BYE BYE KAMALA

Kamala Harris‘s presidential campaign has come to an embarrassing end. In January she was seen as a rising star of the Democrat strategy to defeat  President Trump. By this date in December (4th) she departed in abject defeat.  But the real embarrassment comes from who vanquished her.  She lost to  a diminutive  no experience kid-candidate, mayor of  a small Indiana college town: a 77 year old frail and gaff-prone, glad-hand typical politico accused of using his position to enrich his family ; a 70 year old school marm type with “give away” impractical ideas about “free stuff” and health care,; and a 78 year old inveterate socialist.

Kamala Harris in comparison had it all, she came from a big populous  state, is young, black, (a little bit), a female,  she was— it seemed— tough, intelligent and pragmatic and thus became the immediate darling of the Democrat establishment.  Kamala is the Jeb Bush the 2016 election cycle,  the choice of the establishment  dumped by the people.    Why did she fail ?

She seemed ready and willing to play ball with the establishment.  As a senator she grandstanded like the best of the politicos.   In the Senate cabinet and Supreme Court hearings, she showed herself to have a killer instinct as she verbally sliced and diced  Kavanaugh, Barr and Sessions.  It was  a show for the powerful Democrat donor class she would need for her planned campaign.  She seemed a shoo in for the elites.

 She verbally sucker punched  Joe Biden about school bussing in one debate. And was hit hard by Tulsi Gabbard on her own hypocritical reputation as state prosecutor of California.  The black voters never cottoned to her and she struggled on with falling poll numbers.

But play acting in the Senate chamber and posturing  in front of TV cameras is not the real test of a candidate. It is the campaign trial  which forces these politician to come in contact with  real people. For a politician  the campaign is analogous to  the challenging SAT test for college aspirants.    If you are not academic material and are slated to be a college dummy, you can’t hide it—you get a dummy’s SAT grade.  Kamala revealed all her weaknesses on the campaign trail.

Thus after a few months exposure Dem voters were not convinced she would play the same “ball game” with voters as she would with the big shots in DC.  She never sparked any enthusiasm in the Afro American voters.  Rank and file Democrats saw Harris -as one they were not so sure of.  Harris could not achieve that sense of honesty and genuineness that comes so easy to Sanders.  People are sure of what he believes. No one knew what Harris’ core beliefs were.

After this debacle of an embarrassing loss  her future as a candidate registers as a big question mark. .  She will surely be challenged for her Senate seat come 2022.

 That’s a good thing for California.