Nikki Haley’s Sin Isn’t Racism

While you and I were enjoying a sleepy, pleasantly aimless post-Christmas decompression period, some people out there apparently couldn’t leave well enough alone, and continue to labor under the delusion that they are running for the Republican nomination for president of the United States. This explains why, instead of enjoying holiday leftovers in the quiet of her own home, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley was out there on the campaign trail yesterday in Berlin, N.H., casually holing her insurgent campaign’s entire raison d’etre below the waterline with the sort of gaffe that would matter more in an actually competitive race. I could ignore it, but hey: This is what she gets for not taking the end of the year off, like decent folk should.