Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump, left, shakes arms with South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem at a March marketing campaign rally in Vandalia, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)
An old newspaper aphorism has it that it’s only information when a person bites canine, not when a canine bites a person.
However, there are exceptions.
And certainly one of them issues conservative Republican Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, who lately noticed her vice-presidential goals explode.
It occurred after it was revealed that she shot her “untrainable” and “aggressive” searching canine Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer.
She shot him in a gravel pit after Cricket failed as a searching canine, although the canine had “the time of her life” chasing birds. The canine then attacked and killed a neighbor’s chickens.
Apparently, there are not any veterinarians in South Dakota to euthanize dogs.
Now, the useless canine has come again to chew Noem, so to talk.
Noem blew her probabilities of changing into Donald Trump’s operating mate so badly that Cricket would stand a greater likelihood.
In an obvious try to indicate the world — and Trump — that she may make robust selections, Noem wrote about it in her just-released e-book with the overlong title, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.”
Noem will not be going again, however she definitely is just not going ahead, not after writing about taking pictures Cricket after which taking pictures a “nasty and mean” goat in the identical gravel pit, in addition to a number of horses that needed to be put down on her household farm.
In reality, after dragging the goat to the gravel pit, she needed to shoot it twice after the goat survived the primary spherical.
Trump, who has sufficient baggage of his personal, definitely doesn’t want any extra, like having canine lovers and animal rights teams respiration down his neck.
You can simply think about, with Noem at his aspect, Trump hating reporters from the networks asking,” Mr. Trump, when is the final time you shot a canine?”
It is one factor to sadly put a sick canine to sleep. It is completely one thing else to shoot a wholesome canine as a result of Noem couldn’t practice the canine to hunt pheasants after which write about it as if it had been some noteworthy accomplishment.
Politicians are supposed to like dogs or faux that they do. They don’t shoot them after which write about it.
What was she pondering?
She stated, “The reason it’s in the book is that the book is filled with tough, challenging decisions I’ve had to make throughout my life.”
She cited South Dakota regulation that she stated states that dogs that kill livestock may be put down. “It was not a pleasant job, but it had to be done,” she stated.
One fellow Republican who was fast to criticize her was former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who had his personal canine issues when he ran for president in opposition to Barack Obama in 2012.
Back then, Romney was dogged by the pro-Obama left wing media for permitting that he as soon as drove his household on trip in 1983 along with his Irish Setter, Seamus, on prime of the automobile in a windshield-equipped service.
When the canine had bowel points atop the automobile, Romney stopped at a fuel station, washed the canine, the service and the automobile earlier than transferring on.
While the liberal media mocked Romney and accused him of animal cruelty, reporters sympathetic to Obama made little of the truth that Obama, dwelling in Indonesia as a baby, used to eat dogs.
“I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy), he wrote in his book “Dreams from My Father.”
All of which stirred Romney, who is just not searching for reelection as a U.S. senator from Utah, to remark: “I didn’t eat my dog. I didn’t shoot my dog. I loved my dog, and my dog loved me.”
Politics has gone to the dogs.
Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at: [email protected]
