Kamala's Magical Media Makeover Masks Stunning Flaws

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POOF!

In a cloud of gaslit smoke we have just witnessed the remarkable transformation of V.P. Kamala Harris with the lowest public approval rating among registered voters of any vice president in NBC News polling history (49% negative compared to 43% positive) a year ago to become recast as a celebrated nominee to lead the nation and free world.

And this illusory spectacle was accomplished without the supposed convert — a merged reincarnate spirit of Harriet Tubman and Margaret Thatcher — having received a single delegate vote.

Having been first to bomb out of presidential contention for the 2020 race, Kamala’s latest revisionist version follows a familiar Democrat Biden basement bunker strategy with a Harris reversal, reinvention and retreat-from-press-inquiry agenda.

This politically desperate disappearing act relies upon campaign staff to walk back previous radically unpopular statements and actions to conform with a winning majority of voter values and viewpoints.

Like in 2019 when then Sen. Harris vowed in a primary town hall to eliminate private insurance, then after backtracking the threat and again later readopting it as a government single-payer plan that blew up her presidential aspirations, her campaign spokespeople say she no longer supports it.

So, where does she stand on this now?

Just before dropping out of her first 2019 presidential campaign bid to join President Joe Biden’s ticket, Kamala told a CNN town hall "there’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking” … even, on private property, supporting a ban on any new oil and gas infrastructure from being built.

A Harris spokesperson now says she no longer wants to ban fracking. Are those anti-fracking positions simply on hold pending her prospective election dependence upon winning Pennsylvania, a major oil and gas swing state?

And what about other Biden-Harris policies devised to kill fossil energy industries, such as crackdowns on federal leasing and a moratorium on liquified natural gas exports?

As early supporter of the Democrats' Green New Deal, Kamala also favors a Biden-Harris EPA mandate requiring that 50% of all new car sales are electric by 2030 despite nearly half of all current EV owners indicating plans to switch back to petroleum vehicles at a time when manufacturers are losing money on each one produced.

How will that continue to play with Michigan’s auto workers, another must-win swing battleground state? Will Kamala be discussing this any time soon?

And will she be held accountable for the Biden-Harris Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed in 2021 that included $7.5 billion to build 500,000 public EV charging stations across the U.S., which, as of April, only eight had been built?

Three-and-a-half years and more than 10 million illegal crossings since a new Biden-Harris administration put Kamala in charge of the southern border, the White House and several left-leaning media outlets are now attempting to disclaim that responsibility.

This dismal performance failure might have come as little surprise considering that in June of 2018, then-Sen. Harris told MSNBC, "I think there’s no question that we’ve got to critically re-examine [Immigration and Customs Enforcement ] ICE and its role and the way that it is being administered and the work it is doing. ... And we need to probably think about starting from scratch."

Campaign staff suggest she no longer holds that view.

V.P. Harris previously came out for confiscating guns through a mandatory government buyback, whereas campaign staff now say she’s not for that anymore either?

And what about U.S. support for Israel? Will Kamala clarify her position on this ahead of Palestinian swing state pushback before November elections?

President Biden and Vice president Harris have both called upon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to an "immediate" ceasefire at the Gaza strip and to be more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause while harsher on the Israeli government.

This messaging was underscored when Kamala disrespectfully snubbed attending Netanyahu’s July 25 joint session of Congress address, then following a private meeting, publicly criticized his failure to provide adequate humanitarian aid to Israel’s Gaza victims.

Days later, a brutal rocket strike on a soccer field along Israel’s northern border attributed to Iran’s Lebanese Hezbollah proxy killed at least 12 children, raising fears of a broader regional war.

Many prestidigitator skeptics fail to take the new carefully crafted and staged presidential candidate illusion seriously, suspecting that a figure hiding behind the curtain remains to be the very same ideologically far-left verbally maladroit cringeworthy Kamala that Democrats and faithful media panegyrists desperately attempt to conceal.

The replacement version features a scripted teleprompter campaign crafted around vacuous feel-good thematic slogans promising to “fight for the future of an America where the economy works for working people,” where “hard work is rewarded,” because “that’s the America I believe in.”

This, future of course, “must be guided by a vision of what can be, unburdened by what has been.”

That will be no small challenge to unburden visions of a new Kamala from realities of the recently older one.