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goobster  ·  1323 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In Historic Pick, Joe Biden Taps Kamala Harris To Be His Running Mate

I'm good with her as the VP pick.

She will alienate the far left, due to her AG role. Which is good. The far left is nonsensical and ineffectual.

Her experience as AG in the most populous state in the union is a deep mine of "tough on crime" stories that can be whipped out on demand to assuage the center-right that she's a Crime and Punishment champion. And her disemboweling of Biden during the debates demonstrates that she's not gonna be Biden's puppet.

In short, she's not the Libs choice, but they aren't going to vote for Trump anyway.

She also doesn't have a full year of Republican disinformation piled up around her (like Warren or Abrams), because they wrote her off early.

Too bad she won't be debating Trump... it'd be nice to have a prosecutor on stage with him...





johnnyFive  ·  1323 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As a leftist, I can tell you that she alienates me pretty thoroughly. Then again, I was unlikely to vote for Biden anyway, so I guess there's no harm done (except to the extent her policies influence further policies).

goobster  ·  1322 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    As a leftist, I can tell you that she alienates me pretty thoroughly.

So what?

You have already abdicated your role in this election, and therefore are not even in the pool of potential voters the Biden campaign needed to consider in the first place.

johnnyFive  ·  1322 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    You have already abdicated your role in this election...

By believing what I believe? So you're suggesting I should ignore my own principals in order to get a participation trophy?

Meanwhile, when was the last time a center-right Dem actually won a national election?

tacocat  ·  1322 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Believing things could be better is nonsensical and ineffectual. Just push the blue button and get the shit kicked out of you like a rational and effective voter.

OftenBen  ·  1322 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We are at the point in the cycle where everyone who has a problem with the horrific choices of the DNC is to be mocked and shouted down to maintain party cohesion.

b_b  ·  1322 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's weird, because literally no one was clamoring for Harris. It's not like she had a good run in the primary and just didn't cut it. She didn't even make it to a voting contest, right? I get that he wanted to check the gender and race boxes, but how about someone who wasn't already 100% rejected by the voters? Duckworth and Rice both would have fit that bill. Really struggling to figure this one out. Maybe duckworth disqualified herself with her moronic George Washington comments and he didn't want to deal with Benghazi all over again? After my initial disappointment, I'm still gonna vote for him, but c'mon Joe. You're really straining our anyone-but-Trump credulity.

johnnyFive  ·  1322 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The best explanation I've heard is that she was chosen to negate any "soft on crime" attacks the Republicans could make. Not that this actually stopped them from making them, but the hope may be to pull enough centrists his way.

b_b  ·  1321 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I guess I can still hope that he'll give Warren a high level cabinet position. Might not work if there is a 50-50 Senate tie, but under any other circumstance, she's the best person for labor or treasury, imo. Gotta win first though, I guess.

kleinbl00  ·  1323 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    She will alienate the far left, due to her AG role.

    Her experience as AG in the most populous state in the union is a deep mine of "tough on crime" stories that can be whipped out on demand to assuage the center-right that she's a Crime and Punishment champion.

For some reason people know that Chicago is dirty AF but despite Hollywood making roughly eight movies per year about corrupt Los Angeles politicians, nobody has figured out what a grifting shithole California politics is. Nobody who successfully runs for dog catcher in California can survive a purity test. however, if you can get shit done in that environment it means you can survive a back room.

Since her nomination I have gotten four emails from the Trump campaign calling her a radical socialist that's soft on crime. And I mean, Govtrack considers her the fourth least conservative senator in the US.

goobster  ·  1322 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Some Canadian wag demonstrated that Kamala Harris would be the farthest right elected leader in Canada.

I'm good with her. No leftie is going to NOT vote for Biden because of Harris. But she can definitely make inroads into the highly conservative Hispanic community, and the Mournful Right, who miss the pre-Cheney days of the Republican party.