It's a difficult thing to achieve, but 27-year-old "Democrat Party strategist" Ally Sammarco might have just won the award for spit-take of the year:
Apparently oblivious to how badly she would get torched for saying something so demonstrably false, so laughably disprovable, so insanely ludicrous, in the kind of arrogant confidence only a wet-behind-the-ears Gen-Z "strategist" could muster on the internet, Sammarco humiliated herself with that gem.
And no, that post is not parody.
Well ... it is, but it's unintentional. She really meant it.
She evidently really thought people would get behind it despite the fact that it's far from just Republicans who mock and criticize Kamala Harris's propensity for tossing word salads every time a microphone is nearby.
On CNN, longtime successful Democrat strategist, and mastermind of the Obama presidency David Axelrod excoriated Harris following her recent town hall hosted by network anchor Anderson Cooper:
'When she doesn't want to answer a question her habit is to kinda go to word salad city,' he said. 'Anderson asked her a direct question - would you be stronger on Israel than Trump - and there was a seven-minute answer but none of it related to the question he was asking.'
Democrat analyst Van Jones had similar feelings:
'The word salad stuff gets on my nerves,' he admitted. 'I think some of the evasions are not necessary.'
Hopefully someone will tell Ms. Sammarco, there's a way to climb the ladder as a political strategist for your respective party that doesn't involve making a fool of yourself. Even Harris's most loyal supporters don't pretend that a soliloquy like this is nuanced intellectualism:
The governor and I, we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires. What we need to do to create these jobs. And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children.
That's the class clown from your sophomore year of high school delivering his report on a book he never read, not the dizzying intellect of a charismatic thinker. And remember, moments like that "passage of time" masterpiece aren't few and isolated. They occur almost anytime Harris isn't reading a prepared speech. Like just a couple days ago:
That's spectacularly bad. That's a Miss Teen USA South Carolina 2007 answer. Everyone knows Harris was attempting the "cite a weakness that can actually be seen as a strength" tip for job interviewers - where you tell your potential employer that your biggest weakness is that you sometimes get too eager at a job and bite off more than you can chew. Instead, Harris drove right past that and plunged headlong into a parody of Michael Scott from The Office:
That's what someone needs to tell Ms. Sammarco - if you want to stick your neck out to defend the intellectual prowess of a politician, make sure it isn't one easily likened to Michael Scott.
When you break down her answer, you see how detached from reality and common sense it actually is. She started off by saying that perhaps her weakness is that she really does, "value having a team of very smart people around me."
First, no one would ever consider that a weakness. Second, well, this:
Next, it isn't a flattering look to struggle coming up with things you've done wrong all while feigning humility by stressing, "I've made plenty of mistakes." Of course you have. In the last two weeks you've been exposed for both:
Jaw-dropping plagiarism:
Calling for a border wall you once criticized as a medieval vanity project:
Finally, settling on a failed laugh line about parenting as your example of failure is bizarre to anyone who knows Kamala's past. She never had children, but became the stepmother to Cole and Ella Emhoff, whom her husband Doug had from a previous marriage. They are both now grown adults, and Harris never lived with them when they were kids.
True, parents and stepparents make mistakes throughout their lives, but it's more than an odd stretch when the question is simply asking for a professional mistake that she learned from and would take into the presidency.
Look, it could be that in a little over a week, Democrat strategists like Ally Sammarco will get the chance to call Kamala Harris, "madame president."
