Posted on 09/17/2024 5:26:13 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn
Oops: MSNBC said the quiet part out loud.
Hayes Brown, an MSNBC writer and editor, wrote a new column today, entitled “What to make of Kamala Harris’ move to the center.” It’s an eye-opening observation and/or admission from the Democratic Party’s base. As you likely suspect, the Radical Left views the 2024 presidential election differently than Team MAGA: It’s not about making America great again, but tricking Americans into voting for a candidate who’s out of step with the voters’ ethos, goals, fears, and priorities.
And the role model for Kamala Harris’s trickery? None other than Tim Walz.
“[Kamala’s] attention is now fully on barnstorming the purple areas of swing states,” Brown wrote, “focused less on appeasing the progressive base of the party than on winning over whichever voters are still making up their minds about how to vote in November — or if at all. The result has been a campaign that’s burning through the fuel the base provided when she became the nominee.”
Alas, the only way to attract the middle, it seems, is to forego the wackier, more controversial positions of the Radical Left. In Brown’s mind, it’s a risky tradeoff.
“The goal is to convert that [progressive] energy into enough moderate votes to eke out a win against former President Donald Trump,” Brown noted. “In the process, she has steadily shed the stances she took when vying against 19 other candidates to court the progressive left in 2019.”
In a kind, nonjudgmental way, Brown pointed out that Harris has switched positions more often than an OnlyFans model.
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“there’s a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests often everybody should get the same thing. Well, that often assumes everybody started out in the same place; as opposed to equity, which is everyone should end up in the same place. And if you then understand not everybody started out in the same place, you understand that some people need more, so we all end up in the same place, right?”
“Let me just be very clear about this, I am opposed to any policy that would deny, in our country, any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public healthcare. Period.”
“I’ve always supported Medicare for All”
“We’ve got to increase the corporate tax rate”
“There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking”
“Under my plan there will also be a carbon fee.”
“When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles, and reduce population”
“And Build Back Better is not going to cost anything, we’re paying for it.”
“When I was Attorney General, I learned that the California Department of Corrections – which was a client of mine, I didn’t get to choose my clients… that they were standing in the way of surgery for prisoners. And there was a specific case. And when I learned about the case, I worked behind the scenes to not only make sure that that transgender woman got the services she was deserving.”
“I will snatch their patent, so that we [the American government] will take over. And, yes, we can do that! Yes! Yes, we can do that! Yes, we can do that! It’s the question is, do you have the will do it? I have the will do it!”
“I support a mandatory buyback program.”
“I’m open to this conversation about extending the number of people on the United States Supreme Court, about increasing the number of people on the United States Supreme Court.”
“The power I have as a prosecutor is that with the swipe of my pen, I can charge someone with a misdemeanor. The lowest level offense possible. And by virtue of that swipe of my pen, you will have to go to a courthouse and stand in line, you will have to come out of pocket and hire an attorney, you may get arrested for a few hours, you will be embarrassed in your community, you will miss time from coming onto the Google campus, all because with the swipe of my pen I charged you with a crime, which I may choose to dismiss two weeks later. It’s an incredible amount of power.”
“Remember, age is more than a chronological fact. What else do we know about this population 18 through 24? They are stupid. That is why we put them in dormitories and they have a resident assistant! They make really bad decisions.”
She’s a leftist, not a liberal. She doesn’t have a liberal bone in her body.
The “moderates” that I know seem to want to be lied to.
If Kamala lies now she will continue if elected.
When Slick Willy lied, the members of the MSM high-fived each other.
A nice compendium of Comrade CommieLa’s marxist musings.
“She’s a leftist, not a liberal.”
True. When in the Senate, my memory is that her voting record was to the left of Bernie the Bolshevik Sanders. It doesn’t get any more looney left than that.
And they are indeed repeating the same leftist lies over and over again.
Bernie Sanders a few days ago: “No, I don’t think she’s abandoning her ideals. I think she is trying to be pragmatic and do what she thinks is right in order to win the election.”
“The “moderates” that I know seem to want to be lied to.”
There’s a sucker born every minute. Such are many in the mushy middle (”moderates”).
It’s all they have been told. An original thought is foreign. And not in a good way.
“If Kamala lies now she will continue if elected.”
It’s probably in her DNA. I think her old man was a Marxist.
“When Slick Willy lied, the members of the MSM high-fived each other.”
The true blue leftists believe it is O.K. to lie if they are advancing the “cause.”
The Hill, or The Shill, printed article saying Democrat supporters assume she is flip flipping in order to win, and they expect her to ‘rule’ as Progressive.
“Bernie Sanders a few days ago: “No, I don’t think she’s abandoning her ideals. I think she is trying to be pragmatic and do what she thinks is right in order to win the election.””
Bingo. Good catch. Exactly on point with the article. Bolshevik Bernie knows the inside dope.
Once again, call me an optimist. However, I humbly ask you to consider that even the lowliest of US have huge shoulders in our past that we stand on.
“The Hill, or The Shill, printed article saying Democrat supporters assume she is flip flipping in order to win, and they expect her to ‘rule’ as Progressive.”
I’m surprised the Shill would print that unless they had heard rumblings that some of the lefty supporters were getting riled up about CommieLa’s more moderate campaign stances. The Shill may have been sending the message out that it was all for show and that the lefties had nothing to fear: CommieLa was as far-Left as ever.
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