{"id":1415772,"date":"2022-04-02T07:45:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T11:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415772"},"modified":"2022-04-02T07:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T11:45:20","slug":"kamala-harris-is-everything-the-media-warned-sarah-palin-would-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-is-everything-the-media-warned-sarah-palin-would-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Is Everything The Media Warned Sarah Palin Would Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkamala-harris-is-everything-the-media-warned-sarah-palin-would-be%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415772&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>After more than a decade away from electoral politics, former GOP Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SarahPalinUSA\/status\/1510057675316416512?s=20&#038;t=87PgKXtD5aKH8Rjf6N7ACw\">going back on the ballot<\/a> for the at-large House seat left vacant by deceased Rep. Don Young who died last month. It\u2019s past time for the former vice-presidential candidate reclaim her stardom as a serious policymaker after the media nearly killed it in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris is everything the media frantically portrayed Palin was about to be 14 years ago. Ignorant, extreme, unprepared, and merely one 70-year-old\u2019s heartbeat away from the presidency. Except while Arizona Sen. John McCain was 71 in 2008, President Joe Biden governs today at 79.<\/p>\n<p>Harris offered her latest word salad this week in what\u2019s become routine for the vice president dragging the administration down with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/kamala_harris_favorableunfavorable-6690.html\">abysmal favorable ratings<\/a>. Watch what she had to say at a White House event with the prime minister of Jamaica on Wednesday:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"pqtER3O8emXJ5TlAoPu\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VP HARRIS: &#8220;One of the issues that has been presented as an issue that is economic in the way of its impact has been the pandemic\u2026 we will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fVSr8Km6co\">pic.twitter.com\/fVSr8Km6co<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Newsmax (@newsmax) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newsmax\/status\/1509354715351556100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>If it were Palin at the podium, Saturday Night Live (SNL) would lead this weekend\u2019s program with Tina Fey returning to reprise her role as the 2008 vice-presidential candidate. In fact, Fey will probably be back on the late-night skits as Palin once again by the end of the year mocking Palin\u2019s run for the House of Representatives as the comedian did when the conservative lightning rod endorsed Trump in 2016. <\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s nonsense from Harris at the White House was relatively tame compared to the prior 14 months of nonsensical commentary from the nation\u2019s president on stand-by. <\/p>\n<p>Just last month, Harris appeared to confuse Ukraine as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), despite its pending membership of the western security apparatus at the heart of the conflict in eastern Europe. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will say what I know we all say and I will say over and over again: the United States stands firmly with the Ukrainian people in defense of the NATO alliance,\u201d Harris said at the annual DNC meeting.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"NefclSaI4qzsZnYTOSBVx48AjWLwoEodhuX2F6zmJ2ik5CRkUY0h9ar9x6VEmpDQntP1rALtN07Mg8HKW7bKIw1PGHfG3XsQ\"><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Harris made the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/16\/kamala-harris-tweet-mistakenly-suggests-ukraine-is-part-of-nato\/\">same mistake<\/a> again in a tweet days later.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHarris\/status\/1503904135485313026?s=20&#038;t=k3-o2lir0fPR76zpwkGUAA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/kamala-harris-nato-ukraine-05.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=871\" alt=\"Tweet from Kamala Harris Twitter account\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Palin, in contrast, was depicted as a dunce when she suggested governing the state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/articles\/which-country-is-closest-to-the-us-without-sharing-a-land-border.html\">closest<\/a> to the Kremlin-controlled landmass along its arctic border enhanced her foreign policy credentials with Russian land visible from Alaskan territory. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can see Russia from my house!\u201d Fey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vSOLz1YBFG0&#038;t=77s\">mocked<\/a> the governor on SNL who returned to the weekly comedy program to play the part.<\/p>\n<p>Just 55 miles with islands in between on the Bering Strait however, even Slate <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2008\/09\/can-you-really-see-russia-from-alaska.html#:~:text=Yes.,part%20of%20the%20United%20States.\">conceded<\/a> that yes, Palin\u2019s was right when she claimed on ABC \u201cyou can actually see Russia from land, here in Alaska.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palin was asked again later in the campaign by Katie Couric, then at CBS, how governing Alaska equipped her to navigate complex global affairs. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nokTjEdaUGg\">response<\/a> wasn\u2019t well-articulated, but it wasn\u2019t outright inaccurate either, certainly not on the scale of misidentifying Ukraine as a NATO state when Russia\u2019s invasion was launched over that very issue. <\/p>\n<p>Palin, the most popular governor in the country wasn\u2019t treated fairly in 2008, whose folksy attitude on the campaign trail was the subject of mockery from reporters who often trapped her in \u201cgotcha questions\u201d in nearly every memorable moment of the election. The same could not be said of Harris, whose unpopularity and extremism <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/29\/us\/politics\/kamala-harris-2020.html\">failed<\/a> to propel her own presidential campaign even to the Iowa caucuses. GovTrack <a href=\"https:\/\/govtrackinsider.com\/our-ideology-score-placed-kamala-harris-as-the-most-liberal-senator-in-2019-bbd25493ca72\">rated <\/a>Harris, not Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, as the most liberal senator in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019s pattern of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/15\/kamala-harris-quotes-as-motivational-posters-because-the-time-to-be-inspired-is-every-day\/\">quotable<\/a> moments, on the other hand, has <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/spencerbrown\/2022\/03\/31\/10-thought-provoking-quotes-from-kamala-harris-n2605316\">almost always<\/a> come unprovoked in prepared speeches, or, as shown above, in a written tweet, with few exceptions. One exception  stands out below where Harris explains the crisis in Ukraine as if she were a kindergarten teacher to an audience who are not kindergarteners: <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"N3PXWRJDaL\"><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Even after the media\u2019s hostile coverage of the former Alaska governor in 2008, Palin\u2019s popularity <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_image_of_Sarah_Palin\">never dipped<\/a> below 50 percent among constituents during her time in office despite her national reputation <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-receding-of-sarah-palin-in-one-chart\/\">wrecked<\/a> by the beltway circus. No vice-presidential candidate ever faced the kind of viscous and sustained character assassination as Palin did, by both the media and her own campaign. <\/p>\n<p>While Biden\u2019s team protected Harris on the trail, Palin\u2019s handlers, Steve Schmidt and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2014\/09\/17\/the-view-from-hell-nicole-wallace-and-hostility-to-conservative-women\/\">Nicole Wallace<\/a>, were working to undermine the success of their own ticket selling out stories to reporters before the election was over. Wallace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/07\/12\/jeb-bush-has-a-major-league-sad-about-the-2016-election\/\">didn\u2019t even vote<\/a> for the campaign that employed the future MSNBC host.<\/p>\n<p>If Palin\u2019s run for Congress pans out, we can expect more of the same. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than a decade away from electoral politics, former GOP Alaska Gov. 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