Posted on 07/07/2024 10:41:54 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
After Kamala Harris' campaign for president flamed out in late 2019, her California power-player ex advised against her accepting any offer to be second banana on the Democratic ticket, warning that the vice presidency would actually be the nail in the coffin to any future White House ambitions.
Former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown - now 90 - wrote an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle warning his one-time lover Harris to decline Joe Biden's summer of 2020 offer, because 'historically, the vice presidency has often ended up being a dead end.'
'The glory would be short-lived, and historically, the vice presidency has often ended up being a dead end,' Brown wrote. 'For every George H.W. Bush, who ascended from the job to the presidency, there’s an Al Gore, who never got there.'
But as Democrats are now falling back in love with Harris out of necessity as they scramble to try and replace Biden at the top of the 2024 ticket following last week's cringe-worthy presidential debate performance, it appears that Brown got it all wrong.
Or at least he didn't account for opportunity knocking, because it is precisely Harris' position as VP that, despite her polling and behind-the-scenes unpopularity, has now made her the obvious choice in the eyes of many to replace Biden.
While Biden has insisted that he is fit to stay in the race and govern should he beat Donald Trump in November, Democratic operatives have reportedly already chosen Harris, and are now even discussing who her running mate should be.
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You can say it. Everyone knows. Horizontal slept her way to the top. It’s not exactly a secret.
The Fellatrix-In-Chief.
Yet the Democrats think they have a better chance with Sleepy Joe.
Warner is trying to knock Biden out, put Harris in his place. His reasoning is that this election cycle is shot. Nobody likes Harris, but rejecting her in a regular primary would alienate blacks, who might not vote GOP, but could stay home. So the best thing is to administer a death blow to Harris’s political career by having her lose in a landslide to Trump, so there’s no possibility of a Harris 2028 run.
Warner’s not doing it for the good of the Democrat party - he’s making a play for 2028. He did do an exploratory review for a White House run in 2008, then discovered he was a nobody with zero name recognition. If he manages to turf Biden, maybe he can sell himself as the savior of the Democrat party in 2028.
I guess it takes a while for news to get to England.
Where are those superfast clipper ships President Polk promised us?
I don’t know about the presidency being a dead end. In my lifetime, two VPs have been elected president. Nixon and Bush the Elder.
Trump should request a debate between him and harris since she will be president if Biden manages to win.
Very insightful analysis.
Gavin Newsom.
[Gavin Newsom]
Warner will go nowhere.
Who is Warner?
Who is Warner?
Most every Californian knew or suspected this. Did, or should have, Ms. Harris?
Character.
A good thing for a POUTUS to possess.
Newsom’s famous good looks have a predatory look, he doesn’t have a pleasant speaking voice, and California is a financial train wreck
A nobody.
The 'trash Kamala' stuff is starting sooner than I thought. Seems democrats are under lots of pressure to dump Biden as soon as possible and to take Kamala down with him. Every democrat in DC has known about Kamala's tawdry past since she was given the job. Her past didn't matter to Democrat power 'elties' until they read polls that said Biden could lose to Trump AND that Kamala was less popular than Biden. Power 'elites' butt boys in the MSM will now have the job of taking out Kamala. More trash talk soon as focus groups discover what works.
One more example of ways the democrat party lies about everything... and how easily they are willing to destroy anyone who stands in their way.
Another one if you’re old like me. Lyndon Johnson. It was kind of a sympathy “continue Kennedy’s vision” kind of thing but he did get elected in 64.
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