The Vibe as Veil

SteynonLine ^ | August 16, 2024 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

~As far as I can tell, no one who knows her likes Kamala Harris. Other than Willie Brown, that is. But the fellows who decided Joe Biden had outlived his uselessness did not wish to open up a free-for-all race for the succession. They were not willing to entertain a pseudo-primary ding-dong between Newsom, Buttigeig, whoever - and the only person available to be simply announced as de facto nominee was Kamala.

So the swift surgical liquidation of Biden and the installation of Harris was accomplished. And the plan then became to keep the un-nominated nominee under wraps so that her unlikeability does not become known until, say, mid-November. This seems to be working. If one is willing to believe polls, the two latest have Kamala up four (Emerson) or, alternatively, Trump up four (Rasmussen). Which means, either way, the vice president wins, as the instant switcheroo has put the race back within the Democrats' margin of steal.

Oops, did I refer to Ms Harris as the "vice president"? Pardon me, my mistake. The strategy is to present her as the change candidate, the outsider, the insurgent - notwithstanding that she is, in fact, the incumbent. To the seven remaining Biden loyalists, this is beginning to take its toll:

Put this in an ad immediately...

KJP: "Do you know this is the Biden-Harris administration. Are you aware that this is the Biden-Harris administration and she is indeed the Vice President?"

pic.twitter.com/03X2waQEhk — Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 14, 2024

[z3n]

The dilemma for the democrats, in my opinion, is that the media has been fairly successful at lifting Kamala.

The way I said it, back when we were speculating whether or when Joe would be booted out, was that they had to give Harris a shot, and couldn’t be seen as passing over her.
But the problem is, her ratings were always as low as Biden’s ratings finally sank to.

So, they would give Harris until the convention as a trial period. If she (or more appropriately, if the media) could raise her polling numbers, they would probably let her ride as the official candidate.

The dilemma is that the legacy media was able to whip the base democrat NPCs into buying into her, but they really don’t know how much she can get from the independents.

Trump was President for 4 years. Even though the left hates him, he is a known quantity now. Harris is not.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

They didn’t pull off 2020 to put in Biden-Harris. What they were doing in Ukraine was starting to get exposed.

They aren’t keeping Harris, now, because they like her. Biden was beyond his expiration date, but they are stuck with this administration, or Russia is going to wrap things up.

[LegendHasIt]

"Other than Willie Brown, that is."

Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I thought I read an interview of Willie Brown a year or two ago, and he didn't have much good to say about Kamala either, other than she was very good at one particular sex act.

[cymbeline]

“no one who knows her likes Kamala Harris. Other than Willie Brown”

Maybe Willie doesn’t. From Wikipedia’s article on Willie. I posted this earlier.

“Harris is the only one who, after I helped her, sent word that I would be indicted if I ‘so much as jaywalked’ while she was D.A.”