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.
...
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Whatever she blew and Tampon Tim too!...............
How Americans view situation at the border.
We will have to add one on for Kameltoe.
I think the Van Buren Boys did Harrison in, not pneumonia. He didn’t know the “sign.”
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.
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.
I'm thinking she should show she's really one of the people by going county fairs and being photographed eating hotdogs...
“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.
184 year old trick? Prostitution! Yes she’s a whore.
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.
I thought the trick was to assassinate your competition?
Harris is avoiding press conferences for one simple reason, she is just plain stupid. She is a opportunistic whore who prostituted herself for advancement.
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.
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.
The vision seems nauseating to me!
Who’s eaten more hotdogs, Joey Chestnut or Kamala Harris?
Yeah.
Not…helping…not…helping!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.