The Princess of Platitudes

It wasn’t just a discombobulated word salad. It was a flat-out embarrassment.

To what am I referring? Vice President Kamala Harris’ poorly conceived and atrociously delivered speech to her supporters last week. Her video, which was posted on X (wait a minute, I thought Progressives hated Elon Musk?) by the Democratic Party, showed Harris at her very worst.

“I just have to remind you,” she told her virtual audience, “Don’t you ever let anybody take your power from you. You have the same power that you did before Nov. 5, and you have the same purpose that you did, and you have the same ability to engage and inspire.”

“So don’t ever let anybody or any circumstance take your power from you,” Harris added.

First of all, who is trying to take power away from anyone? Ms. Harris and her supporters lost on November 5th, fair and square. That’s called the electoral process.

It’s simply time to pass the baton – and the nuclear code – to Donald Trump and JD Vance.

Harris’ false premise reminded me of athletes who, after winning a championship in their respective sport, scream into the camera, “Nobody can take this away from us”… as if someone was actually trying. I think they call that a non sequitur fallacy (at best) and an ad hominem argument (at worst).

Meanwhile, Harris’ demeanor was dark and foreboding, not exactly the uplifting and optimistic message people were expecting. She looked tired, even haggard, as if she had aged in dog-years since her campaign went down in flames.

“I know many people feel like we are entering a dark time, but for the benefit of us all, I hope that is not the case,” Harris said. “But here’s the thing, America — if it is — let us fill the sky with the light of a brilliant, brilliant, billion of stars. The light of optimism, of faith, of truth and service.”

“America, if it is.” What does that even mean? And what does “lighting billions of brilliant stars” have to do with anything? Did she write this gobbledygook herself or pay someone to do it for her?

If it’s the latter, that person should be fired on the spot and forced to write on a blackboard 1,000 times, “I will not make Kamala Harris look even more stupid than she already is.”

And yet, she continued to drone on and on…

“The outcome of this election is obviously not what we wanted,” Ms. Harris told her donors, who had forked over $1.5 billion in less than four months only to see her crash and burn… and their campaign contributions go up in smoke. “It is not what we worked so hard for, but I am proud of the race we ran, and your role in this was critical. What we did in 107 days was unprecedented. Think about the coalition that we built.”

Let me set the record straight, Kamala, because apparently you are unable or unwilling to do so.

At the close of the Democratic National Convention on August 22nd, Kamala Harris led Donald Trump by several percentage points in the majority of the national polls. That gap continued to widen throughout August and September and into October, at which point it began to close… and close rather quickly.

Why, you might ask? Because after initially hiding behind a saccharine smokescreen of “joy” – a theme that was mentioned a nauseating 35 times at the DNC in Chicago – Harris’ handlers finally let her start doing a few softball interviews with friendly reporters. Much to their dismay, she couldn’t even handle that simple assignment… and voters took notice. They also took notice when she told the gals on The View that she couldn’t think of a single thing she would have done differently than Joe Biden.

Really, Kamala? You wouldn’t have stopped (or at least slowed) the illegal border crossings that resulted in thousands of convicted criminals and hundreds of known terrorists entering the U.S.? And you wouldn’t have better orchestrated the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, saving the lives of 13 brave Americans in the process? How about the double-digit inflation that consumers were forced to endure while you and Joe flooded the economy with free money?

Good grief, lady. There’s a reason why you lost, and it had nothing to do with a truncated campaign season. On the contrary, the more the voters got to know you and what you stood for (and didn’t stand for), the less they liked you.

In other words, you blew through $1.5 billion in 107 days only to see your poll numbers plummet and your presidential prospects vanish. And the so-called “coalition” that you built resulted in the number of Democratic votes falling precipitously in 48 of 50 states.

That’s on you, sister… so own it. And while you’re at it, get some sleep and hire a new PR firm, because this one left you hanging out to dry.

(Coming Monday: The High-Water Mark of the Harris Campaign)