Morning Glory: Kamala Harris goes left, again
Fox News' Bryan Llenas reports the latest on Kamala Harris' VP selection.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s first major decision as the Democratic nominee for president obliged her to choose either to go left or to try and keep the Democrats as a mainstream, traditionally liberal party both with regards to Israel and vis-à-vis American politics generally.
Harris chose "left" when she picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, and in doing so, she shunned and shamed Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, considered until the actual morning of her decision to be the runaway favorite of Democrats who desire more than anything to win the general election in November.
"Winning" was, after all, the bottom line when it became necessary to throw President Biden under the wheels of the Democratic bus. Biden will be given a golf clap and a polite send-off at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago but don’t be surprised if his speech isn’t in prime time or on any day except Monday. Biden is now all dead weight and zero help to his Vice President in her quest to take all of America where California has already gone. Biden might still be in the Oval Office in January, but he’s not running anything in the Democratic Party. (It’s not clear he’s running anything at all these days.)
Harris is first and foremost a woman of the "left"—the "hard left" in fact. Harris has enjoyed a long public career that began and has been nursed along in the ultra-left world of San Francisco politics. To understand anything Harris does, ask yourself: What would Nancy Pelosi do? Then do that very thing without art or even the pretense of old school liberal Democrat values. That’s Harris: Pelosi without Pelosi’s Baltimore roots; Pelosi without a shred of Pelosi’s political smarts. Both San Francisco Democrats are ideologues of the left, but Pelosi could always count votes and knew that "First, you have to win." Pelosi would have picked Shapiro, but Pelosi used the last of her juice to knife Joe Biden in the back. The new kids are in control now.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION
Thus Harris’s dumping of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro on Monday was not Pelosi-like in the least. With this single decision, Harris threw off any pretense of moderation in policy or inclusionary tendencies in politics. Harris told every voter all they need to know: The new breed of San Francisco Democrats is in charge and they aren’t interested in compromise or in any big tents. They especially are not interested in anyone who supports Israel in its existential war with Iran.
Shapiro, himself a Jew, is and always has been a strong supporter of Israel. Harris is not. Quite the opposite, in fact. She’s bought into the "oppressor-oppressed" framework of the "intersectionality" movement on the left. Israel is not part of that movement. It is in fact the enemy of that movement. Harris could not bring herself to tap Shapiro as a colleague, no matter how much common sense it made in political terms. James Carville and every other Democrat who cares about winning could scream at........
© Fox News
visit website