The Democratic nominee for president recently praised Dick Cheney. That is not satire.
Vice President Kamala Harris gladly accepted endorsements from former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney, this past weekend.
Harris commended Dick Cheney, calling him "well-respected."
“I’m honored to have their endorsement,” Harris told reporters in Pittsburgh. “They both, as leaders, who are well-respected, are making an important statement that it’s OK, if not important, to put country above party."
Dick Cheney is the perfect endorsement for Kamala Harris, as it is another reminder that she stands for nothing.
Almost nobody in America liked Dick Cheney by the end of his eight-year tenure as vice president. He left office with a 13% approval rating, according to a January 2009 poll.
Cheney pushed America into the Iraq War by falsely claiming Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and incorrectly linking Saddam Hussein to al Qaeda. None of this was true, and the Iraq War was a disaster that killed many and bred more instability in the Middle East, giving rise to the Islamic State.
Cheney was a proponent of waterboarding, an ineffective torture method that violates human rights, and the surveillance state, including warrantless surveillance of America's civilians by the National Security Agency. He also bucked the GOP on traditional marriage and shot a man in the face as vice president. Democrats used to call Cheney a war criminal — they hated him so much that voters in two Vermont towns directed their police to arrest him if he ever stepped foot in their respective communities.
Cheney and Harris might not align on policy, but what does that matter? Harris lacks many hard-set policies and will say and do whatever she thinks will help her win the presidency. That is why she is a massive flip-flopper whose campaign website only got an issues page on Monday, less than two months before the election.
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During the 2020 Democratic primary, Harris thought that supporting the Green New Deal, "Medicare for all," a $15 hourly minimum wage, decriminalizing border crossings, free (taxpayer-funded) healthcare for illegal immigrants, and reparations for slavery was the path to victory. She was also the most liberal member of the Senate in 2019. Now she's running on securing the border and cutting taxes, and she's touting an endorsement from Cheney, who was part of an administration that wanted to partially privatize Social Security.
Those who have seen her record as an elected official know Harris is awful on border security and called for policies that necessitate higher taxes for people of all income levels. But Harris wants to be president, so if that means embracing a politician who was once one of the most disliked men in America, she will do it.
Tom Joyce (@TomJoyceSports) is a political reporter for the New Boston Post in Massachusetts.