{"id":77938,"date":"2021-05-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77938"},"modified":"2021-05-19T07:49:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T12:49:24","slug":"safety-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77938","title":{"rendered":"Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Remenber the old japes about both Presidents Bush, and for that matter Trump, were utterly safe from threat of assassination, because their various Vice Presidents, Quayle and Cheney and Pence, were “even worse?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given Vice President Harris’s performance so far, I’d call that a retroactive case of Berg’s Law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Power Lin<\/em>e on the little veep who just can’t<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris caught a major career break when Joe Biden more or less committed to having a black woman as his running mate, leaving Harris as the obvious choice, but she didn\u2019t seem to take much advantage of it. With the elderly, frail Biden making few campaign appearances, one might have thought that Harris would be more visible on the campaign trail. Then again, maybe the Democrats didn\u2019t want her to expose the hollowness of Biden\u2019s excuses for staying out of sight. In any event, her vice-presidential run seems to have done little or nothing to enhance Harris\u2019s standing with the electorate.<\/p>

Now, a YouGov poll finds Harris under water, with 41% viewing her favorably and 48% unfavorably. The Washington Examiner<\/a> points out that this negative perception contrasts strongly with other recent vice presidents. Dick Cheney, Mike Pence and Joe Biden himself, in 2009, all polled quite a bit better at a similar stage.<\/p>

Harris has never shown much skill or appeal as a politician. Her path to the top in California, essentially a one-party state at this point, was paved by her illicit relationship with Willie Brown. I am not sure what it is about Harris that repels voters, but it should scare the Democrats. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The current theory is that Biden will hold on until at least mid-terms,, so that Harris can run on her own twice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barring massive fraud and retroactive doctoring of her record, I think she’s a one-and-done, whenever Biden shuffles off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll just leave those qualifications hanging htere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remenber the old japes about both Presidents Bush, and for that matter Trump, were utterly safe from threat of assassination, because their various Vice Presidents, Quayle and Cheney and Pence, were “even worse?” Given Vice President Harris’s performance so far, I’d call that a retroactive case of Berg’s Law. Power Line on the little veep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77941,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77938\/revisions\/77941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}