Al-O-Meter
Well-Known Member
Harris wasn’t my choice but I can give you five things about her that I like.Can someone who likes Harris give a reasoned explaination why ? From a distance she comes across as rather underwhelming
- She can be tough on crime. Tulsi Gabbard effectively ended Kamala’s Presidential campaign by listing off how tough she was on crime which played horribly with the base at that defund-the-police moment in time. In the first 3 years of being DA, the San Francisco conviction rate went from 52% to 67%. She did that IN CALIFORNIA! IN SAN FRANCISCO!!! Have you seen videos of how bad San Francisco has become since she left?
- Kamala Harris is smart but isn’t overly hesitant to act as many smart people can be. There is no “paralysis by analysis”.
- If a better idea comes along, Kamala Harris will drop the old idea and pick up the new one. She isn’t tied to one way of doing things and adapts quickly. Enemies use that to paint her as hypocritical or wishy-washy but if you actually look at the position she held before, and the position she switched to after, the ‘after’ position is better. Her initial instincts aren’t always solid but her pivots usually are.
- Kamala is a very good political operator. She started from nothing and clawed her way all the way into being Senator for the most populous state in the Union before becoming Vice President. That doesn’t happen if you aren’t good at swimming with sharks.
- Her handling of the southern border. That job is the Kobayashi Maru and her boss made it 10 times worse before publically telling everyone that Kamala would solve it. Conservative Media plays a constant drum beat about Kamala not going to the border as if she’s a construction worker crazy good at building fences or expecting her to splash her face with blue paint as she rides a horse back and forth in front of border enforcement while galvanizing them to fight for freedom. No, she set about reducing the flow at the source and undoing the damage her boss did. Kudos for that.