{"id":46938,"date":"2024-07-03T13:46:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T17:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/?p=46938"},"modified":"2024-07-03T13:46:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T17:46:58","slug":"horace-cooper-leftists-emphasis-on-identity-politics-could-backfire-with-kamala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2024\/07\/03\/horace-cooper-leftists-emphasis-on-identity-politics-could-backfire-with-kamala\/","title":{"rendered":"Horace Cooper: Leftists’ Emphasis on Identity Politics Could Backfire with Kamala"},"content":{"rendered":"

Would be racist to overlook Vice President Kamala Harris as a replacement for President Biden on the Democratic ticket?<\/p>\n

On the Fox News Channel program “The Ingraham Angle,” Project 21<\/a> Chairman Horace Cooper<\/a> told guest host Brian Kilmeade that voters should be more concerned with Kamala’s competence and likability (or lack thereof) than her race and gender:<\/p>\n

The first thing that we observed after she got put on the [2020] ticket was that [Republicans] got a reverse bounce. It turned out that more Americans – particularly Democrats – gave a lower approval to the Biden\/Harris ticket than they had been giving to the Biden ticket alone.<\/p>\n

The second is that she has had almost four years to demonstrate ANY kind of competency. ANY kind! Pick a leadership issue. Take some time, study a little bit.<\/p>\n

If the test for president is “Can you cackle? Can you laugh in the middle of your statement? Can you not be ever serious?” she passes with flying colors.<\/p>\n

Her own party knows that she\u2019s incompetent. She may, in fact, be one of the most incompetent people in the Biden administration, setting aside the president’s difficulties…. Then they say: “Oh no, don\u2019t observe that. Don\u2019t notice that. If we pick any anybody else with any competency, we’d only be doing that because we\u2019re racist.”…<\/p>\n

The chickens have come home to roost. We on the right believe in a meritocracy. We\u2019re not looking at your color. We\u2019re not looking at your gender. We just wanna know: Can you actually do the job?<\/p>\n

They lie and said, “The problem is we haven\u2019t been looking at the race enough. We haven\u2019t been looking at the gender enough.” Well guess what? If you\u2019ve paid any attention to her at all, you know she\u2019s incompetent. And they’re probably stuck with her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n