Democrats have tried too hard to explain away America’s antipathy toward their first female vice president by latching onto the same old tropes about racism and sexism.
When Vice President Kamala Harris is not saying dumb things or uninformed things, she comes across as arrogant and condescending.
Still, Democrats refuse to face the fact she’s just not that good.
“Well, I do think sexism and racism are part of the problem, no question about it,” former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told Kara Swisher on an episode of her podcast, “On With Kara Swisher,” released in April. “I think she was not as well known in national politics before she became vice president. And I think that she hasn’t gotten the credit for all that she’s done.”
Similarly, Boston Globe columnist Renee Graham mused, “Why are Republicans so obsessed with Kamala Harris?”
CNN contributor Ashley Allison similarly said on “The State of the Union,” “I’ll just say, I think that this is happening for a couple of reasons: Most people don’t know what vice presidents do and now she is a history-maker. She is a woman. She is a black woman. And it’s the easy thing to do to say, ‘She’s the attack dog, go after her.’”
Kamala Harris Channels Quayle
Such propagandistic attacks amount to a temper tantrum intended to protect Kamala Harris from her own incompetence.
Harris has been compared with former Vice President Dan Quayle who had a similar talent for saying dumb things or for trying to sound smarter than he was.
The following Quayle quote could have been said by Harris. “Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is IN the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here,” Quayle said in an Apr. 25, 1989 press conference.
Harris’s recent culture and AI flubs are similar examples.
“Part of this issue that should be articulated is that AI is this fancy thing. First of all, it’s two letters. It means artificial intelligence,” Harris said last month while laughing her head off. “Ultimately what it is it’s about machine learning, and so the machine is taught.”
While talking about culture at the 2023 Essence Festival of Culture she delved into one of her infamous word salads.
“Culture is — it is a reflection of our moment and our time. Right? And present culture is the way we express how we’re feeling about the moment, and we should always find times to express how we feel about the moment. That is a reflection of joy. Because, you know … it comes in the morning,” Harris laughed while saying. “We have to find ways to also express the way we feel about the moment in terms of just having language and a connection to how people are experiencing life.”
She continued: “And I think about it in that way, too.”
If Kamala Harris channels Dan Quayle, should she have the excuse of her race and sex?
New York’s Mayor Eric Adams’s Criticism of Harris’s Incompetence
If race is Harris’s problem then that’s news for New York’s black mayor Eric Adams.
He criticized her lack of leadership on the nation’s Latin American migrant crisis in March. Harris was tasked with being the Biden administration’s border czar, yet even Adams denounced her handling of her assignment.
“There needs to be an individual who is dedicated to do the decompression strategy for the federal government. Someone should be at these entry points: El Paso, Brownsville, Texas, and others, too, to organize a real decompression strategy across the entire country,” Adams said, suggesting Harris was AWOL on the issue.
Adams’ criticism had nothing to do with Harris’ race or sex because Harris’s problem is that she’s not terribly adept at her job or as a politician.
John Rossomando is a defense and counterterrorism analyst and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
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