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Cynically running out the clock has been the overarching principle of the entire abbreviated 105-day presidential campaign of Kamala Harris—ever since Joe Biden, at the 11th-hour, dropped out in July.
Harris seems unwilling or unable to answer any impromptu question that she has not been previously prepped for. Her answers at the debate were memorized and canned. They never addressed the questions asked.
Her single, 11-minute post-debate Philadelphia interview was a shipwreck of dodging and dissimulating—even though the host was sympathetically left-wing.
Even socialist Bernie Sanders pointed out that for Harris to get elected, she must temporarily disown her lifelong leftist credentials.
As vice president, she must further deny co-ownership of the unpopular record of the Biden-Harris administration.
Left unstated is that whether she wins the presidency—or loses it and continues as vice president for another three months—nonetheless she will inevitably revert back to her hard-core, lifelong leftist beliefs.
In addition, Harris has reconstructed her privileged upbringing as a child of two PhDs, living in a posh Montreal neighborhood into a struggling, middle-class Oakland childhood.
How can she stage such a complete makeover—and contemptuously count on the voting public to be so easily deceived?
She avoids all news conferences, one-on-one nationally broadcast interviews, and town halls. And like Biden, she will debate only on leftist venues with impartial pro-Harris moderators.
When asked to provide the details of her past responsibility for the open border, inflationary economy, spiraling crime, attacks on fossil fuels, and collapsing foreign policy, Harris smiles, makes hand gestures, and dodges. She changes the subject to her empathetic personality, her “joy” campaign, and her iconic profile as a supposedly dynamic black woman.
When pressed, Harris outsources the task of squaring her hypocrisies and subterfuges to the stonewalling campaign, Democratic surrogates—and the media.
Harris is also certainly not running on her demonstrable experience, vision, or intelligence as much as she is not Trump (or, for that matter, her former partner Joe Biden).
To make that distinction stark, Harris must demonize and bait Trump nonstop and make the country fear him.
So, she paints Trump as a racist and violent insurrectionist, not a former president whose four-year term saw a superior foreign policy, economy, border, and security than during the Biden-Harris term.
Instead, Harris has repeatedly claimed Trump is a dictator and a threat to democracy—as if he had politically weaponized the FBI, CIA, DOJ, or IRS as had Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Trump as Hitler has become a staple Democrat smear for the past decade.
That vicious caricature is so entrenched that major Democratic figures assume it’s okay to joke about, or seriously call for, Trump’s demise.
So, Harris’s current prominent advisor David Plouffe years ago warned the nation that “it is not enough to simply beat Trump. He must be destroyed thoroughly. His kind must not rise again.”
Just last year, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) claimed that Trump “is destructive to our democracy, and he has to be, he has to be eliminated.”
Even after an assassin sought to kill Trump last week, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries declared, “Extreme MAGA Republicans are the party of a national abortion ban and Trump’s Project 2025. We must stop them.”
Harris’s dehumanizing of Trump, outsourcing the campaign to the media, avoiding all public dialogue, and temporarily reinventing one’s politics and biography have taken a toll on the country.
Harris was coronated the Democratic candidate without ever entering a primary or winning a single delegate by vote. Some 14 million Democrat primary voters were reduced to irrelevancy.
Like the 2020 Biden campaign, Harris has nationalized a new kind of cynical campaign in which leftist candidates seek for a few months to deceive the public into thinking they are centrist and moderate—until elected.
Avoiding all cross-examination and outscoring the campaign to the obsequious media is now the new norm.
Most news stories deemed unhelpful to Harris—the left-wing, pro-Harris politics of the recent would-be Trump assassin, the lie that dozens of bomb threats were called in against Springfield schools due to Trump, or prominent Democrats before and after the recent assassination attempt blaming Trump for being the target of an assassin—are suppressed by the media.
The recent two foiled assassination attempts on Trump logically follow a near-decade pattern of trying to destroy rather than outvote him.
The Russian collusion hoax, the laptop disinformation con, the two impeachments, the effort to remove Trump from some 16 state ballots, and the attempt to jail and bankrupt Trump through five criminal and civil “lawfare” indictments and suits also led to the current hateful climate of Trump assassination attempts.
Harris thinks her delays, deceptions, and vilifications for the next 47 days will ensure her victory.
But if so, it will be because she, her stealth campaign, and her self-proclaimed guardians of democracy have been willing to systematically destroy it.
Spurwing Plover says
The one thing that’s most destructive of America is the United Nations its the worst of all Americas Enemies
internalexile says
Fooling some of the people all of the time. Will it be enough?
steven says
It is easier to fool people, then it is to convince them that they’ve been fooled.
Mark Sochor says
This is political theater at its worst. Is there an ability in American citizens to see this transparent redemption of an empty pantsuit decried as an anchor dragging down an already failing Biden administration just months ago?It is obvious to many, but she still will receive votes based on an idea of Kamala rather than the reality of Kamala.. We have evidence galore of previous Marxist and destructive policy declarations on video for all to see. She’s said her values haven’t changed. With this evidence, the American people are on trial. I pray for a common sense verdict.
TRex says
The American people are on trial. The results of this election will determine if they are guilty or innocent. If Harris wins the verdict is guilty. Guilty of complacency, ignorance and assorted crimes of passion against the state. If Trump wins it will equate to a plea of “no contest” signifying a willingness to correct their past behaviors known to be destructive to our society and form of government. This election will tell us if we are on a path of rehabilitation or continued organized criminality.
Leon Mintz says
Kamala Harris is following this advice from Mark Twain:
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.”
She never gives interviews.
She is not talking without a teleprompter.
See agrees to have debate only on anti-Trump ABC, where they will discuss questions with her in advance, like CNN did for Biden. She would not go to Fox.
As long as she sticks to teleprompter, she can talk.
Mark Sochor says
Even on teleprompter she still sounds like someone in vain search for a coherent thought.
Sarah says
I would add to the last sentence: and because the American electorate is littered with ignorant, brainwashed fools. Harris wouldn’t be able to win if this weren’t the case. And she is on track to win. I hope and pray I’m wrong, but the left has outsmarted us yet again, setting up the debate w/Biden very early, knowing they would replace him w/Harris, etc. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign wasted huge sums of money campaigning against Biden rather than Biden and the entire Democrat/leftist machine. So once Biden was out ,Trump had to start over and clearly lost his footing for several weeks which was insane. He is now playing catch up and would do well to heed the advice of many fine minds who appear to be in general agreement regarding strategy. Of course it’s made so much more difficult because the media is Pravda. So many factors involved, but the most critical is having an increasingly dumbed down society.
G-d help us.
Don Davenport says
She knows the same corruption machine that worked so well in the 2020 and 22 elections is well-oiled and ready to work its magic again.
Just sit back and watch it produce those magic 3:00 AM fairy dust ballots and presto, Madame President Kamala.
Jeff says
If she wins. I am done with the news. It will ALL be bad! Why can’t they see the hypocrisy?
Dr. Larry says
They have no values, so they can’t be hypocrites. They have goals which they will seek to achieve by “any means necessary.”
TRex says
To make matters worse, the postal workers union just endorsed Harris. A comforting thought, no? It’s now a matter of “what if” for those who vote by mail. Can a mail-in vote be hand delivered to the polling station? I don’t know but the certainty it will reach its final destination through the mail has just been called into question. Gotta love those unions.
Mo de Profit says
The plebs will cheer along with the Hollywood stars. They actually believe that Trump is a tyrant.
Don’t forget that it’s flu season soon and the Ukrainian war is still raging and the worst of all fears is lingering on, climate change!!! Argh!!! Cancel the elections now!
John Anderson says
The Democrats led by Hussein Obama put a lot of work into replacing sleepy Joe with two radical, anti-American, leftists. Democrats know they can’t win on their policies that gave us open borders, loss of energy independence, worsening inflation, increased crime, illegal alien invasion, child mutilation surgery, etc.
If Democrats are serious about winning, then Democrats know they will have to steal the 2024 election. No matter how blatant and obvious the stealing is the corrupt DOJ, and corrupt FBI will not investigate, and the Fake News will declare the election to be the cleanest in history.
Democrats would view not stealing the 2024 election as a lost opportunity to finally and permanently “fundamentally transform America” as Hussein Obama has been trying to do since 2008.
Furthermore, recall the FBI thug Peter Strzok infamously texted to his FBI accomplice and girlfriend Lisa Page in September 2016 regarding an “insurance policy” in case Trump won. What “insurance policy” do the traitors, aka Democrats, have in case Trump wins in 2024? If the criminals that comprise the Democratic party steal a few congressional seats and take over the House, then they will have the power of the purse. With the power of the purse, these domestic terrorists can intentionally stymie Trump from making America great again. Only with a Trump win in 2024, holding the House, and taking the Senate can America have a chance at MAGA.
May Trump win the election for president (for a third time). Proof that the 2024 election was stolen would be if that dangerous, dumb, Democrat and her comrade, Tampon Tim, win.
Hannah Katz says
The worst kind of shiksa.
KER says
An anchor on Newsmax this morning said that 2024 will tell how much power alternate media has. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSDNC plus 90% of radio news and print are nothing more than propagandists for “The Party”. Just as dedicated to The Party as Tass and Pravda are/were in the USSR.
Intrepid says
The Harris “Rope-a-Dope” strategy will fail because it appears the only people who refuse to acknowledge it are single liberal cat ladies and their weakling soyboy boy friends that wear pink pu$$y hats. Doug Emhoff and Tampon Tim come to mind along with the mindless MSM media.
You can only get so far saying “I grew up in a middle class family”
Kasandra says
“Look, the average Democrat voter is just plain stupid. They’re easy to manipulate. That’s the easy part.” Hillary Clinton, as told to Dick Morris in ” Rewriting History”, 2005.
rogers says
Mark Twain quote. spot on. Trump should stop talking too.
Intrepid says
You are such a big help. Enjoy your high gas prices and ongoing inflation.
Mark Sochor says
Why? Because he actually has something to say as opposed to Kamala. Making her vacuousness even more obvious. The Democrats have tried to get him to shut up with bogus investigations, bankrupting kangaroo court costs, two impeachments and two assassination attempts. So you’re good with all of It? You sound like Ryan Routh.
Stephen says
If the Democrat media is so full of truth they should play the video/audio tape of Trump explaining how “he would make such a great dictator … ”
The right media should ask them to play it, just so everyone knows …
CharlieSeattle says
No policies? Not liked? Run out the clock? Close election has Trump favoref? All irrelevant!!
The ☭NN/AB☭/NB☭/MSNB☭/A☭L/☭BS MSM Fake polls are irrelevant. They always stay just within the believable statistical limits of election fraud, up or down a point or two.
The SCOTUS and District FERAL Courts refused to accept the documented 2020 election fraud evidence. They will do the same for 2024.
The DNC election fraud apparatus is still intact for 2024.