Posted on 09/02/2024 8:35:05 AM PDT by DFG
How do accomplished radicals elect a mediocre far-left presidential candidate?
The task might at first seem impossible.
Kamala Harris is currently a radical incumbent vice president.
For more than three years, she was second in command to an unprecedentedly unliked Democratic president, his failed policies and his unpopular record.
Harris herself had compiled a hard-left trail over her own entire career while loudly boasting indiscreetly to leftist audiences of being proudly “woke” and “radical.”
Most challenging for a Harris candidacy makeover was the long, entrenched Democratic Party’s reluctance to remove a debilitated President Biden from the Democratic ticket.
Why?
Because Harris was deemed such a liability that she had become a Spiro Agnew-like insurance policy for a failing Biden.
Until just recently, Democrats had considered an unpopular and enfeebled Biden nonetheless far preferable to an incoherent, lightweight and widely ridiculed potential replacement Vice President Harris.
After all, she had never before entered a presidential primary.
She never won a single delegate by voting.
She failed miserably as a candidate in 2020.
And she co-owns the unpopular record of an even more unpopular president.
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I really don’t think VDH believes this. He’s just stating how she and her allies will campaign.
And fail, IMHO.
“For more than three years, she was second in command...”
She also can be put in charge of various projects by the President. She was put in charge of getting the border under control (yeah, right), she was put in charge of high-speed internet for under served areas (zero installed so far), And who can forget her explanation of A.I.?
But she can and should be blamed for all of the failures of the Biden-Harris administration. She claims she’s the ‘last person in the room’ when Biden makes an important decision such as abandoning Afghanistan to the Taliban.
She has no real power, but she does have access to he who supposedly does. She was unwavering in her support of all of his policies and went out of her way to assure the American public that he was fit and sharp. She should not be let off of the hook although the MSP is wanting us to think that she has had nothing to do with the current administration.
They’ll need to abandon the plan in about two weeks, once people back to the daily grind, nothing good likely to be happening in the economy, foreign policy and Harris needing to either prop up Joe or help toss him over in an unseemly manner.
It appears to be going according to the plan of the 15 rules. Having a compliant media makes this easy.
If she is elected, you voters put this nation under the control of a 10 yr old.
I have figured out why her numbers are what you claim. There are that many people who do not want any rules.. They want to do whatever.. Loose, unorganized.. Let the world in.. Don’t expect anything good.. And if you are attacked by illegals.. So be it.
......After all, [harris] had never before entered a presidential primary.
She never won a single delegate by voting.
She failed miserably as a candidate in 2020......
And she’s not even “mediocre”. She’s totally substandard!
“The task might at first seem impossible.”
Ever heard of B. Hussein Obama?
1. Remake Harris as an entirely fresh, happy face. She’s about joy and vibe — which beats position papers and policy statements. Banish all thoughts that she is an incumbent vice president and co-owns the last four years of the Biden administration.
2. Ignore/deny that Harris as vice president could have long ago enacted her new makeover proposal — or could do so right now in the remaining five months of her administration’s tenure. She was the last person out of the room when Biden made those awful decisions.
3. For the next 70 days, reinvent Harris as a moderate. Xerox much of Donald Trump’s current, more popular agenda. Have Harris claim it as her own. Reboot her as a border hawk, a China hawk, a defense hawk, a budget hawk, and a law-and-order hawk.
4. The word-salad Harris must not do a single unscripted media interview, live town hall, extemporaneous chat, ambush hot mic, or lecture without a teleprompter.
5. Harris must not offer any policy proposals such as her harebrained price controls that deviate from her 70-day new centrist image and teleprompted scripts.
6. Do not mention Biden at all. Harris is not to be seen with him in photos or at events. Create a vaguely joyful, but completely imaginary, “Harris record.” Separate it from the miserable Biden-Harris administration. Leak that she was unhappy with Biden.
7. Call Trump a mobster, criminal, insurrectionist and dictator nonstop. Never provide any evidence to support such charges. When challenged, double down and let loose with worse invective.
8. Talk about abortion nonstop. But never dare mention the word. Relabel abortion “reproductive rights.” Falsely reinvent Trump as a radical anti-abortionist who wants a federal ban.
9. Follow the 2020 successful Biden “basement” strategy: Keep out of the public eye, silent on the issues, reliant on 70% of the ballots not being cast on Election Day, and outsourcing the campaign to the fusion media and billionaire class.
10. Harangue about race and gender nonstop. Define the election as a stark binary between a “young” oppressed but dynamic black woman and an old oppressor racist white guy.
11. Reinvent the “journey” and life “story” of Harris — the child of two PhDs — into a hardscrabble, lifelong struggle against poverty, systemic racism, and greedy “billionaires” like Trump. She is always to be from Oakland — never Berkeley.
12. Talk about transparency nonstop. Feign a willingness to have three or four debates. But agree to hold only one — and only on a left-wing network. Promise interviews and town halls endlessly. Enter into discussions about them. But always delay, stonewall, and evade for the next 10 weeks.
13. Meet privately and endlessly with the megarich donor class that helped to remove Biden. Assure Wall Street, Hollywood and Silicon Valley grandees that banter about wealth taxes, taxes on unearned income and higher corporate taxes are mere campaign posturing. Then outraise Trump again 3 to 1.
14. Privately assure leftist activists and Democratic politicos that any backslidings from supporting lifelong left-wing advocacies are temporary and necessary 70-day pretexts. Instead look at what Harris actually does after Nov. 5, not anything she must say before then.
15. Control and modulate the street. Anti-Trump protests are a legitimate “movement” that are “not going to let up. And they should not.” Any violent anti-Trump demonstrator should be bailed out immediately.
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