Even the usually stone-faced David Axelrod couldn't sup-press his enthusiasm at the first rally of the Democratic presidential ticket, but he was downright Rushmoreian compared with other giddy commentators on CNN's panel. I beg to differ that Vice President Kamala Harris is the second coming of Barack Obama, though that is what her campaign would like you to think. And whether her new running mate, Minnesota Gov.
Tim Walz, is the folksiest "normy," as one commentator put it, white guy in the Midwest, news anchors should be able to resist the tug of Harris mania. Poor Joe Biden, who, we should note, is still the president of the United States. What must he be thinking as Kamalapalooza takes off before the dust has settled on his shuffle off to Delaware — or wherever Nancy Pelosi has stashed him.
A bad picture can't be taken of Harris. She's gorgeous. She's also a big-government liberal.
Big government, which Republicans since Ronald Reagan have viewed as the enemy (except when they're running it), isn't Harris' best selling point when the country is facing a likely recession and a vast swath (70%) of Americans can barely pay their bills. Recent polling and election history tell us that voters usually turn to Republicans when the economy is on the line. Walz boasts that Democrats, unlike Republicans, "don't have the Ten Commandments posted in our classrooms, but we have free breakfast and lunch.
" Which is to say Walz might be to the left of Harris and is one of the reasons T.