Posted on 07/23/2024 5:21:33 PM PDT by lasereye
The most striking thing about the Democratic move to anoint Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s presidential nominee is how incredibly fast it was. President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the race early Sunday afternoon. Thirty-two hours later, less than a day and a half, the party’s top leadership, plus a majority of the nearly 4,000 Democratic convention delegates, had committed to support Harris. By late Monday night, the Harris campaign posted a message headlined, “Statement from Vice President Kamala Harris on Becoming the Presumptive Democratic Nominee for President.”
People from all over the political world were amazed at what Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) called the “lightning quick unification” of the party. No, it was not surprising that the party would endorse its sitting vice president once the president removed himself from the scene. But even with Harris’s skimpy record and low approval ratings, nobody appeared to give supporting her a moment’s thought — they just acted. It would not be an exaggeration to call the move to Harris a stampede.
But if something so momentous can happen so quickly, doesn’t that mean additional momentous changes can happen just as quickly? It is July 23. The Democratic National Convention is scheduled to begin on Aug. 19. That’s 27 days away. Remember how much has changed in just the 10 days since July 13 — the Trump attempted assassination, the Republican National Convention, Biden’s withdrawal, and the Democratic embrace of Harris. Is there any reason to believe that things will settle down now?
More specifically, there is plenty of time for Democrats to rethink their rush to Harris. How will she do on the campaign trail? What will the polls show once enough time has passed for a reliable measurement of public opinion? How will Harris wear on voters? By the time Democrats meet in Chicago, there might be great happiness with Harris. On the other hand, there might be growing doubts.
The point is, there is time for change between now and the convention. On Tuesday, Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio released a memo predicting a media-driven “Harris honeymoon” over the next few weeks. But couldn’t the opposite occur, too — that after an initial mindless euphoria, some Democrats could develop a Harris hangover?
It’s good to remember that Harris was a terrible candidate in the 2019 Democratic presidential primary campaign. (She was so bad that her campaign did not make it to 2020, when the actual primary and caucus voting took place.) As the stampede was beginning over the weekend, the Washington Post’s Megan McArdle posted, “I feel like I am watching a lot of people who previously agreed that Harris was not a very good candidate suddenly convince themselves that actually, she is a spectacular candidate.” Here’s a guess: She won’t be a spectacular candidate.
Some observers might say, wait, there’s just 27 days until the convention. There’s no time to rethink the Harris choice. To answer that, look at something that the journalist Mickey Kaus, a pioneer blogger, calls the “Feiler faster thesis.” “The basic idea is this,” Kaus wrote way back in 2000. “The news cycle is much faster these days, thanks to 24-hour cable, the web, a metastasized pundit caste constantly searching for new angles, etc. As a result, politics is able to move much faster, too, as our democracy learns to process more information in a shorter period and to process it comfortably at this faster pace. Charges and countercharges fly faster, candidates’ fortunes rise and fall faster, etc.” What was true then is even more true now.
If the last 10 days have been a lesson in anything, it is that no one can predict what will happen 15 minutes from now, much less tomorrow or the next day. So it might be that the period before the Democratic convention is a huge success for Harris. But it also might be less than that. And if that happens, Democrats might look back with remorse — call it impulse buyer’s remorse — on the hours in which they raced to endorse Harris.
Also the media wasn't trying to escort Harris to the nomination back in 2020. They didn't her cover up her deficiencies because her opponents were also Dems.
This time around, her theme has already been created for her. It's the same one Biden was running on: Trump will end democracy, convicted felon etc. And if some other Dem was their nominee that would be their theme as well. It's a plug and play campaign.
Bottom line is what made her such a failure in 2020 doesn't apply this go round.
Good analysis.
Biden had some appeal to the White Working Class. She has none.THAT PARTY IS GONE.
Don’t be surprised if the Teamsters endorse Trump
Democrats will do what they are told. They are lethally obedient.
They’re mindless little worker bees 🐝.
Don’t overlook Harris the arch-abortionist. That issue has been overridden by recent events, but it hasn’t gone away. They will tie Trump to outlawing “women’s right to their own bodies,” and similar crapola, with the witless help of pro-life absolutists articulating extreme positions which will be trumpeted by the media. As a female, Harris will screech about this long and loud. Trump will have to stray from his basic message to answer the fraudulent attack.
Wishful thinking. We are in deep, deep trouble.
I pray this can be reversed.
She has glistening, manic eyes and is high now.
Her adulatory and idolatrous audiences believe she is their savior.
They hate God and disdain religion and informally believe in the occult and Satan.
They can hardly wait to punish Trump and see him in prison and punish us and see us in forced hard labor work camps, or dead.
2020-Tulsi put Kamala in her place. Tulsi was like the Korean merchants during the Rodney King riots.
Saw clips again recently. She was powerful.
We need all hands on deck to stop this surge of Leftist excitement.
I agree with your assessment.
Elon Musk just backed out of his pledge of $45M a month pledge, he “doesn’t subscribe to a “cult of personality”
Uh oh - the game is afoot
It is actually quite simple, She has been told to follow orders or else, meaning that she can “be unburdened” as much as she wants as long as she does what she is told to do. They have to find a VP who will also “follow orders. The Jihad Junta and all.. This is exactly why Hillary was not “chosen.”
They only ran Biden off when he hit his ceiling. Which was before the debate.
That is why they sent him out to Trump on National TV. They knew he would be horrible. News was ready with their talking points. They didn’t think he would fight them for 3 weeks.
If Biden was polling better, Democrats wouldn’t care. He’d still be running.
If Kamala hits a ceiling as low as Joe, and the Rats have time, they will get her out of the picture and promote her VP pick that they are actually choosing for her. He will be the nominee.
It’s more a surge of leftist excrement.
That’s there base. She turns off 3veryon3 else.
Nothing surprising about the speed.....even Biden’s ‘performance’ at the Debate and the media’s response was all set and ready....Since 2016 they’ve planned exactly how they will stay in office..... indefinitely.
Yeh one big difference as Donald said 10 days ago he took a bullet for democracy. In society image is everything that photo of him with his fist up is with worth a billion dollars in advertising
That’s not what he said. He said he created his pac to help Trump but was donating at much lower levels and not to the Trump campaign directly. Saying he is donating 45 million dollars a month directly to Trump would have gotten him in trouble with the FEC.
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