OPINION:
We have reached that point in the election cycle when everybody is lying to everybody.
The campaigns are lying to voters. The liberal news media are lying to their readers and viewers. Even voters get into the action by lying to pollsters.
Honestly, even I am probably lying a little bit to you, dear reader. Because I so badly want Donald Trump to win this election, I do not want to say that I think he is going to win handily — for fear that his supporters might get cocky or complacent and not spend these last days fighting for the life of the republic.
So I will lie and not tell you that.
Please remember that no matter how good things may look on the surface, funny things always happen in political campaigns. The only way you get to register your disdain for these people is to vote. The only way to prove there was too much funny business in the last election is to blow it out so big this time that it exposes what happened four years ago.
Vote. And then go get 10 people and make them vote. If our troops are willing to die for our country, then you can get your butt to the polling place and fill in a little circle choosing someone who will not send troops to some faraway land to die for something stupid.
It really is that simple.
Meanwhile, in this moment of pandemonium, political hacks busy themselves by calculating how wrong their polls were in 2016 and how wrong they were in 2020 and how wrong they were in 2022. Then they consult the Ouija board to conjure up some magical curve to apply to current polls that will somehow magically determine the correct outcome of next month’s election.
These are the days when the “smartest” experts look their dumbest.
And no matter how hard they try to prop up the dumbest person to ever run for president — not an insignificant feat, by the way — they are clearly failing. And they know it.
CNN held a fake town hall Wednesday night with fake undecided voters hosted by Gloria Vanderbilt’s son Anderson Cooper, who once got caught faking how deep the water was after a hurricane by wading into a drainage ditch. Now he is trying to fake how deep the shallowest politician in history is.
“What has grief been like for you?” he asked Vice President Kamala Harris about her mother, who died 15 years ago. “Do you still grieve?”
“Yes,” she replied, shaking her head and staring off into the distance with deep gravity. “You don’t stop grieving.”
She repeated the line for extra depth and gravity.
There is no ditch Anderson Cooper won’t venture into to make things look deeper than they are.
Ms. Harris, who was installed as her party’s candidate just three months ago, has become the first billion-dollar candidate. She has all the money in the world, running against a dramatically less-funded campaign.
Yet the more she spends on advertising and the more she answers questions, the less popular she gets, at least according to the polls.
One perplexed voter asked her to describe any weaknesses she might bring to the table. (Like I said, they were “undecided” voters. Not an American alive does not know a long list of Ms. Harris’ prodigious weaknesses.)
After lots of gobbledygook, she finally described her weakness as, well, basically answering questions.
“I may not be quick to have the answer as soon as you ask it about a specific policy issue sometimes because I’m going to want to research it. I’m going to want to study it. I’m kind of a nerd sometimes. (Much laughter, only by her.) I confess.”
But she immediately flip-flopped and said that maybe her inability to answer basic questions is not a weakness but maybe a strength.
“Some might call that a weakness, especially if you’re, you know, in an interview or just kind of, you know, being asked a certain question and you’re just expected to have the right answer right away. But that’s how I — that’s how I work.”
I swear, on the lives of my children, I did not alter a word of that for partisan editorial purposes. That is what she said.
To be fair, maybe we should give Kamala Harris credit for one thing: She makes White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sound like Aristotle.
• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at The Washington Times.
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