BETHANY MANDEL: The brutal truth is that Kamala, like Hillary Clinton, DOESN’T have what it takes to be our first female president… and dishonest attacks on ‘sexist’ Jesse Watters won’t change that

If we are to believe that the first female If the presidency is truly within reach – why do Democrats treat their candidate like an incompetent girl, unfairly vilified by male forces?

The villain in question is Fox News host Jesse Watters, who found himself in hot water last week after he declared on the radio that if Kamala Harris won in November, the nation’s top generals would “have their way with her” in the Situation Room.

Jeanine Pirro, Watters’ colleague on ‘The Five’, immediately reacted with shock.

“I don’t like that. Take it back!” she warned.

Yet Watters remained unfazed: He had been speaking “figuratively,” he explained. His remark was not meant “in a sexual way,” but simply that Harris would be overwhelmed by more capable experts during stressful moments of decision-making.

Simple enough. Although it didn’t satisfy the microaggression crowd who screamed “sexism” and demanded Watters’ head on a plate.

In the days that followed, reports emerged that he was fighting to save his decade-long career at Fox.

There were reams of articles blatantly criticizing Watters as a “misogynist” or even – according to the Fox-hating site Media Matters – a “racist.”

And for what?

Watch the clip for yourself. Anyone who is honest can see his comments for what they were.

And what is the real point of this absurd Watters witch hunt? To detract from the very good point he was trying to make: Harris is way out of her depth – not least on foreign policy issues, which are often discussed in the Situation Room.

Take the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in August 2021.

Days later, Harris boasted in a TV interview with CNN’s Dana Bash that he was the “last person in the room” with President Biden before he pulled the plug on the move, a move that had led to the deaths of 13 U.S. service members and all but returned Afghanistan to misogynist Taliban terrorists.

For some unknown reason, our wannabe first female president tried to take credit for the catastrophe. On national television.

Harris spoke to Dana Bash again last week, but this time she brought a man with her to sit next to her and hold her hand.

It didn’t matter that she was facing a notoriously soft interrogator at a Democratic-friendly network, or that the interview was conveniently hidden over Labor Day weekend, Harris needed her running mate Tim Walz as a co-driver.

A former prosecutor – she keeps reminding us – is afraid of a light cross-examination.

The real purpose of this absurd witch hunt against Watters is to distract from the good point he was trying to make: Kamala Harris is completely incapable of expanding her knowledge.

That interview — which gave us no clue whatsoever about Harris’s policy-poor campaign — was her first since accepting the party nomination. She has yet to hold a serious press conference and has no other interviews scheduled.

On Monday, as Harris boarded Air Force Two, she was seen stepping out of her SUV with headphones over both ears and holding her phone to her ear as if she were talking on the phone, while dodging questions from the watching press.

How brave, how inspiring.

And that’s why this childish campaign against Jesse Watters is a disservice to women everywhere.

If Harris is really so susceptible to superficial interviews or the clumsy wording of a TV host, then there is no place for her in the presidential race.

And if the left is so quick to treat the slightest trace of sexism or dishonesty with kid gloves, then they should ask themselves whether they themselves believe that women can reach the top unhindered.

The truth is that Harris’ supporters are increasingly desperate, begging for distractions and reasons to refocus the conversation on sensitive issues like her gender, rather than the glaring issue of her incompetence.

Like every woman I know, I would love to see the first female president of our great country. But Kamala Harris, like Hillary Clinton before her, is not up to the task — and it has nothing to do with men like Jesse Watters.