(Sept. 24) The problem with the Harris-Walz ticket’s cowardly ducking of media questions, all while Vice President Kamala Harris has repeatedly said her “values have not changed,” is that her values run counter to the American tradition.
Indeed, her values and Walz’s values together are frightening.
Before going any further, perhaps this disclaimer is important: I was an original Never Trumper and remain one to this day, so this is not part of some “let’s elect Trump again” agenda. This is just equal-opportunity insistence that presidential candidates owe clarity to voters and that standards and principles be applied equally to all sides.
Voters should feel extremely insulted by the Harris-Walz game of “hide” while the liberal media refuse to “seek.” Never in the electronic media age has a major party put forth a nominee who never had to work for the nomination and then refused to take serious media questions, all while her campaign aides repeatedly say, without explanation, that she has abandoned a boatload of her earlier policy choices. Worse, when she is given chances to explain the shifts, she not only doesn’t reveal her thinking but says her values haven’t changed — an obvious ploy to take both sides of issues. If voters like her old values, she still has them! If voters don’t like her old positions based on those values, she has new ones!
Harris may as well be selling beachfront property that is on a mountaintop, a vegan diet with the best ribeye steaks available, and a purple evening gown in camouflage colors for a deer-hunting trip. And the liberal media not only refuse to question these obvious contradictions but, as my colleague Byron York noted, claim that those who do want answers are the ones who lack “real moral clarity.”
For someone asking to be the leader of the free world, it is virtually obscene both for her to duck and dodge this way and for the media to cheer on her ducks and dodges…. [The full column is at this link.]
