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Democrats Try To Make 2024 the ‘Cat Lady’ Election
Real Clear Politics ^ | 8/9/24 | J. Peter Zane

Posted on 08/09/2024 8:07:02 AM PDT by CFW

In the decades-long push to market candidates like soda pop, Kamala Harris marks the ultimate triumph of style over substance. Eschewing dusty position papers and tired old interviews, the vice president is campaigning on memes – quick flash images and hip slogans for a new generation.

Pushing voters to feel rather than think –with a panache that makes Donald Trump’s gut-level appeals seem thoughtful – Harris’ vibe-driven campaign has already given us “brat” (a dance and a weltanschauung), “weird,” “freedom,” and “coconut trees.” But if her TikTok-inspired operation has its way, 2024 is going to be all about Cat Ladies.

From the moment Donald Trump tapped J.D. Vance as his running mate – boy were they ready – the Harris campaign pounced on a 2021 interview in which Vance described Harris and many other Democrat leaders as “childless cat ladies.”

“Why have we let the Democrat party become controlled by people who don’t have children?” he asked in a separate discussion. “Why is this just a normal fact of American life, that the leaders of our country should be people who don’t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring, via their own children and grandchildren?”

One can protest until they are blue in the face that Vance was not criticizing childless people – especially those who, tragically, cannot have children – but what he sees as the “anti-family and anti-child” drift of the modern Democratic Party.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: catladies; democrats; election; harris
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To: bgill

Quote: “ . . . so do you really know anything about your neighbor or did you not care to know.”

Have to answer that one. Yes, I know we shoveled her driveway. I know we made three mortgage payments for her. I know during Sandy we drive to the grocery store for her.

And I know that she called the police on the neighbors on a regular basis for walking too close to her house, or making too much noise mowing their lawns.

Yah, I know.


21 posted on 08/09/2024 9:08:48 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: FlipWilson
But dogs rule!!!

No, they don't. Dogs have masters, but cats have staffs.

22 posted on 08/09/2024 9:19:07 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: xenia
There are millions and millions of single women in our country today and many are independents. Trump can not win without votes from the independents.

They need to appeal to the independent voters, not alienate them. In fact, that comment may insult many Trump supporters as well.

No. Republicans need to stand for something. And that something, at the very least, should be the future of our nation, not just the present. It is true that there are many single men and women in our nation. Some don't want to be. But some have decided, selfishly, to be alone and/or childless. I know people who married and never had kids, not because they couldn't, but because they didn't want the responsibility or change in their lifestyles. This is selfishness, no matter how you want to spin it.

That same selfishness is at the root of most of the problems facing our nation. And that's something anyone who cares about the future needs to call out and stand against.

The people who can't find a mate or can't bear children have my sympathies. They should know that they are not the intended targets of this criticism. But, the ones that whine about it are far more likely angry at the deep truths they know in their heart, how their own choices and behaviors have led them to their present position. The hit dog barks. Honestly, if childless women will vote against the policies that will preserve the future of this country, just because they feel slighted or insulted, then they are just as selfish as they are accused of being. And living down to every stereotype of women that gets bandied about online. So, acknowledge the realities, or get out of the way.

23 posted on 08/09/2024 9:34:23 AM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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To: Fiji Hill

Cats poop in a smelly box inside your house. Dogs rule.


24 posted on 08/09/2024 9:46:29 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: CFW

Cat ladies vote democrats anyway.


25 posted on 08/09/2024 10:34:35 AM PDT by just me (Trade your liberty for temporary safety. I will keep mine. My family doesn't fly a white flag.)
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To: just me

We can point out they will have more money for cat food and litter.


26 posted on 08/09/2024 10:51:15 AM PDT by just me (Trade your liberty for temporary safety. I will keep mine. My family doesn't fly a white flag.)
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To: CFW

Repeal the 19th!


27 posted on 08/09/2024 10:54:29 AM PDT by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: CFW

Nope. It’s the Stolen Valor, Deaf DUI and I isolated and abandoned my own mother who’d just had heart surgery because of Covid election......


28 posted on 08/09/2024 10:58:21 AM PDT by Gaffer
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I’m a cat lady....what about the dog ladies? What about just the childless people or the single ladies with no cats. This was the most assinine uniformed ignorant statement that man could make. And i see some of you feel the same. I’ve had cats literally my whole life and never wanted marriage or kids but i’ve been active and a patriot since i could read.... do shove your ignorance.


29 posted on 08/09/2024 11:02:01 AM PDT by Fawn ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6)
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To: FlipWilson
I had a cat lady living on my street. The tales of craziness that I could tell. Like keeping dead cats in the freezer until she could afford a proper burial. Anywho, I’d say the Dems are welcome to become the party of the crazy cat ladies, but really, aren’t they already there.

Are you serious? You are one stupid dumb @$$. Here....get to know the crazy dog ladies and you can be ignorant on them too. https://www.animalhearted.com/blogs/dogs/crazy-dog-lady

30 posted on 08/09/2024 11:06:08 AM PDT by Fawn ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6)
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)

W T H does being childless, owning cats, staying single, not wanting the responsibility of kids ...whatever.....have to do with wanting to preserve this nation and being Patriotic? I know so many people in every situation, like me, who want the best want to keep America Great by voting Conservative....just like you married people with kids. Your mind needs resetting.


31 posted on 08/09/2024 11:15:38 AM PDT by Fawn ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6)
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To: Gaffer

That’s exactly it. Just the facts.

This whole cat lady nonsense is embarrassing and pathetic. I can see the left’s wing nut retards glomming on to it, but US? SERIOUSLY? We’re better than that and shouldn’t stoop to their level.

Probably more than half of the left FReeper ladies have cats or dogs. And dog people are equally invested in their pets as cat people are.


32 posted on 08/09/2024 11:17:47 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's not as if Biden has the nuclear codes or anything. 😳)
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To: just me
Cat ladies vote democrats anyway.

I've been in cat rescue my whole life...and i can tell you that most of the rescuers I know are Republicans. I know more ppl with babies that are DEMOCRATS becuz they want the free school lunch food , they want more handouts becuz they have kids....the free school supplies..on and on. There are your free handout HELP ME GOV't people ...the Democrats....the ppl with kids.

33 posted on 08/09/2024 11:21:07 AM PDT by Fawn ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6)
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To: FlipWilson

Cats bury their scat. Dogs leave it wherever they want. Cats rule.


34 posted on 08/09/2024 11:36:45 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Dogs are LOYAL family members, cats are SLAVE OWNERS.


35 posted on 08/09/2024 12:06:12 PM PDT by 5th MEB (1)
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To: MayflowerMadam

YUP, but actually my Wife and I have both dogs and cats, plus 2 HUMAN CHILDREN.

The cats do pretty much what they want when they want, but they do keep the rats and mice at controllable levels.

The dogs do pretty much what they want when they want, but they do keep the bears, mountain lions, and bobcats off the livestock.

The human kids do pretty much what they want when they want, and pretty much just ignore us otherwise.

So for the Wife and I it’s pretty much a win, win, lose situation; the kids both graduated from college and are doing their own thing, THAT’S LIFE.


36 posted on 08/09/2024 12:17:56 PM PDT by 5th MEB (1)
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To: just me

LOL..


37 posted on 08/09/2024 1:00:54 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: 5th MEB

When it was time to get up in the morning and I was still in bed, my calico cat Tasha would jump on the bed and purr loudly. If that didn’t work, she would bat my face to remind me that it was time to get up and feed her.

She passed away at 18 from renal failure, a frequent cause of death for older cats, on November 8, 2016. Although it was a sad day for me, it was also Election Day, so I was cheered by the good news later that evening.


38 posted on 08/09/2024 2:20:34 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: CFW

Now they just need to lock down left handed lesbians who played lacrosse at Loyola! 520 evs!


39 posted on 08/09/2024 2:22:55 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Clay Bevis and Cuck Butthead are panty wadded, pearl clutching cowards. Rush deserves better.)
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To: xenia

What are you? 70?


40 posted on 08/09/2024 2:23:35 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Clay Bevis and Cuck Butthead are panty wadded, pearl clutching cowards. Rush deserves better.)
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