Kamala will likely be the candidate. Be bold. One of her first visits should be Charleston, SC. She should go on a walking tour of the city where people are spending $1M to raise the foundations of their homes because the sea wall will be repeatedly breached. Since the 1600’s, Charleston is proof that our country has always been diverse.…
Kamala will likely be the candidate. Be bold. One of her first visits should be Charleston, SC. She should go on a walking tour of the city where people are spending $1M to raise the foundations of their homes because the sea wall will be repeatedly breached. Since the 1600’s, Charleston is proof that our country has always been diverse. Ethnically, religiously, racially. DEI was always poorly messaged. We have always been diverse. So, what bothers the right is equity and inclusion. Who has been most affected? Women. Black women, white women, Asian women, Native American women. Promise women that it doesn’t matter if they live in a red state or blue state, if they are independent of thought, their ideas and rights will be respected. Tell them that what will not be tolerated is what their former governor did. Allow a chauvinist to suggest that she is somehow less because her dress wasn’t “designer” and then endorse him. Pick Gretchen Whitmer as her running mate. Leverage the fact that there are more women in our country than men. There are more women receiving college degrees than men. Ask them if another male, Trump, Orban, Putin, JD has earned the right to continue to lead. Is any of this traditional? No. Will any of the experts allow her to do so? No. But she is behind and what is traditional will probably not be enough. If she loses she will have, at least, turned our politics in a long over due direction.
I think emphasizing abortion is great but I would emphasize her prosecution background and not go the identity politics route. Any woman receptive to the messaging you suggest already knows all of that. And overly emphasizing the Black woman as role model arguments just brings the DEI assholes out of the woodwork. And the thing is, Harris doesn't need it. She's got the bona fides. I disagree on a woman running mate as well. And I am a woman. But being realistic, too much too fast and frankly I really would prefer she picked someone with military experience. I think Mark Kelly (and talk about someone who supported women in politics) would be perfect. I just wish he was from a midwestern swing state.
She will have no problem emphasizing her prosecution background. It’s who she is and the space in which she is most comfortable. If she fails at that, she will lose. I think Mark Kelly is great and would be a safe, traditional choice. I don’t look at appealing to a demographic that compromises over half of the population as identity politics. By definition, it is not identity politics. It is an appeal to the majority. Unfortunately, as we are painfully aware, women candidates with the “bona fides” don’t always get the votes from women who should be receptive to the messaging.
Yeah I just don't believe a decent percentage of women are receptive to the we are falling ever deeper into a misogynistic pit right now messaging. So I guess I don't believe it will appeal to a majority. I definitely believe we are (getting more misogynistic by the moment), which is why, with Trump on the board, I would take the more pragmatic approach and stick with the messaging that we know is a winner (which includes abortion).
I wish Mark Kelly was from an eastern swing state but otherwise I think he is perfect. Yes I get why you call him traditional, but between being an astronaut and having actual combat tour experience, I would argue those are 2 huge selling points that we have not seen in a long time (if ever regarding the astronaut part). At this point traditional in the White House seems to mean Ivy educated, maybe a military desk job, maybe practiced as a lawyer. I have no problem with any of those things (and would argue the legal education part is important also) but military experience seems to have fallen by the wayside. One more point about Mark Kelly: he believed in his wife's work so much that he left his own super cool heroic (to the American population anyway) job to take over. I guess what I am saying is he may not be a woman but he is a feminist.
Kamala will likely be the candidate. Be bold. One of her first visits should be Charleston, SC. She should go on a walking tour of the city where people are spending $1M to raise the foundations of their homes because the sea wall will be repeatedly breached. Since the 1600’s, Charleston is proof that our country has always been diverse. Ethnically, religiously, racially. DEI was always poorly messaged. We have always been diverse. So, what bothers the right is equity and inclusion. Who has been most affected? Women. Black women, white women, Asian women, Native American women. Promise women that it doesn’t matter if they live in a red state or blue state, if they are independent of thought, their ideas and rights will be respected. Tell them that what will not be tolerated is what their former governor did. Allow a chauvinist to suggest that she is somehow less because her dress wasn’t “designer” and then endorse him. Pick Gretchen Whitmer as her running mate. Leverage the fact that there are more women in our country than men. There are more women receiving college degrees than men. Ask them if another male, Trump, Orban, Putin, JD has earned the right to continue to lead. Is any of this traditional? No. Will any of the experts allow her to do so? No. But she is behind and what is traditional will probably not be enough. If she loses she will have, at least, turned our politics in a long over due direction.
I think emphasizing abortion is great but I would emphasize her prosecution background and not go the identity politics route. Any woman receptive to the messaging you suggest already knows all of that. And overly emphasizing the Black woman as role model arguments just brings the DEI assholes out of the woodwork. And the thing is, Harris doesn't need it. She's got the bona fides. I disagree on a woman running mate as well. And I am a woman. But being realistic, too much too fast and frankly I really would prefer she picked someone with military experience. I think Mark Kelly (and talk about someone who supported women in politics) would be perfect. I just wish he was from a midwestern swing state.
She will have no problem emphasizing her prosecution background. It’s who she is and the space in which she is most comfortable. If she fails at that, she will lose. I think Mark Kelly is great and would be a safe, traditional choice. I don’t look at appealing to a demographic that compromises over half of the population as identity politics. By definition, it is not identity politics. It is an appeal to the majority. Unfortunately, as we are painfully aware, women candidates with the “bona fides” don’t always get the votes from women who should be receptive to the messaging.
Yeah I just don't believe a decent percentage of women are receptive to the we are falling ever deeper into a misogynistic pit right now messaging. So I guess I don't believe it will appeal to a majority. I definitely believe we are (getting more misogynistic by the moment), which is why, with Trump on the board, I would take the more pragmatic approach and stick with the messaging that we know is a winner (which includes abortion).
I wish Mark Kelly was from an eastern swing state but otherwise I think he is perfect. Yes I get why you call him traditional, but between being an astronaut and having actual combat tour experience, I would argue those are 2 huge selling points that we have not seen in a long time (if ever regarding the astronaut part). At this point traditional in the White House seems to mean Ivy educated, maybe a military desk job, maybe practiced as a lawyer. I have no problem with any of those things (and would argue the legal education part is important also) but military experience seems to have fallen by the wayside. One more point about Mark Kelly: he believed in his wife's work so much that he left his own super cool heroic (to the American population anyway) job to take over. I guess what I am saying is he may not be a woman but he is a feminist.