Why do Democrat candidates insist on speaking in a faux Southern black accent whenever they talk to black audiences?
Can we please stop doing that?
Democrats pander to every identity group under the sun. I understand that. What I don’t understand is why they think pretending they’re a black Baptist preacher is the right way to get blacks to vote for them.
Is it so difficult to just be yourself?
Who am I kidding? It is difficult when you’re Kamala Harris.
As a reader noted the other day, Kamala is a chameleon.
[Note to self: Photoshop Kamala as Boy George — Kama-kama-kama-kama Kamala Chameleon … she flips and flops … she flips and flo-o-o-ops]
Kamala changes her speech patterns and policy positions dependning on the audience.
This is why Kamala Harris, the affluent California daughter of an Indian cancer researcher and a Jamaican politician, transformed into Butterfly McQueen when speaking to a black audience in Atlanta the other day.
It’s just as phony as the time in 2008 when Hillary Clinton turned into a black preacher.
Kamala Harris is the only person on the planet who could make Hillary Clinton look like a savvy campaigner.
I suspect that might be the primary reason her fledgling campaign is preventing Kamala from doing a press conference or one-on-one interview on cable or network news. Left to her own devices, Kamala flounders like a fish out of water.
Instead, the campaign only trots her out to read prepared remarks to supporters while issuing statement after statement informing the press of Kamala’s latest policy flip-flop.
For all his faults, one thing you can say about Donald Trump is what you see is what you get.
Trump doesn’t moderate his delivery style depending on audience demographics. Trump is Trump whether he’s addressing a group of black journalists in Chicago, auto workers in Michigan, or crypto-dudes in Nashville.
Kamala can’t do that, mostly because she’s deeply insecure and as phony as a three-dollar bill.
The last time she won an election was in deep-blue California where the only things voters demand of a candidate are a D after their name and a pulse. And if you have the former, I suspect the latter is negotiable.
The last time Kamala ran for national office, she couldn’t even gin up enough support among Democrat voters to make it to the Iowa caucus.
Kamala’s 2020 presidential campaign was such an embarrassing hot mess that the media has spent the last two weeks trying to flush it down the memory hole.
Even now, after serving as Vice President of the United States for three-and-a-half years, Kamala Harris has nothing substantive to run on — which is why she’s running away from her record, such as it is.
Pandering is the only arrow in Kamala’s quiver.
If she has to put on a phony Southern black accent, then by God, that’s what she’ll do, y’all.
Pandering is the last resort of a lousy candidate, which is why Kamala has been doing it since she jumped into the presidential race in 2019.
Remember?
She took a break from portraying herself as a hard-nosed prosecutor to portray herself as a pot-smoking, Tupac-listening homie during an interview with a black radio host.
That embarrassing incident still cracks me up.
Don’t misunderstand. Kamala could still win in November if the Trump campaign doesn’t wise up and zero in on her weaknesses, of which there are many.
The onus is on Donald Trump to hammer this shape-shifting phony on her flip-flops, far-left radical domestic positions, and terrifying foreign policy. If he doesn’t, Kamala could slip through the net and find herself in the Oval Office, especially since she has the full backing of the news media.
Trump doesn’t have the usual 18 months to define his Democrat opponent. There are only three months until the election. The Trump campaign can’t afford a single unforced error.
If they need help defining Kamala as the inept radical she is, the Trump people should check out Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick’s campaign in Pennsylvania.
McCormick has been hitting all the right notes since Kamala was selected as Joe’s replacement. He has been hammering Democrat Senator Bob Casey for supporting the most radical presidential candidate in history in campaign ads featuring Kamala in her own words.
Trump shouldn’t be wasting what little time he has on shallow, stupid lines of attack like whether Kamala is authentically black, especially when they’re delivered by incompetent idiots like Alina Habba, a woman who can’t even win a court case for Trump, let alone an election.
Trump should take a page from Dave McCormick’s playbook and hang every Biden administration failure around Kamala’s neck like a millstone. He should spend every day between now and November 5 reminding voters why they dislike this radical cackling phony.