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The Conservative Political Action Committee has returned to D.C. this week for its annual convention, and it’s serving up heaping platters of lazy, hateful political commentary to conservative voters.
On Thursday, the convention hosted a panel titled “Cat Fight? Michelle vs. Kamala.” The occasion featured white conservative commentators teeing off on former First Lady Michelle Obama and present Vice President Kamala Harris for half an hour — providing loads of commentary on the 2 girls’s race, gender, and their fantasies, or nightmares, that certainly one of them would possibly exchange Joe Biden because the 2024 Democratic nominee.
“Kamala could be our first Black woman president — Michelle well…” radio host Larry O’Connor stated whereas pretending to wonder if she certified. The remark was a barely veiled reference to long-standing right-wing dribble accusing the previous first woman of secretly being a person. The crowd at CPAC laughed.
“We were way too nice, except for the thing I said about Michelle,” O’Conner stated towards the tip of the panel.
Obama has repeatedly declared that she has little interest in working for the presidency, however that hasn’t stopped Republicans from drafting feverish fan fiction about Obama or Harris swooping in as a last-minute substitute for Biden.
Breitbart Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle, who sat on the panel, stated the final time he was with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, the previous president instructed him “he expects that Biden will step aside, or be pushed aside, and they will try at the convention to go with Kamala, and he thinks they will fail to get Kamala. …Then the question is who’s after Kamala, and that’s what [panelist Monica Crowley] is saying about Michelle Obama.”
Boyle added that Rep. Jim Clyburn’s endorsement of Biden in 2020 was “contingent on Joe picking a Black woman as his vice-president” and that “all these folks speaking about Gavin Newsom being the candidate in 2024, I’m like, eh, I don’t assume so. Good luck to the white man attempting to take it away from the Black lady.
Crowley, a podcast host and former Fox News contributor, added that Republicans “need to be prepared for the worst case scenario, and Michelle Obama is the worst case scenario because she poses the most threatening challenge to President Trump.”
“We need to be prepared because she is a woman of color, she is considered iconic,” Crowley added earlier than being interrupted by columnist Kurt Schlichter, who questioned who within the nation thought of Michelle Obama iconic.
“I don’t know, I think a lot of frustrated wine women from the suburbs do,” Schlichter added, noting his perception that a big swath of the nation would oppose Obama’s nomination — which once more, she has explicitly stated she’s not concerned with.
The greatest barrier to those absurd eventualities the panelists imagined is that Biden himself has no intention of stepping apart. Crowley raised the prospect that the Democratic Party might pressure Biden’s resignation in an analogous transfer to Republicans pressuring Richard Nixon to step down within the aftermath of the Watergate scandal.
“The difference is Richard Nixon had respect for norms and the United States of America. These guys don’t, Joe Biden doesn’t. Joe Biden is the capo of a criminal organization,” Schlichter stated.
The panel was in the end little greater than a public show of Republicans’ continued fixation on Harris and Obama as punching baggage for his or her racial, gender, and coverage grievances. Biden and Harris will likely be, “clinging to the White House curtains,” Crowley stated,” including that “the left’s powerbrokers, Barack and Michelle, working in conjunction with the deep state, FBI, CIA, all of the agencies that we know are so deeply corrupt, will make some sort of move on one or both of them — I hope I’m wrong.”
