A funny thing happened last night on the FOX News Channel.  After the Bret Baier interview with VP Kamala Harris aired the remainder of the nightly lineup took turns running excerpts of it and picking apart what Kamala said and didn’t say.

It’s as if they captured the villain queen and walked her about the town square showing the faithful that better days lie ahead.

The funny thing about the entire trial, conviction, and sentencing is that most people who watch FOX regularly and repeatedly greatly dislike Harris.  And most people who like Harris greatly dislike FOX.

Baier exposed many of Harris’ flaws, flip-flops, and falsehoods.  He insisted that her word salads only be served in small portions.  But did it move the needle 19 days out?

This brings us to the question, “Who is the worst US Presidential Candidate in our lifetime?”

George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, and John McCain come to mind.

If Madame VP loses will she join the list?  Maybe.  She had little time to prepare for this and her long suit isn’t preparation.  Her stance on most any issue is greatly determined by which way the wind is blowing.

If Donald J. Trump loses will he join the list?

For the record, William J. Bryan is the only three-time loser.  Who?  He lost in 1896, 1900, and 1904.  Trump would join a short list of other two-time losers.

But has anyone ever faced two weaker candidates than Biden and Harris?  Opinions vary, but they would be tough to beat, meaning they should be easy to defeat.

Ok, ok the media is biased, the DOJ is weaponized, and the ballot boxes are supposedly stuffed.

Trump has run a terrible campaign pure and simple.

First, women are mad.  And when women get angry they get even and then some.   His failure to clearly and loudly articulate his stance on abortion might be a fatal flaw.

Should he have picked Tulsi Gabbard as his VP nominee and women’s health czar?  A woman talking to headstrong women about women’s things usually goes better than any man on earth attempting the same.

Trump himself has had a few struggles with the female population along the way.

His deficit with white female voters offsets his lead or relatively good position in every other demographic.  Sure he’s losing with blacks and Hispanics, but his percentage of likely voters is enough for him to win when you combine it with old, white, angry men.

While that could be his biggest undoing, his inability to succinctly articulate why he’s the answer and her radical left positions aren’t is another.

Amazingly in this divided country, there are/were undecided voters.  Holding rallies and droning on about the past isn’t how you win them over.  He could have used a drone at one rally, but we digress.

Further, he habitually insults factions with name-calling and derogatory comments.

With Michigan very much in play, this week he called out car factory workers, “They just assemble parts “out of a box” and says children could do their jobs: “We could have our child do it.”

The UAW was unimpressed.

How childish.

Childish might describe his inability to let go of the 2020 election results.  Ego might describe it too.  That allows the “our democracy is at stake” nonsense to hit the airwaves.

But the biggest reason he might join the list of bad candidates is that he’s running against one who is worse.  The bar is low.

Even the Dems know that.

Four years ago Joe Biden said he was running for office because we were in a battle for the soul of our nation.

Shortly after he took office he instructed his VP, Kamala Harris, as Border Czar to get to the root cause of the border “problem.”

And four years later we have 15 million new souls illegally in our nation.  Biden was polling so well that he stepped away (was forced out) from his reelection campaign.

Enter the next anointed one.  Kamala said she is running to save our nation’s democracy.

She’s qualified based on the job she did at the border one would guess.  Or not.

As VP she’s recently intimately involved in federal disaster relief efforts.  Earlier this week she attempted to call Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to offer her and the nation’s assistance with fast approaching Hurricane Milton.  One problem.  Ron said she didn’t call this time or for past hurricanes either.

Right in the middle of football season, hurricanes became a political football.  Where’s FEMA?  North Carolina wants to know.  They’re there said Team Kamala.

Hurricanes hitting Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida twice might be god’s way of cleansing those heathen red states.  You know them as the ones who oppose abortions and love guns.

Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted that our government was steering those storms.  Life was simpler when we only thought that the Russians were seeding our clouds.

That sounds as preposterous as the accusation by Hillary that Trump staffers were meeting with the Russians to interfere with our elections when Team Hillary was. Or does it?

Cue the climate change zealots.  These severe storms are further proof that climate change is upon us.  It’s not proof.  They’re more intense.  Except, they’re not.  They are more frequent.   Except, they’re not.

They’ve been around longer than any trees we’ve cut down to put up windmills that need generators to turn them when the wind doesn’t blow.  Trees take away CO2 so now we’re building CO2 capture facilities.  But we digress.

In the early fall in the south, two things are a given- football and hurricanes.

Climate change would be a hurricane in Wisconsin in February.

Hurricanes even have a dry side and a dirty side much like how martinis can be made.  Kamala might like them after all.

Hopefully, God spared all of those souls in Tampa and Orlando overnight.

Politics aside, they must vote soon to ensure we save our democracy.

Kamala said so.

Tuesday night it was JD Vance squaring off against Tim Walz.  Did you watch the possible VPs debate?

It’s debatable as to who won.

Ask most any Republican and they’ll go on camera, tweet, or tell you that it was JD Vance and it wasn’t close.  Ask almost any Democrat and they’ll explain in similar fashion that it was Coach Tim Walz and it wasn’t close.

These are the divided days that look at things in very different ways.

Perhaps most importantly did this debate sway many or even any undecided/independent voters in the few battleground states that inevitably will decide who the next President of the United States will be?

We’d venture a guess that lands between not likely and doubtful.  Why, you may ask.

When was the last time, if any time, that you voted for someone for the highest office in the land because of who their choice was for the second highest office in the land?

In 1861 Hannibal Hamlin served under Abe Lincoln.  He would have made a fine professor.  Hannibal Lecture.

In 1969 Richard Nixon had a clown named Spiro T Agnew as his right-hand man.  After months of maintaining his innocence, Agnew pleaded no contest to a single felony tax evasion charge and resigned from office.

Nixon was so damaged by his choice that he selected Gerald Ford as his replacement.  And, with a little help from perusing Watergate, he was reelected in 1972.  Maybe he was not so damaged. Nixon resigned from office also, reminding us on the way, “I am not a crook!”

Who could forget Walter Mondale?  Everyone.

Take J Danforth Quayle.  Please.  Who knew that he had trouble spelling potato?  Or is it “potatoe?”  George Herbert Walker Bush didn’t.

Quayle would have had no shot in 2020.  Biden vowed to pick a woman for VP and a black woman for Justice of the Supreme Court if he were elected.  How do you spell DEI?

Voila.  There was/is VP and Border Czar Kamala Harris.  Along the way, Biden’s diminished capacity was evident in 2020 unless you didn’t want to see it.

What’s the history lesson?

America votes for the first name on the ballot, not the accompanying one.

Speaking of debates, will Trump go another round with Harris?  It seems like she is desirous and he is hesitant.  Is that because the polls show America favors him?  Or, is it because she won debate number one in the eyes of the watching public and he wants no part of round two?

This likely will come down to never-Trumpers, abortion enthusiasts, and J6 disdain vs. the economy, border, and threat of WWIII.

JD and Coach won’t have another go.

America doesn’t have enough interest.