Is a stupid woman (and an absentee mother to boot) a better candidate than a forgetful old man?

By Lev Tsitrin

They say that the apple does not fall far from the tree. And that by their fruit shall you know them. And that — “tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are.”

With this in mind, consider the case of one Ella Imhoff. Take a look at her picture in a New York Post article (and while at it scroll down for another, more revealing one, showing off Ella’s tattoos.) And add to the picture a few factoids — that Ella is Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter, and that she is a supporter of anti-Israel groups, and that she publicly insists that she is not Jewish even though her father who is, had been appointed by Biden to be the face of his administration on matters of concern for the Jewish community, leading a round table on antisemitism, and being sent to represent Biden to the events like commemorations of the Holocaust.

So what kind of upbringing did Ella Emhoff get from her father, and equally importantly, from her stepmother Kamala who was Ella’s guiding light from her age of 14? From whom did she learn that it is an embarrassment to be a Jew and an honor to be a “brat” — which is how Ella affectionately addressed her beloved stepmother in a promotional video?

How do you raise a child (Ella is 25 now) to be like this — and still be proud of the result of such upbringing? Likely, Doug and Kamala did not try particularly hard to instill any civilizing values in Ella — but just let the nature do its work, leaving her to run wild — which, to judge by her pro-Hamas political views, and indeed by her much-tattooed looks, she most certainly is. The Democrats are eager to entrust the country to Kamala — but can someone who was an absentee parent for ten years, be a leader of a country even for four?

Much worse, Kamala just showed that she isn’t that bright — which is a much, much bigger problem. Say what you will about Biden — but you can’t deny that he was a cunning politician who knew what to say to whom — and just as importantly, what not to say at all. Kamala, on the other hand, seems to have no breaks. Fired up with prosecutorial zeal, she shouts out stuff that Biden, guided by an innate political instinct, would never say. Consider Kamala’s statement that followed her meeting with Israel’s Netanyahu, in which, according to the New York Times, she talked forcefully about “the images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety” from Israel’s assault on Hamas in Gaza. “We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering, and I will not be silent,” she said.”

This is precisely the kind of talk that Hamas, eager to survive, wants to squeeze out of the Western leaders by its use of the human shields, by pushing Hamasers’ wives and kids in front of Hamas’ armed terrorists. And Kamala obliges, dancing nicely to Hamas’ beat. How is this not political stupidity? How is her declaration that, as an outcome of the ongoing ceasefire negotiations, Israel will completely withdraw from Gaza, and there will be no further fighting not a testament to her incomprehension that this is a recipe for Hamas’ resurrection? How does such talk not hearten Hamas? How is it not hyper-idiotic? Or may be, listening to her beloved stepdaughter Ella, this is exactly what Kamala plans for the Middle East?

Clearly, political acuity is not what Kamala brings to the table — and in fact, we do not hear much from the press about her being smart. Instead, the adoring mainstream media is all agog about the demographics that her candidacy excites — women, people of color, Asians. The elections seems not to be about Kamala’s (non-existent) achievements and abilities, but about not-hers non-achievements, i.e. the fact that by the lottery of birth, her parents were colored and Asian, and that she was born not a man but a woman. What is her role in any of this? What is her merit? There isn’t any!

This is not new. We already had a very bad experience with Obama who ran for office along exactly the same, racial lines, exciting the country not with his vision for America, but with the skin of his color. Americans went bonkers; all one could hear was “now we will have a black president! Now we will prove that we aren’t racists!” Yet when push came to shove, Obama proved utterly incompetent. How else could the infamous Iran deal come about — a “deal” in which the US granted legitimacy to Iran’s nuclear project in exchange for a mere 15-year-long hiatus in it’s development of the actual weapon, so that this dreadful event (which Obama, eager for the deal, touted as inevitable) was pushed further down the road, and he did not have to handle it during his time in office? And this act of political selfishness that threatened catastrophe to the entire world passed among the adoring Democratic “true believers” as a strategic victory, as a diplomatic breakthrough! Thankfully Trump — God bless him a million times for this, and so many other good things he did — pulled America out of Obama’s madness.

The lesson for the 2024 presidential race is that one’s looks are merely skin-deep. Everyone who is alive was born at some time, from a set of parents, and got a certain race and sex. All this comes without any effort at all on one’s part. What does require effort, is achieving merit. And here, Kamala falls far, far short. Yes, she is a woman. Yes, she is a person of color. Yes, she is younger than Biden. But does any of this matter in a president? Doesn’t something as basic as the ability to tell a friend from a foe — and a determination to support the friend, and give no comfort to a foe — matter infinitely more?

And yet, on that all-important test, Kamala fails utterly. Witness how she raised her step-daughter. Witness how she talked to a key American ally — and what she said afterwards. She is, quite simply, a failure both as a parent and as a policymaker — and as a political animal, for that matter.

Thinking of how Ella Emhoff — a poster-child of the die-in-the-wool “woke,” “progressive,” anti-Jewish, anti-Israel ignoramus — will of necessity have Kamala’s ear, and what an utter disaster that would be if Kamala becomes America’s president, I suddenly heard in my head a lovely song from long, long ago. I don’t remember exactly where I heard it, or when, but the words ran, if I remember correctly, like this:

All we need is Trump,

[boom-boo-boo-boom]

All we need is Trump,

[boom-boo-boo-boom]

All we need is Trump, Trump,

Trump is all we need!

True indeed!