Harris: ‘Too Big of a Risk’ to Pick Buttigieg as Running Mate Because He’s Gay
“But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man.”
The Atlantic posted another excerpt from former Vice President Kamala Harris’s book 107 Days, and oh, boy. It’s a doozy.
Harris wanted to pick then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as her running mate.
So why didn’t she? Apparently, Harris thinks so little of Americans:
As Kamala Harris rushed to pick a running mate last year, her “first choice” was her close friend Pete Buttigieg, but she decided that it would be “too big of a risk” for a Black woman to run with a gay man.
Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner—if I were a straight white man,” Harris writes in a passage of her soon-to-be-released book, 107 Days, that I saw. “But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.”
“And I think Pete also knew that—to our mutual sadness.”
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Harris writes that Buttigieg originally topped the eight names on her vetting list because “he is a sincere public servant with the rare talent of being able to frame liberal arguments in a way that makes it possible for conservatives to hear them.”
“I love Pete,” she wrote. “I love working with Pete. He and his husband, Chasten, are friends.”
So Harris discriminated against Buttigieg because he’s gay.
I thought the Democrats fought against that behavior!
I doubt Buttigieg would have helped Harris. He doesn’t have enough merit to justify the pick, whether he’s gay or not.
But still. Thinking Buttigieg would hurt your chances because he’s gay, and therefore not choosing him is discriminatory. Yikes.
It is not unusual for a presidential candidate to select a vice president who can help them win. I believe JFK chose Lyndon Johnson so he could win Texas.
No matter who Harris picked, she would lose. Harris was an awful candidate who had terrible ideas and couldn’t speak coherently.
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Can we still vote against him because he is seriously incompetent?
If we were to point out the stupidity of anything that he proposed, we would immediately be accused of being homophobes. That is why the Far Left champions “marginalized candidates.” The pull the “ist” defense card immediately. If a straight white christian conservative male, such as myself, proposed similar ideas and projects, we would be instantly roasted on their merits. Sucks to be judged on merit, not!
If she rejected Mayor Pete for being gay, why did she pick Tim Walz?
Wow. This lady is seriously off her rocker.
Notice she deflects blame on why Butt plug wasn’t picked. Everything in her life is someone else’s fault
Not even Democrats buy this BS. They might also use the homophobic angle, but they don’t believe it.
How do I know? My Democrat friends and family tell me.
“Kamala lost because she was a terrible candidate. Why doesn’t she go away? Why is she having a book tour? Nobody wants to see her.”
Literally what they tell me. They all want her to go away.
(I tell them well then they shouldn’t have voted for her to be their candidate in the primary lol)
yes she was a terrible candidate, and would have been as bad or worse than biden and obama,
Yet she got nearly 50% of the vote.
We will never truly know with all the cheating
But I will tell you in my little corner of Texas, which was solid red, voted for this bat sh!t crazy imbecile
And the people I play pickelball with, grey hairs for the most part, hate Trump
I help out at an animal wildlife rescue and even went to Africa with these liberals
They all knew where I stood, so they didn’t talk shop around me at least
I’m always amazed
Always
Pesky bell curve shows up lots of places in nature…
A gay and a whore. They could probably work out a business arrangement.
“Over who would do what, and to whom?”
Damn! You beat me to it!
So, she avoided one stupid choice, but made another.
Her ongoing focus on race/religion/sexual orientation/whatever, rather than actual qualifications, likely hurt her during the election.
Had she chosen either a very effective and successful politician or a solid business leader as a running mate, more voters might have been willing to overlook some of her own shortcomings, even a few of her inane word salads.
“The movie of my life failed because the cast.ing was bad”
Closet Tim was better than Breast Feeder Pete…..🤣
Don’t forget — like the meme says, she needed to find a VP stupider than she was. That left Tim, because Pete could tie his own shoes.
so she is actually blaming her comrades
b/c no maga was going to vote for her no matter
she didnt pick the logical choice Gov shapiro from PA
and that tells you what they think of the jews ( chumps!!!)
Shapiro wisely opted out of being considered. Would you board a plane with a drunk pilot? He was all for catching the next flight.
Shapiro would have overshadowed her “performance”.
The real problem with Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris on the same ticket: how could you tell who was more incompetent?
They could have won with a campaign photo of them wearing their “I’m with stupid” T-shirts but standing on the wrong side of each other.
Or with upward-pointing arrows . . .
Or just eliminated the word “with.”
‘he is a sincere public servant with the rare talent of being able to frame liberal arguments in a way that makes it possible for conservatives to hear them’
LOL jive talkin!
Now I’m going to have the BeeGees’ singing in my head all day!
“rare talent of being able to frame liberal arguments in a way that makes it possible for conservatives to hear them.”
What?!?!?!?!???!!?????????
We hear them. We just don’t listen to the liberal dog whistles.
Who write her book? Who had to sit with her all that time to listen to her?
I would have gladly taken the bullet to let him live if it meant she would just go away.
h/t Billy Joel
“Only the good die…”at the hands of liberals.
“But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man.”
The real problem is that you were asking America to accept an incoherent simpleton.
A woman who can’t even remember she’s not black.
Harris didn’t pick Pete as her running mate for the same reason Vance is unlikely to pick Bondi (and more likely to pick Gabbard).
Let Vance pick a male, even a white male. I’m so over this “diversify the ticket” BS. I want an America that WORKS again, like it used to work.
I wouldn’t vote for Gabbard
Gabbard’s views on the 2A disqualify her in my mind absolutely.
The constitution has penalties for nominating a President and a VP from the same state, but it’s silent about what happens when you nominate two idiots.
We still haven’t fully explored whether a gay idiot is more or less acceptable to the American public than a lying idiot. Though now we know a female idiot’s opinion.
Sir, I take issue with you. Neither is a sub-moron (idiot or imbecile). They are quite simply morons.
I don’t see the problem. Obama was gay and black.
Also, probably the only difference between Buttiplug and Tampon Tim is that the latter pretends that we think he is still in the closet.
Are we talking about Barry or Mike?
Walz wasn’t gay? Who could tell?
I’ll bet my retirement check he’s a bottom.
But I have more respect for someone who is openly gay, than one who pretends he is not.
I can’t believe his gayness couldn’t have been overcome by his great accomplishment of exposing the racism of bridges.
He would have definitely got the vote of the Palestinians…. But not the Ohio ones.
First of all she isn’t black. I don’t care what she or anyone else says. She doesn’t have any american black experience,
Second I’d probably vote for a gay man over any woman of we’re just going by demographics (which I don’t). Sorry, but that is the way I think. However this doesn’t mean I would never vote for a woman over a gay man. Merit, opinions, and world view matter a lot to me as well as who would do the least amount of damage if elected. There have been women who I would consider voting for and I’m sure there will be more in the future.
The democrats had many opportunities to select a woman as a candidate.
They have NEVER voted to put a woman at the top of their ticket, to include Clinton. They used machinations to put her there, only AFTER they rejected her twice for a Halfrican male.
She has some Canadian black experience. That’s got to count for something.
She lived a middle class or upper middle class life in Canada with her Indian mother so no.
Her Jamaican father said his family owned slaves, so no.
She probably discovered her blackness late in high school or in college much like the anointed one,
Lighten up, Francis.
It was a joke.
It didn’t appear to impact the Kenyan fanook or Big Mike
So she didn’t think “her” voters would accept Buttigieg? Says a lot about the left.
So let me get this straight. Harris didn’t pick Buttigieg because he was gay and she thought that he would hurt her election chances because she was a POC married to a Jew but then ended up choosing Tim Walz as her running mate. Tampon Tim. Let that one sink in for a moment. She actually thought that Tim Walz would help her campaign. Amazing, just amazing.
I’m surprised how many racist misogynist homophobes there are in the Democrat party.
Oh wait, no I’m not…projection is the biggest tell.
Actually Buttgig being a faggot is an issue, but the Left is supposed to be pro-homosexual. Are their voters simply not down with sodomy, or did they think they needed non-Leftists to win?
Why assume her analysis was correct? The reason she didn’t choose him was that he was incompetent.*. Which is odd, since it means that she had to have been at least competent enough to recognize that. No, wait—that was probably an accident since she then turned around and got “knucklehead” Walz, who was not even a little better.
* He had the same amazed look on his face when plane accidents happened that Newsome did when he was looking at the fires. He took off 6 weeks (4 years, actually) to be home with their new baby.
Buttgag was too busy nursing his new-bought baby through that insane strap-on fake breast feeder. Buttgag told Komrade Kamala that he could handle the “campaigning on the lam” part but wouldn’t be able to break away from fake breast feeding if the campaign ever actually had to be realized and go on the road. Kamala said that she was pretty sure that she would be campaigning on the lam for the entirety- she had already stocked her basement with 1236 bottles of red wine and 126 cases of Bacardi 151, while Doug had put in reservations for 12 au pairs – but she couldn’t guarantee it so Buttgag had to turn it down.
As an aside, Buttgag and his butt-buddy have said that they plan on being super-moms and will don their fake breast feeding vests and suckle their purchased child for 18 years.
Raised by her Indian mother, Kamala Harris totally blows off her mixed-race ethnicity.
If she rejected Mayor Pete for being gay, why did she pick Tim Walz?
Both totally immoral the country couldn’t handle having another complete nitwit for the next four years
There was a black woman in the 2024 race for POTUS?
You know her book had an editor because it is not one big word salad. Can you imagine trying to make her book make sense??? THAT is the real trick!
We dodged Armageddon with that one!!