I’m not going to be reading this memoir that someone wrote for Kamala Harris, giving her take on why she lost the 2024 election.
Let’s face it, she isn’t capable of writing that book. It’s a ghostwritten memoir, and while some of those are good, they generally at least require an interesting subject. Not much about Kamala Harris is interesting. (RELATED: Josh Shapiro–Kamala Harris Feud Heats Up)
Her justifications for why she lost an election certainly can’t be. What could she possibly say in that book that would be accurately true or prescient, or especially that we don’t already know?
And as an author having done dozens of media appearances promoting my own books, I can say she’s not exactly repping this thing particularly well — which is a pretty damning reason why she lost last year’s election.
As evidence, I’ll point you to the more or less catastrophic interview Harris did with Rachel Maddow. Of course, Maddow had to demand to know why Pete Buttigieg, who for some reason is the lunatic Left’s favorite Democrat pol not over 80 or named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, wasn’t on Harris’s ticket last year.
And Harris couldn’t think of a good lie (she never thinks of a good lie; this time she couldn’t even think of a bad one), so instead she blurted out the truth, or at least some of it.
NEW: Kamala Harris says she couldn’t pick Pete Buttigieg as her running mate because he is gay and there was only 107 days.
Maddow: To say that he couldn’t be on the ticket effectively because he was gay, it’s hard to hear.
Harris: No no no that’s not what I said… with the… pic.twitter.com/sKFGmWsg9G
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 23, 2025
It’s hilarious. She wrote the truth in the book, and then denied it when Maddow asked about it, and then confirmed that she couldn’t win with Buttigieg.
Mostly because she thinks there are too many homophobes out there who wouldn’t vote for Buttigieg as the VP candidate on the ticket with the most DEI nominee in the history of these United States. (RELATED: Don’t Be Surprised If It’s Buttigieg)
That’s soooo close to the truth. She allllmost got there. And of course, they’re burning her down for her trouble.
What she’s getting wrong is that it isn’t the homophobia of the voting public that made Pete Buttigieg an impossible sell, which even Kamala could understand.
It’s that Pete Buttigieg is an abject disaster of an American politician who poisons and destroys everything he touches. (RELATED: The ‘Peter Principle’ Targets Michigan)
What do you remember most about Buttigieg’s time as Transportation Secretary? Do you remember all the roads and bridges he built? Probably not. Do you remember big improvements in air travel? Quite the contrary. Is the trucking industry better off with all the illegals driving 18-wheelers up and down our highways and smacking into people and things on the regular? (RELATED: How Did a Migrant Who Can’t Speak English Get a License to Drive a Big Rig?)
How about the discussions of “racist roads”? The $80 billion he pissed away on DEI initiatives? The open discrimination against straight white air traffic controllers, which has resulted in chaos in our skies and a major crash in Washington just after President Trump and new Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy took office? (RELATED: The Collision of Ideals After the DC Plane Crash: Why DEI Policies Threaten Our Safety)
Or do you remember Buttigieg’s most famous snafu moment, which was the two months’ worth of paternity leave he took in the summer of his first year as Transportation secretary? That began with professional black-and-white photos of Buttigieg and his husband together in a birthing bed with the two adopted infant children they’d just procured, and it lasted through a supply-chain crisis that was certainly the worst this century. Anyone with a non-exotic sexuality would be looked upon as utterly narcissistic for putting the American people through such an absence; for Buttigieg to do it is sold as the civil rights initiative of our time.
The politics of that moment were classic Buttigieg, which is to say that this was the epitome of what I call obnoxiously gay.
You’re the Transportation secretary, which means you have plenty enough money to hire a nanny for your kids. To this day, I don’t know — I don’t want to know — what Buttigieg’s husband does for a living, but that’s a two-parent home if not a two-income home.
And neither Buttigieg nor his husband got pregnant and squeezed out those kids. They were a lifestyle choice made at Chez Buttigieg. He could either have prioritized those kids and opted out of taking the job as Transportation secretary, or he could have worked around the problem. Instead, he stuck it to the American people in the middle of a crisis, and when he was rightly criticized for his lack of commitment to his job serving the American people, he denounced his critics as homophobes.
Which is just about the sum total of Pete Buttigieg’s political value proposition, by the way. This is a man, after all, who claims to be a better Christian than the Christians who point out that there are scriptural prohibitions to his lifestyle.
Because, to quote pretty well-established biblical teachings on sin, where it affects Pete Buttigieg, makes you a homophobe and therefore a bad Christian.
When basic humility would dictate an acknowledgment as a Christian that yes, the Bible regards his sexual choices as sins, and he’s a sinner, as we all are. And he has that cross to bear, as we all have our crosses to bear. But he endeavors to be a good Christian in other ways, and he respects that good people might object to a lifestyle choice frowned upon in the faith, as fornication, adultery, and other sins are frowned upon.
Or just shut up, because we really don’t want to make it our business who you sleep with and what you do in bed.
Rick Grenell, who is quite gay, could have been on Donald Trump’s ticket instead of JD Vance, and with zero disrespect to Vance, who’s my early GOP favorite for the 2028 nomination and happily so, Trump would have won with Grenell.
Why? Because Rick Grenell is a badass, he’s demonstrated that he’s quite good at jobs he’s been given, his politics are outstanding, and he’s an exceptionally articulate patriot.
Pete Buttigieg wants to shame you for not endorsing his gay adoptions while he lets ships loaded with appliances, cars, industrial equipment, and steel fill up the Pacific Ocean and clog up the American economy. Grenell asks nothing of you.
That’s the difference between obnoxiously gay and inoffensively gay.
But Kamala Harris doesn’t have the sand to talk about that, because were she to say anything of the sort, people would point out how obnoxious she is.
And she is obnoxious.
But the Democrats never cared much about that. So long as no truth was told to the American people, on practically any subject, they’d go on pretending Kamala Harris was competent and serious.
Now they’ll eviscerate her.
And it isn’t an impossibility that Buttigieg will ride his new victimhood all the way to the nomination.
And then we’ll really get to see what obnoxiously gay looks like.
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