“Presidential races are won and lost on character as much as the issues, and often the issues are proxies for character. Not character in the sense of a candidate’s personal life, but the attributes that play into the question of whether someone is suited to the presidency — is he or she qualified, trustworthy and strong, and does he or she care about average Americans?” Rich Lowry, the editor-in-chief of National Review wrote.
Rich wrote that presidential races are deeply personal and it involved disqualifying the opponent more than convincing voters that the opponent’s platform is not right. He cited the example of how the Obama team hammered Mitt Romney calling him ‘heartless’ ‘out-of-touch capitalist’ and all policy debates basically went back to this.
‘Kamala Harris is weak and phony’
Defending his argument, Rich wrote that Trump won’t be going to beat Harris in debate over border or price controls. “Everything has to be connected to the deeper case that Ms. Harris is weak, a phony, and doesn’t truly care about the country or the middle class. The scattershot Trump attacks on Harris need to be refocused on these character attributes,” he wrote.
“To wit: Ms. Harris was too weak to win the Democratic primary contest this year. She was too weak to keep from telling the left practically everything it wanted to hear when she ran in 2019. She is too weak to hold open town-hall events or do extensive — or, at the moment, any — sit-down media interviews.”
There is plenty that Trump campaign can work to attack Kamala Harris not doing anything as the vice president, not addressing a press conference etc, Rich wrote making a case in point.
“Of course, Mr. Trump doesn’t need much convincing to launch personal attacks. He said earlier this month that he feels “entitled” to them. But calling Ms. Harris dumb or questioning her racial identity does more to undermine him than her. The point isn’t to be gratuitously insulting, but to make a root-and-branch argument that she shouldn’t be — can’t be — president,” he wrote.
Commentator Keith Olbermann called Rich Lowry a piece of s****. “People are hammering that Rich Lowry piece for the headline on “Trump Can Win on Character,” but it’s even worse than you think: He means Trump can win by being Trumpy about Harris’s character, and he thinks that’s a good idea that would work and not shameful at all,” another wrote.
Source : Times of India
