After three and a half years of being lukewarm on Kamala Harris, Democrats are suddenly hot hot hot for the Vice President.
The party is in full panic mode as Biden’s facade of cogency publicly crumbles faster than Bennifer 2.0. Dems are now desperately trying to make Kamala happen.
It’s as if the gods were listening to that shrewd political prognosticator Drew Barrymore, who back in the spring had Harris on her show. There, the actress-turned-host did her signature close-talking to the VP and said, “We need you to be ‘Momala’ of the country.”
This week, everyone jumped on the bandwagon.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre called Harris, is “the future of the party” and perhaps trying to match Harris’ “Veep” energy referred to her as “president.”
Rep. James Clyburn said he’d support Harris if Biden exited the stage.
Tim Ryan, former Ohio Congressmen, wrote a glowing endorsement of Harris in Newsweek saying “she would come with vision, values and energy.”
She would also, I hope, come with a translator.
After all, Harris herself once said, “We’ve got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are because you have been forced to take this seriously.” And during a “Today Show” interview on covid, she offered this profundity:
“It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day.”
Amen, sister.
Harris, lover of Venn diagrams, school buses and recycling nonsensical phrases is always looking to be “unburdened by what has been” — except her inartful command of the English language.
She is our nation’s foremost purveyor of word salads, gifting us volumes of unintelligble verbal pileups completely devoid of meaning. She makes Dan Quayle look like a soaring orator.
Most of her speeches bring to mind the principal in “Billy Madison,” who in his candid assessment of Adam Sandler’s character says, “At no point in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.”
And yet, the Dems want to sell her as their big hope. The future breaker of the glass ceiling, or feats once described by Harris herself.
“So, during Women’s History Month, we celebrate and we honor the women who made history throughout history,” she said.
Let’s be honest.
In a debate, cackling Kamala will be shredded by Trump, a man who has about ten words in his lexicon but deploys them effectively, if not crudely.
But maybe I’m wrong. Look at her ability to explain unwieldy and complicated geopolitical issues.
“So Ukraine is a country in Europe,” she said on “The Morning Hustle” radio show adding, “It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that’s wrong.”
Beyond her blunders and ambition, she’s simply not a gifted politician. She was polling at a measly 3% before dropping out of the 2020 presidential race.
She has no poker face — as we saw when Tulsi Gabbard destroyed her heavy handed record as a prosecutor in a 2019 debate.
Her management style has been called into question as staff defections mounted in the first two years of the administration. Some described her as unprepared, saying that she doesn’t read briefing materials and lashes out at her staffers when things go pear shaped.
Then there’s the glaring migrant problem. She was appointed the border czar in March 2021, and failed to visit the U.S. Mexico border for months. Her excuse, when pressed by Lester Holt? “I haven’t been to Europe.”
The border is a gaping wound — and the mess has been painfully absorbed by big cities and small towns, raising crime, overwhelming government services and necessitating budget cuts.
It will be the issue of the election — and it will haunt her.
She’s simple out of her depth.
It’s a political pickle of the Democratic party’s own making.
Biden, in the heat of the 2020 racial madness, promised to pick a running mate, not by qualifications but by immutable characteristics — a woman and as the pressure mounted, a woman of color.
She is reportedly the only person who can cleanly inherit the dems’ $240 million war chest. And how do you pass over a woman of color in a party that has made identity its central tenet.
But she is simply not presidential material and no amount hype will get her over the line.
We all know it.
