Posted on 08/25/2024 2:43:47 AM PDT by Libloather
A year into Barack Obama’s presidency, Sarah Palin, a former Alaska governor and John McCain’s 2008 running mate, mockingly asked a Tea Party gathering a question: “How’s that hopey, changey stuff working out?”
The roomful of conservatives howled with laughter because by then, Obama’s dreamy campaign motto of “Hope and Change” had been replaced by hard policy lurches to the far left.
The Palin question is a piece of history 2024 voters should keep in mind as they assess Kamala Harris.
The parallels between then and now are striking.
Like Obama, the Democrats’ current nominee has been maddeningly elusive about what she would do as president.
Yet she is nonetheless riding a wave of enthusiasm that could carry her to the White House.
As they did with Obama, big media outlets are helping to promote her candidacy rather than vetting her for voters.
Take recent top headlines in The New York Times: On Friday, beside a huge flattering photo of her, the newspaper declared: “Harris Making History While Putting Her Faith In the Art of the Possible.”
On Saturday, the same space said: “Harris Faces Challenge: Turning Joy Into Votes.”
A Washington Post opinion piece on Harris’ husband carried this headline — “Doug Emhoff: modern-day sex symbol.”
This isn’t journalism.
It’s boosterism, and it’s disgraceful.
For Donald Trump, the consequences are clear: his opponent is Hope and Change All Over Again.
Or, as Palin might put it, he’s up against Hopey-Changey 2.0.
In fact, Harris has been even more vague than Obama was in 2008.
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More Michael Goodwin from Aug 13 -
Kamala Harris should conduct her first major interview as Dem nominee with the New York Post
I’ve been trying to stay away from the pundits this cycle. I’ve listened to Tucker and Rogan on and off. I think they’re both right in that we should be very concerned. This woman is being groomed. She’s a vacuous human being, I truly believe that, but the public is going to accept her.
Jason Whitlock was on Tucker during the DNC. Tucker asked him if she was going to win. He laughed and said, “Ask me if I think the Republicans are going to lose. That’s a more important question.” (Paraphrasing)
I think Trump will win by an absolute blowout, but the left is not going to cede. The Republicans are pussies. They won’t fight. I’ve never been more concerned for the future of our nation as we approach this election.
“I think Trump will win by an absolute blowout, but the left is not going to cede. The Republicans are pussies. They won’t fight. I’ve never been more concerned for the future of our nation as we approach this election.”
You mean ... like 2020. I agree. They will do anything and everything to thwart PDJT from stepping foot into the Oval Office. Prison. Murder. Refuse to certify. If our pols continue in their pussydom, and refuse to represent their constituents — US — what can WE do?
Well, the media flunks on this one.
Kamala’s small-batch campaigning will get about as much of the voter market as small-batch cheese.
She’s black, she’s a woman, and she’s pro abortion. That is what we are dealing with.
Don’t listen to pundits who bray about how Trump has to concentrate on the issues and avoid personal attacks. Trump should do the opposite and brand Kamala as a communist. He can start with her unisex pant suit that looks like a Red Guard uniform.
The answer was telling: they didn't have such a list. The campaign pointed to the two books, and nothing else.
Harris is proving to be Obama 2.0 -- I can't find anything about all aspects of her platform, and she's already deviated from the Demon-crats platform from the just-completed convention.
I get more useful information about her record from her opponents.
Yep. This is exactly how the corporate media got down on their knees and just started gobbing Obama’s knob right from the very start. That was 2007 ie 17 years ago. Its not gonna work this time. They’ve lost a LOT of influence and a lot of their market since then. Few people watch cable news or TV news in general and its mostly Boomers and older who do. The younger generations hardly watch at all. They increasingly get their news from independent sources.
It's a Deep State, Democrat Party, Media triumvirate that is pushing Kamala.
This ruling triumvirate is in an incestuous relationship: The Democrats are the party of big government and easy spending, the media gets its stories from sources in the Deep State, and the Deep State is, well, the permanent government.
Trump is the enemy of that triumvirate because he wants to return the country (i.e., the government) to the people.
She needs time to subjugate her male operatives who will impose her fascism.( Much like Fanni Willis)
Here she is about to go into her hoover mode of action:
She has great sponsors:
The Lefty Dems do not think Trump can compete with her blow by blow strategy.He already has won the election.
Can her Nobel prize be far behind?
BTTT
But let's look at the glass as half empty.
The histories since 2020 is not encouraging. Trump was consistently coming down on the right side of policy issues but he was showing an alarming pattern of poor judgment in his selection of staff and cabinet. Senator Sessions' choice as Attorney General was a near fatal miscalculation. Trump permitted backbiting and leaking within his administration that lent a bit of credence to the Democrat allegation that the administration was in chaos. The Russian hoax, the impeachment, and all the rest let a poorly informed electorate conclude that Trump was simply unstable in the office. The fiasco of Obama Care only confirmed the worst suspicions of the electorate that had been so artfully cultivated by Democrats and the media.
So the election of 2018 was a severe disappointment. Then came the Floyd riots and Covid and, at the last minute, abortion. When in the run-up to the 2020 election my television showed night after night of Democrat condoned burning and looting, extending right up to the White House itself, I was sure that the electorate would vote the way it had in 1968, that is, for the law and order party.
We were all aware that the bias of the media was just as flagrant as it is today but I concluded that if Trump could not win under the circumstances of 2020, we as a party might not be able to win under any circumstances. Perhaps Trump beat Hillary in 2016 because she was the only Democrat he could defeat and perhaps Trump lost in 2020 because he was the only Republican Biden could defeat. In other words, the electorate was defending itself against politicians they did not like.
The defeat in 2020 under the circumstances which should have produced a stunning Republican victory, should have at least produced an agonizing reappraisal, a come to Jesus style unrelenting analysis of where we had gone wrong. In my view this analysis did not occur because we misplaced focus on an election that was stolen. Stolen or not, the score was too close under the circumstances. The score, honest or otherwise, revealed disturbing Republican weakness.
Above all, 2018, 2020, and now 2022, demonstrated that the Republican Party had not found a way to overcome the media bias which is the central theme of this thread.
If this time different? In four elections we won only one and that was against Hillary by the barest of margins. Why is it different this time?
The elected Victor of the primary process, President Biden, has been taken off the ballot by a palace coup. His replacement, is a singularly ineffectual and unattractive person with a dreadful record without accomplishments but instead actual maladministration. She is an identifiable Marxist with extreme and bizarre economic prescriptions for an economy which most believe her administration has damaged and which has been universally panned by critics.
Nevertheless despite her obvious inadequacies, the media has beatified her in a remarkable campaign that has catapulted her from a figure that was universally dismissed and disparaged to a figure of hope of near angelic quality. Her first decision was to pick a vice presidential running mate who it turns out is a poltroon who desportes himself on stage as a cross between an aging being in rapture and and unfortunate in a fit. Her economic scheme is risible.
Yet, Harris is actually threatening Donald Trump in the reported polls.
I find these polls to be not nearly as threatening as reported. It is clear they are sampling to favor Democrats and they are deceiving us by controlling the timing of the polls and the timing of the release. Yet it is undeniable that Harris' recovery is phenomenal.
Under the circumstances one might expect that a candidate such as Donald Trump would adopt the advice tendered to him by those who support him and by those who do this for a living to the effect that he should modify his approach to be less confrontational and condemning and more statesmanlike, if you will. Obviously, such a turn is beyond the DNA possessed by Donald Trump. So this raises the specter that the media will treat Donald Trump the way they treated him in 2020 and the way they treated Hillary in 2016.
On the other side, we have the brilliant choice of JD Vance who is presenting a running mate who is wonderfully articulate, poised, and able to lend an intellectual respectability to the ticket. More, the addition of Elon Musk offers the support of an authentic American wunderkind. The endorsement of RFK adds a tone of moral integrity and bipartisanship to the candidate and underscores the moral depravity of the Democrat ticket.
This time the people are beleaguered by inflation and that is a driver of an election that is relentless, reminding us all with every trip to the grocery store or stop at the gas station. The American dream of homeownership has been denied because of inflation.
I actually don't believe the final result will be close, I believe the election will break for Trump because the momentum that the facts on the ground will generate will be irresistible.
Is there something the media gives us that’s so important that we’re willing to pay them with our TV subscriptions even as they lie about us and Trump and instigate violence against us? There must be, because too many of us are still paying them for the privilege of being entertained by them.
The DEI candidate doesn’t need to audition.
That’s a really long screed, and has good info — EXCEPT it seems to be based on the idea that votes matter; they don’t. Only ballots matter now, and they’re being manufactured now, along with bundles of phony registrations.
In 2008, I told a leftie friend that Obama would be an awful president. But, there was only one candidate worse than Obama... John McCain.
Stolen or not, the score was too close under the circumstances.
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Really? How much do you have to win by for it to be a ‘real’ win?
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