The Vice President's moment: A Star is Born.

Whither Kamala Harris, and can she win?

Oh, hell yeah, Kamala Harris can win, under a certain set of circumstances, like anyone else.

We are pretty certain the President Joe Biden (God love him, makes the sign of the cross) probably wasn’t going to win. Having been shown the polling on Sunday (was it Sunday? It’s all a blur now, isn’t it?), Biden made the final decision only he could make.

I knew he would get there, because Joe Biden is a rational, decent, thoughtful, empathetic man, unlike the Republican (are they actually Republicans anymore? Not really, no) Party’s nominee, a MAGAlomaniacal man who creates his own stigmata for votes.

This thought has plagued me for days: what if , on November 22, 1963, Jack Kennedy had been shot in the ear instead? How would he have handled it? Not how former real estate huckster and convicted rapist Donald John Trump did.

Would Kennedy’s delegates in 1964 have put a bandage on their ear in solidarity with President Kennedy?

Let me help you with that. They most assuredly would not have done so.

We are living in an environment where a certifiable loon wrestler introduces the Republican presidential nominee, tearing his shirt off in the process.

Let’s take this even further: What Would Nixon Do?

“First, Mr. Ohman, let me make it perfectly clear, I must say that I can offer you my personal assurance that it important to note that the presidency is bigger than any one man, and to engage in this sort of clownish behavior is beneath the dignity of the modern Republican Party of 1968.”

There’s your answer.

Maybe the 1968 Dick Nixon might have a chat with his creepshow fixer Roger Stone of 1968 and 2024, who, for some reason, roams the streets instead of a cell block for fomenting an insurrection.

Biden has never deliberately debased himself or the offices he has held honorably since 1973, more or less continuously. In contrast, the miserable lying mendicant of Mar-A-Lago traffics in this sort of thing hourly, no shame at all, in order to pretend that he is:

1. The Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ

2. Wile E. Coyote, Supergenius.

3. Ubermensch from the Follies of 1933.

4. God’s gift to women.

5. Better than his slimebag slumlord racist father, who Donnie has become.

Instead of being a ruthless self-promoter, Biden saw that it was Game Over, and it took awhile—who can blame him? No one with a sliver of humanity, that’s who. Imagine being Biden. You’ve served. You’ve sacrificed. You’ve come back from the incomprehensibly awful accidental deaths of your wife and daughter. Oh, and everything that a thousand paragraphs won’t cover. And you still had the guts to do what needed to be done; not for you, for the country.

Biden picked the first woman to be vice president of the United States. How long have we been the United States now? 248 years and change? And we couldn’t find one woman to be president or vice president of the U.S.?

Forget Hillary Clinton and why she lost. She didn’t lose because she was a woman, really, although it was a factor.

She lost because she was an expired brand.

Chaos theory says that in a mechanical catastrophic failure, it’s not just one thing that happens that fails. Ninety nine things have to happen, in order, to create the failure. The bolt was cracked, that led to the failure of the strut, that weakened the mounting, etc..

Then it all blows apart.

Hillary couldn’t get a break, and this is not remotely an anti-Hillary thing. Read my earlier Substack column about her here.

Hillary was at the remainder table in 2008, where this Obama guy from Hawaii caught the wave. Again, she is a wonderful and accomplished person. The smart money says she should have run and probably would have won in 2004 against Dubya. But she didn’t, and let John Kerry get beat over his war service, of all things. Kerry must have gotten up on the day after the election and thought, wow, they’ve changed all the rules on me. Same thing with Bob Dole: I lose most of my arm, run the U.S. Senate in a linear manner, and this is the thanks I get, to lose to a draft dodger?

I don’t blame him. But he was.

I heard an interesting observation last night from a person I had a hand in creating. He said, holding up his phone,' “Look at Harris. She pops out of the screen.” He also allowed how Trump did as well, weird-looking as he is.

Harris has suffered from mediocre press notices for the entirety of her tenure? Why? Articulate that one? Oh, she didn’t singlehandedly fix the border, which the GOP has not real interest in? See also: Biden’s latest legislative effort negotiating with a Republican brick wall, not the non-existent one Mexico was supposed to pay for.

Another Astute Observer in my life said, they’re inventing things to hate about her, because why? She’s Black and Asian? She’s a woman? She’s from California? She didn’t execute a murderer because she publicly stated she was against the death penalty? Folks, opposing the death penalty means you don’t ask for the death penalty if you’re the D.A.. Oh, she had a relationship with Willie Brown? Who gives a damn? Willie did as much for Gavin Newsom as he did for Harris. He put them both on a couple of boards. So what?

Welcome to the world. Hillary had a relationship with Bill. Didn’t hear much about that there.

You might note that Trump had every single thing God can provide handed to him by his disgusting parents. Oh, but Willie. Give me break.

Harris has become The Next Thing in a way that has shocked not just me, but the entire political establishment. Not only that, she can create the Next Next Thing with her VP choice. Oh, and she turned Trump from the sympathetic victim of an assassination attempt into a insane droopy old goat.

She raised five months worth of Musk bribes ($45 mil/month) in one day—-$250 million in New Jack. One day.

Bring it, Silicon Valley South African crypto-Nazis.

Consider this Part One of my Harris Series this week.

I’ll even tell you about how she teased me about my flip-flops.

I’ll save the vice presidency for tomorrow, because it’s going to be epic.