What do we know about Kamala Harris?
Let me refine that question a bit. What do we know about Kamala Harris that is positive? Reassuring? That would suggest she has any capacity for being President of the United States (or, for that matter, of the local elementary school PTA)?
Is it her personal charisma? Her ability to communicate? Her performance as the country’s so-called “Border Czar”? Her ability to work well with the people around her; even her own staff members?
If those are the criteria she should be measured on, Harris is a total zero.
Daniel Greenfield, in his latest article for frontpagemag.com, says it very well:
The real issue is that Kamala is leadership kryptonite. Her original presidential campaign dissolved into infighting between her staff and her sister. And she dropped out before she could even contest a primary.
As vice president, she not only made zero impact on anything, but her office staff abandoned ship. The only thing she made into a signature issue was opposing Israel over the war with Hamas.
That’s not a dealbreaker, but her inability to run anything is. Biden was an empty space that his staff filled. Kamala isn’t an empty space, she’s worse, like a lot of CBC members, she seems to be a bad boss with a penchant for nurturing drama around her. That wouldn’t be a first in the White House, but it’s especially damaging during a campaign.
Biden, as terrible as he was, had a circle of loyalists who served him to the bitter end. He tended to be abusive, but like every successful D.C. lifer, he had people he count on. That’s why he lasted this long even well past the point where he could meaningfully function.
Kamala does not. Her people come and go. She has few loyalists and her staff tend to wash out quickly. It’s one thing for this to be the case for female CBC house members (which it often is) but it’s a major problem for a presidential candidate running a national campaign. It means she doesn’t have meaningful support and in a business where politicians can’t do anything without loyal staffers, it’s a hole. A big one.
Other than Greenfield’s gratuitous (to me) reference to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) – which, even if there is a grain of truth to it, I think he should be embarrassed by – it is hard to argue with the points he makes.
Frankly, Kamala Harris’s only asset is that she fills a couple of “woke” quotas (she is Black and female).
Other than that, all she’s got is that she is not Joe Biden. And even there, the argument can be made that “Biden is 81 and in a stage of dementia. What’s her excuse?”
Are they really going to summarily anoint Kamala Harris the presidential candidate? Ignore the fact that it renders 15 million or so Democrat primary votes meaningless (more on that in a subsequent blog)?
We’ll see…..
