KAMALA HARRIS: WHY SHE CRASHED OUT, ANY LESSONS LEARNED?

ICHEOKU says she was the architect of her own demise, a mean spirited and very angry woman who showed her true color during the Judge Brett Kavanuagh's Senate confirmation hearing and now, she has been forced to pay the price with a rejection. She was needlessly so adversarial and so antagonistic of Kavanaugh just to prove to her lunatic, wild eyed, crazed out feminists liberal base, that she is a mean and nasty gal and could be as mean as they want her to be. But rational and reasonable American people do not like such a vindictive and vicious individual running their affairs and they said to her, thanks but no, thanks. Rejected, she threw in the towel like it was hot and scampered away from her once storied dream project.

But contrary to Kamala Harris's insipid explanation, she was not rejected because she was not a billionaire and unable to self fund her campaign. Former President Barack Obama was poorer than her when he was first elected president and went on to win a second term and he was not a billionaire. Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter weren't billionaires either; ditto Presidents John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush and George W. Bush, just to name a few from our recent past. None of these men were billionaires, yet they were elected presidents of America. In fact, American people has never elected a billionaire president until President Donald John Trump upstaged the political class with his improbable presidential election victory of November 8th, 2016.

So, what exactly does Kamala Harris mean when she blamed her not being a billionaire as the reason her impossible presidential campaign run went bust. The only plausible answer is that she did not want to take responsibility for her gross ineptitude in running a presidential campaign and had to provide an out. May be it was the women's thing of never accepting responsibility or admitting fault or taking blame for what went wrong, therefore it must be somebody's else or something else's fault. Instead of admitting the obvious, that she is not yet ready nor seasoned enough for the national prime time, heavy lifting that is presidential campaign  politics, she lied and misled her supporters, as well as the curious public, and said that her campaign hit the deep freeze because she was not a billionaire and could not self fund it going forward. 

ICHEOKU says but Mayor Pete Buttgieg is not a billionaire nor is he self funding his campaign; yet he is still moving forward with the primaries. Elizabeth Warren is not a billionaire either and she is still fueling her campaign with donations and contributions from the American people. Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobachar, Cory Booker, Andrew Yang and of course the grandfather of the candidates, Joe Biden, are still powering through with their campaigns and none of them is a billionaire. They are all raising money from their support base, who they convinced that they are serious contenders for the nomination and they are responding with contributions. But Kamala Harris brought about the chill on her prospective supporters and they closed their wallets, hid their check books and stowed away their credit cards. American people, whose contributions usually pays for candidate's campaigns, decided that Kamala Harris was not bankable and that did her in.

Kamala Harris failed to realize that running for president is not an all comers game; nor is it a game which political kids play. It is also not a beauty contest either. She also failed to understand that nobody can secure and anchor his or her boat in the White House by being always angry and constantly irritating, agitating and riling against America, particularly against majority white Americans. If only she had sought counsel from former President Barack Obama, who understood this fact of consequence and was very masterful at appeasing white folks, she would have performed much better than alienating a major voting bloc of American voters and expecting to have traction with her campaign to preside over them. 

The former president was very clever by always invoking the better part of white people and severally went out of his way to specifically cajole and court them. It was such a recurring decimal that when his campaign nearly got off track because of his association with his pastor Jeremiah Wright, he went all out to distance himself from Jeremiah Wright and technically throwing him under the bus, just to smoothen his path with white people, who did not like the audacity of Jeremiah Wright. He also dumped his Weather Underground friends, as well as any other person or thing that painted him as being an anti white people, angry black man. ICHEOKU is emphatic that had there been tougher  demand on Obama to demonstrate and prove that he likes white people, he would have literally, even denounced Michelle Obama as just a "baby mama", provided it earned him their trust and confidence. Even his relationship with Louis Farrakhan, including evidence of it in pictures which he took with him, were suppressed and outrightly denied.

Barack Obama understood clearly that without the acceptance, support and votes of white people that he stood no chance whatsoever of ever winning the primaries and the White House. So, he actively courted the love and support of white people, never criticized nor disparaged them, at least publicly; and it earned him a two terms presidential residency in the White House. Obama was smart as he understood what needed to be done; unlike Kamala Harris who failed to reassure the white people that they will be safe and that the country will be in good hands with her in the White House. Even Saturday Night Live tried to call her attention to her perception as a mean and angry black auntie, but her arrogance blinded her and her rage against white people wouldn't let her make use of the life line which was thrown by SNL and it showed. 

Kamala Harris's poor outing also showed that she couldn't do it by herself; another evidence that she did not meritoriously earn her rise in California Democratic Party politics. It also showed that her Willie Brown's connection could only go so far to help her nationally, as he is only a California State Democratic Party political operative and not influential nationally. Recall that Kamala Harris openly dated Willie Brown, a married father of three, to the chagrin of his wife and wanted him to divorce her so that she could marry him but he refused. She did not give a damn nor a care in the world about the hurt which the adulterous relationship caused to the heartbroken wife and her children. She had no scruples being a side chic either and she milked the affair maximally to become San Francisco's District Attorney, Attorney General of California and later, a replacement for retired Barbara Boxer, Senator from California. 

A newbie politician who wanted to be president but went soft on the establishment candidate, Joe Biden, seconds after her first strong showing of "I am that school girl" in the first debate. Like Mitt Romney did with Barack Obama in 2012, instead of maintaining the heat by piling on Joe Biden in the second debate, she choked into a "Hi Joe" courtesy, with her Delilah smile and devilish cute girl neck tilting body language. She thus came across as a fake, who was merely putting up a show and American people do not normally take kindly to people without conviction, character or core; or the strong will to take a stand on what they indeed believe in. American people took flight from her campaign, their initial curious attraction to a black lady from Californian who wanted to be president, having waned and suddenly evaporated. It became a matter of time.

But instead of taking full responsibility for her failed run, she blamed it on her not being a billionaire and could not self fund her campaign. Then ask her to name just one billionaire who has ever been elected president in America and she drew blank. According to her, even the only billionaire who has ever been elected president, President Donald John Trump, is just an "occupier" of the White House; which means that no billionaire has yet been elected president of the United States of America. So, why make the excuse of not being a billionaire, other than lack of self assessment. And speaking of lack of self reprimand, Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton, who till date still blames every other person and thing, short of herself, for being defeated by President Donald John Trump in 2016, lacks in this department. A clear evidence that there is the thing called the women's thing of never admitting fault or taking responsibility, as this two women have validated the stereotyping.

ICHEOKU says if American people had not seen through her anger and fakery, and had not rejected her, they would have contributed for her all the money that she would have ever needed for her campaign as is traditionally the practice. But Kamala Harris would rather not admit as to the true reason she crashed out of the primaries; otherwise she would have confronted herself for her poor outing. She should also find out why black people turned their backs at her and never warmed up to her throughout her short lived run. Possibly, because she is a black woman who publicly messed around with a black married man and another black woman's husband. Such a moral turpitude could have made her unacceptable to black people and they reacted accordingly, in solidarity with the woman whose heart Kamala Harris broke. 

To enable her understand why she lost out, Kamala Harris should also endeavor to rewatch the show of shame of "an angry black woman" which she put up before millions of American people during the Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Senate confirmation hearing. Also,  when Tulsi Gabbard tested her during the second debate, she was found to be without a backbone or knowledgeable enough to engage and play in the big league game that is presidential politics. She melted under the heat of Tulsi Gabbard's interrogation and quivered like a cornered mouse, unable to answer the charges of duplicity leveled against her nor offered an intelligent explanation for her actions. ICHEOKU says Tulsi Gabbard  literally drove the last nail on her campaign coffin and she never recovered her mojo thereafter and it became a matter of when and not if, she will eventually surrender her stake in the presidential primaries.  

ICHEOKU says was not surprised that Kamala Harris dropped out of the race, only that she blamed some other thing for her decision to pull the plug from an otherwise comatose campaign on life-support. She should have taken a true introspection and reflection on what actually flamed out her campaign. ICHEOKU says once wrote an article on her being permanently damaged for any nationwide election due to the role which she played in the hatchet job against Justice Brett Kavanaugh. (KAMALA HARRIS IS NOT BARACK OBAMA, WILL NOT WIN of July 20, 2019; published on ICHEOKU:Meniru.blogspot.com) American people are not ready for such an angry, crazed out, wild eyed feminist female as their president; the same reason, they rejected Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton in 2016; both women are nut jobs and they hate men, as well as America as it was founded. 

The rule of the game is to go hard or go home and Kamala Harris chose the later. She decided to call it quits even before Democratic Party voters in the primaries were allowed to formally send her home. She is a coward who chickened out before the first shots were fired in Iowa caucus and now only has the memories of a once ran candidate, to rue about. She flew up like an eagle but floundered out like a doomed pigeon; her undoing in addition, being her inability to carry on with the momentum which heralded her formal announcement to run in Oakland California and her failure to also continue with the offensive which she began in the first debate, when she delivered a near fatal blow on Joe Biden. 

ICHEOKU says is emphatic that had she continued and maintained the trajectory of hammer them down, she probably would be the one to beat today. But she was a phony and she fizzled out after American people decoded her deceiving mien. During the second debate, she made a complete u-turn from "That girl is me" to her now infamous quibble, "Hi Joe" and you wonder why the sudden sucking up to a man she literally called a racist during the first debate. American people were expecting to see her deliver more punches at a now weakened Joe Biden, but were disappointed to watch her kissing up and making up to Joe Biden. It registered a degree of un-seriousness on her part and it hounded her campaign till the end. 

Her failure to launch was a self induced crass incompetence. She is a talker and not a doer, who only thrived in running her mouth off against the president, a man who actually succeeded with his primaries and went on to win a presidential election and will win again in 2020. But without the national reach of her paramour Willie Brown, who helped her rise to political prominence in California, Kamala Harris was like a fish out of water; she gasped for air and she frantically trashed around until she asphyxiated on her own novitiate political inexperience and incompetent managerial skills running a national campaign.

As a new politician on the national scene, all she would have done was take a page from Donald John Trump's 2016 presidential primaries campaign and replicate the same demolition derby which the president carried out in 2016. She should have known that her only chance of ever breaking through into reckoning, was to punch through the surrounding wall and force her candidate on the party. That it would take bare knuckle punching to out punch her opponents, especially the establishment candidate, Joe Biden. That way, she would force the issue and give American people a reason to take a chance at the Wonder Woman who just happened on the national scene. This is exactly why Donald John Trump is in the White House today, as he forced his will on his opponents and by doing that, caught the riveting attention of the American people. 

Kamala Harris should have known that running a national presidential campaign is not a walk in the park nor a "Me Too" can play game. That it takes a lot more than a girlish silly smile, neck tilting and face making body language to mission accomplish. Presidential election is a serious business and the verdict was that she was ill prepared and not ready for such a prime-time gladiator's sport. She cannot just stumble on the national scene, competing with well established candidates with great names recognition and still playing it safe, softball lite. She should have done what she had to do, destroy and displace her opponents; and let the peace making wait until after her inauguration. That until victory was achieved, there is no brother or sister in the jungle and approached the debates and interviews with that savage mindset of eat or be eaten, taken no prisoner attitude. Politics is cutthroat; a thick jungle crawling with all manners of bad intentioned reptilians. 

Barack Obama understood this very well and did it to Hillary Clinton and later offered her a Secretary of State position to pacify her. Donald John Trump also did it to 18 Republicans, including Ted Cruz and made up with them later. Ditto Rick Perry and Ben Carson, who he later offered the positions of Energy and HUD Secretary, respectively. It is how the game is played because all the contestants want the same crown and there is only crown to be had. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris thought that it was play thing and that "Hi Joe" moment and her girlish courtesies were not a winning strategy. ICHEOKU makes bold to say that when all the hatred and anger at President Donald John Trump eventually dies down, political science students will be studying the feat of his 2016 presidential election campaign victory and writing thesis and defending dissertations based on it as how to run a winning presidential campaign. Kamala Harris failed and failed out.