Friday, 29 November 2024

Kamala: “Why, oh why did I lose?”. Me: “Let:me count the ways”

Off the top of my head I’ve seen the following reasons excuses: 

  1. Sexism: Sonny Hostin of the View. People weren't going to vote for a woman
  2. Racism: The Rev Al Sharpton, of MSNBC. People weren't going to vote for a Black/Asian woman
  3. Sexism and Racism: all the ladies of the View and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC. And a load of others on the Left media, even up to today. And, of course, Sonny Hostin.
  4. Black men: they didn't vote enough for Kamala said Barack Obama
  5. White Women: they didn't vote enough for Kamala said Joy Reid of MSNBC
  6. Hispanics: Yeah, what's with Hispanics going near 50% for Orange Man Bad?!? And 75% pro-Trump in border states?!? (Sonny Hostin: "they're sexist and misogynist") 
  7. Too Woke: James Carville, the genius of the Bill Clinton campaign's "It's the economy, stupid". 
  8. Not Woke enough: The Squad, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Prestley, Cory Bush
  9. Too Left-populist: Jon Stewart
  10. Not Left-populist enough: Cenk Uygur head of The Young Turks, the largest Left-wing podcast on thee internet
  11. She didn't have enough time: most of the ladies on the View, CNN and MSNBC. Saying she only had 107 days since she was slotted in after the coup against Joe Biden. 
  12. She had too much time: most other sane people who noted the more she was interviewed, the more people didn't like her
  13. It's Joe Biden's fault: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of "Morning Joe". He didn't get out of the way early enough
  14. No.... it's not: Joe Biden! (Kinda...)
  15. We did a "deal with the devil": Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks, referring to what the Dems owed to the major donors ("the devil")
  16. We ran a bad campaign
  17. We had bad policies
  18. We had a bad candidate
  19. We committed a coup against the sitting president
  20. We couldn't show how we would be different from Biden and Bidenomics

Excuses not given (and most likely the actual reasons):

  • We ran a bad campaign
  • We had bad policies: on the Border; on Crime; on Wars; on the Economy
  • We had a bad candidate: one who had failed in the 2019 Primary and won not single primary vote
  • We committed a coup against the sitting president. 
  • We couldn't show how we would be different from Biden and Bidenomics. When 79% of people felt that the county was "on the wrong track". Yet you, Kamala, couldn't even handle softball -- super, super fluffball softball -- questions on this, tossed at you by the likes of Steven Colbert and Sonny Hostin.
I've not given any links above (at least not yet) as the list is literally off the top of my head, without going anywhere for research. 

It was prompted by noticing the amazing variety of factors that the Dems told themselves were the reasons they lost to the man they'd called "literally Hitler" (literally!), vs the most likely actual reasons, viz: the ones I note above under "Excuses not given, but most likely the actual reasons". 

It was also brought to mind by Hillary Clinton's book "What Happened?" after her loss in 2016, in which she had 14 reasons she lost. Not a single one of them being the most likely one: that she was a horrible candidate. As was Kamala Harris partnered with the febrile Tim Walz, a truly horrible running mate. 

ADDED (i): Kamala as one of the "worst candidates in our lifetime", Scott Jennings says here, on CNN, via Greg Foreman's podcast (Black Conservative Perspective). Greg is a smart young man. Ex of the finance industry. A good, sound commenter on today's amazing current affairs.  

ADDED (ii): Greg Foreman wonders here about her farewell video and whether she was drunk or hungover when she made it. A widely wondered thing. 

ADDED (iii): The abovementioned, lovely, Joy Reid, rants about how Dems should not associate with anyone who voted for Trump, not colleagues, not friends, not even family at Thanksgiving. We give thanks that her side, the one that is so nasty, did not win. Thanks be to God, the Great Spaghetti Monster.