UPDATE: I posed this on August 11th. On August 14th, Bill Maher repeated this post almost verbatim!
Well, if SJ was looking to cover the minority bases, she is pretty much all of them: she’s an African-Asian-American female. She’s not gay, but to cite the late Harold Ramis, she is willing to learn.
I am glad that Biden chose Harris. I think it increases his already large chance of winning the election. Now, what do we do if and when Trump loses the election by a landslide, declares it fraudulent, and announces a temporary national emergency during which he will remain in office until until a free, honest, and safe election can be conducted?
Trump will put Jared in charge of arranging the new election. And don’t bother mentioning any laws or the Constitution, because Trump and the Republican majority in the Senate have shown they don’t care about those. And I imagine the Supreme Court will be a bit shorthanded after Homeland Security discovers the involvement of several justices in Hillary Clinton’s pizza parlor child sex slavery ring.
I thought that line on Maher sounded familiar.
Yeah, there was no other choice.
Warren: Too old, too white.
Klobuchar: Too old, too white
Tulsi: Clinton hates her. Not black enough.
Any qualified male candidate: not a woman
Fallen said “Yeah, there was no other choice [besides Harris for VP].”
I think it is refreshing that after 4 years of Trumpery, someone still thinks a prominent politician cannot do something utterly stupid and self-self destructive. Some of us have become much too bitter and cynical for that.
Pence might be OK if he could just stand there and debate as Mike Pence, but the debates will really come down to Trump. Frankly, if I were Pence, I would find some way to get out of the debates, which will force him to defend all of Trump’s most ridiculous statements that he probably doesn’t believe in, given that he’s pretty much of a normal person. He will have to soldier through with bland evasions and non-committal platitudes, while Harris can keep pressuring him on specifics. That will be a tough job, made tougher by the fact that she’s a trained prosecutor, and an extremely intelligent daughter of two college professors, while he’s not the brightest bulb on the tree. He’ll just have to avoid the questions they ask him and deliver talking points.
Pence’s strength is that he never loses his cool and, unlike Trump, always appears to be calm and rational, so he won’t really do himself any harm.
Also, we are positing something that may not even happen. There is talk of replacing Pence. Not sure how serious that is.
I don’t have a good answer to that, UncleScoopy, except that of the available choices, I think Kamala Harris will be the most useful in getting votes for Biden.
I guess Susan Rice was in the running for veep, and she may be been a better choice because of her White House, foreign policy, and national security experience. But I didn’t think she would have been of much help at the ballot box. At least not as much as Harris.
I agree. If SJ wins, Rice will probably end up as the Secretary of State. Rice doesn’t seem very campaign-friendly.
Rice is very smart but not adept at politics.
That is also my view of her. Smart, basically charm-impaired.
SJ? Social Justice, or what?
Sleepy Joe?
Bingo
I thought Harris would be a good choice as the Democratic VP candidate. Primarily because she had been a state attorney general. If and when Biden wins, there should be a LOT of prosecutions of Trump Administration people. My only concern is about how often I am wrong about political stuff.
Doesn’t your argument suggest she should be AG?
Anyway, I like her. It’s just about impossible to dislike her. Unlike all those forced moments when Elizabeth Warren tries to be “just folks,” Harris actually enjoys those moments. I could see her doing a comedy central roast, or freestyling with the on-air guys at a black radio station, or talking easily with highbrow professors. Lots of charisma. She reminds me of Ronald Reagan in that regard.