The Q&Q For 1/26/24

This week’s quote comes to us from Donald Trump’s last standing challenger for the Republican nomination, former UN Ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. In a new video ad her campaign asks:

“Don’t you want someone who can win?”

1. In recent polls, Haley is:

A) About 17 points ahead of Joe Biden.

B) About seven points ahead of Biden.

C) Almost even with Biden.

D) Losing to Biden by three points, but within the margin of error.

2. In answer to the question, ‘don’t you want to win?’, Trump voters respond:

A) No, we want to be pissed off.

B) We already won in November. We won by a lot.

C) If we wanted to win do you really think we’d be nominating this guy?

D) We will crush the vermin Marxists who pollute pure American blood.

3. In Trump’s Republican Party Haley is unqualified to be the nominee because:

A) She can’t even get herself indicted on one charge.

B) While she may correctly ignore slavery as a cause of the Civil War, she falsely claims that Frederick Douglas is dead.

C) She removed the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse.

D) She’s the kind of person who might have served in the military and been wounded or spent time in a POW camp instead of being smart enough to get a deferment for a sore foot.

4. Biden and most Democratic strategists actually want Haley to lose to Trump because they think Trump is easier to beat. The correct response to that way of thinking is:

A) Be careful what you wish for.

B) You’d really rather gamble the whole country on a second Trump term then face a conservative, but sane, opponent who you might have to actually debate in the realm of ideas?

C) Weren’t we delighted that Trump was the nominee in 2016? Didn’t he lose the Electoral College in 2020 by all of about 44,000 votes spread out in three states?

D) See Hitler, Adolf, 1932.

5. In Haley’s home state of South Carolina, which holds its primary on February 24th, the polls are showing:

A) Haley with a five point lead.

B) A neck and neck race.

C) Trump with a 10 point lead.

D) Trump with a 30 point lead.

6. Haley’s chances of securing the nomination are about the same as:

A) Joe Barry’s chances were of keeping his job with the Packers.

B) The Detroit Pistons’ chances of winning the NBA championship this year.

C) Mike Pence’s chances of being selected as Trump’s running mate.

D) The chances that the Chicago Bears will ever have a series of quarterbacks like Favre-Rodgers-Love or even one of those, for that matter.

Answers

1: A

2: All answers are correct.

3: All answers are correct.

4: All answers are correct.

5: D

6: All answers are correct.

That’s it for this week. Happy birthday to Bob Uecker, who turns 89 today and shows no signs of slowing down. See you back in these parts on Monday. Have a nice weekend.