Posted on 06/28/2019 4:50:31 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Kamala Harris became a serious contender for the Democrat nomination last night. The Willie Brown paramour from California won the debate by landing a massive body blow on front-runner Joe Biden, putting her star on the rise in the race and accelerating Biden’s inevitable fall.
Watch this clip – it is devastating for Biden:
“It’s a mis-charicteration (sic)” are the first words out of our nation’s Unfrozen Caveman Senator’s mouth. He looks like one of the old Democrat segregationists he “got stuff done” with back in the 1970s, an age that most Democrat voters cannot even remotely relate to. He sounds old, he sounds programmed, everything he talks about it stuff that happened damn near half a century ago.
And then, he is so shaky, so unsure of himself, so out of canned talking points, that he becomes the first person in the history of presidential debates to …wait for it … cut himself off.
That boy done. And Kamala is off to the races. That clip getting played constantly on all the cable channels and all the social media platforms will 5 points to her polling support in a week, maybe more.
The “Look at Me ‘Cuz I’m So Weird” award goes without any question at all to goofball author Marianne Williamson, who, when asked what her first priority upon assuming the presidency would be, actually said this:
“My first call is to the prime minister of New Zealand, who said that her goal is to make New Zealand the place where it’s the best place in the world for a child to grow up,” said Williamson. “I would tell her, ’Girlfriend, you are so wrong!”
Williamson is so overwhelmingly weird that even the weirdos at the Huffington Post went off on her performance this morning. That’s weird.
Her closing statement capped off a night of weirdness, probably capping off her vanity project campaign for good, as the DNC will now instruct their media toadies to keep her off the air and out of future debates:
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Ryan Saavedra ✔ @RealSaavedra Here is Marianne Williamson's cringe-worthy closing statement
5,888 10:13 PM - Jun 27, 2019 4,526 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy Honestly, I can’t tell if she was threatening to defeat the President in next year’s general election or propositioning him. All conservatives should immediately contribute money to her campaign to ensure she is able to stay in this race, just as a practical joke.
The embarrassing MSNBC/NBC moderators did their best to ignore Williamson, allowing her less than 5 minutes of time to air her her grievances against New Zealand and praise her spirit guides, but if you’re Andrew Yang, you’re thinking “damn, sure wish I’d have gotten that extra two minutes!” this morning. Yang, the only actual semi-interesting person on that stage last night, the guy who campaigns on his claim to have a million ideas, was only given 2:58 to express them by the DNC/fake media cabal desperately hoping to kill him off before he can catch any fire in the race.
By comparison, Biden got 13:19 to talk about all the great stuff he did during the Nixon Administration, Harris got 12:16, Mayor Pete was awarded 11:21 for being the bestest hall monitor in the field, and the old Commie got 10:58 to spout all of his Stalinist nostrums.
Yang did get the consolation prize by winning the Drudge insta-poll following the debate. Yang pulled in over 28% of the vote in that measure, probably because his paltry time speaking ended up irritating fewer Americans than everyone else. Hilariously, Williamson actually came in third in that poll, pulling over 12% support, while Kamala Harris was second at 17%.
Who had the worst night? Other than Biden, you’d have to point to John Hickenlooper, Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Bennett and Eric Swalwell, all of whom were the same non-factors in the debate that they’ve been thus far in the campaign. You can just stick a fork in all of ’em.
The Commie was the Commie, sounding and looking exactly as he sounded and looked in the 2016 race with the Pantsuit Princess. Being the only outright Commie in that race, he was able to give the Fainting Felon a race for her money. His problem this time, though, is that there are a ton of other outright commies in the race, and they’re really cutting into his support base.
Sanders spent his time pounding on every boogeyman imaginable, as Commies always do: The Medical industry, drug makers, corporate bigwigs in general, ICE, the Border Patrol, President Trump, Climate Change, conservative judges, senate Republicans – all of those handy boogeymen and more enjoyed their time in last night’s Bolshevik spotlight. He’s a tiresome old hack trading on nothing but fear and empty promises, which of course is why depraved Democrat voters love him.
Last night didn’t harm him, but it didn’t do him any good, either. Expect him to fall in the polls over the next couple of weeks, and expect both Fauxcahontas and Harris to pass him.
Hey, what about Mayor Pete? Last night was set up by the DNC and NBC to be his breakout moment, that jumpstart that would move his campaign into the next gear. He did fine in the debate by all accounts, but none of the media coverage is focused on him this morning.
And Buttigieg’s biggest problem comes in the only measure that really matters in these debates: Optics. Standing there on that stage next to the much, much taller Unfrozen Caveman Senator, Mayor Pete just looked like a high school sophomore trying to debate the school principal. After his awful weekend back in South Bend, Buttigieg needed to have a moment last night in which he showed real authority and empathy, especially for African Americans, in order to break out of that Optics trap.
He didn’t do that. Thus, his campaign, which had already stagnated in the 6-7% support level in the various polls, will continue to stagnate. You may even see his level of support begin to slowly drop, as frustrated potential supporters turn their heads to Kamala and Fauxcahontas.
So, here are the winners and losers from the Second Debate:
Winners:
Kamala Harris, and it isn’t close
Losers:
Everyone else
This race is shaking out very quickly, despite the crowded field. Now that she’s had her breakout moment, Kamala Harris is going to be hard, hard, hard for the other candidates to take down.
Think about it: How’s it going to look to identity-politics-oriented Democrats when two old, gray-haired white guys start going after the lone woman of color in the field? Exactly. So you won’t see them do that. And if they can’t go after her, how are they going to stop her?
Good question. Glad I don’t have to answer it.
That is all.
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I watched about 15 minutes of the show, it reminded me of my 4th grade class leader election! But I also had my checkbook out and realized I was Bankrupt in the first 5 minutes after adding up all the Free Stuff they want me to Pay for.
I took a quick glance at CNN's front page earlier today, and every other headline gushes over Kamala Harris, with headlines like "Harris' attack on Joe Biden steals debate spotlight", "Kamala Harris' home run", "Watch Kamala Harris shut down fellow candidates' squabbling", "Joe Biden's campaign in turmoil after Harris attacks his record on race" etc.
It's been pretty clear for some time that the DNC powers that be do not want Biden. He doesn't satisfy the activist base who want a "woman and/or minority" candidate, and his past record of semi-moderation alienates the self-righteous "woke" types. On the other hand, Bernie and Pocahantas are too economically extreme to rake in big donations from Wall Street firms and Silicon Valley behemoths.
So who does that leave them with apart from various people polling at 1-2% Kamala Harris - the aspiring female Obama who's ten times the race-baiter than he ever was (even Obama, to my knowledge, didn't push slavery reparations).
I'm guessing that over the next few weeks, CNN, MSNBC will continue their efforts to prop up Kamala Harris and throw Biden under the bus.
If the Democrats keep propping up Kamala over Biden, that is very good news for us. Biden has some appeal in the rust-belt states that Trump won (or came close to winning) in 2016. Kamala, with her platform of slavery reparations and her strident “look at me, I’m the victim of racist and sexist white men” politics, has exactly zero chance with that voting block.
A black female is the Democrat wet dream.
I predict she will be the candidate, and she will be a formidable opponent. The media will rally behind her in a way that will make it look like they barely noticed Obama.
Kamala, tops in both of the oldest professions.
Both Obama parents and grandparents were gone before we knew very much about him. In her case Willie Brown is in his 80’s. In the Kenyans case it didn’t’t matter.
....she is ineligible
She may be and she may become of a poli powerhouse, but a large portion of the population is not going to go for this Jeckyl and Hyde infinite wellspring of outrage and victimhood coupled with her ready admission that she would be fine with being an extra-Constitutional dictator and ruling by fiat. I find her alarming in those regards, and I also get the disctinct feeling that her wildest aspirations would align closely with turning your life into a steaming pile of s**t, white boy.
She would gleefully extract her revenge on you if you’re white. And she would dedicate her life to doing so, in the name of righting all past wrongs and offering herself up as the champion of the underserved and oppressed. Of that I am perfectly certain.
She will be a much weaker candidate than Obama, even though you're right that the Democratic base will get all masturbatory over the prospect of a black female President. She needs more than the activist base to win a general election.
Even though Obama governed as a racial radical (embracing the BlackLivesMatter agenda when in office), he campaigned as a "post-racial" candidate who wanted reconciliation, not a race war. He kept his grievances to himself until setting them loose in the Oval Office, and had the political savvy not to make idiocies like reparations part of his official platform.
Kamala is so strident and hate-filled that she's incapable of putting on a reasonable facade to hide her agenda. Making racial and sexual grievances the focus of her campaign may make the base happy, but it will alienate moderate "swing voters" that Clinton and even Obama were able to attract.
And she's not going to be dropping out very soon.
But I don't think there's much real enthusiasm for her.
And she's not a "female Obama," apart from skin color, foreign family connections, and growing up abroad.
Obama could craft an image for himself - or rather his team could craft an image for him.
He was little known and people could project their fantasies on to him.
He knew how to keep quiet and how to take direction.
He could appear to be relaxed and laid-back.
Harris's record is much better known, and she has less self-control; she lashes out too much.
And the times are different: Democrats may be looking for a messiah, but the rest of the country isn't.
All this "whore" talk, though, is likely to win her support that she wouldn't otherwise have.
Can someone fact check Kamala’s claim that she was the second group of students bussed to another school? Her mother was a cancer researcher, her father was an economics professor at Stanford. For her story about bussing to be true, not sure what kind of neighborhood they lived in. I am suspicious of her claim.
like Obama only with real estrogen.
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY like a mean bitch with a chip on her shoulder.
The only reason Harris makes the second round is she is black.
After that, she’s dust.
Still debating the 1960s. Sheesh.
“Kamala is so strident and hate-filled that she’s incapable of putting on a reasonable facade to hide her agenda.”
You make good points. If this were the America of my youth, I’d say she’s toast. But it’s not. The squishy middle is easily led by the media, and either unable or unwilling to scrutinize.
My fear is that Harris will be celebrated in such a way that the average dumbed down American will feel like they are missing out if they don’t vote for her.
Regardless of her ethnic heritage, her skin is dark, so count 90% of the black vote for her.
And above all else, don’t forget, orange man bad.
Bidet will take harris out on his way down...
You would have to know the name of the school and when busing started at that particular school. I assume she lived in Berkeley and busing for racial integration started there in 1968. The high school was for the whole city/town and was considered already integrated before that, so busing applied to the lower grades.
Harris was born in 1964. Busing may already have been going on for two years when she started school in (I assume) 1970. It depends on just which school she went to (and maybe she's counting kindergarten or pre-kindergarten).
Also, she may or may not actually have been bused across town herself. If she was considered to be black and lived in a white neighborhood presumably she wouldn't have needed to be bused. But her claim to have gone to a school with a busing program is not obviously wrong.
Lets see how well the whole ‘forced busing in Berkeley CA’ story stands up to close scrutiny...I suspect Harris mis-remembers her childhood.
I also don’t see ‘forced busing’ as an issue that working class voters in battleground states are going to embrace on 2020 anymore than they did in 1968.
If Biden doesn’t push back on this, I’d question his commitment to the campaign.
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