It’s the way people *refuse* to actually voice why they’re quite certain Kamala is a non-starter that really gets me. I know why I’m not a fan, former prosecutor-reliable centrist (derogatory)-convoluted and ultimately useless economic policy, but that’s a *lot* of people’s whole jam, until now.
Like if you were an Eric Adams booster, a Val Demings booster, a Ridin’ with Biden booster, what exactly is it about Kamala you find totally unacceptable as a Presidential candidate?
and they really sent her on routes across the middle that looked like crash dummy missions. “Go to Central America and tell people to stop trying to come to the US” was a Jay Novaceck route. She didn’t complain, she did that shit. It’s wild to see people act like that was supposed to work.
“well she didn’t solve immigration” is not an actual objection I’m willing to listen to is what I’m saying. There’s never been a Vice President in the history of the country that would be able to solve the problem of other nations being so miserable that people seek a life in the US. Be serious.
She was a whole ass US Senator. To argue she’s “unqualified” for an office for which people *just recently* voted in Donald fucking Trump is going to be grounds for me to block you, I’m sorry.
She's so smart and beautiful and accomplished and perfect for the job. Huge swaths of assholes would show up in droves to make sure to vote for anyone else.
Also I had hoped that she spent the last 4 years juicing into the DC political establishment and building contacts and allies but I don't know if that actually happened. Nobody really talks about interacting with her that I've seen.
Not really. Looks like if we don't count "President died or resigned" but flat elected, we're looking at 6 or 7 VPs or former VPs being elected President. 15 if we count ascending to office. Governor is far away the #1 route to the presidency.
I’m guessing that the calculation by the sensibility you’re describing/interrogating is, she is *unelectable* (in their analysis). Which reveals her selection as a running mate to be the cynical, idpolitik tokenism (from their perspective, in their value-add calculus) it always was (and ever is).
If Biden stays the nominee and wins she is fairly likely to actually be the president at some point and I think it’s sort of funny that no one thinks she’s unqualified for that part, just the campaign trail.
Vice-Presidents have certainly CAUSED problems of making other nations miserable, that is to be sure. Speaking of old "Darth" Cheney and what was done to Iraq in the name of oil profits.
The DC gossip was that those useless international missions they sent her on were to keep her away from any midterm campaigns, but knives have been out for her for a while. Is it real and significant unpopularity? I don't like her, but it's been a long time since I had any faith in the party.
Yeah the idea the Biden’s are still a little sore about Obama’s treatment of them during his admin is fucking funny considering how they’ve treated Harris as VP imo
The fact that there are enough "independents" in this country that DO believe insane things like this & think themselves wise for it is something I'll never understand
nothing about her persona bothers me tbh. with kamala i worry more about the inner circle making her second-guess herself and sniping at each other in the newspapers because *if* this were to happen everybody's gotta row the right way and shut their fucking mouths
she genuinely seems like she has not-very-good staff around her but in kind of a "they could be doing a better job" sense not in the hillary sense where her inner circle was full of The Worst People You Could Possibly Find In Democratic Politics
Kamala has never had a fiasco, let alone a Benghazi, where there were manifold mgmt failures. Some Missions Unaccomplished, but who else has 'fixed' the border.
Want the key to Bidens electability that he was an old white guy? He's actually really positively surprised me by being better than I expected, but the pitch was white and mild as a glass of milk
I don’t think our country is capable of electing a woman, based on HRC in the general and Warren in the primary. That said, I’ll have no personal problem voting for Harris if she becomes the nominee.
She was claiming Joe Biden sexually assaulted someone and then never said another word about it when she got the VP nod out of nowhere.
The video of her laughing about arresting single parents told me enough about her character. "Not as bad as Trump" shouldn't be the bar.
This is pretty telling that neolibs are apprehensive about her.
I don’t like her because cop, center right and how she fought any improvements in civil rights for prisoners, especially trans prisoners.
Still think she would be better than Biden if for nothing else, younger and mentally present.
You know why. ☹️ We all know why, but there’s a bunch of bullshit excuses. I remember the crap from centrist-types about Hillary Clinton’s VOICE being annoying. When she was running against TRUMP FFS.
With that being said, you’re right.
She does appeal to the same type of voter that is attracted to those you mentioned.
This is anecdotal, but my dad, a true swing voter, was only interested in Biden and Kamala in 2020.
thank you man. the dishonesty of this is really grating to me. “oh well she is a sure loser.” why? “she’s bad at politics according to this metric i just made up.” by the same metric people who are good at politics are also bad. “well, uh, she’s not very charismatic.” and so on and so on.
It’s wild to witness because it’s supposed to be taken as a given but no one will say it. She’s done *everything* to appeal to the exact same crowd who backs Biden to the hilt, and yet!
It’s not racist to say “I’m worried that America is too misogynistic and racist to elect Harris,” but by not clearly saying that and making up other reasons, it is a definite indicator that the person is probably quite racist
Racism and misogyny are cultural forces-- while the white male vote is implied, it is not exclusively referenced because other voters are also influenced by them.
(Which is not to say women and PoC couldn't turn the tide-- just to clarify worrying they couldn't is not ignoring them)
