What's disturbing about Guv Kristi Noem's determination to tell all how she shot her dog is whether or not she was aware of the potential the tale has to end her campaign to be the Orange Man's running mate. Quite frankly, in all likelihood it did. But with Donald Trump all things are possible, so who knows?
The most tantalizing question is why she chose to tell that story. She had to know that shooting her dog because she didn't like him was going to attract some attention--and it has, from both sides of the aisle. She had to expect what she got--or didn't she?
Years ago, a neighbor couple across the alley and some distance away decided to take down an old garage they didn't use. When they did, they chased a few baby opossums out of a nest they hadn't known was there. It just so happens that some neighborhood kids, including ours, were there close by when that old farm couple simply killed those kits.
I don't think of the opossum as God's most prized creation, and I understand how, on the farm, amidst the animals, life and death is pretty much an everyday thing. I get that. Anyone whose lived a full life on the farm has likely murdered something or other alive.
What I'm saying is those old folks who whacked baby possums in front of my kids thought nothing of crunching their little skulls, one by one, and tossing death into the garbage.
Today, almost forty years later, my kids still remember just about everything about that morning.
That Kristi Noem, ranch hand, is acquainted with the death of animals is understandable, but she had to know that to a multitude of readers, the idea of her actually unloading on a dog she couldn't, or wouldn't, manage, then watching it die, then telling the world how she did it, was going to go woefully off key, as it has.
The Guv will blame the libs, if she hasn't already, but, honestly, if it never dawned on her that telling that story could end her Washington dreams, she's regretfully unsavvy.
But if she knew it would and she let it go to the printer anyway, didn't edit the whole blame story out, then she's writing the tale for one reason, one reader. She assumes The Donald will read it, admire her brazen toughness and choose the best-looking guv on the continent as his running mate. After all, she's vintage SS quality--she can shoot her dog and live to tell about it. That's a woman he needs on his team next term.
Maybe she's in. I doubt it. But who knows what flashes in the mind of Donald Trump?
1 comment:
I am a Republican and I question who the heck advised her that telling that story was a good idea. Pets have more rights and protection than police officers these days. Dumb move by her and her handlers.
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