Jeffrey Blehar of National Review endorses Kamala Harris’ notion of seeking elected office again in the future.
Do you remember the classic Far Side cartoon where a dog is hiding in the shadowy corner of the laundry room behind the washing machine, trying to lure his rival — the family feline — into an open clothes dryer labeled “CAT FUD?” As the cat stands in front of the open dryer, pondering its decision, a thought bubble sits above the dog’s head: “Oh please, oh please . . .”
It is with that spirit in mind that I offer the briefest of Corner notes in reaction to this wonderful news from Politico: Kamala Harris is “telling her advisers and allies to keep her political options open; She could run again for president — or California governor.” Yes, everyone knows that you can’t keep a good woman down, but as it turns out, in 2024, you apparently can’t even keep a sub-replacement level disaster down either, so we are now being told that Harris isn’t gone forever, she’s merely gathering her power levels for her next big gambit:
They point to her running a race as a more moderate candidate (a break from her 2019 primary run) as a boon to whatever choice she ends up making as the party seems poised to do its own writ large move to the center.
“She proved a lot of skeptics wrong as a political athlete. And her standing with the public is as good as any Democrats with the name I.D. that she has,” a Harris ally told POLITICO. …
… As a man who has just suffered from the full-bore Kamala Harris Experience as only one professionally paid to observe it can, all I can do upon reading this news is sit back and rub my hands together like the sinister cockroach from Family Guy: “Good . . . good.” The idea of Harris winning the 2028 presidential nomination is farcical, and all know it, but I certainly invite her to repeat 2019’s humiliation instead of 2024’s if she so desires.
