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Originally posted by TigerDore:
She polled terribly in the Democratic primaries and she is very unlikable among the Dem's base. I think Senile Joe made a great choice for conservative/mainstream America.

I strongly agree with this.

My go-to commute radio for the years she was DA in San Francisco got me familiar with her activities there, and that will be a treasure trove for examples that should repel swing voters just fine. Yeah, her Senatorial antics will add to the mix, but seriously, she was one of the most politicized, least capable DAs imaginable.

One example: gang-banger killed a cop. Immediately, as DA, she took the death penalty off the table, not because it wasn't applicable, but because as I recall the radio news reports 'I don't believe in the death penalty'. SF Chronicle "How a San Francisco cop-killing case could haunt Kamala Harris

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Harris’ first major decision as San Francisco’s district attorney: deciding not to seek the death penalty for a gang member who fatally shot police Officer Isaac Espinoza in 2004.

Harris’ Democratic primary opponents probably won’t bring it up, as they all oppose the death penalty, just as Harris does. But should the California Democrat survive the primary battle, you can bet President Trump’s first TV attack ad will include some version of this riff: “As San Francisco’s district attorney, Kamala Harris refused to seek the death penalty for a gang member who killed a police officer.”

She's been on my radar ever since - I always prick up my ears when something about her crosses the transom.

It says a lot about the California I left that someone like that became a Senator. But CA's electoral votes are long gone. What matters are swing voters in swing states. The radical left is going to freak out at "DA" and the middle is going to freak out about her job performance.

I think this just tied an albatross around Sleepy Joe's neck.

Harris is black, a female, and a liberal. That seems to be all that's required for the Dems, and all her previous baggage & the fact that she's unlikeable will be ignored by the media.

She also takes the pressure off Biden, because the Dems can actually allow her to go out in public on the campaign trail, while Joe remains hidden in his basement, and gives the occasional softball interview with scripted questions.

Kamala Harris, for entertainment value?

Joe Biden’s handlers opting for Kamala Harris as his running mate is downright entertaining. It’s as though they let Trump choose Biden’s VP candidate. Harris polled near the very bottom of all the Democrats who threw their hat in the ring as presidential wannabes.

Harris is a complex “woman of color” and not in the least a victim despite her presidential debate pose as a little girl bussed to escape the segregationists of Berkeley, California. Her mother is Indian, her father Jamaican, a man who has written publicly about his ancestor who was a slave owner.

Harris is not African American and like the rest of the black women considered by Biden’s handlers, she is married to a white man. That in itself speaks well for them, that skin color is irrelevant when selecting a mate, but it won’t sit well with the virulent anti-white racism of the BLM crowd. It does not speak well for the Biden campaign that his VP candidate had to be a black woman; race was the definitive criterion, over and above character and merit.

Of all the women among consideration, Harris has the greatest dearth of character; her climb to higher office having been with the aid and comfort given to powerful men. Like Biden, she is a puppet and will gladly say and do whatever the puppet masters demand. Despite her background as a prosecutor, like Biden she will implicitly defend the looters, the anarchists, the thieves, arsonists and murderers.

“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.” (Denis Diderot)

The left as constituted today has brought us to the brink. Biden and Harris are both creatures of this belief that anarchy will work in their favor. Trump is the only man standing between savagery and the civilized society most of us have taken for granted at least for the last many decades.

We are reliving the age of Lincoln, when the Democrats were willing to destroy the country to preserve slavery. Our Democrats today are similarly willing to destroy the country to defeat the man who is trying to preserve the Constitution and the liberty it guaranteed for all. This election is every bit as critical as the election of 1860. Will the United States still stand as a constitutional republic or will it devolve into the socialist/communist country the left seeks to impose upon us?

https://www.americanthinker.co...rtainment_value.html

From an article published in April of this year:

“Former presidential candidate and Sen. Kamala Harris (D–Calif.) said last year that she believed three women (Lucy Flores, Caitlyn Caruso, and D.J. Hill) who accused Biden of inappropriate touching or kissing. ‘I believe them and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it,’ Harris said at an April 2, 2019, event for her presidential campaign.”

That woman has zero core values and will prostitute herself to anything to get power.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/r...hen-hypocrisy/%3famp

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Originally posted by Leemur:
She also polled behind Biden in support from blacks so she doesn’t even bring greater appeal from any particular demographic.

Most polls have poor correlation with subsequent actuality. E.g., President Trump’s 2016 campaign.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:

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Originally posted by Leemur:
She also polled behind Biden in support from blacks so she doesn’t even bring greater appeal from any particular demographic.

Most polls have poor correlation with subsequent actuality. E.g., President Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Other than in her case she garnered less than 2% of the votes in the presidential primaries and was forced to drop out. If I'm not mistaken, she was the first to drop out.

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Originally posted by RichardC:

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Originally posted by Scuba Steve Sig:
I'm thinking this got shoved down Biden's throat

Heh, heh, heh. Kamala got shoved down Joe's throat. Heh, heh, heh.

They're giving her VP now so they can get her out of the picture, they know how toxic she is and they know they won't win this coming November.

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Other than in her case she garnered less than 2% in the presidential primaries and was forced to drop out.

... What's problematic for Harris is that the people who have the most problems with her record are the very progressives she seeks to secure as her base.

Harris on the ticket might put California in play for the Republicans!

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Originally posted by Ironbutt:
Harris is black, a female, and a liberal. That seems to be all that's required for the Dems

There's a new word floating around to describe Harris: BINO - Black In Name Only.

Indians are likely to be offended that they are tossing her heritage under the bus (her mother was Indian). Jamaicans won't want to be reminded that her father's family was one of the largest slave owning families on the island. As reported by none other than her father.

By the way, does anyone know if Stacey Abrams has conceded that Biden didn't pick her, yet?

Officer Tatum's take...



The Bernie socialists hate her too. Of course they hate Bernie for backing Biden as well...

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^The comments on this video are priceless!

Tony.

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Originally posted by fpuhan:


By the way, does anyone know if Stacey Abrams has conceded that Biden didn't pick her, yet?

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Originally posted by chellim1:

Harris on the ticket might put California in play for the Republicans!

lol....you might be onto something there.

From the comments on the JD video.

Kamala is Finnish for horrible...
https://dictionarypro.net/finnish-english/kamala

Horrible Harris

Just checked out the homies at "The Breakfast Club" (TBC in the comments) to see what their reaction was. You'd think they were paid by CNN.



However, the comments indicate that they are losing their crowd They are calling "Charlemagne The God" (CTG in the comments) a sellout, which is very satisfying to me.

"Cop a feel- Biden/Harris"

Well, from Judd Nelson, I'd expect it, but that's pretty harsh language coming from Molly Ringwald.

Every nasty thing that harris or biden has said (or done) in the past should serve as a reminder to us. Once it's out there online or on video, it's out there forever and will be used against you in one way or another.

fpuhan wins the internet for today.
Rod

For what I read as SF DA she either dealt or dismissed to pad her conviction rate...

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Originally posted by joel9507:

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Originally posted by TigerDore:
She polled terribly in the Democratic primaries and she is very unlikable among the Dem's base. I think Senile Joe made a great choice for conservative/mainstream America.

I strongly agree with this.

My go-to commute radio for the years she was DA in San Francisco got me familiar with her activities there, and that will be a treasure trove for examples that should repel swing voters just fine. Yeah, her Senatorial antics will add to the mix, but seriously, she was one of the most politicized, least capable DAs imaginable.

One example: gang-banger killed a cop. Immediately, as DA, she took the death penalty off the table, not because it wasn't applicable, but because as I recall the radio news reports 'I don't believe in the death penalty'. SF Chronicle "How a San Francisco cop-killing case could haunt Kamala Harris

quote:

Harris’ first major decision as San Francisco’s district attorney: deciding not to seek the death penalty for a gang member who fatally shot police Officer Isaac Espinoza in 2004.

Harris’ Democratic primary opponents probably won’t bring it up, as they all oppose the death penalty, just as Harris does. But should the California Democrat survive the primary battle, you can bet President Trump’s first TV attack ad will include some version of this riff: “As San Francisco’s district attorney, Kamala Harris refused to seek the death penalty for a gang member who killed a police officer.”

She's been on my radar ever since - I always prick up my ears when something about her crosses the transom.

It says a lot about the California I left that someone like that became a Senator. But CA's electoral votes are long gone. What matters are swing voters in swing states. The radical left is going to freak out at "DA" and the middle is going to freak out about her job performance.

I think this just tied an albatross around Sleepy Joe's neck.

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Originally posted by Fla. Jim:
After reading this, I am beginning to think the logic in her pick is she will appeal or get out the Republican "Never Trumpers" vote. And some Old school Dems holding the more conservative vote. Old school Dems who would then be able to hold their noses and vote for Biden knowing Kamala will be running the show.

Yes, this represents the triumph of the Hillary Clinton wing of the party....


Hillary Recrudescence? Biden's choice of Kamala Harris represents return of Democrats' Hillary wing

Not to brag, but yes, I am bragging. I weighed the odds of Joe Biden choosing Kamala Harris as his vice presidential running mate against those of her two rivals, Rep. Karen Bass and former national security adviser Susan Rice, and argued that Joe was going to go for Kamala.

Writing at AT on Aug. 2:

My money's on his picking Harris in this situation based on who he is, but it's obvious he doesn't trust Harris, who has that lean and hungry look. No wonder nobody, including Joe Biden himself, knows who Joe Biden is going to pick.

Harris, as it happens, represents one of three wings of the increasingly fractious Democratic Party. She's the creature of the Hillary Clinton wing, which is the opportunistic center of the Democrats (important point), lost the last election, and continues to seethe. Joe's picked this group over the others.

The other hydra heads on this beast are the Bernie Sanders socialist wing, which is truly crazy, modeling itself on the ideas of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, whether it admits it or not, and the former minions of the last winning Democratic White House, the Obama wing, which I guess represents the right (of the Democrats, not the country), given its pragmatic experience in governing, with an opposition, rather than in a truly socialist one-party-state vacuum. I argued this last August 2:

Whoever Biden picks is going to represent the triumph of the represented faction over the other rivals. If Biden goes for Bass, he wants to win the Bernie-ites. If Biden goes for Rice, it's back to Obamadom and being Obama's shadow. If Biden goes for Harris, it's the Hillaryworld hog wallow, which should provide for young Hunter Biden and the rest of the family, as well as bring in the California elites.

Biden's pick represents the triumph of the Hillary wing of the party. Not surprisingly, Hillary is thrilled:

There are also statements like this, from Hillary's loyal minions:

The Bernie-ites, for whom ideas matter, are enraged, calling it "a middle finger to the base" because Harris is a political opportunist who engaged in dirty-prosecutor behavior back when it was fashionable to be "smart on crime," as she put it. The Obamatons are saying polite things and holding their fire, sounding just a tad less than enthusiastic. "Now let's go win this thing," said Obama.

Harris herself represents that smug, smarmy, pantsuited suburban-woman base that originally drew to Hillary Clinton, with a side of hypocrisy. As I noted here on Jan. 27, 2019:

Kamala Harris, that vaunted self-righteous feminist candidate who's using her 'year of the woman' chops to challenge President Trump in 2020, has a little problem: She slept her way to the top.

Harris in fact is very close to Hillary Clinton, too, on the very important money front. Here's today's American Spectator, emphasis mine:

Then this Kamala Harris decided to force herself on the American people as a presidential candidate, in an effort that was a ghastly failure. Despite raising and spending a fortune thanks to her close connections with the Clintons and their fundraising machine, she crashed and burned in the early primaries and dropped out, but not before attacking eventual nominee Biden as a racist — which she prefaced by denying she was doing so, something the Biden shills at the Washington Post now say is proof that she never did it.

Her money is Clinton money.

And Clinton was all about lining her pockets with political patronage first, even above ideology. This explains the political opportunism, seen in both Kamala and Hillary. This explains the constant scandals, which plague both.

First, she was tough on crime when it was fashionable to be tough on crime, throwing more than a thousand petty marijuana-users in jail for the political applause, just as Hillary (and Biden) were in those plummy '90s.

She's also someone who laps up the perks, sometimes inventing some and getting away with it. Kamala bullyragged the Los Angeles Police Department to serve as her personal Praetorian guard, quite illegally, in exchange for not cracking down on the LAPD for racist or whatever offenses. That has a whiff of Hillary — taking perks and becoming the entrenched establishment, no grassrooty stuff for her. And yes, Kamala, like Hillary, bombed at the grassroots level in Iowa.

She's also, like Hillary, not above dirty tricks. Her curiously well timed legislation just ahead of the Jussie Smollett hoax in Chicago suggests that something was planned among the operatives. Later still, she was reportedly planting dirty stories about her rivals in the press (and like Hillary, the media were in her tree — remember the shopping excursion?) to persuade Biden to pick her. Again, very, very Hillary.

There are quite a few other examples of this kind of opportunism and patronage perks which so characterize the Hillary wing of the party. Hillary of course, turned her State department position into a pay to play money-making operation for the Clinton Foundation, the donations of which dried up when she lost the 2016 election.

What's vivid is that Joe Biden takes comfort in this patronage and scandal model, too, and Harris is the closest follower of it.

Considering the wings of his Democratic Party that he has to choose from - the Bernie crazies, the supposedly close Obamatons who in reality held him in contempt, or the comfortable finger-to-the-wind patronage and corruption-focused, Hillary faction, just right for getting Hunter Biden his money-making gigs, it's a natural for Biden to chose Harris.

After all, Biden has no accomplishments of any kind as a politician. Peter Schweizer has observed that Biden's political career has been intensely focused on enriching family members and Kamala's isn't all that different. While Harris is said to have that lean and hungry look as Biden slips into his dotage, it's also important that she will do and say anything to get the position she wants -- and if that means play-acting for awhile, well, she's good at play-acting, just ask Willie Brown. She'll fake it till she can make a killing.

Biden understand this, and is comfortable with it. It's kind of a conventional, recognizable way of being a Democrat to him.

Kamala with all her history of sucking up, is pretty much the same.

So here we are, a scandal-plagued administration in the making, which will be a Democrat hog-wallow with no consequences, moving with the lefty wind until the wind changes direction. No wonder the Bernie-ites hate them. This is Hillary redux and all we can hope is that it ends the same way it did in 2016.

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