'She has to show she is not some scary liberal': VP Harris looks to win over swing voters - Deadline - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Sarah Longwell, Executive Director of Republican Voters Against Trump, Tim Miller, former RNC Spokesperson, and Cornell Belcher, Democratic Strategist, join Michael Steele, in for Nicolle Wallace on Deadline: White House, to discuss the Vice President Harris campaign focusing on swing states like Georgia speaking to how much this election has changed in the last month, with Georgia seemingly out of play for Democrats before VP Harris became the Democratic nominee. - Aired on 07/30/2024.

[thucythucy]

1. I have to ask: what's so "scary" about liberals?

I know, I know, fifty years of hate radio and conservative fear mongering have got half the population convinced that "liberals" are devils incarnate.

The same Satanic minions that gave us Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, The GI Bill of Rights, the minimum wage, etc. etc.

I wish we could do more to detoxify the term.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Well said.

[lapfog_1]

2. she should respond with this

“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”

-JFK

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Wow! Great quote! Thanks!

[cyclonefence]

3. She doesn't have to show anybody anything nt

[Skittles]

4. NO, SHE DOESN'T

REPUKES HAVE TO SHOW THEY'RE NOT SOME SCARY FASCISTS

[Rhiannon12866]

8. And TFG and Vance show their true colors, aspiring to fascism, every single day

[Blue Owl]

7. Oh does she now

What’s way more frightening is your M$NBC normalizing the self-styled Shitler wanna-be and his Project 2025 plan to end the democracy many of our forefathers and ancestors sacrificed their lives for.

[unblock]

9. Swing voters don't overly care about policy

People who care about policy have likely picked a side and aren't swing voters.

Swing voters care more about normal vs. weird, or prosecutor vs. criminal. Or who you'd like to have a beer with.

[Autumn]

10. Scary fascists are scared of scary liberals. Fuck those fucking pigs. .

[spooky3]

11. Republicans just can't help but give unsolicited advice to Dems especially

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To Women and POC.

[Jeebo]

12. I remember in 2015 ...

... shortly after Bernie Sanders announced that he was running for President, Thom Hartmann on his radio show ran a segment in which he went through a long list of issues that polls showed were supported by Bernie Sanders and more than 60 percent of Americans. It was a long list, and Hartmann's purpose was to dispel the image of Bernie as some far out there wild-eyed radical "liberal" and to show that Bernie was very much in the mainstream of American politics. I kept thinking while listening that if this list is this long, how much longer would it be if it were above 50 percent? For decades right-wingers have been trying to paint "liberals" as fringe radicals but we are actually in the political mainstream and THEY are the ones who are the radicals, and yes, WEIRD. And there are more of us than there are of them. We just need to get our people out on Nov. 5. And it won't hurt if we will point out that "liberals" are actually in the American political mainstream.

-- Ron

[Rhiannon12866]

14. Perfectly said, thank you.

And Bernie has proven himself over and over to have supported the Democratic administration's accomplishments and message.

[displacedvermoter]

13. Unfortunately we have Republicans like Miller,

Longwell and Steele (sitting in for another "former Republican" Wallace) framing this discussion. Why would a "scary liberal", at this point, be more troubling than a terrifying fascist to swing voters?

These anti-trump gopers are eventually going to turn on us, and Harris, once Trump is dealt with. And whether it is a less regressive tax plan, expanded health care, or stronger environmental policies, the scary liberal branding will come out in earnest from these very same folks' mouths.

[MFM008]

15. No

She has to show she's not a psychopath felon and rapist.
You know, like the other guy.