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Kamala Harris Is Trying to Define Her Vice Presidency. Even Her Allies Are Tired of Waiting.
The New York Times via Yahoo ^ | February 6, 2023 | By Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Katie Rogers and Peter Baker

Posted on 02/06/2023 10:09:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

… But the painful reality for Harris is that in private conversations over the past few months, dozens of Democrats in the White House, on Capitol Hill and around the nation — including some who helped put her on the party’s 2020 ticket — said she had not risen to the challenge of proving herself as a future leader of the party, much less the country. Even some Democrats whom her own advisers referred reporters to for supportive quotes confided privately that they had lost hope in her.

Through much of the fall, a quiet panic set in among key Democrats about what would happen if President Joe Biden opted not to run for a second term. Most Democrats interviewed, who insisted on anonymity to avoid alienating the White House, said flatly that they did not think Harris could win the presidency in 2024. Some said the party’s biggest challenge would be finding a way to sideline her without inflaming key Democratic constituencies that would take offense.

Now with Biden appearing all but certain to run again, the concern over Harris has shifted to whether she will be a political liability for the ticket. Given that Biden at 80 is the oldest president in American history, Republicans would most likely make Harris, who is 58, a prime attack line, arguing that a vote for Biden may in fact be a vote to put her in the Oval Office.

“That will be in my opinion one of the most hard-hitting arguments against Biden,” said John Morgan, a prominent fundraiser for Democrats, including Biden, and a former Florida finance chair for President Bill Clinton. “It doesn’t take a genius to say, ‘Look, with his age, we have to really think about this.’”

So far, he said, she has not distinguished herself.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brown; cantfixstupid; kamala; kneepads; willy
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1 posted on 02/06/2023 10:09:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The catastrophic invasion of illegal aliens on the southern border defines it.


2 posted on 02/06/2023 10:10:16 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hah!

With Hildebeeste, we had “Cankles”.

With Willie’s Garden Tool, we have “Cackles”.


3 posted on 02/06/2023 10:11:03 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Maybe I can help:

Wheels on the Bus

4 posted on 02/06/2023 10:11:53 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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Her vice presidency can be described as one absurdly large cackle


5 posted on 02/06/2023 10:13:33 AM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Suck Machine, Still Sucking as VP”

There, not so hard to define.


6 posted on 02/06/2023 10:13:59 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I lost faith in her when she was the AG for California! What a group of complete buffoons.


7 posted on 02/06/2023 10:14:18 AM PST by Lucky2 (My pronoun is FJB )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She is inept.


8 posted on 02/06/2023 10:15:33 AM PST by Irenic
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If only President Biden would give her a job of vital national importance like handling the border crisis. Oh, wait, she had that and never went to the border.


9 posted on 02/06/2023 10:17:40 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Gain of Pfunction. Gain of Pfunding. Gain of Pfizer )
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To: Irenic
She's is the poster child for effing your way to the top.

She got no training (for the job, that is), no vetting, no valuable job experience.

10 posted on 02/06/2023 10:18:21 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Oldeconomybuyer


Her allies may be tired of waiting. The rest of us aren't waiting for anything - the woman is a complete dolt. The bar for vice-president is incredibly low and yet she's somehow managed to fail at being vice-president.
11 posted on 02/06/2023 10:18:22 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Although its a public position, VP is increasingly NOT a good place from which to define oneself, stand out, and to run for President.

Unless there is electoral fraud, of course - which is probably what they are counting on for Kamala.


12 posted on 02/06/2023 10:22:09 AM PST by PGR88 (, )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How about a small desk under a table with the caption
“she started from small beginnings” an audio loop of her cackling at nausium, behind a plethora of babbling stupid quotes even she cant undertand and a picture of an African American women which she is not


13 posted on 02/06/2023 10:22:10 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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14 posted on 02/06/2023 10:22:39 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Distinguished herself” has very different meanings between Dems and Republicans. To the latter it means taking a stand and making some sort of progress on specific pain points such as the border and the economy. To Dems it means being loud, hateful, polarizing, racist, and relentlessly partisan. Harris’s real liabilities, colossal stupidity and an inability to keep her mouth shut, aren’t really a problem for them.


15 posted on 02/06/2023 10:23:38 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Pretty much sums it up right here...


16 posted on 02/06/2023 10:27:34 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Cackle Queen proved The Peter Principle a long time ago.

“The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to “a level of respective incompetence”: employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle


17 posted on 02/06/2023 10:29:00 AM PST by Signalman
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

“the woman is a complete dolt.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQu_NLRvULM

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18 posted on 02/06/2023 10:29:59 AM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“dozens of Democrats in the White House, on Capitol Hill and around the nation — including some who helped put her on the party’s 2020 ticket — “

Those who put Harris on the 2020 ticket should be apologizing for their extremely poor judgement, NOT proffering more of their sage advice. Cue Harris giving an epic cackle.

If Biden runs, the Dems have to replace Harris, and given the pathetic nature of the current Dem stable, it must be someone with no record. Hope is always their strategy. It works for ballot-collection, fails in office.


19 posted on 02/06/2023 10:32:00 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How do you “define” the world’s biggest do-nothing job?

How many of her assignments has she blown off? Is she waiting to turn her work in late? Or to take a make-up exam?

She has all the characteristics of an AA incompetent slacker. In other words, she is absolutely perfect Dem POTUS material.


20 posted on 02/06/2023 10:33:18 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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