After three and a half years of being cold towards Kamala Harris, Democrats have suddenly come out in force with their support for the vice president.
With Biden’s compelling mask publicly crumbling faster than Bennifer 2.0, the party is in a state of panic. Democrats are now desperately trying to make Kamala happen.
It was as if God had heard Drew Barrymore, the astute political seer who invited Harris onto her show in the spring, where the actress-turned-host told the vice president in her signature intimate voice: “I want you to be the Mamalla of this country.”
This week, everyone has jumped on the bandwagon.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called Harris “the future of the party” and, perhaps trying to match her energy as “vice president,” referred to her as “presidential.”
Rep. James Clyburn said he would support Harris if Biden were to exit.
Former Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan wrote an impassioned endorsement of Harris in Newsweek magazine, saying, “She brings vision, values and energy.”
I would like her to be accompanied by an interpreter.
After all, Harris herself once said, “We have to take this seriously. We have to take it as seriously as you do, because you have no choice but to take this seriously,” and then, in a Today Show interview about COVID-19, she offered these profound words:
“It’s time to do what we’ve always done, and that time is every day.”
Amen, sister.
A fan of Venn diagrams, school buses and recycling nonsensical phrases, Harris is always looking to “free himself from the baggage of the past” — except for his awkwardness with the English language.
She is our nation’s greatest purveyor of phrases, giving us a great deal of incomprehensible phrases totally devoid of meaning. She makes Dan Quayle seem like an eloquent speaker.
Much of her speech reminds me of the principal in “Billy Madison,” who bluntly assesses Adam Sandler’s character: “Your incoherent, rambling responses were devoid of any rational thought, and have made everyone in this room feel even dumber.”
Still, Democrats want to pitch her as their great hope, a glass ceiling shatterer of the future, a feat Harris herself once described.
“So during Women’s History Month we celebrate and honor women who have made history throughout history,” she said.
I honestly say.
In a debate, a giggly Kamala would likely be outshone by Trump, whose vocabulary is limited to around 10 words but which he uses effectively, if not vulgarly.
But maybe I’m wrong. Just look at her ability to explain tricky and complex geopolitical issues.
“Ukraine is a European country,” she told radio show “The Morning Hustle,” adding, “It’s next to a country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, fundamentally, it’s wrong.”
Missteps and ambition aside, she’s simply not a talented politician: She had an approval rating of just 3% before dropping out of the 2020 presidential race.
She has no poker face, as we saw when Tulsi Gabbard trashed her aggressive record as a prosecutor during a 2019 debate.
Her management style has been questioned after staff defected in her first two years in power, with some saying she was ill-prepared, not reading briefings and lashing out at staff when things didn’t go well.
And then there’s the immigration crisis: She was appointed border control officer in March 2021 but hasn’t visited the US-Mexico border in months. Her excuse when confronted by Lester Holt? “I’ve never been to Europe.”
The border is a wounded hole, and the chaos is spreading painfully through big cities and small towns, causing increased crime, straining government services, and forcing budget cuts.
It will become an election issue that will come back to haunt her.
She is a simple person who surpasses her abilities.
This is a political predicament of the Democrats’ own making.
In the midst of the racial upheaval of 2020, Biden pledged to pick an immutable attribute, not qualifications: a woman, and a woman of color as his running mate, under mounting pressure.
She is reportedly the only Who will inherit the Democrats’ $240 million in funding neatly?And how can a party that makes identity its core principle ignore women of color?
But she has no presidential qualifications and no amount of publicity will help her win.
We all know that.
