Kirsti Noem just shot herself in the foot.
She can no longer be a contender for Trump's VP not matter what happens.
In a memoir she just released, she describes how she shot a young dog and a goat in a gravel pit. She shot the dog because she found it useless as a hunting dog, it was not trainable.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you shoot a VP possibility to death with one bullet.
Here is a newspaper article with a sensationalist smearing headline and much better content after lots of paragraphs:
Trump VP candidate Kristi Noem reveals she shot and killed her 14-month-old 'trained assassin' dog Cricket and gunned down a goat in eye-opening new book | Daily Mail Online
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Kristi Noem writes in her forthcoming book that she gunned down her own dog - and a family goat - in an effort to show she's capable of dealing with anything that's 'difficult, messy and ugly.'
Granted, the dog was killing the neighbor's chickens (with one bite each) for sport and would not stop, and it was hostile in general, but the image of Kirsti killing a puppy is too visceral for her to be elected dog-catcher anymore, much less VP. That may be unfair, but that's the way public image works, fake news and all.
Kirsti's a good woman, too, and a great governor. So this is a damn shame.
Michael