Democrats to Kamala Harris: Get Bent and Get Lost

Democrats have been hinting that Kamala Harris should stop wasting everyone's tim, pretending that she is a credible presidential candidate.

But Kamala Harris is a stupid and a daydrinking drunk, and has not taken the hint.

I know I hit this point a lot, but it is incredible to me that when seeking a job that requires real sobriety, she constantly shows up for planned speeches drunk enough to slur half of her words.

It would be one thing if a reporter caught her out at night, unexpectedly, and she was sloshed. But no, she turns up for planned media opportunities three sheets to the wind. She can't keep herself to just two drinks to loosen her up, she has to drink seven or eight just before a speech.

And the media, of course, pretends they can't tell when someone is slurring their words because they're drunk. Only a medical doctor can make this difficult diagnosis. Which is even more absurd than telling us that we weren't credentialed enough to know that Biden was showing signs of advanced cognitive decline.

That rant over: Because Willie Brown's Brown Willie Warmer won't take a hint, Democrats are escalating.

Now they're not hinting, they're telling her -- some of them under their actual names -- to go away.

'She totally blew it': How Kamala Harris wasted a year to make her case

Harris has offered voters almost nothing in the way of specifics about how she would remake a Democratic Party hungry for change after another term of Donald Trump.

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For Harris, according to interviews with nearly 20 Democratic Party donors and strategists in California and across the country, it was a missed opportunity to redefine herself -- and ultimately a wasted year.

"She totally blew it," said Doug Herman, who was a lead mail strategist for Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 campaigns. "She hasn't gotten into the mix."

Harris has offered voters almost nothing in the way of specifics about how she would remake a Democratic Party hungry for change after another term of Donald Trump. She hasn't spoken to how she would expand her own appeal to the voters who rejected her, and she remains as reticent of media as ever, continuing to favor appearances before friendly audiences and at times drawing fire for limiting access to news organizations altogether. She has entirely sidestepped the ideological civil war consuming the Democrats and has acted more like a party elder at a time when voters and donors are demanding a break with the past.

"I don't see anything different myself. It seems like more of the same to me," said Jim Hodges, the former governor of South Carolina, the first state on the Democratic nominating calendar. "Right now Democratic primary voters ... are very anxious about a Trump acolyte being in the White House in 2028. And they want to select someone who they think has the best chance to win, but who also meets these requisites: fresh, new. I hear a lot of talk about that -- 'we don't need recycled candidates.'"

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"I am looking at all kinds of candidates for 2028, and she's not necessarily one of them," said Laurie Black, a San Diego-based donor and longtime Harris supporter. "It's not that I don't think she's qualified ... [but] I want to support a winner in 2028, and I just don't know if the vice president has the juice this time."

Another California-based fundraiser could not think of a single person in their circle who wants Harris to run again.

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But if Harris showed an inclination after leaving office to recalibrate, it never materialized. On policy, Harris has stuck to familiar territory, focusing on affordability, artificial intelligence and voting rights -- all issues she has championed or worked on throughout her career. A person close to Harris said it was more authentic for the former vice president to build on themes she's long been passionate about, rather than turning to new topics.

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"The one thing that everyone is disappointed in, whether you're a swing voter or you're a base voter, is that they feel like she hasn't done anything with this time," said a Democratic pollster who conducts focus groups with voters across the country and was granted anonymity to discuss internal research. "They just aren't hearing from her at all, and so the only thing they remember from her is losing the last election. That's the most recent memory in their minds."

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She developed a habit of backtracking on more ambitious campaign proposals after pushback, like her call to eliminate private health insurance in the 2019 Democratic primary and her anti-price gouging plan in 2024.

"Frankly, this is Kamala's biggest weakness -- her inability to have these big ideas," said Herman. "She doesn't have these big policy concepts because it's not been part of who she is. She's an attorney. She is a lawyer who works in prosecutions, and it's not in her bones to do this stuff."

Nor has talking about policy been a strong suit. Accused at times of offering "word salad" in her past campaigns, Harris still defaults to discursive statements of values and calls for conversations around hot-button issues instead of declaring where she stands. She remains reticent to speak with mainstream media outlets, though she's been more open to long-form podcast interviews. And she still relies on well-worn anecdotes from past stump speeches, like recalling attending civil rights protests as a toddler with her mother wheeling her in a stroller.

FWEEDOM!!!

"If I were her, I would never say that stroller story again in my life," said one longtime associate who was granted anonymity to speak candidly. "She's never been very good at updating her memorized riffs."

Below: Kamala has all new salads to toss.

Well, they're kind of new. They're all kind of the same pattern of tautology and circular illogic. She's no Sphinx.

She's very proud of that particular word salad:

Some of her old classics. Even the communist propagandists at the Daily Show lampooned her word salads.

Remember, you have to be a medical doctor, or a Certified Media "Reporter," to say that her speech here is slurred by intoxication.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:21 PM

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