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Vice presidents are rarely seen and never heard. There’s a reason for that. And Kamala Harris is Exhibit A.
There is a world of difference between the desultory media scrutiny given a vice president and the wall-to-wall coverage that Kamala Harris is about to be exposed to as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.
It’snotjustaquestionofwhethershecanstandthegaff.Anysixthgradercanlearntodeflectcriticismorchangethesubject.WhatHarrisandtheDemocratsshouldworryaboutisthevicepresident’spenchantfor“runningoffatthemouth.”It’stheproductofadisorganizedmind,andshehasshownoverheryearsasasenatorandpresidentialcandidatethatherinabilitytospeakcoherentlygetsherintoserioustrouble.
Theafflictionisaptlycalleda“wordsalad.”Andnooneelseinnationalpoliticsisbetter(worse?)atitthanHarris.
Someofherconfusedramblesaresimplymisorderedthoughtsthatemergehalf-formedinaconfusedjumblewhenshespeaks.Othersaredownrightweird.
Forexample,forsomereason,HarrishasmadeitatalkingpointthatshelovesVenndiagrams.Theth