing in which very online conservatives have been declaring themselves to be deeply upset that a Bud Light bottle featuring a rainbow on the label was shared with a trans woman for promotional purposes.
I’ve been telling conservatives that Bud Light tastes like malted sadness for years - if you are a beer drinker there are a million better options out there. But turns out conservatives don’t mind the taste at all - its tolerance and understanding they cannot abide.
Nevertheless, what plays well in South Carolina is less enticing in New Hampshire.
“Crickets from the crowd at Saint A’s” was how Jake Lahut described the response, “where we have a lot of suits and ties, a lot of business associations, not a lot of Fox News viewers apparently.”
Ha ha!