Vice President Kamala Harris, due to take the stage as the Democrats’ nominee for president next week in Chicago, has been hiding behind teleprompters and off-the-record chats with handpicked reporters traveling with her aboard Air Force Two. Weeks have passed since the Democrats’ coup jettisoned Joe Biden from the top of the ticket and Harris was coronated in a virtual nominating vote, yet reporters and the American people still don’t know what the Harris-Walz agenda actually is. That’s by design.
Instead of press conferences, policy rollouts, or softball interviews, Harris is just delivering repetitious speeches as she runs a Basement-lite campaign seemingly inspired by Biden’s 2020 bid. It’s not that Harris is too busy to stand before the press and answer the growing number of questions Americans have about her plans for the country — just this week she had a day without events in which she could have joined even a friendly mainstream news outlet to start explaining herself. It’s that she doesn’t know what she believes yet, meaning she doesn’t know what she is supposed to claim to believe for political expediency in order to sway voters her way.
Even this is a retread of Biden’s 2020 run. He was supposedly a moderate centrist, eager to work across the aisle with Republicans in order to, he told voters, return America to normalcy, restore our standing on the world stage, and build America back “better.” Instead, we got radical (often unconstitutional) policies, two new wars with a third threatening to boil over, sweeping executive fiats to foist the leftist agenda on Americans, and the highest inflation in decades.
The main problem of course is Harris doesn’t actually have a set of guiding principles on which she campaigns. Sure, she’s a radical leftist who has advocated for bad, tried-and-failed policies, but look where that got her — not even to Iowa in the 2020 primary election.
Her “principles,” if she can even keep them straight in her own mind filled with coconut trees and Venn diagrams, are only what she thinks can convince people to give her more power. In this way, Harris is a flip-flopping politically exploitative chameleon — the Kama-Chameleon — seeking to change her political stripes to match whatever she thinks will be most effective to seize control. Once she’s done that, all bets (and promises to Americans) are off and she’ll use her power to do whatever she wants, voters and constitutional guardrails be damned. One could say her principles “come and go” with the slightest shift in political winds.
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The reason it’s been almost a month — 25 days and counting — since Harris faced actual questions at a press conference, one without the aid of a teleprompter and her canned refrains about “not going back”? She still doesn’t know which version of herself to present to Americans heading into November.
The glorification of Harris displayed by the mainstream media paints the situation as Harris “redefining” who she is and what she stands for as she makes her attempt at becoming America’s first female commander-in-chief. This attempt to make being a flip-flopping Kama-Chameleon into a positive betrays the fact that’s become clear: Harris doesn’t stick to any policy out of conviction but merely when it’s convenient. Her previous iterations ought to concern Americans, especially as she refuses to answer questions about her past positions and future agenda.
There was San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris. Then there was California Attorney General Kamala Harris. After that we got U.S. Senator Kamala Harris. And then (failed) presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Followed by Vice President President Kamala Harris. Now, we have presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
Each shifting version of Kama-Chameleon said she believed different things and pledged different policies, but they all bore the same trademark: disastrous progressive (read: regressive) policies. Americans rightfully want to know what this version of the Kama-Chameleon will look like, but they can’t get answers from the person who insists she’s ready to be the leader of the free world. All they know is she’s in the process of changing the appearance of her policies again in a desperate bid to defeat Donald Trump in November.
Already, the Kama-Chameleon has plagiarized some Trump agenda items, such as “no tax on tips,” while her aides scramble to tell news outlets shunned by their boss that Harris has reversed her previous, supposedly strongly held beliefs about border security, the economy, and other policy areas plagued by Biden-Harris administration failures.
Harris, the Kama-Chameleon, expects Americans to listen to her lies and somehow not conclude that she’s a woman without conviction — despite her refusal to face the media and Americans to sell the contradiction of her “beliefs.”
