When we say Democrats aren’t sending their best… THIS is what we mean.
If you’re a candidate running for election, the lowest of ALL the low-hanging fruit axioms would be ‘don’t do something stupid in public’.
Nobody would have to explain to most of us, for example, that if you’re sitting down for an interview on television, you should probably show up prepared.
Clean clothes would be important. Knowing a little bit about the sorts of topics and biases of the interview is a good idea. Maybe doing some interview prep so you have practice in digging yourself out of a hole.
All of that should be absolute baseline, even a clown could figure it out common sense.
Somewhere even lower than THAT threshold should be another no-brainer.
Show up sober.
Decide for yourself, but going only by what we can see on the footage, it seems like THIS Democrat candidate never quite got that memo.
Credit to Viva Frei who posted the following clip:
This is WILD. I legit thought it was a skit/high school video project.
It is 100% real.
This is Jaime West (Democratic Party) – she’s running for election for Fayette County Council, District 4 in Indiana.
I had to make sure she did not have a neurological disorder that could account for the slurred speech and insane rambling.
She doesn’t.
And even if she did have a diagnosed neurological disorder, “we have guns too!” after talking about firing all Republicans would ordinarily be disqualifying.
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” -Plato
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) October 13, 2026
He gave the full segment in a reply to his own tweet, and the clip was part of a panel discussion by various candidates.
From the “2026 General Election Candidates Forum” for Fayette County, Indiana…
The 30:25 timestamp introduces the relevant segment featuring candidates for District 4, Jaime West (D) and her opponent Gary R. Keener (R).
Jaime West is the first of the two candidates featured in this segment.
She ended her stream of nonsense with a rant against Republicans and a weirdly ominous final statement: ‘we have guns too’.
Someone should remind her that it isn’t the political right who’s been pushing their own politicians to have ‘blood run in the streets’, cheering the assassination attempts of Trump, Charlie Kirk, and a health care executive. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Viva was careful to rule out any sort of a brain injury or mental impediment before posting this video, because he was trying not to be unfair to the woman if she suffered from a genuine medical deficit. She does not.
Viva did some digging and ruled that out.
So we need some OTHER explanation for why she’s slurring her words and barely making sense.
My best guess was free booze in the green room. But who knows?
There may be other explanations, but I can’t think of them.
