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There's the idea that Trump is mightily courageous. Mark Kelly begs to differ: Trump is terrified!

Last night, on CNN, commenting on Trump's performance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, Mark Kelly — the potential VP candidate — had one idea to try to sell:

 

Asked to respond to Trump's statement that Kamala Harris only recently chose "to be known as black," Kelly said: 
Well, Kaitlan, my first reaction was, you know, this is the reaction of a desperate and scared old man. It was very obvious to me watching him and just what I've seen over the last wee while she's been, you know, across the country just kicking his butt that he's afraid, that he's probably afraid to debate her. He's certainly afraid to lose an election to her in November, and he's afraid about his own future....

Kaitlan Collins, mirroring Kelly, restating his idea in the form of a question: "So you think this is just a sign that he's essentially spooked by by her momentum?

Is that catching on, Trump the big chicken?

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narciso म्हणाले...

There could have been a debate or an exchange of viewS at the nabj but she was at a sorority what is this pledge week '84

R C Belaire म्हणाले...

Two weeks from now Mark Kelly will be ancient history, and Trump will still be clucking along.

n.n म्हणाले...

#HateTrumpsLove

narciso म्हणाले...

Who the space cadet who used his wifes shooting as a spring board to the senate the china compromised lesuo busjnessman

Jamie म्हणाले...

Why does Harris keep going to sorority events? Is she afraid her support among college-educated women isn't robust enough?

tim maguire म्हणाले...

If they keep saying Harris has the momentum, maybe it will become true!

Shouting Thomas म्हणाले...

Trump just survived an assassination attempt, and he’s still standing up in front of huge crowds… but he’s terrified!

This strategy of mind reading and imputing some sort of distressed emotional state is the most common method used by leftists on X.

It seems kinda stupid to me, but it seems convincing to leftists. Perhaps it’s just another aspect of their insistence that Trump’s appeal is not based on policy, but on some sort of psychological pathology among his voters.

Breezy म्हणाले...

If Trump were afraid, he would not have attended that event. Harris didn’t attend because she is afraid of answering questions in real time. It’s a known known about her that she just sucks at communicating her thoughts, whatever they are.

God help us if we don’t force her into answering live questions over and over. We can’t have a president that we haven’t vetted at all.

Kate म्हणाले...

Agree w @narciso, although I think Kelly will make it to VP. His Giffords-adjacent vibe is what the Dems crave.

Also, man who looks that old should not be disparaging an old man.

traditionalguy म्हणाले...

Talk about gaslighting. Nobody is falling for the alternate universe in which Trump and Vance fear Kamala and the Jew Haters.

n.n म्हणाले...

The queer Dreams of Obama's [ethnic] Springs with Biden "benefits" reborn in karma-la. They will not easily divest from trillions in redistributive change. That said, all's fair in lust and abortion.

n.n म्हणाले...

the Jew Haters

Democrazis.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne म्हणाले...

Mark Kelly is one my Senators. I couldn't tell you a thing about him. He's a non-entity in this state, unlike Sinema.

Sebastian म्हणाले...

Ah, yes, the guy who just survived an assassination attempt and keeps on trucking, all the way to a hostile venue, is "spooked."

By the way, it's interesting that the "journalists" confronting Trump operated strictly as political opponents. No one bats an eye, everyone takes it for granted. Nothing new, but another useful data point.

But Trump's fight, fight, fight is not sufficient to overcome the propaganda assault.

RideSpaceMountain म्हणाले...

More projection. Always projection.

JAORE म्हणाले...

Is Mark Kelly displaying "toxic masculinity"? Looks like it to me.

Seems I've heard that is bad.

Kamala = Brave
Trump = Afraid

And a host of other issues where Madam Flip Flop has opined lately.

Yep the Democarts will win in a landslide in Opposite World.

Mike (MJB Wolf) म्हणाले...

No not catching on. Just another silly diversion to take the focus off Harris dismal and horrific record. They will entertain ANY subject at all except what her actual accomplishments are, if any exist to discuss. Her record is emptier than Biden’s suit.

Big Mike म्हणाले...

You’d think with his wife having also been shot in the head by a mentally deranged young Democrat, that Kelly would feel some degree of affinity towards Trump. But Party above all!

Gusty Winds म्हणाले...

This guy is going to be the white guy DEI VP pick.

If America buys this bullshit, we deserve to crumble.

mindnumbrobot म्हणाले...

The man stood up after being shot and his first instinct was to reassure the crowd, fight pumping high in the air.

These people can go **** themselves, especially Mark Kelly. He should be ashamed of himself.

Aggie म्हणाले...

This is part of Kelly's vetting as the VP candidate, and this kind of 'macho-man' thing will be his shtick. Did any of the other so-called VP choices make the trip? Next thing you know, Kelly will be touted as a 'real man' and so forth.

Gusty Winds म्हणाले...

Mark Kelly reminds me of Gollum.

wendybar म्हणाले...

The only people who make RACE an issue are the Progressives, thanks to Obama who divided us and set race relations back decades.

wendybar म्हणाले...

Breezy said...
If Trump were afraid, he would not have attended that event. Harris didn’t attend because she is afraid of answering questions in real time. It’s a known known about her that she just sucks at communicating her thoughts, whatever they are.

God help us if we don’t force her into answering live questions over and over. We can’t have a president that we haven’t vetted at all.

8/1/24, 8:09 AM

I agree with everything you said here, but we had a president who we never vetted, and he started the fundamental transformation of America into the Progressive ghetto it is turning into today.

Another old lawyer म्हणाले...

I think it's probably been years, maybe decades, since Trump has been really afraid for himself. If he is now, I think it much, much more likely carryover from a bullet missing his brain by a fraction of an inch, and certainly not by Harris.

I don't discount the possibility that Trump is afraid for the Republic, though. A lot of people are, and for good reasons that grow stronger by the day.

n.n म्हणाले...

Trump, Trump, Trump. They have redistributed his capital, aborted his friends, prosecuted him in a fit of social justice, threatened his viability with Capitol punishment, pulled his feathers, accused him of Diversity and other progressivethemes, and so on and so forth. #HateTrumpsLove

Iman म्हणाले...

The Democrats’ frantic attempts at distraction will only increase. A candidate with zero accomplishments under her belt will be a difficult sale for all but the must gullible and that, coupled with a nearly pathological inability to speak extemporaneously, will sink her dingy.

Peachy म्हणाले...

Trump obsession. Trump Hate Cult.

Never ending.

All while our way of life turns into Maduro-Castro.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne म्हणाले...

Is that catching on, Trump the big chicken?

This strikes me as a case of the Democrats going after the boogieman Trump they've been building up for years. The enfant terrible Trump that watches the Gorilla Channel.

Iman म्हणाले...

Oh and Kelly phone home!

Matt म्हणाले...

Spooked? Where are the language police?

Peachy म्हणाले...

Kamala is simply the US version of Maduro

Justabill म्हणाले...

Whistling past the graveyard.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

Only a moron would not recognize that Trump is one of the most personally courageous politicians in recent memory. He really does seem to be fearless- not afraid to show up in any venue regardless of how stacked against him his inquisitors are going to be (see the news yesterday!). The people who are afraid are the Democrats- this is why they are constantly trying to get Republican candidates to accept unbalanced debate formats. If the Harris campaign really wants a debate, just agree to a debate with no moderators- Trump takes that debate instantly. Even the lefties here understand that such a debate will never be agreed to by the Democrats though none of them will admit it.

Butkus51 म्हणाले...

it takes courage for a democrat to go on CNN and spew shit

aka momentum

Gunner म्हणाले...

Does "authentically" black just mean that you are a registered Democrat who pulls the race card all the time?

Jamie म्हणाले...

I don't think her lack of accomplishments is going to hurt her chances. We (by which I mean not I, but a whole lot of people) elected Obama, after all, and we don't seem to have come away from that eight years with nearly the regret we should have. And again, by "we" I mean "not I."

Cacimbo म्हणाले...

Of the many things you can say about Trump - "afraid" is ridiculous. The man has been arrested, sued, shot at... Yet he continues to fight on. He goes in front of crowds and speaks off the cuff for hours, takes interviews from journolists, accepts invitations to black churches and other venues typically hostile to Republicans. Trying to label Trump afraid has the wiff of desperation.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Trump has been terrified ever since Kamala was the candidate, check out the videos channels of Harry Litman and Bulwark
Harry Litman
Bulwark

look at both for the pictured headliens

Both channels are excellent for crazy-eye leftist effects. Mental illness, Scott Adams says to look for.

Old and slow म्हणाले...

"Weird" sure was short lived. So I guess "scared" is the word of the day now? I try to keep up.

mindnumbrobot म्हणाले...

Jamie said...
We (by which I mean not I, but a whole lot of people) elected Obama, after all...

Obama was a talented politician, Harris not so much.

narciso म्हणाले...

like the coyote and the sheepdog I guess,

CJinPA म्हणाले...

Trump/Vance haven't found their footing in the New Election yet. Hopefully, things will change when the Dem giddiness dies down.

He would be much better off stating the obvious - Harris was literally chosen as VP for her race/sex - than saying she isn't black. That was just dumb.

Static Ping म्हणाले...

The dude nearly got shot in the head and then threw up his fist in defiance. Yeah, "scared."

I also am really enjoying Trump being a bully for pointing out the obvious, well documented, and inconvenient. When do we get a story that says "Trump told the truth with evidence without evidence"?

AlbertAnonymous म्हणाले...

Is it me, or does Kaitlin Collin’s always look like she has a stick up her ass?

narciso म्हणाले...

why because cnn tells you so, they also said the protests were 'mostly peaceful' while half of minneapolis burned,

Michael Fitzgerald म्हणाले...

Kelly embodies a lot of what's wrong with our nation. An astronaut, a serviceman who advertises his price to foreign nations and enemies of America. A man who should be an exemplar to American youth is in reality a craven, grasping rat ready to stab his country in the back for a few yen. This creep, Milley, Austin, Kirby... so much of our military is run by, and produces, anti-American pieces of shit that serve not America, but the democrat Party and whichever deranged mania they're churning up.

Static Ping म्हणाले...

CJinPA said... He would be much better off stating the obvious - Harris was literally chosen as VP for her race/sex - than saying she isn't black. That was just dumb.

Depends on your audience. This one is African-American and mostly hostile. I suspect that the statement hit home with some people watching. It helps Kamala very much claimed to be Indian until it was more convenient to be African. Well documented and inconvenient. I suspect that what you suggested would have been less effective with the audience here, as a lot of them are DEI hires and would not appreciate the implications. Get the audience to realize that Kamala will abandon her heritage until she needs it, and then they open up to all sorts of other things.

planetgeo म्हणाले...

Stuck with a terrible candidate, the Dems are going all out with mind games and marketing. But they're not exactly Vulcans, so it's going more like a middle school pep rally with a lot of ADHD kids hopping around excitedly and squirting milk out their noses at the uncool kids.

Todd म्हणाले...

You can tell because he hides in his basement and doesn't hold any media events, and has his wife speak for him, oh wait, that is Biden.

When was the last time either Biden OR Harris spoke to any crowd for 60+ minutes?

As Trump said, he showed up at the journalist event whereas Harris found something else more important to do. Attend a sorority event, right? What was she discussing with the sorority sisters? How to get ahead while on your knees?

We keep hearing the media talk about "her momentum". A stone dropped from any height has momentum too.

Howard म्हणाले...

Wow. The exact opposite is true. I felt that Trump absolutely rocked the interview. He couldn't possibly have done better. He fought back a little bit but maintain his composure and didn't go into full attack mode. They kept baiting him over and over and over again and he always adjusted the subject either turning it on its side or looking at it from a completely different angle than the questioner initially asked.

I still can't stand Donald Trump I do think he is a bully. But one thing we've seen over the last month the man is not a coward.

As I see saw back and forth I'm now feeling more comfortable about my bet with my idiot son but I'm not yet making plans on how to spend the $200.

John henry म्हणाले...

North,

Kelly is (was?) a Shaklee distributor.

Shaklee is the mlm program (some call it a scam) for people who don't qualify for the Amway program.

Do you need to know anything more?

OK, he is also in bed with Chinese spy balloon maker. Remember the fuss about those last year?

It is unclear whether or not those were his baloons. It it the kind of baloons he makes.

John Henry

phantommut म्हणाले...

They're doing their best to dilute the influence of The Picture.

Mike (MJB Wolf) म्हणाले...

Trump didn’t say “she isn’t black.” He said she sold herself as Indian and “suddenly she’s black.” Funny how the MSNBC misinterpolation of what he said finds purchase with so many, even with the transcript right here on this blog contradicting the DNC spin.

Freaking amazing.

Oso Negro म्हणाले...

Say what you will about Trump, he doesn't have a lot of quit in him. And that takes courage.

ChuckUnderscore म्हणाले...

Mindnumbrobot said:

"Obama was a talented politician, Harris not so much."

I have never understood this trope that Obama was a talented politician. Obama is a smooth talking fraud, clear as day. His talent lies in his ability to fool people into thinking he has anything useful to say.

Regarding Harris; She is a complete moron.

Jamie म्हणाले...

"Weird" sure was short lived. So I guess "scared" is the word of the day now? I try to keep up.

More evidence for my "stress-testing the message machine" hypothesis! Let's see if everybody's on "scared" today, and if it moves the betting odds. Trump's odds have gone down (-118, down from I think -154 at the high) and Harris's have gone up (+130, up from... I think +184 at the low, since her elevation), so either "weird" did something or the interview did something.

I should really be keeping a spreadsheet...

Bima म्हणाले...

VP Harris chose to attend Howard, an HBCU, over Stanford (where her father was a professor) and join Alpha Kappa Alpha, one of the original "Divine Nine". She is now embarked on a series of events to to consolidate the support of her NPHC Sisters and Brothers (~1.5 million members) who form the core of her support. She is acting strategically.

mindnumbrobot म्हणाले...

ChuckUnderscore said...
His talent lies in his ability to fool people into thinking he has anything useful to say.

Thus, making him a talented politician. I, like you, understad him to be a complete fraud. Frankly, Bill Clinton was far superior as a natural politician, but Obama checked the minority box which gave people the feels.

Patrick Henry was right! म्हणाले...

If you fall for the psyop it is. And our proprietor, tragically, seems very susceptible to the psyop.

Hassayamper म्हणाले...

It would have been amazing if the fresh new face of a much younger woman of color DIDN'T move the needle a few ticks over pathetic shambling old Joe Biden. It's probably the high water mark for the Harris campaign, and barring any black swan events, I expect things to return to a Trump +4 equilibrium with 320+ electoral votes before the end of this month.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne म्हणाले...

John henry said...

Do you need to know anything more?

I knew about Shaklee and the Chinese balloon thing, that's why I voted for McSally. I'm just annoyed with the way the national media is making a fuss over him when he rarely even shows up in local news here. He doesn't seem to do or say anything noteworthy. If it wasn't for the fact that he looks like Lex Luthor I wouldn't even really be able to recognize him if I passed him on the street.

D.D. Driver म्हणाले...

I probably would have voted for Kelly against Biden in the ...motherfucking PRIMARY YOU ASSHOLES!

Everyone knows that Kamala would not have had a snowballs chance in hell at winning a primary. But there wasn't one. There was a fake primary with a fake candidate that the whole world knew was going to drop out (and if he didn't you could force him out). And they made all the little good boys and girls go to the polls and get their sticker that they "voted" (for a single candidate that they hated but had no other choice). But it was all a fucking fraud. How is it "democracy" if the Top Men select the single person you are allowed to vote for? And then change their minds and tell you the other single person you are allowed to vote for? What form of government is that? It is not democracy. It sounds like autocracy.

The party that preaches about "voting rights" holds fake elections. Don't forget. And, can it be any more obvious that the Dems have targeted white ladies to be their useful idiots. I'm embarrassed for white women. They think you are stupid.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne म्हणाले...

AlbertAnonymous said...

Is it me, or does Kaitlin Collin’s always look like she has a stick up her ass?

Actually, I was trying to decide who looked more masculine, her or Kelly.

Dixcus म्हणाले...

Whatever they call you is what they are. They are TERRIFIED of what's coming and rightly so. Because it's coming.

Freder Frederson म्हणाले...

He said she sold herself as Indian and “suddenly she’s black.”

But, of course, this too is a lie. More subtle, but still a lie.

imTay म्हणाले...

Textbook propaganda technique. They have to try to erase the display of physical courage Trump made, one that was impossible to fake, BTW, from the public consciousness.

This rule is right up there with accusing the other side of whatever you are doing. In fact, they are projecting their own fear onto Trump. Both things are out there, the fear, on their side, and the courage, and both emotions have to be manipulated, reassigned, because they can't be made to disappear. Propaganda cannot do that.

imTay म्हणाले...

I was driving for three hours on the interstate the day Biden quit, and before that had counted exactly three Biden/Harris bumper stickers. All three in cars driven by white women, in their thirties or forties, alone in their tiny cars. Not scientific, but the only three I saw?

William म्हणाले...

I disagree with everything that Mark Kelly said, but he said it forcefully and effectively. That's why he won't be picked for the Veep slot. Democrats will look at him and look at Kamala, and wonder how she came to be at the head of the ticket. Kamala has to pick someone like Buttigieg or Stacy Abrams to not be overshadowed by the under card......Or maybe she can follow the example of Joe Biden and selflessly renounce her position as the nominee in favor of whoever the veep pick is. That would show real courage and selfless devotion to the best interests of America. I'd like to see a real groundswell among Democrats urging her to resign. It's been done before. It can be done again.

Narayanan म्हणाले...

Is that catching on, Trump the big chicken?
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I am hoping for Trump the big chicken in every ballot box

Arashi म्हणाले...

So if The Kamala picks Kelly for her VP, does his association with a Chinese Communist Company that assists a US company he helped create that develops spy balloons get any real investigating by the 'press'?

Kakistocracy म्हणाले...

I am extremely impressed with the strategic discipline that Trump has brought to his campaign. I doubted the punditry that indicated Trump could be tamed and the pros could run a focused campaign this time. I am also glad Trump keeps bringing up Hannibal Lecter because honestly I would vote for Hannibal Lecter over Trump. Hannibal Lecter reads. Hannibal Lecter knows things. Hannibal Lecter speaks coherently. Hannibal Lecter is never out of control; he eats precisely those he means to.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

That mask slips off the more Bich comments.

D.D. Driver म्हणाले...

Hannibal Lecter reads. Hannibal Lecter knows things. Hannibal Lecter speaks coherently. Hannibal Lecter is never out of control; he eats precisely those he means to.

I hate Trump, too. But this is insane and it speaks to why people on the left are such fucking sheep that are going to go along with the Joe Biden Primary Fraud. The democrats literally do the things they accuse Trump of doing. Is cannibalism next from them?

imTay म्हणाले...

I think it's funny that Freder claims to care abut subtle lies when he supported Joe Biden, who lied like he breathed. Which is why, of course that it was important for them to paint Trump as a liar. Hillary was also an inveterate liar. And if her entire campaign, and Joe Biden's too, depended on telling outright lies, step one is to paint your opponent as a liar. It's textbook propaganda.

Jamie म्हणाले...

Hey! Doesn't Biden have a public appearance today?

CJinPA म्हणाले...

CJinPA said... He would be much better off stating the obvious - Harris was literally chosen as VP for her race/sex - than saying she isn't black. That was just dumb.

Depends on your audience. This one is African-American and mostly hostile.

Static Ping,
In a campaign, the "audience" is always the voters, not the crowd. Picking a hostile setting was also dumb, as much as I admire Trump's willingness to march into enemy territory.

Your make good points based on merit, but this topic is awful in a condensed 3-month campaign. If everyone's not talking about Harris/border, Harris/crime etc., we're screwing up. We're not talking about those things, we're talking about Trump.

MikeD म्हणाले...

Collins just got taken to the woodshed by Senator Tom Cotton, hopefully our hostess will link & opine on this?

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

D.D. Driver @ 9:52AM

Well said. I think you're dead on.
A couple questions:

How many of your fellow Dems feel the way you do?
It seems to me the Dems I know don't care as long as Kamala wins. They seem to have been convinced that beating Trump is the only thing that matters.

What is the answer, in your opinion? What can be done? Should anything be done? Will anything be done?

If Kamala wins, will you feel differently?

Perhaps most importantly; Why do you think they did this? Why did they want Kamala and not a candidate the voters might have picked?


Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

honestly I would vote for Hannibal Lecter over Trump.

What about Multiple Miggs? Would vote for Miggs over Trump?

Amadeus 48 म्हणाले...

Kelly, an astronaut who looks like a space alien, spins nonsense.

Great.

Kakistocracy म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Dr Weevil म्हणाले...

Bima (9:47am):
Is it really true that "VP Harris chose to attend Howard, an HBCU, over Stanford (where her father was a professor)"? Could she have gotten into Stanford? Even faculty-child preferences can only go so far, and an idiot faculty child will not be accepted.

Joe Smith म्हणाले...

Kelly is a cocksucker, so there's that.

Kakistocracy म्हणाले...

Yes, okay, he’s a killer. But I feel like he wouldn’t kill out of bigotry or for political advantage. He’d only kill people who irritated him for aesthetically legitimate reasons. Like Hannibal Lecter would definitely have killed Boris Johnson and turned him into something arch that reflected his buffoonery, like a corn dog.

Hannibal Lecter would make a better President than Donald Trump.

Mr. D म्हणाले...

Dems are better at taunting than arguing the merits of their positions. It’s kinda weird.

Kevin म्हणाले...

This does nothing for swing voters or independents.

All it shows is the Dems are still trying to rally their post-Biden base.

pious agnostic म्हणाले...

Real bravery is shown by the hero who says "spooked".

hombre म्हणाले...

Mark Kelly is a nebbish, astronaut or naut. 😂 He's been an ineffectual party line guy in the face of an invasion of Arizona's southern border. How's that for courage?

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

Well, with Lecter as President, the state dinners would be more interesting. "Now, where did that annoying Netanyahu disappear to this afternoon?"

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

How about Ted Bundy, Bich? Who gets your vote?

loudogblog म्हणाले...

I think that Trump suspected this kind of attack. Which is why he announced that he is going to return to Butler. (The site of the assassination attempt.)

Granted, the move is mostly symbolic but it symbolizes fearlessness, not cowardice. One thing that you can say about Trump is that he, outwardly, doesn't appear to be afraid of anything. He'll go into the belly of the beast to talk to an audience.

JK Brown म्हणाले...

Trump just did a sit down among enemies.

As for debating Harris, Trump should take the line as has been said quietly of after she's actually nominated. After all, the delegates now swearing to vote for her at the convention were just two weeks ago loyal to Joe Biden.

I'd say September 4th. Two weeks after the DNC and after the DC denizens return for their Fall staff season fresh from their Labor Day vacay.

BTW, the federal response to Katrina was so poor because most of the people you needed to reach in DC were out of the office by Wednesday after the storm for their Labor Day vacays. They were a real pain on the Tuesday after since the failures of help were then the news cycle. The first couple days were local response, SAR and body recovery but by Wed when looking to DC for help, the phones went unanswered.

Rick67 म्हणाले...

Harris was chosen by Biden because of her sex and ethnicity. Biden stated this clearly.

And many people voted for Obama partly (some largely) because of his ethnicity. Woo hoo! Our first African-American president! I did not fully realize how important that was until after he was elected. When people openly stated that was important to them.

I am beginning to suspect the selection of Harris is part of a long game being played by Obama. He wanted (wants) to "fundamentally transform America" which appears to mean moving this nation closer to being a socialist Utopia. Obama knew how to exploit his ethnicity. And he knows Harris's sex and ethnicity mean that she - having been amazingly unpopular as a candidate and having never been in a presidential primary - has a real chance of winning.

Woo hoo! Our first female president! And not only that our first African-American slash Indian-American president!

People who would not vote for Biden just might vote for Harris. And Harris is about as left wing as they come. More left wing that Bernie Sanders. How do we get Americans to elect a Communist as president? Somehow persuade Biden to pick the least popular person to be his vice-presidential candidate. Biden wins. Pressure Biden to step down. And now the amazingly unpopular and authoritarian Communist is positioned to help fundamentally transform America.

This election is a referendum on Marxism.

Leland म्हणाले...

William said...
I disagree with everything that Mark Kelly said, but he said it forcefully and effectively. That's why he won't be picked for the Veep slot. Democrats will look at him and look at Kamala, and wonder how she came to be at the head of the ticket.


I’ve been asking a question as my own thought experiment. Who would want to run, whether as VP or head of the ticket? The issue is roughly the same, you got less than 3 months to mount a campaign against an opponent that is already polling well. Most people only get one shot at the top of the ticket. Even Hillary got one chance. So I think that narrows the pool of who wants to be in Kamala’s place. This is likely the only shot Kamala has, so why wouldn’t she take it.
For the VP running mate, they usually only have this much time on the campaign, and the value is while the VP historically doesn’t become a President, a VP candidate often ends up later in a better position to win the next Primary. I can see Mark wanting this role for that positioning. It builds a larger name recognition and gives him a bit more influence even in the current Democrat Senatorial caucus. It also isn’t a major change from what he is doing now. The VP’s primary function is as the President of the Senate.

I don’t like Mark Kelly, and I knew him at NASA. He is well regarded there, but I didn’t like him. That said, I know he is a good choice for Democrats, especially since they absolutely need to win Arizona. He’s a bad choice because a California/Arizona ticket doesn’t do much for shoring up the needed wins in the Mid-West. If Pennsylvania or Michigan fall early in the night, no Democrat will care much that they kept Arizona. Alas, Shapiro is a bad fit for Harris, and Whitmer is smart enough not to want the job.

Michael K म्हणाले...

Blogger Dr Weevil said...

Bima (9:47am):
Is it really true that "VP Harris chose to attend Howard, an HBCU, over Stanford (where her father was a professor)"? Could she have gotten into Stanford? Even faculty-child preferences can only go so far, and an idiot faculty child will not be accepted.


I would bet that this is the explanation. Once she faced the choice, she decided to go with the ethnic thing.

Mind your own business म्हणाले...

THis is the Kelly who is involved with the company that partnered with the CCP to send spy ballons over the US, right?

Rabel म्हणाले...

Bima said...

"VP Harris chose to attend Howard, an HBCU, over Stanford..."

I can't find any evidence that she was accepted at or applied to Stanford. Can you provide any?

Inga म्हणाले...

“You’d think with his wife having also been shot in the head by a mentally deranged young Democrat, that Kelly would feel some degree of affinity towards Trump. But Party above all!


“Records show that Loughner was registered as an independent and voted in 2006 and 2008, but not in 2010.[37][38]

Loughner's high-school friend Zach Osler said, "He did not watch TV; he disliked the news; he didn't listen to political radio; he didn't take sides; he wasn't on the Left; he wasn't on the Right."[18] According to a former friend, Bryce Tierney, Loughner had expressed a longstanding dislike for Gabby Giffords. Tierney recalled that Loughner had often said that women should not hold positions of power.”

Deep State Reformer म्हणाले...

Trump has two narcissistic tendencies. Trump always considers himself the smartest person in the room, and secondly that he's a super-salesman who is able to sell (convince) anybody of anything. Those two traits will take him down a path to defeat if he's foolish enough to go that way. That's is why he's getting all this baiting and taunting now. Nudge, nudge.

D.D. Driver म्हणाले...

@Bob Boyd: I'm not a democrat and have never voted for a democratic presidential candidate in the general (and only one republican and I'm embarrassed about that vote). BUT--Wisconsin is an open primary state and I 100% would have voted for a credible candidate over Joe Biden. Can't remember who I voted for this year. It didn't really matter by the time it got to Wisconsin--probably Ramaswamy but who cares? One time, I did vote for HRC in the primary (with no intention of ever, ever voting for her in the general) because she is a sleaze with no principles and Bernie Sanders actually believes the bullshit he runs on. Wanting someone to win a primary is not the same thing as liking them.

One Fine Day म्हणाले...

"Spooked", "scared", "afraid" were all talking points issued by the DNC just after the Dem leadership picked Harris to replace Biden. The idea was that Trump and Republicans were "afraid" of the bad-ass Lady Boss. We saw that talking point here mere moments after our local Dem propaganda drones received their instructions.

That talking point was then replaced with "weird" to see how that worked. It was pretty successful so we'll see it again during the main campaign after the riots in Chicago* in a couple weeks.

The problem for the Progs/Dems is that Trump just blew their talking points and their candidate off the headlines with his interview by the Dem Propagandists of Color. So they are trying to resurrect "afraid" as a talking point to get the traction they had last week.

Doesn't look like it's working very well. But our local Dem talking point repeaters are giving it the ol' college sorority try.


*aka Dem convention

Amadeus 48 म्हणाले...

Peggy Noonan said that a Dem friend observed that Biden always thought he was the smartest guy in the room. She replied, "Is it a small room?"

Someone above says that Trump thinks he can convince anyone of anything. That is clearly wrong. Trump thinks that he can try and it might work, but if he doesn't try it will never work. He clearly has a promoter's personality.








rehajm म्हणाले...

…meanwhile nobody talks about policy. Point to the lefties…

Michael K म्हणाले...

The dullard again:

Loughner's high-school friend Zach Osler said, "He did not watch TV; he disliked the news; he didn't listen to political radio; he didn't take sides; he wasn't on the Left;

His mother was and worked for the Pima County sheriff, who was the Democrat who came up with the fake Palin bullseye. She used her position in his office to hide the complaints about her psychotic son. The sheriff lost the next election.

Gusty Winds म्हणाले...

I'm thinking Kaitlan Collins used to have testicles.

Nancy Reyes म्हणाले...

let me point out that the western cultural reference to Trump as a chicken is wrong..
That meme started in China in 2017, the year of the fire rooster.
Not a chicken, but a fighting cock: Strong, loyal, ready to warn of danger, and ready to defend his family. Here in the Philippines, cockfighting is a big sport, and believe me, you don't want to mess with a fighting cock.

JaimeRoberto म्हणाले...

Whenever I see pictures of those large Trump balloons, I think some people really have too much time on their hands and probably need mental help.

John henry म्हणाले...

Howard University acceptance rate 34%

Stanford University acceptance rate 4%

Hastings law school acceptance rate

The average acceptance rate for law colleges in the U.S. is 45%. Hastings Law School has an official rate of 43% and ranks No. 80 in terms of student selectivity.

https://testmaxprep.com/blog/lsat/getting-into-hastings-law-school

John Henry

Mason G म्हणाले...

"I'm thinking Kaitlan Collins used to have testicles."

Looks like a dude in a wig. Woof.

Krontekag म्हणाले...

Was "Weird" not working?

H म्हणाले...

Kaitlin Collins is Trump’s biggest asset. People see her interview techniques and decide to vote for Trump.

Tim म्हणाले...

They are going to have a hard time selling that, with the image of Trump standing, after the assassination attempt, with his fist in the air yelling Fight! Fight! Fight! L