President Biden’s approval numbers seem awfully high considering inflation, gas prices, the border crisis, and so much more, but it seems that his vice president doesn’t enjoy the same sort of support that he does. National Review’s Charles C. W. Cooke, who just did a brutal takedown of Florida COVID-19 “fabulist” Rebekah Jones, is back with another must-read piece, this one about the Democratic Party’s “Kamala Harris problem.”
It seems miraculous that someone who flamed out so badly in the Democratic primaries is now a 78-year-old’s heartbeat away from being president, but Biden made it clear he was going to pick a woman, and most likely a woman of color, which narrowed the field substantially. So here she is:
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1395104627629174785
Even independents don’t like her. As Cooke writes, “She is focused on staying out of the way so that Joe Biden’s non-threatening uncle act doesn’t disintegrate in the face of its abundant contradictions.”
Still, that Harris is unpopular should come as no great surprise, given that she somehow manages to combine into a single package a transparent insincerity, an unvarnished authoritarianism, and a tendency toward precisely the sort of self-satisfied progressivism that helped the Republicans to limit their losses at the last general election. If her apologists wish to, they can pretend that the reaction Harris yields is “gendered” or “systemic” or “inequitable” or whatever other bastardized academic term is fashionable this week, and they should feel free to knock themselves out doing so. Deep down, though, they must know that America isn’t the problem here. The problem is that Harris is a phony.
“There is a reason that, having been picked as Biden’s running mate, Harris was quickly shoved offstage,” he adds.
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I am here for this bludgeoning of Vice President Intersectionality. https://t.co/m18hWF0CMj
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) May 19, 2021
"With conflict in the Middle East, rising inflation, and rocky unemployment numbers, on top of the continuing situation on the border, the last thing that the Democratic Party needs is for Kamala Harris to be more prominent than she is." https://t.co/S76lYMqX31
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) May 19, 2021
"When Biden leaves the White House, Kamala Harris will be his presumptive heir, and, in both cases, the Democratic Party — which explicitly put Harris there because she is a female minority — will struggle mightily to extricate itself from the dead weight she brings along."
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) May 19, 2021
"By 2024, Republicans may well be politically ascendant — and, if they are, the Democrats are going to wish that they hadn't allowed a dud such as Kamala Harris to become the most vibrant face of their brand."
She is so terrible. https://t.co/S76lYMqX31
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) May 19, 2021
If Harris is the 2024 nominee, here's the only ad her Republican opponent will need to run:
"Do you really want four years of this? <thirty seconds of Harris cackling> I'm Ron DeSantis, and I approve this message."
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) May 19, 2021
Charles has been 🔥 lately
— Cahuella (@revahcs1) May 19, 2021
Within the next six months we're going to be getting Vox & Atlantic articles about the passive racism of Biden using Kamala as a prop. https://t.co/FGVOkhb6vW
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 19, 2021
They'll write about the problematic history of old white men using people of color as props, *especially* women. They really expected him to just shove off once he won.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 19, 2021
A lot of us are still expecting that, and it’s hard to believe we prefer Biden.
She tries so hard to be everything that she is nothing. A tale as old as time.
— ericontrarian (@eriContrarian) May 19, 2021
— Mimi-n-Florida (@ABCClothing) May 19, 2021
And that’s all folks
— eyesopen (@eyesope76665730) May 19, 2021
Gonna need a new puppet for 2024.
— TJDMCR – 716 OG (@TJDMCR) May 19, 2021
— Amash is Bae (@LBitter) May 19, 2021
https://twitter.com/karr_pe/status/1395127960160591875
https://twitter.com/ezinjlm/status/1395111506384203776
Well, she was polling around an amazing 1% when she was running for President… 🤷🏼
— Brown Town (@21browntown) May 19, 2021
Cue the “It just shows how much racism we have to overcome” takes from the Dems
— JK Lockhart (@chattslim) May 19, 2021
It’s almost like there’s a reason that even the hard core DEM primary voters rejected her.
— Michael from Montana (@WellspringGP) May 19, 2021
https://twitter.com/2beaux/status/1395105082358833155
We are waiting for her exhaustive study of and recommendations on the border immigration crisis.
— Wisthoughts (@Wisthoughts) May 19, 2021
She’s been tracking down the cause of the border surge and decided it’s a combination of climate change and the LGBT community fleeing violence in Guatemala.
Who knew Biden would unite Americans in their dislike of his VP pick
— Scarlett 🍸 (@fledtothesouth) May 19, 2021
She’s horrible, was before and definitely is now.
— Uncommon Sense (@JWebbMAZ) May 19, 2021
Don't understand how she became Biden's choice after she called him a racist and pedophile during the primary debates. She must have incriminating pictures of him.
— Gregory Samios (@SamiosGregory) May 19, 2021
I can’t think of a more useless talking head.
— Mick (@pancaketownship) May 19, 2021
Not surprising. She even more unlikable than Hillary.
— James Dash (@GOPToddler) May 19, 2021
Whoa.
She obviously needs to laugh hysterically more.
— hughhark (@hughhark1) May 19, 2021
I never understood why they went with the least popular candidate they had.
— Your Disapproving Dad (@disapprover69) May 19, 2021
Not surprising at all. She reminds me of Ed McMann on Carson. Just laughs and laughs. She laughs because she’s underqualified and it makes her nervous as hell.
— CathyS (@Cathy_Sheri) May 19, 2021
The Democrats have zero bench.
— Gotham Patriot 🇺🇸 (@PatriotGotham) May 19, 2021
Truth.
https://twitter.com/SlenderMando/status/1395105314001891328
She. Does. Nothing.
— Gennifer Young (@YoungGennifer) May 19, 2021
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Vice President Kamala Harris given yet another job, this time chairing the National Space Council https://t.co/XJpT2nVxfh
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 2, 2021
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