What about Biden's disability did Kamala Harris know and when did she know it?

Q: Why was loyalty to the country's needs paramount for Mike Pence but not for Kamala Harris? A: Do we even have to ask?

It’s now beyond obvious that Joe Biden is not a normally functioning adult. The falloff in his thinking and speaking capacity seems to have happened relatively quickly (say, over the last six months to a year), but it didn’t happen overnight. People in his White House circle, certainly including the Vice President, noticed it at the minimum starting after the New Year; indeed, unless they’re as impaired as he is, they could not have helped noticing it at least by that time if not before. But Ms. Harris and the rest of them deny it anyway. Indeed, I think it only a small overstatement that denial is the Biden inner circle’s entire campaign theme if not, at this point, its entire governing theme as well.

Is the cost of everything you buy painfully higher than when Joe came to power? No problem — deny it by saying that inflation was 9% when he came through the door (it was one-sixth that) and then insist that Trump is the liar.

Did over a dozen American servicemen and women die in Biden’s helter-skelter flight from Afghanistan? No problem — deny it. It never happened. If their parents or wives or husbands think otherwise, just keep them off the airwaves. And remember, Trump is the liar.

Is racial division favoring your most loyal constituency something you unsuccessfully tried to slip past the Supreme Court despite the language and plain meaning of the Equal Protection Clause? No problem. Claim that anyone who disagrees with you is a racist (that would be two-thirds of the country, according to Gallup, including almost half of blacks) and that Trump is the fellow sewing racial division.

Still, I want to say two things out the outset. First — and I mean this sincerely — I sympathize with Biden. He’s spent his entire adult life seeking public office, and he now has the Big Prize. For him to understand, much less to say out loud, that it’s gone, it’s all past him now, must be agonizing. It would be like committing suicide. As a President, he’s been awful and I can’t wait for him to be gone. As a human being, the pain must be crushing.

Second, I get it that Harris feels like she owes him loyalty. This is not just because he chose her despite her lack of any serious qualifications for the Office, or because he chose her as the — ready now? — First Black Woman, blah, blah, blah. Indeed, a person of high character would be resentful, not thankful, to be selected because of what he/she looks like and the boxes she checks rather than for what she can do. Instead, I understand that loyalty is, on the whole and in most circumstances, a good thing. I felt loyal and grateful to George H. W. Bush when he brought me into the White House from being an obscure Justice Department lawyer. I still feel it.

Of course there are a couple of differences. One is that I had incomparably less responsibility for the well-being of the country than the Vice President. The main one is that George Bush was a functioning adult and Joe Biden isn’t.

That is, very disconcertingly, a commonplace observation, but its potentially shattering importance seems to me to be getting all but ignored. Perhaps this is because we’ve become complacent; perhaps it’s because over three years we’ve become numb to Biden’s breezy detachment (from reality for starters); or perhaps it’s because this painfully obvious fact is still being lied about with gusto to millions of people who would Really Rather Not Believe It.

But it’s true. When the freaking New York Times, of all things, has given up the ghost on a President who’s been as faithful as you can get to its far Left agenda, there’s no point even within shouting distance of the truth in continuing to deny it.

But Kamala Harris does………..which, although no one is saying it as far as I’ve seen, is an independent reason she should never become President.

Presidents have to do hard things. As the press — left, right and center — full well understood about Mike Pence on Jan. 6, your fidelity to the country in an hour of need has to come before your fidelity to the fellow who gave you your spiffy job. If you can’t see that, and/or you can’t do it, you might belong in any number of places, sure. The Oval Office is not one of them. The country needs stronger stuff. There will come times when it needs it desperately.

This is one of the awful silver linings apparent from where Biden’s disability is putting us right now. As the Left’s ceaseless obsession with Trump has taught us (correctly for once), it really does make a difference who is the Commander-in-Chief, the person whose strength, sobriety, maturity, and judgment we must look to in a moment of crisis. Whether Joe Biden leaves power before next January 20 or not, cacklin’ Kamala Harris’s inability or unwillingness to support what the country obviously needs — his departure, painlessly if possible but more wrenchingly if not — itself proves her unfitness to succeed him.