The Morning Briefing: Whiplash Narrative—Kamala's Tough but Don't Pick on Her!

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Happy Wednesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Orborro talked a good game, but his irrational fear of manatees had begun to wear on his fellow Hoyt Axton Appreciation Society members.

Now that Donald Trump's opponent is, once again, a female who checks off a HISTORIC box for the Democrats, some déjà vu is creeping back in for me. Kamala Harris is Hillary 2.0 but with even creepier and more uncomfortable laughter.

The Democrats are once again taking a modified "have their cake and eat it too" approach to their female presidential candidate. The great, unwashed are supposed to revere her as a self-confident, powerful, and accomplished woman. They would prefer, however, that this fierce lioness not be challenged by her opponents.

In other words, don't pick on girls.

My latest "Trump Derangement Syndrome of the Week" column highlights an Op-Ed in The New York Times that's about how formidable the leftist women who have been trying to bring down Donald Trump are:

One of the ridiculous narratives that quickly took shape after it was announced that Kamala Harris would be anointed as the Democratic nominee is that Trump is afraid of running against a powerful woman. That's right, they're doing their "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" thing again and carrying on with a story that's been disproven by relatively recent history.

Per the latest leftist fairy tale, Donald Trump is quaking in his dress shoes now that he's facing off against Madame Veep. However, he isn't supposed challenge her on anything she has ever said or done in her political career.

They haven't gotten to the point where they're shrieking "Sexism!" all of the time just yet, but that's coming. With Kamala Harris, they can throw in the occasional "Racism!" too. What the flying monkeys in the mainstream media have been attempting to do is send Harris's record deep down the memory hole. Once again, the Democrats behave as if regular folks don't have access to the internet.

To the surprise of no one outside of the pompous, out-of-touch journo class in America, that approach hasn't been working out for them. Now they're trying to demonize any attempts by Trump and the Republican National Committee to go after Harris's record. This is from something my friend Ed Morrissey wrote at our sister site HotAir yesterday:

Oh noes! Heaven forfend that a political candidate answer for their positions from four whole years ago!
Side note: Has anyone at the New York Times covered a political campaign before? Because usually the idea is to debate policy positions taken publicly as an indicator of what might take place when a candidate wins. Well, usually, but we'll get to the NYT's modus operandi in a moment.
Yesterday afternoon, the Paper of Record took great offense at Republicans who want to highlight Kamala Harris' record in the upcoming months. That's called "weaponization" rather than "accountability" when Republicans do it, apparently

At various times since President LOLEightyonemillion began occupying the Oval Office, the Dems' media lapdogs have tried to make Kamala Harris seem like an active power player in the administration. Her early tenure as Border Czar received a lot of attention from them, and it was the first thing they tried to pretend didn't happen.

Months ago, when they knew that the political end was nigh for Joe Biden but weren't publicly admitting it, the propagandists were building up Harris for her eventual turn at the top of the ticket. This is from a column I wrote in February:

The Dems' flying monkeys in the mainstream media have been ramping up their pro-Harris, "YAS, Queen!" coverage lately, especially since the beginning of the year. Here are some examples of headlines from just the last few weeks:
NPR: Harris is taking the lead on gun violence prevention. Will she reach young people?
CNN: A fired-up Kamala Harris becomes the Biden campaign's voice on some of its most central political issues
The New York Times: Kamala Harris Bolsters Biden for 2024 and Lays Groundwork for 2028
The Los Angeles Times: How Kamala Harris found her groove. And why being vice president is still tough.

Just this year, Harris has quite a body of work that is fair game for scrutiny. Her tendency to babble really adds a lot to the mix.

There's far too much for the Dem loyalists in the MSM to sweep under the rug in service of their new object of affection. As we discussed last week, there is no reason to go after Kamala Harris's personal life because there's so much of her professional record that's ripe for attack, especially from her brief, but commie, time in the United States Senate.

Kamala Harris put her big girl pants on, and the fawning idiots in the mainstream media took great pride in pointing out that she was wearing them.

She's gotta keep them on now, whether they want her to or not.

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