Posted on 10/07/2020 7:34:22 PM PDT by Lenora Thompson
I approached the Vice Presidential debate this evening with one question: "What is Kamala Harris like?" I'd conveniently missed the primary debates so my impression of the woman was basically unformed.
Unformed but not unbiased. No one is unbiased as the tenor of moderator Susan Page's questions clearly showed.
I've heard the usual tittle-tattle about Kamala's personal life, but being a MAGA Conservative, I'm focused on the issues, not personalities. I already know what Kamala stands for, or rather doesn't stand for, Protection of the unborn coming to mind.
Still, being an inveterate people watcher, I wanted to know how Kamala would come off during the Vice Presidential debate against one of the most active, visible and loudly Christian Vice Presidents in recent memory. I know Donald Trump ain't no gentleman, thank God, because he took names and kicked Joe's ass in the last debate.
How would Kamala relate to Mike Pence? Predictably, the debate began with that beaten-to-death topic of coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus. As usual, the questions were obviously slanted against the current administration, touching on the 25th Amendment (transfer of power) with Kamala's talking point being "dead bodies." We get it, Kamala, you're plenty graphic. These are our family members you're talking about. Referring to them as "dead bodies" did you no favors.
Kamala's answers were stock Democrat. Beating the same drum the Democrats have beaten since the days of Will Rogers. Republicans are just for the wealthy. Republicans deny science. Answers so pat, so unimaginative, so predictable that I caught myself zoning out when Kamala spoke. I've heard Democrats say the same things for forty years. Their claims are no more true now than they were in 1984!
But my ears perked up when Kamala again referred to herself as "Black" while, according to Reuters, "the press, as well as Kamala Harris herself, have continually described her racial identity as Black, South Asian, Indian-American, African-American, and Jamaican-American." Personally, I wish she'd be consistent. It feels, in my opinion, that she selects her race depending on each situation.
Of course, the issue of President Trump's taxes rapidly followed coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus. When Kamala brought up the debt that any businessman carries, including Trump, she looked into the camera to clarify for the apparently stupid American public by saying that "debt" means "you owe money to somebody."
Thank you for that, Kamala. We had no idea.
Yes, my fellow Americans, Kamala does think you're an idiot.
In fact, throughout the entire debate I found Kamala to embody condescension. Now, as a quiet person, I've been condescended to a lot in my life, usually by women on power trips who later showed themselves to inept. So I'm something of a self-taught expert on condescension and Kamala's condescension was, in my opinion, vile. It did her no favors as a woman nor as a politician.
But she could be funny too, perhaps inadvertently. When she said Joe is "honest and forthright," I chuckled. He certainly is forthright about his racism and his more-than-creepy interest in the little children he fondles on camera.
Honesty is to not need a teleprompter because you speak from the heart. Trump needs no teleprompters because he is honest. Biden can't do an interview without one.
Now, no one was more grateful for the increased civility during this debate than I was. But it's a debate, for Pete's sake! Some talking over, some spirited back-and-forth is as true to debate as it is to the American spirit. We don't want it too sanitized.
But when Mike Pence dared to call Kamala out for not telling the truth immediately after she claimed the debate was about truth, Kamala again showed her condescension by speaking down to the Vice President of the United States.
Joe told the President of the United States to "shut up." Kamala raised your eyebrows, talked down to and treated the VP Pence like a naughty child.
As my husband said, "If the Democratic ticket treats the Executive Branch with such condescension, imagine how they'll treat the middle class."
Their condescension knows no end. They tout long-debunked myths about Trump's supposed disrespect to our men and women in uniform, again insulting our intelligence quite ignoring Joe calling them "stupid bastards." But condescension is also flip-flopping on the issues as we won't notice: "They were for the Green New Deal, before they were against it, before they were for it!"
Well, which is it?!?
I couldn't believe it when Kamala said, "Y'know what a bounty is?" and then defined it for us. Um, we know what a bounty is just as we know what debt is. We're not stupid, Kamala.
Heavy sigh.
On the topic of packing the Supreme Court, she condescended to Pence's summation of the history with a sarcastic coo of, "I'm so glad we went through that history lesson," and when Pence pressed her to actually answer the question, she again talked down to the VP Pence. The bright smile. The raised eyebrows. The nodding. She was obviously on a power trip and it reflected badly on Kamala, not on Mike Pence, ever the gentleman.
There's much talk about toxic masculinity. I feel we just witnessed toxic feminism.
Later she snapped, "I will not sit here and be lectured." Actually, she said it twice.
It seems there are two standards on that stage. She lectures Pence but he is not free to share the details of Kamala's voting record. He wasn't lecturing. She did...repeatedly.
From only a personality perspective, Mike Pence comported himself calmly, intelligently and as the gentleman he is. It's nice to see a Christian with the strength of character and strength of VP Pence.
Kamala was a worthy opponent and debater but her attitude did her no favors. Condescension looks good on no one and yes, my fellow Americans, Kamala demonstrated repeatedly that, yes, she does think you're an idiot.
How does it feel?
I sat there telling my wife, That’s a lie, that’s a lie, that’s a lie. My lovely wife, who has been too busy to know, doesn’t know. Kamala throwing out the poison for the uninformed to drink.
KT McFarland (sp.) just said Harris is not likeable and that was seen tonight
Full of setup questions from the first question. Moderator threw out the 220,000 Americans have died from COVID. Not even close to true.
“I will not sit here and be lectured.”
That phrase seemed scripted. She said it twice, when he didn’t seem to be “lecturing” her or even addressing her directly. She just wanted to throw it in, for effect. I suppose it was supposed to make her seem strong and assertive, but to me, it just made her seem like a disagreeable fool.
How many times did she mention that she is suddenly black?
She is FOR fracking. Except every other time when she is AGAINST it.
My wife doesn’t follow politics much but she wanted to watch the debate. She had to turn it off. She could not stand to watch or listen to kameltoe. She said Heels up came across as just a nasty beeotch.
Harris’ mouth was the Niagara Falls of lies. They just kept cascading unceasingly from between those vile lips.
I did not watch nor was I planning to watch. I was sleeping. I woke up at the phrase, “First of all, I will not stand up here and be lectured”. Really that was the 1st thing I heard. Then I had to go to bathroom.
Now I’m on FR because another “victim” came into my ear. Ear pollution. Listen to words, phrases.
Face - Words - Deeds
I am sick and tired of my late mother and 210,000 other lost Americans being used as a political attack point.
My blood boils to think that Democrats are gleeful that the number of Americans dying of COVID is great news for their candidate.
Trump and Republicans need to call them out for this. It is disgusting.
I am sick and tired of my late mother and 210,000 other lost Americans being used as a political attack point.
My blood boils to think that Democrats are gleeful that the number of Americans dying of COVID is great news for their candidate.
Trump and Republicans need to call them out for this. It is disgusting.
She was not as horrible as usual though. The habits of a lifetime kept asserting themselves, but unfortunately they kept something of a lid on her condescension which tends to clash comically with that nasal voice of hers.
I call her the Haitian Hillary.
Socialist Democrat/Liberal women are just awful. To the core. What redeeming quality does ‘Heels Up’ have?
You can look at ANY Socialist Democrat female and she did NOT make it ‘on her own.’
Hillary! would be a retired Ambulance Chaser by now, if she hadn’t hooked up with Slick.
Elizabeth Warren LIES...about any accomplishment, real or perceived!
Mooch 0bama - another disbarred lawyer who was GIVEN six-figure jobs...and no one knows what the ef she did?!
Chelsea Clinton - being STUPID makes you untold millions thanks to Mom & Dad.
Heels Up - Willie Brown’s wh#re. Impressive! (NOT!)
And, on top of THAT, they want all children to be aborted before, during and after birth - but their own are somehow exempt?!
These ‘women’ disgust me.
frank luntz is full of it.
Yep...and now I hear the post “debate” yappers, yapping in the background on FOXY Chrissy’s place. My wife has the teeeheee on in the next room. Is snake yapper going to moderate any debate?
Just like they loved using the victims of mass shooting for political points wile the bodies are still warm.
Her responses were all scripted. They clearly knew the questions in advance. Harris knowing that they were ‘segueing to the economy’. Right down to her smiling at certain questions. Planned, canned responses.
Also, biggest goof of the night NO ONE is talking about: Kamala basically said that if Trump oversees the vaccine, that means SHE WILL NOT TAKE IT!.. say WHAT? If that isn't senselessly partisan I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.
Even WITH the fly, Pence WINS. Gentlemanly true to form, and INDEED PRESIDENTIAL let alone VICE-Presidential!
I was happy that Pence refuted a lot of the lies.
Anyone on Free Republic could have refuted more, faster, in more detail though.
Harris tossed out every media lie from the last five years as if she had never heard the refutations.
Of course, if she had, she might not have brought them up.
If I’d been there, she would have wished she hadn’t.
On her prosecutorial record, Pence failed to home in on the truancy prosecutions and innocent Blacks she kept in jail through prosecutorial misconduct and laughed about.
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