Michael Smerconish: Doggonit Kristi Noem

Source:Michael Smerconish talking about Governor Kristie Noem's "dog day afternoon".

"Dog Day Afternoon #pets #dog #news" 

From Michael Smerconish 

The Kristie Noem story about her dog, is similar to Senator Katie Britt's State of the Union response back in March. And this is what I wrote about that about 6 weeks ago: 

"Now having said on that, either Senator Britt got some really, horrible advice, but she took it anyway, or she’s simply not ready for prime time. Donald Trump and the rest of the MAGA wing of what’s left of the Republican Party, is getting buried by Democrats when it comes to female voters. As much as MAGA wants people to think it’s still the 1950s, or they want to take us back there, the average American woman today works out of the home." 

From The New Democrat 

I have my alternative theory to why Governor Kristi Noem personally leaked this doggone (pun intended) story about herself. But I'll give you the conventional "wisdom" first. 

What Michael Smerconish and company seem to believe is that Governor Noem was simply trying to get ahead of this story. Perhaps a South Dakota political reporter was about to release this story about her and maybe that reporter could back it up as well. 

Another conventional theory about this story, is that Governor Noem wants to be Donald Trump's vice presidential nominee so badly, that she believes the only way to do that, is to go all in with MAGA and look like the biggest badass (or whatever the MAGA term is) to the point that she wants people to believe that she'll murder her own animals, to protect her property. Even if they're a lot more humane ways to dealing with difficult animals, especially your own pets. 

When Senator Katie Britt gave her response to President Biden's SOTU back in March, one of the commentators from the center-right The Bulwark podcast, Jonathan V. Last, had an interesting theory for why Senator Britt bombed so badly. He said he thought it was intentional on her part because she doesn't want to be Donald Trump's VP nominee. But she's from Alabama, which is like a state capital in Redneckistan, the heart of the MAGA movement and she doesn't want the MAGA followers to know that. 

My theory for why Kristi Noem decided to do this, is she's a much smarter politician than she seems to want anyone whose not inside of her South Dakota circle to know. I think she believes that Donald Trump is a loser, whose going down, because he's going to lose overwhelmingly with women. And even lose too many Republicans with all his legal baggage, including the fact he could be a two-time convicted felon before election day in November and that will make it too hard for him to beat President Biden in November. And she doesn't want to be part of that electoral catastrophe. And she sure as hell doesn't want to get blamed for it. But that's my theory. 

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