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Bad campaigns just die -Blaming shortfalls on dark forces is counterproductive
The Sentinel & Enterprise ^ | 12-09-2019 | Editorial

Posted on 12/09/2019 6:43:53 AM PST by calvincaspian

Sometimes a bad candidate is just a bad candidate. That was the case with Kamala Harris, who exited the race for president of the United States last week.

Unfortunately, many in the pundit class are already propagating the myth that Harris is out because of racism, sexism or both.

On ABC, The View’s Sunny Hostin declared, “I don’t think that you can look at that without also looking at the fact that as a woman of color, she also faced unprecedented sexism, compounded by racism as well, as a female candidate of color.”

Fellow presidential candidate Julian Castro opined that the media had subjected Harris’s campaign to “a different standard, a double standard, that has been grossly unfair and unfortunate.”

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If the mainstream media and a broad swath of the Democratic primary electorate, which includes many women and minorities, are labeled bigots, misogynists and white supremacists for not nominating Kamala Harris, then how is the public supposed to differentiate those who actually espouse those hateful ideologies?

Most candidates for the highest office in the land lose unceremoniously. Kamala Harris is a well-qualified candidate who ran a directionless and disorganized campaign. She lost this one, but American voters have likely not seen the last of her. Attributing the demise of her 2020 presidential run to anything but that, but especially to the supposedly rampant white supremacy in the American public, is hysterical and dangerous.

1 posted on 12/09/2019 6:43:53 AM PST by calvincaspian
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To: calvincaspian

It’s hilarious. She’s accusing Democrat Primary voters of being racist and sexist.


2 posted on 12/09/2019 6:45:41 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute

“It’s hilarious. She’s accusing Democrat Primary voters of being racist and sexist.”

Exactly. She wasn’t getting support from her own people.


3 posted on 12/09/2019 6:48:11 AM PST by BBQToadRibs
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To: wastoute

Sometimes a candidate just isn’t suitable for the position. Could be that their ideas for running a country are just totally out of sync with our Constitution & the ideas of the American electorate. It’s better that they realize this before deciding to run for the office & could save a lot of aggravation & a lot of money if they would just concentrate at doing a better job of what they already are doing.


4 posted on 12/09/2019 6:53:02 AM PST by oldtech
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To: calvincaspian

They are saying Democrat voters are racist, sexist, etc.


5 posted on 12/09/2019 6:56:59 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: BBQToadRibs

It’s funny too, to hear this Castro dude, saying how the media had some double standard, and was unfair to her.

The liberal media was unfair to a liberal candidate, one who checks off more than one box in the game of identity politics the media love to push on us?????

Do any of you really believe that pablum? The liberal media were unfair to her, and that’s why her campaign fell apart??? Really???


6 posted on 12/09/2019 6:57:08 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: calvincaspian

Kamala Harris is a well-qualified candidate
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Sorry, no.
She is ineligible, her parents were foreign nationals making her an Indian national and a Jamaican national at birth.
THREE nationality Harris will never be eligible.


7 posted on 12/09/2019 6:58:48 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: wastoute
It’s hilarious. She’s accusing Democrat Primary voters of being racist and sexist.

For once in her life, she was being honest.

8 posted on 12/09/2019 7:02:07 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Lincoln: "The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inherited it, that way!")
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To: calvincaspian

No, in this case, I agree with Camela. The demonicRAT Party is full of racists and sexists.


9 posted on 12/09/2019 7:02:09 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: wastoute

It’s hilarious. She’s accusing Democrat Primary voters of being racist and sexist.

And many of them are agreeing with her.

They should really all go drink koolaid together. It’s their only proper remedy in this case.


10 posted on 12/09/2019 7:09:07 AM PST by samtheman (Art 2, Sec. 3, US Constitution, obligates President to fight corruption in foreign aid.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Exactly.

The campaigns aren't even to the primary results yet, so any voters not liking Kamala, are liberal democRATS.

democRATS always use those excuses against Republicans in the general election campaigns, but she couldn't even get support from her fellow democRATS.

It must suck to be a liberal democRAT.

11 posted on 12/09/2019 7:15:53 AM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: calvincaspian

“Kamala Harris is a well-qualified candidate”

WRONG!!! She is not qualified at all, not constitutionally and certainly not by experience. I’m vastly more qualified than she is and I would laugh at any suggestion that I should be president.


12 posted on 12/09/2019 7:23:23 AM PST by RipSawyer (I need some green first and then we'll talk a new deal!http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3763)
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To: calvincaspian

She’s out because she couldn’t fake being a nice person.


13 posted on 12/09/2019 7:25:04 AM PST by I-ambush (One foot in the grave, one foot on the pedal I was born to rebel.)
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To: calvincaspian

The gay lobby has another option this cycle.


14 posted on 12/09/2019 7:32:04 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Castro has no clue what a hostile media looks like.

If he ever saw and felt it he would run and hide—and never return to public life.


15 posted on 12/09/2019 7:46:42 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: calvincaspian
On ABC, The View’s Sunny Hostin declared, “I don’t think that you can look at that without also looking at the fact that as a woman of color, she also faced unprecedented sexism, compounded by racism as well, as a female candidate of color.”

Doesn't this dumb c_nt realize that ONLY DemonRATS voted in demonRAT polls against harris.

NO pubbies are involved with the demonRAT selection of their can't-i-date, so we can't be racissss or sexissssss.

16 posted on 12/09/2019 7:50:02 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist mooselimb savages, today.)
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To: wastoute
" It’s hilarious. She’s accusing Democrat Primary voters of being racist and sexist. "

The funniest part is, she's right.

17 posted on 12/09/2019 9:20:49 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Islam---At war with Western Civilization for 1400 years.)
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