Vivek Ramaswamy Needs to Pick an Ideology and Stick With ItBy Joe Cunningham
August 30, 2023
The more I think about last week's debate, the more I have come to believe that Chris Christie was wrong about Vivek Ramaswamy.
During the debate, Christie pointed out that Ramaswamy essentially plagiarized Barack Obama when it called himself a skinny guy with a funny name - something Obama himself did at the Democratic National Convention years earlier.
But, I disagree with Christie's assumption that we are "dealing with the same kind of amateur" in Ramaswamy. He isn’t like Barack Obama. Obama had a core set of beliefs. He pushed those beliefs. He worked to force those beliefs, that core ideology, on the rest of America. When Americans rejected his ideology, he bashed them. He was so devoted to his core ideology that he never gave up on it.
Some of his ideas evolved at times. Some of his beliefs changed. But they always came through an evolution. I believe Obama was wrong on pretty much everything, but I respect his belief in his ideology.
Right now, there are a lot of Republicans and conservatives who are rightly attacking Ramaswamy for not seeming to have a core set of beliefs. He has flip-flopped on key issues over the years, and it's pretty clear that he's making a play for voters by just saying what he thinks they want to hear.
In that sense, Ramaswamy is like Kamala Harris.
Her entire run for president (however brief) was dictated not by her own beliefs but by loud voices on social media. Her campaign was driven almost entirely by reactions to what the people of Twitter demanded she do. It was a rudderless campaign devoted to loud voices on the internet, and she paid the price by gaining no reactions, getting demolished by Tulsi Gabbard in a debate, and dropping out before the very first primary vote.
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Source:
https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/08/30/vivek-ramaswamy-needs-to-pick-an-ideology-and-stick-with-it-n2163217
