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Get Kamala Harris Into the White House With This One Weird 184-Year-Old Trick
PJ Media ^ | September 09, 2024 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 09/10/2024 8:25:18 AM PDT by george76

Five weeks after officially becoming the Democrat party’s candidate for president, Kamala Harris still hasn’t held a press conference. In that span, she has only given one interview, a truncated, heavily scripted affair in which she leaned heavily upon her vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz. Only on Sunday did her campaign get around to posting some of her policy positions on her website.

Democrat power brokers are clearly hoping that they can keep doing this all the way to the Oval Office, and why not? It is an old and venerable American political trick that has worked more than once before: sell the candidate like soap flakes with a campaign that is long on excitement and short on specifics.

The first time this happened in a presidential campaign was 184 years ago. As "Rating America’s Presidents" explains, in 1840, the country’s main opposition party at the time, the Whigs, ran William Henry Harrison for president and John Tyler for vice president — that’s right, “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.” Many years before this, in 1811, Harrison was governor of the Indiana Territory when he defeated a native American confederacy led by the fearsome Tecumseh in the Battle of Tippecanoe. In 1840, the Whigs were determined to get Harrison into the White House not based on his public positions, but rather upon the appeal of the persona they fashioned for him.

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Van Buren was overly optimistic. These tactics would be repeated again and again. Today we’re getting Tippecanoed again with Kamala’s campaign of “joy.” She is young! She laughs! She’s a woman of color! She isn’t old and mean like Trump! It has worked before. It could work again.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: harris; johntyler; joy; kamala; kamalaharris; martinvanburen; whigs; williamhenryharrison
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1 posted on 09/10/2024 8:25:18 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Whatever she blew and Tampon Tim too!...............


2 posted on 09/10/2024 8:28:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: george76

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/02/15/how-americans-view-the-situation-at-the-u-s-mexico-border-its-causes-and-consequences/

How Americans view situation at the border.


3 posted on 09/10/2024 8:35:14 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: george76

We will have to add one on for Kameltoe.

4 posted on 09/10/2024 8:35:23 AM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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To: Red Badger; SaveFerris; PROCON

I think the Van Buren Boys did Harrison in, not pneumonia. He didn’t know the “sign.”


5 posted on 09/10/2024 8:36:29 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: george76

I can’t equate that cackle of hers with “joy” at all.

It reminds me of a Grimm’s fairy tale witch about to boil children to eat.


6 posted on 09/10/2024 8:37:56 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: george76

We keep assuming that Democrat voters are actually good people who are merely dazzled by the Democrats.

They aren’t.

Anyone who still supports the Democrats has a criminal heart, mind and soul.

Anyone.

They all, ALL, think that the Democrat politicians will steal for them.

Those aren’t good people.


7 posted on 09/10/2024 8:42:45 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: rlmorel
We will have to add one on for Kameltoe.

I'm thinking she should show she's really one of the people by going county fairs and being photographed eating hotdogs...

8 posted on 09/10/2024 8:55:08 AM PDT by null and void (Don't hallucinate and legislate, don't hallucinate and educate, don't hallucinate and procreate)
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To: blueunicorn6

“We keep assuming that Democrat voters are actually good people who are merely dazzled by the Democrats.

They aren’t.”

Preach it Bruh!

This isn’t just a difference of opinion.
They hate us, and we hate them.


9 posted on 09/10/2024 8:59:11 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: george76

184 year old trick? Prostitution! Yes she’s a whore.


10 posted on 09/10/2024 9:00:31 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (#PureBlood )
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To: george76

What did Van Buren in was the Panic of 1837.

Trying to get reelected in the middle of a financial crisis and economic depression is really tough.


11 posted on 09/10/2024 9:19:38 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: george76

I thought the trick was to assassinate your competition?


12 posted on 09/10/2024 9:35:34 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: george76

Harris is avoiding press conferences for one simple reason, she is just plain stupid. She is a opportunistic whore who prostituted herself for advancement.


13 posted on 09/10/2024 9:40:17 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: unclebankster

Right. The article kind of misses the point.

Voters upset with the status quo don’t need much of a reason to vote for the outsider.

Kamala isn’t the outsider in this election.


14 posted on 09/10/2024 9:51:46 AM PDT by DarrellZero (.)
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To: george76

Van Buren’s Vice President was Richard Mentor Johnson, who claimed to have killed Tecumseh in battle. Johnson is the only VP to be elected by the Senate following a tie in the electoral college.


15 posted on 09/10/2024 10:02:49 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: null and void

The vision seems nauseating to me!


16 posted on 09/10/2024 11:48:28 AM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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Who’s eaten more hotdogs, Joey Chestnut or Kamala Harris?


17 posted on 09/10/2024 12:01:43 PM PDT by null and void (Don't hallucinate and legislate, don't hallucinate and educate, don't hallucinate and procreate)
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To: null and void
Speaking of hot dogs and Kamala...


18 posted on 09/10/2024 12:07:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Yeah.


19 posted on 09/10/2024 12:32:11 PM PDT by null and void (Don't hallucinate and legislate, don't hallucinate and educate, don't hallucinate and procreate)
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To: null and void

Not…helping…not…helping!


20 posted on 09/10/2024 1:58:21 PM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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