There went her VP hopes

not now, there isn’t

Potential Trump VP pick Gov. Kristin Noem says she shot dead a ‘less than worthless’ dog, ‘disgusting’ goat 

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who is widely tipped to be former President Donald Trump’s likely pick as running mate, has admitted shooting dead one of her dogs for being “less than worthless” — and similarly killing a goat she found “disgusting.”

The 52-year-old Republican detailed the killings in an upcoming memoir as proof she is willing to do “difficult, messy and ugly” things when needed, according to the Guardian, which obtained an advance copy.

“Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” she said of the soon-to-be-shot pup with an “aggressive personality” that made her “untrainable.”

Noem took Cricket on a hunt to learn from other dogs — but she instead ruined the hunt by going “out of her mind with excitement” and attacking some chickens like a “trained assassin,” Noem wrote.

When Noem tried to grab the dog, it “whipped around to bite me,” she wrote.

“I hated that dog,” Noem continued, calling Cricket “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog.”

“At that moment, I realized I had to put her down.”

Noem, who also represented her state in Congress for eight years, explained that she then got her gun and led Cricket to a gravel pit.

“It was not a pleasant job,” she said, “but it had to be done.”

She recalled how her daughter, Kennedy “looked around confused” when she came home from school that day, asking: “Hey, where’s Cricket?”

I (kinda) get it: farm life is tougher than city or suburban life, and farmers are used to putting down cows and horses past their useful life, and, it seems, annoying dogs and goats, but if there’s one thing that stirs up even more emotion than abortion, it’s Americans’ pets, and Noem’s stupid confession would cost Trump millions of votes if he put her on the ticket.

Too bad — she’s an impressive woman, but, assuming South Dakota voters are made of sterner stuff than less rural states, she should be able to continue as governor there, and our loss will be that state’s gain.

All that said, what was she thinking?

she should have stayed with wild animals — it’s a very small elk lobby

UPDATE: Just saw this.