Morning Glory: Defining competence down

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"Kamala Harris: Weak. Failed. Dangerously liberal."

That’s the tag line on the first campaign ad put up by former President Trump this week. Those closing phrases of the 30-second hammering of Harris ought to run a thousand times between now and November because they provide a great and memorable summary of the Vice President’s tenure in office. Until and unless Harris confronts her own record of failure and weakness, she will begin a steady drift down in the collective mind of the electorate.

Since Joe Biden got the hook almost two weeks ago, Vice President Harris has not given an interview with a serious journalist, much less held a press conference. If she and her handlers had even minimal confidence in her ability to make it through even softball interviews with reliable Beltway anchors, she’d be on the air attempting to get ahead of the Trump Campaign’s definition of her as "weak, failed and dangerously liberal."

But she doesn’t and they don’t. They know that one "typical Harris interview" will cause the ice beneath her to break and the delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago from August 19th to the 22nd to bolt.

The "party" is relieved that Biden got yanked, but more than a few of the party elders were angling for a "compressed primary" because they know Harris is a terrible candidate. Former