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Originally Posted by Kate!
(Post 11500455)
Harris is not strong enough to be President. Much as I am not overly fond of Trump, he knows what he's doing.
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She will to have her party do the heavy lifting I think as she's running more to appeal to the emotions of the voter rather than show she makes good decisions based on proven policy. The policy/promises she's recently introduced, clearly are meant to appeal to moderates, seemingly come out of no where given the platform she's been a large part of (allegedly) for at least the past 4 years.
We all suspect Biden hasn't been running the WH and so it's hard to put down confidently
who is really actually making the policy decisions there and especially if she can even be blamed for any of it. (The GOP is using their own insistence against them that *she* had been running more than we know in the WH against them, which is odd :laugh: But it's proper given they are trying to give that impression.. )
But for me, it really says a lot about how Democrats actually interpret their own political prowess when they have gone well out of their way to defend essentially what is a weaker leadership. They're relying too heavily on a default vote of "Never Trump", which may still work, based on the rest being a good enough facade to get the swing voter comfortable enough to even vote for Kamala. She hasn't had enough time to build a proper campaign, so in all fairness to her, a good portion of that may not even be her fault. However, Biden should not have ran in the first place and a proper candidate should've been selected. (It would not have been her, obviously...)
Put another way, I would not answer an official poll of any kind if I were asked about her. I have to wonder how many others might think the same? How can they ask about a post-primary candidate's performance whom we never had a chance to get comfortable enough to cast a vote for? Some voters might really take issue with that, to see her name on the Presidential ticket that wasn't even part of the official process. Biden may not have been all there (he isn't dead) and yet he received millions of votes, now invalidated by a completely political appointment. It presents a real hiccup, I think, but it really all comes down to the "How much can you stomach Trump?".
As for the party, the Democrats seemingly reintroduce themselves every 4 years as a party of "It's fine", where the past 4 years didn't really matter all that much and it's still the last President's fault who was part of the opposition party. It's too heavily based on
invalidating the past, whether it's to be rid of it, to rewrite it or overwrite past mistakes.
"Let's just get rid of all that", Kamala's favorite catchphrase. Not my example of a person who actually has their ear to the ground and knows what they are doing. "Oh this is not working how we want it to, let's get rid of it". With no thought put into why things were made the way they were... "We will have a Republican in our cabinet" won't fool the voter, imo, if they have no examples of where they take what works from other platforms and especially where the party is so arrogant to never learn from their own mistakes... they are asking a lot of the voter to ask them to keep participating in their experiments.
So when Trump is gone, what are they going to run with? Both parties will be in trouble once he is out. Democrats can't keep inventing crazy policies without a far right boogie man to distract the voter from analyzing the details. (They'll look for a new one though... I still remember how they ran against McCain before he became their ally.. and he's a moderate). And the GOP had better come up with someone who can keep their base above room temperature, because that's been their primary issue since Obama. The GOP is begging to be remade at this point and I hope it's more moderate because while a good part of the country loves being the Wild West, there's more room than ever for a mindset where people have taken the time to note both party's lack of performance and are less swayed by fictionalized versions of recent history and promises based on a short-term political memory... which has gotten increasingly longer with the modern Internet.
