Kamala Harris, the juggernaut who flopped

[EasyAce]

By Jim Geraghty
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/kamala-harris-the-juggernaut-that-flopped/

Before reports emerged that Kamala Harris is dropping out of the presidential race, she was trailing Mike Bloomberg in her bid to be the Democratic nominee for the president, and stood at 2 percent in the latest national Harris–The Hill poll released Monday.

On paper, Kamala Harris was a strong candidate for the Democratic nomination: likely to boost turnout among women and African Americans, a relatively fresh face, access to a big network of California donors.

Last Friday, the New York Times ran a “pre-mortem” of her failing campaign, full of on-the-record quotes from campaign staffers, advisers, and associates pointing fingers. It’s an ugly portrait, and the role of the senator’s sister, Maya Harris, as campaign chairwoman is another indicator that candidates and lawmakers should not put relatives in important jobs, because it’s usually extremely difficult to fire a family member.

But just about every campaign has some amount of infighting, and it rarely proves to be the most important cause of a campaign’s troubles. President Trump went through three campaign managers in the 2016 cycle and won anyway.

No, the most glaring problem discussed in that Times profile was Harris’s repeated indecisiveness . . . Her team now wants a pro-Harris super PAC, after Harris previously said she rejects them.

In January, Harris said she wanted to eliminate private health insurance, then backed away from that position. In August, she said she wasn’t comfortable with Bernie Sanders’ legislation creating Medicare for All, but people pointed out she cosponsored that bill. Harris said the country should consider allowing convicted felons to vote from prison, then said she opposed the idea.

When Tulsi Gabbard spotlighted the most unpopular and controversial aspects of Harris’s time as a prosecutor
in the August debate, Harris seemed to be caught flat-footed, insisting that she “significantly reformed the criminal-justice system” but never addressing the specific accusations. Her prosecutorial record was supposed to be one of her strengths, but Harris apparently didn’t want to defend certain past decisions and policies.

Most of Harris’s reversals suggest a campaigner who wanted to be the woke dream candidate, but then belatedly recognized that woke positions might not be as popular or workable as she initially believed them to be. She was asking people to have faith in her judgment, while she herself appeared to not trust her own judgment . . .

[Snarknado]

She was everything the modern dem party sees itself as, she was 0bama's obvious choice by light years, and despite every advantage it's possible to give a candidate she failed so spectacularly that she's not even on the radar for VP consideration. It's a showcase for how far the party has fallen.

[TomSea]

It is being said everywhere and it is in the article, Tulsi did an epic takedown of her. Maybe, she never recovered and she acted so snooty, calling  Gabbard a third-tier candidate or something.

[PeteS in CA]

As Presidential candidates go, she might have been an OK Deputy DA. She was in over her head as DA of SF, and because of her skin color and reproductive plumbing she kept on moving up. In the Dems' Field of Fruitcakes, she was chiffon.

[TomSea]

As Presidential candidates go, she might have been an OK Deputy DA. She was in over her head as DA of SF, and because of her skin color and reproductive plumbing she kept on moving up. In the Dems' Field of Fruitcakes, she was chiffon.

 

[EasyAce]

As Presidential candidates go, she might have been an OK Deputy DA.

@PeteS in CA
Uh . . . . no.

Kamala Harris Is a Cop Who Wants To Be President

In the years since former California Attorney General Kamala Harris entered national public life—first as a U.S. senator, now as a leading candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination—one strain of criticism has surfaced again and again. It can be captured in just five words: Kamala Harris is a cop.

The phrase, which the candidate's critics use frequently, is meant to conjure more than just Harris' history as a hard-nosed San Francisco prosecutor. It's colloquial. To label someone a cop in this way is never to invoke the best behavior one might expect from police officers. It implies the person is a bully, a bootlicker, a professional tattler—the sort of person who shuts down un-authorized lemonade stands run by kids. A cop, in this context, is someone who will always defer to authority and the status quo, someone who is unaccountable and not to be trusted. Calling someone a cop invokes the worst sorts of police overreach, a legalistic authoritarianism that exists for its own sake . . . a review of her career shows a distinct penchant for power seeking and an illiberal disposition in which no offense is small or harmless enough to warrant lenience from the state. Now she wants to bring that approach to the highest office in the land . . .

Even her fellow Democrats might be heaving sighs of relief now that she's out of the race.

[PeteS in CA]

@PeteS in CA
Uh . . . . no.

Kamala Harris Is a Cop Who Wants To Be President

In the years since former California Attorney General Kamala Harris entered national public life—first as a U.S. senator, now as a leading candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination—one strain of criticism has surfaced again and again. It can be captured in just five words: Kamala Harris is a cop.

The phrase, which the candidate's critics use frequently, is meant to conjure more than just Harris' history as a hard-nosed San Francisco prosecutor. It's colloquial. To label someone a cop in this way is never to invoke the best behavior one might expect from police officers. It implies the person is a bully, a bootlicker, a professional tattler—the sort of person who shuts down un-authorized lemonade stands run by kids. A cop, in this context, is someone who will always defer to authority and the status quo, someone who is unaccountable and not to be trusted. Calling someone a cop invokes the worst sorts of police overreach, a legalistic authoritarianism that exists for its own sake . . . a review of her career shows a distinct penchant for power seeking and an illiberal disposition in which no offense is small or harmless enough to warrant lenience from the state. Now she wants to bring that approach to the highest office in the land . . .

Even her fellow Democrats might be heaving sighs of relief now that she's out of the race.

Before Kammy became a US Senator, before Kammy became California AG, before Kammy became SF's DA, before Kammy became SF's assistant City Attorney, Kammy was SF's Assistant DA and before that she was Assistant DA in Alameda County. (pant, pant, pant) So I was referring to the time when she worked in Alameda County. With limited ability to abuse her authority, Kammy might have been OK.

But, yes, when Kammy became DA of SF County she started showing how unprincipled she was (and is).

[truth_seeker]

Before Trump was nominated in 2016, Scott Adams had already predicted that Trump would win the election.

Earlier this year, Adams predicted that Kamela Harris would gain the nomination.

He readily admits he was wrong, since he based his prediction larely on "identity politics" qualities of Harris; Famale, black, etc.

He simly now sates, nobody could have predicted just how bad Harris was at campaigning. Whiney, nasal voice, giggly laugheinr at her own bad jokes, etc.

We now know that her sister was her campaign manager, and she blew through money.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

“Juggernaut” is the Anglicized name for the Hindu god Jagannath, the “Lord of the Universe.” Jagannath, a form of the god Vishnu, presides over a massive temple in Puri, India alongside his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra.Au

Words indeed have meaning.

[Wingnut]

“Juggernaut” is the Anglicized name for the Hindu god Jagannath, the “Lord of the Universe.” Jagannath, a form of the god Vishnu, presides over a massive temple in Puri, India alongside his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra.Au

Words indeed have meaning.

And all this time I thought it had something to do with jugs or the lack there of.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

And all this time I thought it had something to do with jugs or the lack there of.