Thursday, October 17, 2024

Kamala Harris: The Disciplined Candidate

Ned Bristol - Unlike her opponent, Kamala Harris is a disciplined candidate who speaks with purpose. She and her campaign advisers try to make every word count. She tailors her speeches to the audience, or more exactly picks her audience to convey a position. The same goes for her campaign advertising, her decision to hold off on media interviews, her preparation for the debate against Donald Trump. She is a 24/7 candidate.

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CHARLAMAGNE: I think a lot of your press hits get criticized. Folks say you come off very scripted. They say you like to stick to your talking points -

KAMALA HARRIS: That would be called discipline.

CHARLAMAGNE: -- and some people say you have an inability to fearlessly say who you are and what you believe. I know that's not true, but what do you say to that criticism? And is it fair for SNL to make fun of it?

KAMALA HARRIS: Hasn't Maya Rudolph been wonderful? I have nothing but admiration for the comedy, and I think it's important to be able to laugh at yourself and each other in the spirit of comedy, obviously, and not belittling people as my opponent would do.

CHARLAMAGNE: But what do you say to people who say you stay on the talking points?

KAMALA HARRIS: I would say, you're welcome! I mean, listen, here's the thing: I love having conversations, which is why I'm so happy to be with you this afternoon. The reality is that there are certain things that must be repeated to ensure that everyone knows what I stand for and the issues that I think are at stake in this election. And so it requires repetition.

You know, some people say that until someone has heard the same thing at least three times, it just doesn't stay with them. So repetition is important. And for that reason, yes, at my rallies, I say the same thing when I go to Detroit as I do in Philly, or wherever I am, to make sure that people hear and receive what I think are some of the most critical issues at stake in this election.

This is what so many refuse to see as it happens right before their eyes. They see someone unable to leave key talking points, yet she's doing it on purpose in order to drive home her message through intentional repetition as she notes above. And it makes even more sense when you realize that instead of an entire year-plus presidential cycle, she's had to hit stride and win an election in only 105 days as a person very few knew then as they know now after repeated exposure to her campaign messaging.

Even from those who've criticised her for their past interactions as subordinates, not a single person has ever said that Harris isn't disciplined nor that she doesn't demand the same from those around her. As Trump floats from one verbalized thought cloud to the next - like a child blowing dandelion seeds into the wind - Harris maintains the message discipline that's served her well in her prosecutorial career and now as the head of the Democratic ticket.

Those who call her repetitions as 'talking points' are absolutely correct. But talking points only become definitive memories if they are heard multiple times by those hearing them. This fact is confirmed by the study and application of human psychology. And it takes discipline to make repetition effective.

#1 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-17 06:16 PM

You mean swaying back and forth like a ------- ------ for 40 minutes isn't presidential?

WHO KNEW???

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-10-17 11:05 PM

What does this Kamala Harris' video for the Catholic Al Smith dinner look Iike you Tony?
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#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-10-18 12:57 AM


Even from those who've criticised her for their past interactions as subordinates, not a single person has ever said that Harris isn't disciplined nor that she doesn't demand the same from those around her.

PHILADELPHIA " Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are worried Vice President Kamala Harris' operation is being poorly run in the nation's biggest battleground state.

They say some Harris aides lack relationships with key party figures, particularly in Philadelphia and its suburbs. They complain they have been left out of events and surrogates haven't been deployed effectively. And they've urged Harris staff in private meetings to do more to turn out voters of color.
www.politico.com

Disciplined? Sure Tony sure.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-10-18 12:59 AM

No discipline. No plan. No strategy.': Kamala Harris campaign in meltdown
www.politico.com

LOL

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-10-18 01:03 AM

Nice article from 2019.

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-10-18 01:10 AM

Nice article from 2019.

Not surprising, Trumpers live in the past because they're so frightened by a future where white privilege is no longer a thing.

It's basically a corollary to Dr. Martin Luther King's greatest speech: They're absolutely apoplectic when they're accurately judged by the "content of their character" since they repeatedly - and often with oblivious pride - continually show that they don't have any of depth by projecting their own hegemony as the targeted goal of those they fear will eventually succeed them.

#7 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-18 07:01 AM

What does this Kamala Harris' video for the Catholic Al Smith dinner look Iike you Tony?

It looks like Kamala understood the purpose of the Al Smith dinner - levity and humor - unlike donOld Trump who droned on and on about his campaign grievances without any witticism in sight.

Since you know so little about America, let me explain to you what the Al Smith dinner is about. The dinner is supposed to be a political DMZ in the middle of a heated campaign that allows candidates to show humility, self deprecation, and the ability to laugh at the circumstances the American electoral experience forces candidate into.

It's so rich for the same people who've continually and repeatedly gaslit about Kamala lacking intelligence, lacking the ability to respond off-the-cuff, lacking the ability to articulate a message see all of that get blown up right before their very eyes when all they had to do was look accurately back at the past. Yes, Kamala's time was not 2020. Same for every other Democrat not named Joe Biden, but I don't see anyone claiming that Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, Bennett, or any of the other candidates that Biden defeated are instantly non-viable in the future because they weren't successful then. Only Kamala - who went on to become Vice President and now the party's standard bearer for President, when none of those others threw their hats into the ring - as they could have - when Biden stepped down.

Kamala is 7-0 in elected politics, yet yabobs like Onenut can't recognize political talent when it smacks them in the face. When all is said and done, the political instincts and abilities Kamala has honed over her 3 decades of public service will show that Karl Rove in 2010 knew exactly what she was to become.

#8 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-18 07:20 AM

Kamala is 7-0 in elected politics...has honed over her 3 decades of public service...
#8 | Posted by tonyroma

You have to remember that the yahoos think historians just make stuff up and everyone is as lazy and intellectually curious as TFG and Bush Jr. They really don't recognize the hard work and talent some one like Kamala has demonstrated her whole life. They think that they all just fall backassword into success like their heroes.

#9 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-10-18 08:24 AM

Damn auto-correct unintellectually curious.
Or would that be intellectually uncurious?

#10 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-10-18 08:26 AM

They really don't recognize the hard work and talent some one like Kamala has demonstrated her whole life. They think that they all just fall backassword into success like their heroes.

I've tried my level best to post factual information going back to the earliest part of her career, showing people that her 2019 campaign was a self-abort that actually propelled her to where she now is. And the fact she rightly pulled the ripcord when she had no money nor constituency from which to challenge the more popular and better funded Democrats only confirms she's a pragmatic - if not fortunate - politician, not an ego-driven selfish one.

And of course, the ignoranti who only looked at 2019, had no clue as they claimed she was nothing more than a DEI hire and had slept her way to success because she dated Willie Brown in the past. Even if Harris should lose, based on where she started to where her campaign lies today is a remarkable journey of success considering the unprecedented circumstances and political realities she's navigating in real time that no other modern politician has ever traveled before her.

Her besting and spanking Trump during the debate was not fluke. It came from her psychological studies on how to deal with charming sociopathic defendants in criminal courts, where the jury tends to like them. The prosecutors have to use the defendant's own ego and need to dominate others against them without upsetting jurors who otherwise might think the prosecutor is being too personal and harsh.

Trump never saw it coming, or if he did he had no effective counter maneuver, which is why he stood there like a stump when Harris called him things no other person on planet Earth ever had to his face before. And that's why he refuses to share another stage with her again. He knows the same dynamic will again emerge, showing him to be weak and defenseless against a woman who's spent a career incarcerating men just like Trump.

#11 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-18 08:56 AM

It's so rich for the same people who've continually and repeatedly gaslit about Kamala lacking intelligence

Tony, that is spot on.

I have been watching these "undecided" voters. Anyone undecided any time after 1/6/21 about the Orange Meatball is an idiot.

The talking points are:

"I just don't know enough about her." = she's a woman.

"I just don't know what her policies are." = she's a woman.

"Unintelligent" = she's a black woman.

"She can't respond" = she's a woman.

This is 2024 version of "but her emails".

America as a collective is misogynistic enough to hand power over to an unqualified compulsive liar with anger and retribution issues, a convicted felon, a rapist, a sexual assualter, a bigot, a racist who stole classified documents and waved them around to anyone he wanted to impress and then obstructed justice when the FBI tried to retrieve them.

Where's the --- RUSSIAN BINDER donOLD?

Anyone who is undecided at this point is a liar.

#12 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-10-18 09:15 AM

When you have to sell Hornswoggle you go all out. It would be laughable if it wasn't so sad.

#13 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-10-18 09:19 AM

Laure, is it true that Jill Stein is not on the Kansas ballot?

And that writing her name in cancels the voter's vote?

#14 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-18 09:22 AM

-This is 2024 version of "but her emails".

You can discount my opinion because I voted for Hillary but admittingly I held my nose as I voted for her. I didn't like her but Trump was a hard no regardless.....

I felt like Hillary was where she was totally due to nepotism, lacked the proper experience, carpetbagged her senate seat and was complete name recognition.

that may be harsh but I still voted for her because the alternative was worse....and let's be honest......I just described every Kennedy who ever ran for or held public office not to mention plenty of other career politicians. (Bush??)

I don't see any of that in Kamala. I don't give a crap about the alleged sleeping around. Nobody really cares about that anyway. It's just fun for them to bring it up.

I'm voting for her without having to hold my nose.

#15 | Posted by eberly at 2024-10-18 09:22 AM

-Laure, is it true that Jill Stein is not on the Kansas ballot?

I'll let you know later today.

#16 | Posted by eberly at 2024-10-18 09:23 AM

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