Democrats felt they had the candidate(s), message, momentum and righteous indignation to succeed in 2024
“I thought we were gonna win” – anonymous cackling Kamala Harris campaign staffer in attempting to explain why the Democrat effort raised over a billion dollars in a few months’ time and still ended up with debt – and a lost election.
If you’ve made contributions to various political campaigns and causes and perhaps never anticipated that, as a result of benevolent impulse and generosity, you’d end up on so many lists – email lists, phone/text lists, guest invite (to fundraisers) lists, mailing lists, etc. This election should’ve been revealing.
As my contributor father can attest, there seem to be an infinite number of political entities out there seeking money to bolster the chances of their causes or candidates. Most of the solicitations follow a certain pattern, with catchy headlines to grab attention and then supporting material/evidence to get the audience all riled up – and then hit with the big request, to “spare” anything you can come up with in denominations ranging from a dollar to, well, lots more dollars.
It must beat holding a “Will work for food” begging sign at an intersection in front of Costco or other high-traffic businesses, but the pestering fosters the same effect. The volume of solicitations has steadily increased as time and potential delivery methods has increased and I can’t help but feel each request to contribute runs up against the economic law of diminishing marginal returns.
Such certainly must be the case for 2024 Democrat presidential candidate loser Kamala Harris, a woman who must’ve been on top of the world when she suddenly inherited her party’s presidential nomination in late July, then slowly descended in shock and horror until now, when the hundreds of millions her campaign raised was appropriated and spent like so many drunken Democrat congresspeople on a bender that would make even the most earnest of Washington uni-party big spenders envious.
In an article titled, “Harris campaign’s spending comes under scrutiny”, Caroline Vakil and Julia Manchester reported at The Hill earlier this week:
“Harris’s campaign blew through more than $1 billion in spending, and there have been reports that the campaign is $20 million in the red, though the campaign is denying that. …
“Recent reports have placed a greater spotlight on the Harris campaign’s spending and debt as the party reels from a decisive defeat in the presidential race. Some members of the party have questioned the campaign’s tactics, including spending money on production costs associated with celebrity-studded events with Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé and others.
“Democratic strategist Jon Reinish wondered if, instead of using the money on some of those events, ‘could that have been put into a podcast strategy? A Hispanic communication strategy focused on men, a much more effective series of outreach to Black men?’”
How does the old nursery rhyme go? “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put [Kamala Harris’s campaign] back together again.”
Reading The Hill reporters’ interview subjects speculating and lamenting why the campaign came up short a couple weeks ago was nothing short of revealing – and nauseating. Democrats searching the heavens for answers as to why cackling Kamala didn’t win shouldn’t be kvetching and bellyaching about lack of time, misapplication of resources or a failed strategy in some respect.
The answers are obvious to us non-Democrats: it starts with a hopelessly broken party, lack of leadership, over-confidence in their core message and a stable full of old broken-down politician horses who wouldn’t know a winning strategy if it came up from behind and kicked them in the hindquarters. There’s so much blame to go ‘round you almost don’t know where to begin.
Visiting the restroom and staring at the reflection in the mirror is a good place to start for them.
Candidates trump money and get out the vote efforts when elections are close
Democrats seem to be blaming the fact they ran out of time because of senile Joe Biden waiting until roughly a month after the disastrous June presidential debate (with Donald Trump) to finally decide (or be pressured) to step down and clear the way for his air-brained vice president to assume the party nomination.
By that time, of course, there simply wasn’t leeway to put together a makeshift primary where someone other than an inarticulate, qualification-less idiot like Kamala Harris could plausibly run – and win – in a voter affirmed candidacy that could possibly stand up to Trump. Democrats counted on their perpetual fundraising advantages and screeching hags/wussy boy “White dudes for Harris” enthusiasm to make up for what they lacked in a good standard-bearer and acceptable campaign message.
Voters gave cackling Kamala a good look and discovered that what they always knew about her turned out to be correct. She wasn’t popular before and a sudden jolt into the candidate’s seat wasn’t about to turn her into someone viable and capable. Add the utterly incompetent unlikable “Tampon Tim” Walz to the mix and it was just that much more off-putting to American voters.
The Democrats’ relentless assault on masculinity in the age of “woke” was the last straw. It was like trying to convince manly men that reversing traditional gender roles was what people wanted or desired from their political leaders:
Relax. I know stay-at-home dads who aren’t Democrats. They voted for Trump, too.
The fact is, more time to get cackling Kamala up to speed would not have helped her. The more she was “exposed” to the public, the worse she became. Like blue blood turning bright red when subjected to open air, senile Joe’s awful vice president transformed into herself whenever she was forced to face an interviewer or townhall audience and try to explain what she was for.
Kamala’s “I grew up in a middle-class family” retort to the inevitable questions on her plans for the economy exhausted its shelf life after the second or third repetition. She was “fresh” for her September 10 debate with Trump because no one had heard her canned responses before. On first glance, the woman is capable of spouting politician-speak. Then she goes downhill quickly, gaining speed with each passing inch.
In probably Trump’s poorest campaign performance of 2024, he didn’t help his own cause that night. But the campaign still had two months to go after that – and voters quickly forgot about illegal immigrants’ eating pets and the Republican’s petty obsession with the size of his rally crowds.
But no celebrity appearance, performance or production could turn Kamala into someone the voters wanted. And a billion bucks’ worth of contrived sell-jobs and turnout tricks didn’t produce much of a return on investment for the donors. They must feel like suckers.
The Trump train ran on renewable fuels – the MAGA agenda and voter enthusiasm
Meanwhile, if the Trump camp had a dollar for every time the establishment media made hay over the so-called fundraising gap between the Democrats and Republicans, they wouldn’t have had to do any work at all.
According to the elites, the difference between the parties purportedly signaled doom for Trump’s chances of returning to the Oval Office because Democrats hated the former president so passionately that they didn’t care how much it cost them to beat him. They surmised the cash imbalance alone was enough to overcome cackling Kamala’s enormous message flaws and personal distaste.
But Trump never seemed concerned about playing from behind. He wasn’t worried about the polls and he understood the intangibles – and talent – were on his side.
Trump could probably also see how much Harris was blowing the money on frivolous things. Democrats always go overboard. This time, it cost them more than just dollars and cents.
Joe Biden economy
inflation
Biden cognitive decline
gas prices,
Nancy Pelosi
Biden senile
Kamala Harris candidacy
Donald Trump campaign
Harris Trump debates
J.D. Vance
Kamala vice president
Speaker Mike Johnson
Donald Trump assassination
Donald Trump
2024 presidential election
Tim Walz
Democrats might have been better off if they had waited to dump Biden until about the time early voting started. Her two weeks of bounce might have counted for something.
As for those annoying fund-raiser texts, I am still getting and deleting a dozen or more daily. How can I stop them?