The Perfect Speech At The Perfect Time

I learned long ago that if you want to close the deal in an important argument, you can’t do better than have a career prosecutor doing the talking. That last word to the jury is your final chance to put it all together for the jury in a nice tight package, and send the miscreant off to the diaper pail.

Everything was perfect, and perfectly coordinated. First we’ll start with the location. The iconic Ellipse, the stretch of land between the White House and the Washington Monument. It must frost Traitor Tot’s apricots that a political campaign did a better job of setting up and framing the speech location than he did on January 6th, with the entire federal government behind him.

Now let’s talk crowd size. El Pendejo ex Presidente must be throwing plates off the wall in a Trumper tantrum right about now. He couldn’t even get 20,000 people to the Ellipse with advance notice. The Harris campaign put the estimate of the crowd tonight at some 75,000, but independent observers said it’s probably higher, since there was an overflow crowd behind the Ellipse watching the speech on a jumbotron screen.

Any standup comic will tell you that you open with your second best joke, and end with your best joke. Everything in between just keeps the audience amused and their interest up. And any prosecutor will tell you that you can’t just drone your way through your closing argument, robotically reciting facts and evidence. A little humor here, a little pathos there, a touch of sarcasm describing the testimony of a defense witness. Like a comedian, keep the audience angaged from start to finish.

And Kamala Harris nailed it. She dropped every bomb in her arsenal on Il Douche except the F-Bomb. That’s Traitor Tot’s schtick. She started by specifically noting the location, and then walking the audience through Trump’s attempted insurrection speech on January 6th. Great tactics, since polling and focus groups show that the tipping point for most of the two time Trump voters off the wagon was the January 6th riot.

But then she pivoted to her vision of America. A positive vision of economic prosperity, equality and opportunity. Then switch to Traitor Tot’s economic agenda of huge tax cuts for rich sh*tpokes and corporations, then to her plan for middle class tax cuts. Trump trying to gut Social security and Medicare with her plan to make senior home care available under Medicare.

Then Harris took His Lowness over the falls on national security. She compared The Peach Penguin’s fondness for dictators with a vision of an America that stands with her foreign allies because it makes America stronger. She went on to recount our national history, and to loudly proffer that we didn’t come this far to be to a petty dictator wanna be.

And then Harris veered into rhetorical and political brilliance. Traitor Tot has spent three campaigns and four years in office on one principle, blaming the others for everything. And in a handful of words, Harris turned his own strategy right around on him and his shambling mob.

First she slammed his racism, xenophobia and sexism to blame others for everything, and then she followed up with But we don’t feel that way! That’s not what we are as a country! We believe that everybody deserves a seat at the table. We believe that there is so much more that unites us than separates us! She used that moment to turn Trump and his followers into the others. And she’s right. After all, there’s more of us than there are of them. And in a matter of minutes, she flipped the coin on him.

Let’s be clear here. This speech was not for the jubilant base present at the Elippse and watching from home. This speech was geared specifically for the remaining undecided and remaining Nikki Haley persuadable voters out there, and she presented them with a clear and stark choice for the path this country will take in the next four years. See, Trump will walk into the Oval Office with an enemies list. I will walk into the Oval Office with a to do list. 

I can’t see how this could have gone much better. She was sharp, on point, reintroduced herself to the country again, and her smiles and body language just shouted that she was having the time of her life. Compare that with rally videos of what appears to be a narcotized Trump stumbling his way through a hate filled rant. Seven days until the jury delivers it’s verdict. Don’t touch that dial.

I thank you for the privilege of your time.

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