Posted on 08/12/2020 4:45:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
For well over a year, former Vice President Joe Biden has carried forth a simple strategy: Be nonthreatening. Facing a volatile, mistake-prone incumbent, Biden merely had to mimic vital signs, stay out of the spotlight and avoid looking off-putting or radical. And he accomplished those objectives, to great effect. He barely stumbled his way through the Democratic primaries, representing the nonradical voting repository for those alienated by the extremism of Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren; he refused to kowtow to the Twitter blue checkmarks calling for him to endorse rioting and looting; he shied away from insane slogans about defunding the police. He stayed in the basement, playing prevent defense against President Donald Trump.
All he had before him was one final hurdle: picking a vice president.
Usually, the vice presidential pick means little or nothing. The vice presidency is a uniquely powerless office, and presidents rarely hand over power to their vice presidents. But Joe Biden will be 78 in November and appears to be slipping significantly mentally -- despite CNN's protestations that he can still ride a bicycle. There is a reason nearly 6 in 10 Americans, according to a new Rasmussen poll, think Biden's vice president will finish his first term.
So Biden had one task: to pick a vice president who would appear nonthreatening, mainstream and generally normal. The onus would then lie with President Trump to shift the spotlight from his own campaign.
Biden couldn't do it.
He made an early error on that score when he declared publicly that he would pick a woman. This made it obvious that Biden was seeking a token -- some sop for the woke progressives in his base. And that sop opened the door to further demands: the demand, for example, that he pick not merely a woman (or, as the woke left might have it, an individual with a cervix) but a black woman. And so Biden was trapped into a limited selection of politicians, ranging from the unknown (Rep. Val Demings of Florida) to the communist (Rep. Karen Bass of California), from the quietly sinister (former President Obama's national security advisor Susan Rice) to the loudly ridiculous (Georgia non-governor Stacey Abrams).
None of these picks would be great; some would be far worse than others. But there was one pick who would prove far worse than all the others: Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. Harris is deeply radical. She endorsed "Medicare for All" while announcing that she would move Americans away from their private health care plans; she announced in open debate that she would use executive orders to ban "assault weapons"; she said she would ban fracking; she attacked Justice Brett Kavanaugh as a purported rapist and Judge Brian Buescher for his Catholicism. Harris is unpopular with many black Americans: As a prosecutor, she was fond of pursuing heavy sentences for light charges, as well as civil asset forfeiture -- and then she bragged about smoking marijuana during her campaign. Harris has similarly alienated moderates, attacking Biden himself as a vicious racist for his unwillingness to support forced school busing in the 1970s, and suggesting that she believed Biden's sexual harassment accusers. There is a reason Harris utterly flamed out in the primaries, aside from her bizarre habit of breaking into a Joker-esque whoop when asked difficult questions.
Nothing about Harris screams nonthreatening. In fact, in her Machiavellian campaign manipulations, she appeared deeply threatening -- threatening enough that Biden campaign adviser Chris Dodd reportedly wondered why Harris "had no remorse" for her opportunistic and dishonest attacks on Biden. At the very least, Biden should hire a food taster.
In selecting Harris, Biden has opened the door to the Trump campaign. And Trump should take full advantage. Biden's alleged moderation means nothing if he is willing to place Kamala Harris one heartbeat from the presidency. Biden's entire campaign strategy has now been undercut -- all in a vain attempt to please the Twitterati, who will remain pleased for precisely seven seconds. Trump should be ecstatic. The race is on. And that's all on Biden.
As if Biden had anything to do with the selection. I still think she-devil Hillary is still going to force her way into the ticket after it’s too late for her to campaign or debate.
Say what you want about Geraldine Ferraro. She didn’t get to where she did on her back and/or on her knees.
But since Ferraro, the only women Dems pick for their top tickets are women who do.
Feminism is dead.
November landslide.
Wasn’t she supposed to have “forced” her way into the VP slot? Which was supposed to be after Michelle O forced Biden out to get the nomination.
Now we have new kooky theory that Hillary will do so like what, 3 days before the election?
I swear that witch lives rent free in people’s heads.
12 Aug: Summit News: CNN Suggests Kamala Harris Will be President When Biden Decides to “Step Aside”
Not exactly a ringing endorsement of Uncle Joe’s longevity.
by Paul Joseph Watson
Within hours of the announcement that Kamala Harris would be Joe Biden’s running mate, CNN published an article asserting that Harris would be able to take on the presidency if and when Biden decides to “step aside.”
“Joe Biden made the pick that maximized his chances of continuing to make the race a straight referendum on Trump while also selecting someone whose resume suggests being ready to step in, if and when Biden decides to step aside,” states a tweet by CNN which links to an article by CNN editor-at-large Chris Cilizza...
CNN TWEET/LINK
https://summit.news/2020/08/12/cnn-suggests-kamala-harris-will-be-president-when-biden-decides-to-step-aside/
Ben, you are on drugs. Biden has been a race pimp from day one of his campaign.
This pick makes no sense unless Deep State is convinced they have no shot at winning the election.
Wonder what the next plot will be.
Or if they’ve just decided to gird their loins and wait out the next four years.
In which case I really hope Trump has plans in place for someone to carry the torch after his second term is up.
I want to see Harris vilified the same way as Palin. The vilification of Palin was unjustified, while Harris deserves to be criticized for her past words and actions.
I couldn’t agree with you more. Several times, the dems have pulled a losing candidate out at the last second, not minute, and snow-plowed another on to the ticket to snatch a win from certain defeat.
I can well see a sudden discovery of Biden’s dementia and an efficient trotting out of Hillary to lead the ticket, even if it is so late that the ballots still have Joe’s name on them.
She and her health problems, and her sordid history, will have thus escaped 2 years of scrutiny.
Once in office, she can fix any problems, past, present or future.
The outcome was decided in favor of Trump/Pence when Gropin’ declared he’d pick a black female as Veep. He put the DemonRats in a box.
Biden chose the one primary candidate who received ZERO delegates from her own party.
Kamala was rejected by the DNC rank and file, but Joe thought she would make a good VP.
No future election’s outcome is decided. Depending on fraud, block votes and other factors, this one is wide open.
Have Ben and the rest of the Republicans all agreed to never bring up Heels Harris’ experience in gaming to the top with her genitalia?
Simply repeating “She wants to take your guns” (considering recent sales, especially in leftist strongholds) ought to finish her.
Ray Charles could see this Trump Tsunami coming 100 miles away.
By their accusations of Trump, they’ve told us that they will never accept losing the election.
“makes no sense”
Modern politics is poll and focus group driven. Sense rarely enters into modern American politics.
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