why I like Kari Lake

Kari Lake May Be the Best Thing to Happen to Republicans This Year

When you have been involved in politics as an activist and a writer as long as I have, it’s nice to be surprised every once in a while. It doesn’t happen often, which makes it even more enjoyable.

Kari Lake — the Republican candidate for governor here in my native Arizona — has been the biggest surprise for me in this most important of election years.

I was skeptical of Lake during the primary, as were many of my conservative friends. She seemed rather new to conservatism. After a conversation with my good friend and colleague Kevin Downey Jr., I was reminded that not everybody comes out of the womb a conservative as I did.

My skepticism quickly disappeared as soon as Lake won the primary and hit the campaign trail. Her career behind enemy lines in the mainstream media gives her an advantage that even veteran Republican politicians don’t enjoy. Lake knows how to handle them because she was them.

In the past six years, only two prominent Republicans have known how to handle hit jobs from the enemy of the people media: Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis. Trump does it with his natural combativeness, DeSantis honed his craft under relentless assault beginning in the early days of the pandemic.

Kari Lake showed up armed with insider information that she uses to lay traps that idiot reporters keep walking into.

Recently, a faux journo type hit Lake with the “ELECTION DENIER” talking point, obviously hoping for a “Gotcha!” moment. He no doubt ended up regretting that.

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Lake is icy cool in every one of these encounters with the press. Her two-plus decades of on-camera experience shows. She’s never rattled. That must drive them crazy.

Lake is so smooth that Democrat Katie Hobbs is terrified to debate her. Heck, Hobbs can’t even handle a political conversation with a random Uber driver.

Kari Lake was dismissed as a Trump-endorsed newcomer when she won the primary in early August. In the two months since she’s been garnering more national attention. On Monday, Tulsi Gabbard flexed her new independent clout by endorsing Lake and announcing that she would be campaigning for her. 

Read the rest. Then there's this hilarious interview (first 5:42; afterward is commentary):

And there's this article.