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.
There are a lot of problems with Harris but questioning why Biden chose her is idiotic. The reason is obvious; Biden chose her for the same reason Trump chose Pence. Women and African-Americans are the two largest parts of the Democratic base and Harris checks off those two boxes. White men and evangelicals are the two largest parts of the Republican base and Pence checks off those two boxes. Your vice-presidential pick shouldn't hurt the ticket. Harris doesn't.
Absolutely, but don’t expect the media to vilify her.
“Ben, you are on drugs. Biden has been a race pimp from day one of his campaign.”
I don’t know about drugs but shapiro has a strain of TDS in him, just not as virulent as in most on the left.
From the article:
“Facing a volatile, mistake-prone incumbent,”
A false premise in the first sentence.
I hope you are correct. We must remain alert!
The DNC is fractured. The Bernie wing is taking over from the Obama/Clinton wing.
The power brokers from behind the scenes are deathly afraid of losing their position inside the party.
That is why they staged South Carolina to save Biden's candidacy and they threw Harris in to ensure no Bernie people are in positions of power.
Harris is loyal to the Democratic establishment, not the radicals.
This is all about holding on for another 4 years in hopes they can run another establishment Democrat at the top and push the Bernie/AOC wing to the margins.
More over your post is juvenile in so many ways. Whites don't vote for skin color, they vote for policy. Quit projecting your tribal racial bias's onto white people.
Dude, is there an non alert person left in the USA at this point?
I saw some twitter reactions by the usual leftist racists. Someone actually said “there is nothing the right can say against (kameltoe)”
THAT is the very definition of living outside reality.
“heels up harris” seems to be sticking.
That's why Shapiro is a cuck.
I will never forget how she attempted to intimidate and humiliate a border control official a few years back. It was the most vicious and cruelest public display of hate I have ever seen. She is capable of vile, inhuman behavior. I despise her and all like her. Mean women are the lowest form of life on earth. She is the meanest of all. Her heart and soul were sold to the prince of darkness. One day, not soon enough, she will face a righteous God and be given a judgement worthy of her putrid, lurid, reprobate life.
Ask me on November 4th..
The back story is that Biden preferred Gretchen Whitmer. The dems may have forced Kamala Harris on him because she is the one least likely to object removing him via the 25th amendment.
Hillary is finished as a presidential candidate. I think the Democrats are throwing away the presidential race to concentrate on winning back the Senate and keeping the House, and of course I mean stealing back the Senate. They can keep Trump at bay for the next four years while controlling the investigative committees in Congress. I think this is the Democrats Plan B. They can plan more investigations on Trump and pave the way for winning the presidency and controlling both chambers of Congress in 2024. I don’t think the RATS want to get involved in a stolen presidential race. Controlling both chambers in Congress to harass Trump and the GOP and waiting for 2024 would be a far better plan for the RATS and a far less messy scenario for them to eventually gaining everything in four years.
Absolutely.
Yea, like little Ben could do it so much better. . .Never did like this fast talking brainiac. . .all head, no heart.
“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.”
For whatever reasons people can’t seem to understand that all things Clinton are not just dead but DEADER THAN BILLS PECKER WITHOUT VIAGRA.
Donald John Trump drove the stake firmly into the heart of the Clinton Machine.
Fortunately Webb’s kid Chelsea has even less charisma than the bitch that whelped her so there won’t be a second generation. But there are those here who believe Chelsea is just waiting her turn.
Is Kamala a radical? She, according to FNC, gets higher ratings from Police than the ACLU. I believe people who say she has no core beliefs except getting promoted are correct. She had the left hating her when she was running last year. She is no radical. She has veered left recently, but if she is elected and becomes POTUS, she will be more like Clinton than Obama.
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