Scratch a Democrat and find a racist. As Kamala Harris travels the country, going from one ass-kissing interview to another, the rest of the Democratic Party establishment is starting to worry. You can’t polish a turd, but you can distract from the fact that it is a turd…but only for a while. Sooner or later, the emperor has no clothes, the sheep runs out of wool, and you’re left standing there with a turd. That’s where the Democrats are now.
The thing about Kamala Harris is the more people see her, the less they like her. She almost lost her first race for Attorney General of California…to a Republican; she was so bad as a candidate. She wins in a walk, at least in California, when she has a horrible opponent.
After announcing her run for president in 2019, Harris polled very well and raised a ton of money. Then, people saw her on the campaign trail and heard her in interviews. Support for her collapsed to the point that she had to quit the race before a single vote was cast. Her polling as Vice President tracks right along with this – when she was made Border Czar (and she was, everyone knows it) and put in charge of voting rights (which seems to consist of mostly complaining about voter ID), people paid attention and did not like what they saw. Kamala Harris was less popular at the depths of Joe Biden’s unpopularity.
She made the perfect buffer for Biden: no matter how bad she looked, standing next to her, he looked better.
After the coup, she’s all they have. There is no plan B. And as much as Democrats love abortion at any point, a public one in the 720th month is too much even for them.
Since no conceivable case can be made FOR Kamala Harris – and they aren’t even trying, offering only as much detail as “We want to do good stuff” – they must find another way to motivate their voters. And that other way will not be charm or personality – no one wants to drink a Miller High Life with Kamala.
Enter the ex-presidents.
You know things are bad when Democrats break out Bill Clinton. Hillary, fine, but Bill? It's a little awkward after so many of them publicly condemned Bill during the “Me Too” movement, albeit in a self-serving way. Then again, when the candidate’s husband has impregnated an employee, ruining his first marriage, and is alleged to have pimp-slapped an ex-girlfriend in public for daring to talk to another man, paid her $80,000 to get her to sign a non-disclosure agreement to not talk about it. You realize there is nothing resembling shame or decency left in the Democratic Party.
Honestly, at this point, there’s really only a credible rape charge difference between Bill and Pimp Doug Emhoff, so why not use him?
Then there’s Barack Obama. While not accused of rape by anyone, as far as we know, he’s about as lucky of a charm on the campaign trail as a room full of smashed mirrors; just ask Massachusetts Senator Martha Coakley.
In his pitch, Obama went right to his favorite thing to do: talk about how awesome he thinks he is.
As president for eight years, Obama was the first president in the modern era never to achieve 3 percent GDP growth in any year; his final year was only 1.4 percent, and he was on the way down. He spent his administration whining about what he inherited from George W. Bush to justify why his economy was so bad. Then, after promising the country that Trump’s economic policies, especially his tax plan, would ruin the economy, President Trump’s economic policies were signed into law, and the economy boomed. Now, Barack is claiming credit for that. It's weird how he wants credit for what he said would be bad; what he said would ruin things after he was proven wrong.
More than his economic illiteracy, Obama exposed just how far down the panic hole Democrats were when he told a group of black men that Harris wasn’t doing well with “the brothers” because they didn’t realize they had to vote for her. After all, she shares some melanin with them. Obama said, ““On the one hand, you have somebody who grew up like you, knows you, went to college with you, understands the struggles and pain and joy that comes from those experiences.”
That’s just a weird argument, considering it is completely devoid of any policy discussion. It’s just that she’s black. Well, half black, Obama ignores her Asian half because he can’t use it.
But very few people “grew up” like Kamala – the child of 2 tenured professors at major universities, the child of privilege who spent her formative years on the mean streets of…Montreal, Quebec, Canada? Yep, that hotbed of the French spirit of cheese and surrender, just like all black men I’ve ever known. She did go the an HBCU, but very few black men choose to attend racially segregated institutions of higher learning, so it’s really another whiff there.
Obama’s basic message is Kamala is black, or half black, and that should be enough for black men to vote for her. It’s the ultimate insult if you think about it. Then again, Democrats have pretty much been running with the “You’re black, and we’re Democrats, which means you have to vote for us or we’ll call you an ‘Uncle Tom’” platform for as long as I can remember why would they stop now?
That the Democrats are getting this desperate this early – everyone closes campaigns desperate – is a good sign for Republicans, but it is not a sign to take our foot off the gas. The biggest obstacle Republicans face in the election's closing weeks is complacency. Fight like you’re losing, constantly, and never let up until the other side admits it is over and they lost. Otherwise, Democrats will cheat and steal it, which they’re going to try to do. Fight like hell because that’s where the country is headed if they win.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.