Former Vice President Kamala Harris announced that she is not running for California Governor. It’s a sad day for California Republicans, since she’s the California version of Stacey Abrams. She would win the primary but crash and burn in the general. She’s got intersectionality, but no electability.
The California Democratic Party breathed a huge sigh of relief. The national party’s relief may be short-lived. Nowhere in her announcement, or in her latest appearance on Stephen Colbert, did she guarantee that she would never run for office again.
The Democratic Party has created their own worst political monster. So wedded and embedded are they to the race-sex-identity politics cult, they cannot break free. Should any Democratic pundit or consultant step out of line, cancel culture waits in the wings to wipe them out. Once you go woke, you can’t help but be a joke.
Despite how loathsome and smug Harris, Colbert, and the rest of the progressive phalanx of losers may be, I had to watch the Colbert-Harris interview. It’s like watching a non-stop traffic accident. Sure, it’s creepy, but you just cannot look away. I watched the entire interview, so you don’t have to.
As soon as she took to the stage (this is her 8th visit to Colbert’s failed program), she failed to charm with all her fake smiles and grins. The whole set-up made me cringe but laugh at the same time; it’s worth relishing the fact that this grinning goblin is not occupying the Oval Office today. Anyone with the patience (or masochistic tendencies) should play the “shot game” every time she cackles in uncomfortable, unctuous laughter.
She wrote a book (or did she?): 107 Days. Many Democrats are probably thinking: “107 Days of my life I will never get back. 106 days too many for a failure of a campaign.” For the rest of us, we can save ourselves for 107 better things to do with our time.
Early in the interview, Colbert asked her how long she had waited before she watched the news again. She admitted, “Months. I’m not into self-mutilation.” The unintended humor lies in the fact that she shouldn’t want to relive her abject failure, or that she should have won. Kamala spearheaded the decline of her party and may represent their final serious stab at the White House for years, along with any meaningful chance of winning back Congress.
Listening to her say “Uh-huh, uh-huh” to half the questions reminded everyone of her gross incompetence. A DEI hire from the get-go, Kamala Harris never related to ordinary people in her bids for office (in California). In her first major campaign, she challenged an entrenched progressive DA incumbent. She leaned further to the left to get elected (and that boost from boyfriend Willie Brown helped, too). She faced a tougher competitor in her first bid for CA Attorney General. Republican LA County District Attorney Steve Cooley was winning on election night, but then all the “later votes” trickled in, and the rest is history. When she ran for US Senate, her general election competitor, washed-up Democrat Congresswoman Loony Loretta Sanchez, launched her campaign late, ran away from reporters, and “dabbed” during the general election debate. Kamala looked competent for the first time in her political career!
During the Colbert interview, Kamala repeated the same word at the end of many sentences. Colbert did the same, probably realizing how unprepared they were for prime time. She said “to be candid” a number of times, too, proving she was not a very candid person—or candidate. Awkward pauses emerged frequently, proving her lack of connection with host and audience.
For a comedy show, the tenor of their empty talk took a dark turn. They talked about a shocked and angry populace, a sense of depression and discouragement in the country. Once again showing how out of touch they are, they reflected only their limited sorrows. Main Street is back in the driver’s seat of our politics. The United States has a competent, committed federal leadership team committed to American interests, and the Democratic Party has never suffered such low approval ratings. Of course Colbert and Kamala are feeling pretty crappy right now, but the rest of us are living our best lives.
I want to focus on a few statements (however coherent she could frame them) from the Colbert cacophony:
“I am a devout public servant. I have spent my entire career in service of the people.”
This was the first of many word salads that came tossed out of Kamala’s mouth. A public servant, by definition, serves the people. Thought she knew that! Her misuse of the word “devout” revealed the cult-like underpinnings of the Democratic Party. Incidentally, everything she said in that one phrase summed up why she lost in November. Career politician, fanatical on issues that no one cared about, and not really serving anyone while claiming to serve all.
“Let me tell you about Joe Biden. I have an incredible amount of respect for him.”
That sentence was a back-handed compliment. If she respected him, she would have said, “Let me tell you about President Biden.”
“For now, I don’t want to go back in the system. I think it’s broken.”
Nothing says sour grapes like: “The problem wasn’t how I played the game. It’s the game itself. The rules suck.” With no due respect to the failed Dem nominee and her dwindling cohort of supporters, the system actually worked quite well last year. Election shenanigans were reduced to a minimum. The oppressive influence of corrupt corporate media was cut off at the knees. The Democratic Party showed its elitist dysfunction to the world, and the voters said “No.”
The system worked, and Donald Trump was re-elected.
To sum up the Colbert-Harris interview, two losers commiserated with each other about being losers, blaming everyone but themselves, further assuring us that the voters and CBS made the right decision to fire them both. Oh, the significance of the passage of time!
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