By Jeffrey A. Rendall
Cackling Kamala Harris’s latest ploy is to try to take bad/sad ideas and make them better
Have you heard from Kamala Harris lately?
If not, senile Joe Biden’s former vice president and first choice to succeed him as leader of the Democrat party two years ago will be coming to a friendly liberal talk show near you to tout and test her latest ploy to capture the hearts and minds of Democrat primary voters, just in time to pull a Donald Trump-like reappearance on the national scene… and win this time?
If this sounds puzzling to you, consider the source. Kamala hopes to ponder even bad ideas and dupe Americans into forgetting why they thought the leftist concepts were stupid to begin with.
You can’t make this stuff up. And where cackling Kamala Harris is at issue, why even try?
In a newsletter column appropriately titled, “Kamala Harris is at it again”, Byron York reported at the Washington Examiner:
“The 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, who is also the front-runner for the party’s nomination in 2028, is embracing all [her previous bad ideas]. ‘This is a moment when there are no bad ideas,’ former Vice President Kamala Harris said this week on a podcast produced by the political activist group Win With Black Women. Harris proposed what she called a ‘No bad ideas brainstorm.’
“’And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about what we need to do, and think about doing, around the Electoral College,’ she continued. ‘We talk about the idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court. … [And] let’s talk about statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.’
“One useful thing about listening to interviews that politicians do with friendly sources is that the politician is often relaxed and will speak freely and without the guard she might maintain with a less friendly outlet. Harris was certainly that way with Win With Black Women.”
You gotta concede, if it were anyone else but cackling Kamala Harris championing this brainstorm and going around speaking to audiences about possibly resurrecting old “bad ideas” and trying to make them fresh, you’d probably think it was terrific fodder for a late-night comedy routine.
How many times did we attend a class or lecture at school and the teacher said something like, “Let’s hear your impressions. There’s no such thing as a stupid question.”
Well, we subsequently learned through listening to the unrestrained responses of not-so-smart fellow pupils that there is such a thing as a stupid question, just as there are many, many bad ideas that were politically tested and failed because a majority of common sense-type voters didn’t buy into the advocate’s flawed thesis.
You know, like the notion of expanding the number of Supreme Court justices just so Democrats can eventually tip the ideological balance and henceforth jigger the type of legal jurisprudence they can live with. Outcome based opinions and rulings. The “living” Constitution. It’s the Democrat way.
We could test Democrats on their enthusiasm for the bloat-the-Supreme-Court inkling simply by asking them — if it’s really such a good idea to double the size of the Supreme Court, would you support a bill in the last two years of Donald Trump’s presidency and allow him to select who would fill the new slots? Trump could then haul out his handy-dandy list of pre-screened nominees devised by Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society. Instead of conservatives then dominating the Supreme Court for the next generation, the Court would be in safe hands for a half century instead. Or so.
Would liberals like Kamala Harris consider this “good” idea to be “bad” then?
Likewise, the cackling one mentioned the proposal to make Puerto Rico a state. Having visited “La Isla del Encanto” recently, I personally can shed light on this one. Our Puerto Rican tour guide touched on the statehood matter and boldly predicted that “Puerto Rico will never be a state.” I don’t recall his portfolio of reasons for his forecast, but it revolved around the island being about 65 percent Democrats and the population’s general attitude that they already get enough federal largesse from their status as a U.S. territory.
Puerto Ricans already have it so good… why would they want to bear the responsibility of fulfilling the requirements and duties of joining the union?
Cackling Kamala’s reemployment of her 2019 bad ideas goes on and on, including her backing of the Green New Deal and Medicare for All, which was originally brought forward by crazy old coot Bernie Sanders. Harris thinks she can assemble a winning coalition of zealous Democrat voters by running hard to the left and disdaining all “good ideas” by re-exploring bad ones and affixing new labels to them.
Kamala can’t scamper far enough to outpace her own history, however. The beauty of search engines and having everything available on video in our electronic universe makes it a certainty that many a “bad idea” will be discovered in the wealth of past brainless statements and media appearances. No one thinks Kamala Harris is an intellectual giant, and no matter how much coaching she receives from her paid army of consultants would allow her to be someone other than herself.
The former veep and 2024 Democrat nominee is smart about one aspect of her search for a theme, however: she’s wise to play to African-American women in the Democrat party. Black females vote as a bloc and they are very identity-politics oriented.
Black women enjoy seeing one of their own succeed, even if elevating Kamala into the nominee’s chair would virtually assure Democrats of another loss in 2028.
Democrats depend on single minority women for their political power. Republicans can still count on the backing of roughly half of married women, but unmarried women lean heavily towards the party of limitless abortion and government goodies to reward them for their loyalty.
That’s reality. If it could be argued that Harris’s “No bad ideas” campaign isn’t a good theory at all, one certainly couldn’t fault the former California senator for her singular strategy to grab her chance to run again. Cackling Kamala may be dumb as a brick, and an opportunist, but someone in her sphere figured that the best way to get farther in the Democrat party was to pander to racial biases.
Add gender to the mix, and Kamala has the winning combination in the first-to-vote state (in the Democrat primary) of South Carolina in 2028.
Who would compete with her on that ground… Gavin Newsom? Josh Shapiro?
Even Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a woman herself, couldn’t edge out a black female in the “you look like me” fixated southern haven. Ditto for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the ethnic Puerto Rican from the Bronx not sharing the same race-based credibility of the pure skin color fixated crowd.
Ideologically speaking, cackling Kamala shares comparable leftist, class-based leanings like her sought-after constituencies. There’s a good match there. Today’s Democrat party moved towards Harris, not the other way around.
In doing so, Harris is basically trading general election electability for primary love from Democrats. Some would claim Donald Trump did the same thing in the years he ran for president, but the Republican party is a much more diverse place – in terms of ideas – than Democrats. There just isn’t room for common sense-type Democrats any longer.
Cackling Kamala isn’t even attempting to recognize the arguments for anti-woke sanity. Most voters care about day-to-day practical issues, not whether illegal alien transgender prisoners qualify for a taxpayer-funded sex change surgery. Then there’s “climate change”, having fallen out of vogue with the general electorate, which much prefers sound energy policy – and prices — to Greta Thunberg fantasies of polar bears drifting on detached slivers of liberated glacier ice.
Incidentally, polar bears can swim vast distances. So even if the ice DID melt, they’d survive. But the ice isn’t melting. Liberals like Kamala Harris use myths and statistical manipulation to spread lies and cause hysteria and they don’t worry about “bad ideas” because they think government can change the world by compelling human behavior.
One-trick pony Kamala Harris can’t fool Americans for long. Democrats rely on deception and ignorance to spread their message when really, they’re only interested in power for power’s sake. Kamala Harris can’t persuade people that a bad idea actually has merit. Her “No bad ideas” slogan can’t pass the laugh test.
Jeff Rendall is editor and publisher of GolfintheUSA.com and has written about golf and politics for over a quarter of a century. A non-practicing attorney from California, he moved to the east coast three decades ago to pursue and combine his interests in all things American history and culture. Jeff has worked as an intern on Capitol Hill and in various capacities in grassroots organizing and conservative organizations and publications, including a nearly two-decade stint at ConservativeHQ.com. Column republishing or other inquiries: Rendall@msn.com .