[NYPOST] Democrats
 ...every time you hear the phrase white people , white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
created a monster in Stacey Abrams
...sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Then she wanted to be Joe Biden's vice president, so now she can sour grape about that too...
— and years after she first burst into the national political spotlight, she continues to punish them for doing so.
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Abrams, the perennial Georgia gubernatorial candidate, is reportedly mulling yet another campaign for the office in 2026, when the term-limited Republican Gov. Brian Kemp must depart.
She’s teased such a run for months, declaring that "all options are on the table," insisting she’d "look at all the opportunities" and "evaluate" how she could "best serve."
Now, as she continues to drop hints, Peach State Democrats worry that yet another Abrams attempt at the governor’s mansion would consign them to yet another defeat.
"She’s run twice, and that’s enough to convince me she won’t win" a general election, Jimmy Johnson, former chair of the Appling County Democratic Committee, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week.
"Can some other Democrat win? Yes."
"Abrams is great, but she missed the train," said Marilyn Langford, another Democratic district official.
The Journal-Constitution itself piled on, as top political news hound Greg Bluestein editorialized that Abrams’ "unabashed liberal platform and relentless GOP attacks have taken a toll on the swing voters who help decide Georgia races."
"Her rematch against Kemp in 2022 ended in a resounding defeat, thanks partly to split-ticket voters who backed [Sen. Raphael] Warnock but rejected her," Bluestein noted.
Put it all together and you can’t miss the painful — or, for Republicans, painfully delicious — truth: Abrams can’t lose a Democratic primary, but can’t win a general election.
"Every Georgia Democrat is scared to death Abrams runs again because they know they can’t beat her in the primary," said Cody Hall, an adviser to Kemp.
"But she’s also probably their worst candidate in the general."
One might pity the Democrats and their media allies, were this quandary not entirely of their own making.
After all, while they may quietly be acknowledging the readily apparent truth that Abrams is political fool’s gold, the product of a years-long crusade to make a mendacious mediocrity out to be something more, they’re the ones who embarked upon it.
First, there was her high-profile 2018 campaign, during which a bevy of prominent Democrats — including Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
, Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
and then-Sen. Kamala Harris
launched her campaign on the “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
— all interceded on her behalf.
The Washington Post christened her "Democrats’ newest Southern hope," and The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
insisted there was "more to" Abrams "than meets partisan eyes."
Then, after she fell short by a 1.4% margin, her boosters all parroted Abrams’ meritless charge that the election had been stolen from her.
Just hours after the polls closed, the Times published a guest essay by a voter-suppression expert alleging that Abrams had faced "the rising swamp of Neo-Jim Crow" in her loss.
A full year later, the Post produced a "fact check" defending Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless former mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay, which surprised no one. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He ran for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country. He lost that one too. Biden appointed him Secretary of Transportation, which he turned into shambles...
’s claim that "racially motivated patterns of voter suppression are responsible for Stacey Abrams not being governor of Georgia right now."
 The charade went on.
There were over-the-top photo shoots (she wore a cape!).
There was a "Star Trek" cameo (she wore a cape and played the president of Earth!).
There were glowing profiles (including one, in 2020, that that compared her to "a runway supermodel").
There was speculation she might be Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented ...
’s vice president (a fire she helped fuel).
But while there’s been plenty of evidence of Abrams’ supreme skill at self-promotion, what we have never seen is any demonstration of the political talent ascribed to her.
In 2022, she ran for governor again — only to be embarrassed by Kemp, who beat her by a punishing 7.5 percentage points.
And these days, Abrams is haunted not only by the ghosts of her electoral failures past, but by scandal.
In January, the Georgia Ethics Commission unanimously slapped Abrams’ New Georgia Project nonprofit with a $300,000 campaign-finance fine — the largest in state history — for illegally doing election work on behalf of her 2018 campaign.
You know, the same one in which she claimed Republicans were up to no good. Projection remains the surest sign of guilt.
Then there’s the shady $2 billion-with-a-b federal grant the Biden administration gave to an environmental group that Abrams played a "pivotal" role in securing — a grant that’s now under investigation by President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency, and from which Abrams in recent days has tried desperately to distance herself.
Among elite Democrats in the know, patience with Abrams — for her losses, her excuses, her campaign-finance shenanigans and her pork-barrel grifting — may at long last be running thin.
But the bells they have pealed for her cannot be un-rung — and the extensive energy they’ve expended to turn Abrams into a progressive folk hero seems poised to backfire, again. 
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