Nikki Haley’s 5-Inch Heels
null By Kimberley A. StrasselNov. 9, 2023 6:04 pm ETReview and Outlook: In the third Republican presidential debate on Nov. 8, 2023, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, Tim Scott and Vivek Ramaswamy revealed the emerging GOP fault line on foreign policy. Images: Getty Images/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyRare is the primary debater who lands a true zinger, and wiser participants know the risk of attempting a lame or canned dig. Then there’s Vivek Ramaswamy. Nikki Haley might thank the political naïf for helping highlight the extent to which she’s indeed running in those 5-inch heels—and leaving stiletto marks on a few competitors along the way.Mr. Ramaswamy tried mightily in Wednesday’s GOP debate to pass off his clearly preplanned slur of Ms. Haley as “Dick Cheney in 3-inch heels” as a passing quip—and bombed enough to elicit a collective audience groan. It mainly served to provide the former South Carolina governor another opportunity to draw distinctions between her own musc
Nov. 9, 2023 6:04 pm ET
Rare is the primary debater who lands a true zinger, and wiser participants know the risk of attempting a lame or canned dig. Then there’s Vivek Ramaswamy. Nikki Haley might thank the political naïf for helping highlight the extent to which she’s indeed running in those 5-inch heels—and leaving stiletto marks on a few competitors along the way.
Mr. Ramaswamy tried mightily in Wednesday’s GOP debate to pass off his clearly preplanned slur of Ms. Haley as “Dick Cheney in 3-inch heels” as a passing quip—and bombed enough to elicit a collective audience groan. It mainly served to provide the former South Carolina governor another opportunity to draw distinctions between her own muscular foreign policy and her opponents’ bobs and weaves. Leadership is becoming the central theme of the Haley campaign, and that helps explain her marked rise in national and state polls.
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Kimberley Strassel is a member of the editorial board for The Wall Street Journal. She writes editorials, as well as the weekly Potomac Watch political column, from her base in Alaska.
Ms. Strassel joined Dow Jones & Co. in 1994, working in the news department of The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels, and then in London. She moved to New York in 1999 and soon thereafter joined the Journal's editorial page, working as a features editor, and then as an editorial writer. She assumed her current position in 2005.
Ms. Strassel, a 2014 Bradley Prize recipient, is a regular contributor to Sunday political shows, including CBS's "Face the Nation," Fox News Sunday, and NBC's "Meet the Press." She is the author of "The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech," which chronicles recent attacks on conservative nonprofits, businesses and donors.
An Oregon native, Ms. Strassel earned a bachelor's degree in Public Policy and International Affairs from Princeton University. She lives in Alaska with her three children.
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