Kamala Harris’ Impossible Challenge

RealClearPolitics ^ | J. Peder Zane

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Kamala Harris is roundly criticized for feeding America a steady diet of word salads. But what else can she do, given her impossible task of making the Democratic Party’s progressive policies palatable to the American people?

To appreciate Harris’ challenge, note that none of her top surrogates have been able to square that circle either. There is no Democrat who makes you think, why can’t our candidate just say that – as Sen. Tom Cotton and Vivek Ramaswamy do for Republicans while describing Donald Trump’s policies. Harris’ stand-ins may not get lost in the weeds of pablum, as Harris did last week when she told a crowd, “I grew up understanding the children of the community are the children of the community.” But when they are not comparing Trump to Hitler, her representatives are as gauzy and incoherent as she is.

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Yes, Harris and her surrogates could tell the truth about their intentions to continue the unpopular and feckless policies the Biden administration has imposed on the country during the last four years. But there’s an election to win.

The brazenness of their deception is breathtaking. Consider Harris’ refusal to meet the press. She’ll take softball questions from carefully selected local outlets but flatly refuses to hold unscripted press conferences that might include a few challenging questions. Her handlers’ apparent fear is that she will come across as incoherent – not because she is stupid, but because she has to say something, so long as it’s not the truth about her record and her party’s goals.

The press corps is happy to play along, pretending her unscripted silence is normal. It’s not. It’s a scandal.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Wow. Must be nice to run for office and not have to give a single real interview. Just wow.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

1. She’s black (kind of)
2. She’s a woman

What more do you need to know?

[RoosterRedux]

Here's a great comment from source:

Richard Kid YaZhynka
1 hour ago

"My values have not changed" -- Kamala Harris, who has said that she would:

• Consider implementing a 70% - 80% tax rate.
• Impose Government-Enforced, Soviet-style Price Controls on Private Businesses.
• Decriminalize Illegal Border Crossings.
• Eliminate Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
• End Private Health Insurance
• Put the Federal Government in Charge of Everybody's Health Care
• Give Illegal Aliens Free Government Health Care
• Ban Fracking
• Ban offshore drilling for oil
• Defund the Police
• Deny U.S. Citizens the Right to own Rifles

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Policies vs. personalities?

[SERKIT]

..... lost in the weeds of pablum .....

I love mixed metaphors....

[Gay State Conservative]

Yes...anyone trying to explain the Rat Party agenda in a positive way would have trouble. But Heel Up’s problem is exacerbated by her 85 IQ.

[FreedBird]

Hiding Biden was bad, now Hiding Harris is worse. The great cover-up now underway by the paid off media.

[j.havenfarm]

Me too. You see them all the time. Journalists are so lazy and the nation’s editors seem to have quit en masse

[unclebankster]

Harris is a terrible candidate, but the democrats have a huge institutional and infrastructure advantage over Trump or any other Republican.

Every state in our union has liberal urban areas and college towns.

Every state in our union has a liberal media.

Every state in our union has liberals running the law system.

Every state in our union has government bureaucracies full of democrats.

It’s actually surprising we aren’t doing worse.

[1Old Pro]

It’s actually surprising we aren’t doing worse.

especially when so many voters rely on government handouts.

[enumerated]

Trump has a better policies AND a better personality.

This idea that President Trump is obnoxious is a fiction - an invention of the fake news media. In reality, he is quite charming.

True, many people have bought into this myth that he is obnoxious and rubs people the wrong way - but these are not people who would ever consider voting Republican. The only people who believe he is obnoxious are people whose only exposure to Trump is a daily dose of MSNBC/CNN fake news - selective sound bites heavily edited and taken out of context - designed to make him look bad. In other words, these are committed Democrat voters.

These are not people who voted for Reagan because he was polished but will vote against Trump because he is crude. No such person exists on the face of the earth.

They have never actually listened to a Trump rally speech in its entirety and they never will. Trump was never ever going to get these votes - so the fact that they believe he is obnoxious or a Hitler is entirely inconsequential.

[adorno]

given her impossible task of making the Democratic Party’s progressive policies palatable to the American people?

She was 'born' with policy.

Her policy is that..

She's a woman.

And, she's a person of color.

Trump doesn't have any of those.

At least 45% of voters look for Harris's gender and color. She's got that percentage without having to work for it. All she needs another 2-5% to become president.

Policy? Biden didn't have any real policies either, and he became president (election theft or not).

We republicans talk policy and issues. Democrats talk gender and color. One can't undo gender or color.

[Vaduz]

Harris and her surrogates could tell the truth it’s the day they die body shuts down 100%.

[joshua c]

its not a campaign

its a movie production

[Diversity Is Our Weakness]

Article left out the most glaring hypocrisy. Democrats say no one is above the law while they support the 60 million illegal invaders.