Editorial: The High-Water Mark of the Harris Campaign
The Democrat party took the money and ran. The campaign was incidental.
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On July 3, 1863, Maj. Gen. George Pickett led his troops on a suicide mission ordered by Gen. Robert E. Lee (against the strong objections of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet) across an open field in Gettysburg, PA. The ill-fated attack on Day 3 of the conflict, forever remembered as “Pickett’s Charge”, saw 12,500 Confederate soldiers march 1,000 yards across the field and up Cemetery Ridge, facing a heavy bombardment from Union artillery the entire way.
At one point in the battle, one of Pickett's brigade commanders, Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead, managed to break through the Union defenses at a place called “the Angle”. However, the Union soldiers quickly repealed the advance, capturing or killing most of the Confederate soldiers that had breached the line, including Armistead himself.
Following the “High-Water Mark of the Confederacy”, Gen. Lee’s defeated troops retreated back into Maryland and Virginia, never to foray into the north again… although the Civil War continued for two more bloody years.
Which brings us to Kamala Harris’ failed presidential campaign.
On August 22, 2024, after four days of carefully choreographed political theater, the Democrats “broke camp” with lots of momentum and a full head of steam. If the post-convention poll numbers are to believed, the political winds were firmly at Kamala’s back. All she had to do was hang on for 75 days and she would be America’s first woman president.
Oprah Winfrey urged voters to "choose joy."
Former President Bill Clinton called Harris the "president of joy."
And her vice-presidential running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, said Harris has consistently served "with energy, with passion and with joy."
Back to Oprah for a minute, the has-been talk show host with the oversized ego framed the campaign as "the sweet promise of tomorrow over the bitter return to yesterday." Of course, that was before we found out (despite Oprah’s initial denials) that the Harris campaign had paid her production company $2.5 million to host a town hall meeting designed to portray Kamala in a positive light.
That kind of money would fill me with joy too, I guess.
Other questionable expenditures by Harris and her handlers included $2.6 million on private jets over a single two-week period; $900,000 for a week’s ad space on the Las Vegas Sphere; $15,000 on DoorDash and UberEATS; and nearly $9,000 in ice cream from high-end shops like Sweet Lucy's Ice Cream and Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams.
Altogether, the Harris campaign managed to burn threw $1.5 billion in just 15 weeks. That’s $100 million per week, folks!
Meanwhile, Harris donors say they are still being bombarded with financial requests, and the Democratic Party is reportedly $20 million in debt from the failed campaign.
I don’t know about you, but I’m sure glad we didn’t put Kamala in charge of the world’s largest economy.
In hindsight, she had about as much chance of winning as Gen. Pickett.
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Rev. Dale Glading is an ordained Baptist minister who has spent the past 35 years serving prisoners and at-risk youth; first as Founder and Executive Director of The Saints Prison Ministry, and second as Founder and President of Risk Takers for Christ. During his ministry career, Dale has shared the gospel – using sports as a vehicle – with an estimated 500,000 inmates in more than 400 different correctional institutions throughout North America and Africa.
Dale and his wife Deanna have been married for 39 years, and God has blessed them with three adult children and six precious grandchildren. Dale is an accomplished speaker, a published author, and a former two-time candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. His faith-based political blog (daleglading.com) has a strong and growing readership and his biting commentaries are frequently cross-posted on conservative websites throughout the country.
A native of New Jersey, Dale and his family relocated to Florida in 2011 and are happy to call the Sunshine State their adopted home.
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Where I come from good friends, acquaintances and donors in general, contribute to campaigns to support candidates without expecting anything in return(usually). What’s with these phony libs expecting payment? Thank God Kamala’s history.
It was ALWAYS about getting, and distributing the money.
EVERYONE (except donors) KNEW she could not win.
They had to keep up the illusion to get the money.