Posted on 09/18/2025 1:41:51 PM PDT by Signalman
The ghost of the 2024 election continues to haunt Kamala Harris as she revisits her ill-fated decision to put Tim Walz on the ticket.
Harris writes in her new memoir that the Minnesota governor was not her “first choice” for vice president, despite the enthusiasm she showed Walz in the days after he was suddenly announced. Many observers speculated that the Democrats’ No. 2 slot became a contest between Walz and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who Harris aides feared would provoke a backlash among pro-Palestinian progressive activists because he is Jewish.
But in “107 Days,” the former vice president writes that her first choice was instead Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay member of a president’s cabinet and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who converted his hometown appeal into an improbable presidential campaign.
Buttigieg was presented with the audacious idea, but he and Harris ultimately agreed that putting a gay man on the ticket of the first black woman to run in the general election would be “too big a risk” for their chances to defeat Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.
Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man,” Harris writes.
“But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man,” she continues. “Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.”
“And I think Pete also knew that — to our mutual sadness.”
The selection of Walz checked a box that Buttigieg brought to the table — an affable midwesterner who ostensibly connected with middle America. But that theory fell flat as the Harris-Walz ticket went on to lose the popular vote and every single swing state.
In her book, Harris praises the Biden cabinet member as “a sincere public servant with the rare talent of being able to frame liberal arguments in a way that makes it possible for conservatives to hear them.”
“I love Pete,” she writes. “I love working with Pete. He and his husband, Chasten, are friends.”
Early polls for the 2028 contest put Buttigieg near the top of the pack, even ahead of Harris. An Emerson College survey found Buttigieg leading Harris 16% to 13% in a hypothetical Democratic primary, with California Gov. Gavin Newsom (12%), Shapiro (7%), and “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) (7%) rounding out the top five, the NY Post reported.
Buttigieg made clear earlier this year that he is giving serious consideration to another run for the White House.
If she chose Buttplug, Trump’s win would have been even bigger.
True lol
Oh yeah...you did!!
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I believe Dems lost the election because they failed to correct serious misinformation regarding Covid and safe and effective treatment. A woman with a horse business I met last year told me for 15 years there has been a vaccine for the horse version of Covid infection. Too many rural people and other FReepers knew about Ivermectin and the unfortunate cases of people who were vaccinated and then had recurrence of cancers that were in remission, or blood clots that killed or injured, etc. When upon Biden’s election I read that he and Fauci were great friends, I knew Covid treatment would continue to go off the rails. Freedom to refuse vaccine was a critical right the Dems violated.
Butt-gig is smarter than Walz, I have to concede.
Sorry, I don’t get the “show tunes” part. What does that mean?
That is not saying much.
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The phrase “homosexuals like show tunes” reflects a cultural stereotype suggesting a correlation between homosexuality and an appreciation for musical theater, stemming from the historical role of theater as a safe, accepting space for LGBTQ+ individuals to express themselves authentically. This connection also arises from the shared appreciation for elements like narrative complexity, emotional expression, theatricality, and the rejection of traditional masculinity found in musical theater, making it an appealing art form within the LGBTQ+ community.
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Waltz reminds me of the Heaven’s Gate cult leader who convinced all of his followers to commit suicide.
Thanks.
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We’ve been laughing on that one since the ‘70s 😁
Picking buffoon Walz for VP sewed up the blithering idiot vote for Harris.
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