Biden: The Democrats' Eggs All in One Basket Case
What seems like many pandemic moons ago, my liberal son called me on the night of Super Tuesday to express his surprise. Somehow, he pondered, Joe Biden — all but left for dead after the three initial Democrat primaries — had miraculously been resurrected. Once again, the old veep was astride his party's donkey as its "presumptive" nominee.
But Sleepy Joe was not among those registering surprise over his political comeback, except perhaps that he wasn't expecting it until Super Thursday. Indeed, he looked plenty smug as he mounted the victory dais and introduced his sister as his wife. The embarrassment of that "switcheroo" aside, Old Uncle Joe had good reason to feel elated. His political instincts had been right. His candidacy was inevitable, and so would be his path forward. As he often claimed, the stamp of approval could not have been indelibly inked on a more deserving or qualified person. All he had to do to land in the Oval Office was "beat Trump like a drum."
In the midst of his self-absorbed euphoria, Biden barely acknowledged that had not the so-called moderate Democrat primary candidates dropped out and endorsed him after Super Tuesday, he would likely still be plodding through the primary season. More importantly and not by coincidence, his spurt of support had kicked in when American voters finally awoke to the frightening prospect of living under Bernie Sanders's brand of socialism.
My son had never been enthusiastic about Biden. What's more, he hadn't expected him to be the nominee. But once Super Tuesday appeared to determine the direction of the race, he was quick to praise the other contenders for supporting the former vice president in a laudable show of unity. This reaffirmed to me how much the only real enthusiasm Democrats have at this point in history is their hatred for Trump and their eagerness to do what it takes to see him replaced by somebody — indeed, anybody — else!
Not all that much time has passed since Super Tuesday. But in the midst of this tumultuous short period, the pendulum of Joe Biden's personal political strength has swung from inevitable to irrelevant. Demonstrating what Robert Gates branded as Sleepy Joe's consistent pattern of being on the wrong side of political decisions, the isolated presumptive Democrat candidate could do little but lash out at Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He began by calling Trump a "xenophobe" for banning flights from China to the U.S. He continued whenever possible to blame the president for being unprepared, uninformed, dictatorial, incompetent, unresponsive, overly optimistic, and dangerously political. Despite Biden's frontrunner status, none of his brief media appearances attracted wide viewership. I mean, who wants to watch a political figure fizzle and fail? In one unfortunate try to demonstrate his competence to manage the coronavirus pandemic, Biden was immediately stymied by an unresponsive teleprompter. And while his hand made urgent signals to the tech support team, his mouth was unable to utter a cogent word.
Last week, however, Bernie Sanders was not at a loss for words as he suspended his latest presidential run. As a gesture of solidarity, the disappointed senator urged his supporters to vote for Biden. In the race to control the Democrat Party, it seems to be, as Yogi Berra redundantly put it, "déjà vu all over again."
Well, maybe not! With Biden all but eclipsed by coverage of COVID-19, there's an outside chance that something totally unexpected could rip open the coming election just as it has our apolitical life. Perhaps the term "presumptive candidate" now takes on a less certain meaning. Consider, for example, that a recent Rasmussen poll showed Andrew Cuomo and Joe Biden in a tie to challenge Trump in November.
How can it be that a gruff-talking, thuggish-looking state governor — burdened with more personal baggage than Team Clinton, and presiding over the state most unsettled by crisis — can pop up on the charts as a likely candidate to oust Biden from the position he "presumes" to have won? The answer could be that Biden never really caught on with Democrat voters as a whole. And with Joe out of sight and out of mind — his, as well — Democrats have had time to think.
They might, for example, consider that for all his half-century as a politician, Joe Biden had by no means overwhelmed his less experienced opponents. He was, in fact, a rather poor excuse for a candidate. Both Sanders and Trump inspire the kind of supporter loyalty Biden can't seem to deliver. Even with his added credentials as Obama's running mate, Uncle Joe turned out, once again, to be a lackluster campaigner. Only now there was the added worrisome level of his unpredictability and incoherence.
Part of Joe's problem this time around could be due to poor timing. He's a tired old warhorse trying to run in the political middle of a party that increasingly advocates for drastic change. And though conventional wisdom holds it unwise to change horses midstream, his party's progressively turbulent currents are forcing him to slosh leftward or drown.
As for the effect of the pandemic's "timing" on Biden's campaign, it remains to be seen. It has, in effect, kept him practically hidden from the electorate. It's like holding a coronation from which the crowned prince never goes forth to receive the roar of the crowd. The viral threat to our country virtually shut down Biden's face-to-face campaigning. Rather than hustling on the hustings, he's hunkered down at home. When he turns on his TV, he'll likely see Trump's daily COVID-19 briefings dominating the news, their popularity among Americans causing some media moguls to limit coverage.
On the other hand, an excuse to keep Biden from making his trademark gaffes might work to his advantage, since the more Joe opens his mouth, the less viable he could become as an effective candidate. Perhaps handlers may find it to their guy's advantage that the economy has taken a terrible hit, leaving Trump vulnerable in an area once considered his greatest strength.
Or the new normal could give Old Joe a platform to brag how he would have handled the pandemic and what he would do to ensure that it never happens again. It could also provide an opportunity for the Democrat ticket to pledge even more millions — maybe trillions — to stem the tide and buy the votes.
When the infected air clears, Biden and his No Malarkey bus will be back on the campaign trail. How he fares in that window before the convention might determine the delegates' deliberations. In any event, he may find that coming back from enforced political obscurity is no small challenge.
Facing the biggest battle of his long political career, Joe Biden can take heart in the bit of wisdom he often quotes from his blue-collar worker dad: "Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up." I suspect that his Republican rival will find that advice equally sound.
BIDEN: DEAD MAN WALKING.... Along side Hillary Clinton pushing Joe
over the edge and into the grave.
Joe Biden is as corrupt a politician as there ever was, who
absolutely is guilty and compromised by his efforts to enrich his ne'er-do-well
son, his brother, sister and daughter.
Hillary is also a narcissist of the worst order, the kind who
never takes responsibility for the havoc she has wrought on the lives of
others, let alone her country. She is in fact one of the most corrupt
politicians ever to prevail for so many years, to become fabulously wealthy for
her many deceits and crimes.
A Biden candidacy — what's the plan? There is always a plan
Why,
when Joe Biden's mental decline is so obvious, are so many former Obamaphiles
pledging their spurious support for the man? Something's up. It
is beyond clear that Biden is not up to the job. This fact cannot
escape the notice of Susan Rice, James Comey, John Brennan, et al., all those
conspirators who tried so treasonously hard to destroy Donald
Trump. They surely know better than most that Biden is a dead man
walking. So why the all-out campaign to support his
candidacy? Hmmm.
They
must have a plan. Is their plan to submarine Joe before the
convention, admit he is incapacitated, and put up a heretofore untested
candidate at a brokered convention? Or do they have a plan to
appoint a V.P. candidate they assume will become president in short
order? Perhaps, as Joel Gilbert
speculated here
yesterday, the plan is to install Hillary as the candidate to run against
President Trump in a last-ditch effort to derail his fabulously successful
presidency. They certainly have some devious scheme to replace Biden
by hook or crook, for his dementia cannot possibly have escaped their notice.
The
now available Hillary documentary for all to see is probably meant to prime the
public for her potential last-minute candidacy. It is not very
likely to be successful. She is the kind of harridan who makes
Elizabeth Warren seem kind and gentle! Hillary is also a
narcissist of the worst order, the kind who never takes responsibility for the
havoc she has wrought on the lives of others, let alone her
country. She is in fact one of the most corrupt politicians ever to
prevail for so many years, to become fabulously wealthy for her many deceits
and crimes. She has been a blight upon the U.S. since she gained
power as the wife of the governor of Arkansas. She spent forty years
covering up for her husband's crimes against women and has somehow lived to
tell no tales. Her fans are certifiable morons, susceptible to any and all
of the propaganda the left propels into the mainstream media. She
has yet to endorse Biden. To support his candidacy is to deny his
indisputable advancing dementia.
Credit
to the voters of South Carolina is due for sure: they understand the horror an
American-hating communist would perpetrate upon this great nation. A
Bernie Sanders presidency would be the end of America as
founded. Those who support him either are tragically ignorant of the
genocidal reality of socialism wherever tried or hate their own nation so
much they are willing to suffer the monstrous consequences of electing a
communist president.
Make
no mistake: Bernie Sanders intends to be a communist president if
elected. Like Castro, Maduro, Chávez, Lenin, and all the dictators
he so admires, he would be a tyrant. For nearly fifty years, he has
wanted to punish those who fend for themselves and succeed. A man
who admires Fidel Castro must never come to power in America. Never. Bless
those voters in South Carolina who know this.
Sadly,
Joe Biden was their only other choice. Chances are, those same
voters will vote for President Trump in November. They were savvy
enough to know that Sanders would be a disaster; they are shrewd enough to know
that Joe Biden is senile. Most of us of a certain age recognize
advancing senility when we see it because we have seen it ourselves; we know
the heartbreak. Joe is done. So what is their plan?
Whatever
it is, it cannot be good for the American people. The left never
considers the American people, never gives a thought to its
constituents. Leftists are always and only about power and their continued
access to the wealth that power provides for them. They are certain of
their own superiority, their due privilege to lead and control the rest of
us. The fact that Mike Bloomberg actually thought he could step in
and purchase the presidency with his billions is proof of the left's
mindset. His failure to succeed was delicious; the American people
cannot be bought. Some of them can be fooled for a while, but in the
end, their good sense prevails. That is how we elected the best
president in decades, Donald Trump. They will re-elect him in
November despite the left and left media's never-ending attempts to destroy his
presidency. When the history of the left's wholesale assault on
America, its founding principles and values from the 1960s on, is written, it
will prove that the nation was under constant assault by the anti-American
left. The left has successfully indoctrinated two generations of
university students to loathe their country. Leftists have
successfully made race, class, and sex the defining characteristics of every
person, who must be a designated member of a victim group or an oppressor. They
give no credence to the value of the individual or to any individual's
character. MLK is rolling over in his grave.
All
of those leftists coming out of the woodwork to support Joe Biden know only too
well that he is an intellectual lightweight, "wrong on every foreign
policy issue for forty years," (Robert Gates), a mean-spirited bastard who
delighted in destroying Robert Bork and humiliating the great Clarence
Thomas. He is as corrupt a politician as there ever was, who absolutely
is guilty and compromised by his efforts to enrich his ne'er-do-well son, his
brother, sister and daughter. The thought of this man even becoming
close to the presidency is abhorrent. Whatever his pseudo-supporters have in
mind, it is not good for the American people; not one bit. We will soon learn
what their plan is. Chances are it won't be pretty and chances are the American
people will not fall for it.
The Democratic Party Is
Wounded and Dangerous
Beware
the wounded animal. In pain and desperation, it will do violent
things. It seems to me no coincidence that Joe Biden's big win on
Super Tuesday was followed by Democratic senator Chuck Schumer threatening
conservative members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Joe
Biden is hardly Lancelot to President Trump's dragon. The Democrats
and the Deep State needed a first-class warrior; instead, their best option is
a walking advertisement for Alzheimer's awareness. In his best days, Joe Biden
was the political equivalent of Jack McCall, shooting his adversaries in the
back. When he wasn't using his position of power for financial
gain or stealing other people's words, he was helping his family line their own
pockets. Today, he's a disoriented and stumbling shell of an
unimportant political hack who looks on in confusion while his wife does his
fighting for him. If you've ever wondered what happens to the
shriveled soul of a lifetime liar and Democratic swindler, just cast your eyes
upon Old Joe. He's a walking, talking effigy of Democratic
corruption and amorality. He's what the Democratic Party usually keeps
far off the main stage for the back-alley entertainment; now he's the main
event, but no amount of stick-prodding by Donna Brazile or Tom Perez is going
to turn Joe Biden into Fred Astaire. He's a freak-show carnival
attraction at best, amazing onlookers by his ability to occasionally jumble
audible words together into a sentence. The Democrats needed a man
who could command a movement; all they got was a man who can barely control his
own.
I'm
not saying President Trump's re-election is in the bag. Far from
it. We've never seen such an array of villains acting in concert to
take down an American president. The Democratic Party has most of
the permanent bureaucratic Deep State (as well as stealthy anti-Trump
Republicans), Wall Street, Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela, cosmopolitan Europe,
global warming doomsayers, the Middle East's worst terrorists, and domestic
Antifa terrorists here at home all actively working to dislodge President Trump
from the White House. In the past, the chiefs of our intelligence
agencies and clandestine services retired into relative obscurity, cognizant
that duty commanded their silent withdrawal into the pages of
history. After orchestrating a coup against the American president,
however, it is not unusual to see the former heads of Obama's CIA, FBI, and NSC
all tirelessly justifying their criminal acts on cable news each
night. The corporate news media and institutional government have
spent years trying to gin up enough hysteria in the nation that mock beheadings
of the president and ritual re-enactments of his assassination during summer
theater might lead the American people to clamor for the real thing.
So,
no, the 2020 election will not be over until all the votes have been counted on
November 3, and it becomes clear that we have successfully preserved Western
civilization for at least a little while longer from this most recent
manifestation of Vienna's bloody 1683 siege. All I am saying is that
Joe Biden was never meant to be the establishment's champion for resurrecting
their oligarchic power. They wanted a formidable presidential
nominee, someone who could check all the right identity politics boxes while
stringing words together that were substantively meaningless while singularly
inspiring. Instead, they're settling for a politician past his
expiration date who sounds less crème de la crème and more
soused in crème de menthe. The Democratic Party may depend on dead
voters to win elections, but running dead candidates is another thing
altogether.
So
just because the cable news anchors and Carville clones are all high-fiving
each other and cheering for managing to narrowly prevent a communist disciple
of Stalin and Castro from sewing up the Democratic nomination for president by
the beginning of March, don't forget how disappointed they are at
heart. If Biden goes on to clinch the nomination, the Democratic
Party will have managed to take all the aloof, plain, manila-folder blandness
of John Kerry and combine it with the alertness and energy of a nursing home
after pill rounds. This is the one whom the commentariat is
celebrating right now, the guy Obama and the gang blocked from running in 2016
because they felt him not quite up for the challenge when he was four years
younger. The vice president during the slowest economic recovery
since the Great Depression, the wordsmith who marveled at Obama for being
strangely "articulate" for a black guy, and the obtrusive
shoulder-rubber whose chief political instinct was to sniff the hair of the
wives and daughters of White House officials and visiting
dignitaries. Imagine being in such dire straits because the previous
Democratic president so hollowed out the party's future by losing over a
thousand elected officials across the country during his time in office that
the last, great hope to beat President Trump this year is just hoping to make
it to bed each afternoon before saying something so inappropriate or illogical
or ridiculous that Red Bernie becomes the Democrat's Dear Leader by
default. For every minute of his few wakeful hours, his handlers
have to be on constant guard against the possibility that a voice in Biden's
head will scream, "Oh, look, a young child with wonderful-smelling
hair." "Comeback Joe"? More like
"Come back, Joe!"
The
Democrats and the Deep State have spent the last four years constructing the
greatest wag-the-dog spectacle America's ever seen in an attempt to cover up
the malfeasance and criminality of the last administration, while preventing
the current one from achieving too many victories. Considering that Brennan
and Comey are still free and Obama and Hillary are still smiling, they've been
remarkably successful. But the Mueller obfuscation and Schiff circus
are behind us, the dance music of delay is dying down, and the Democrats' and
Deep State's ability to keep pushing back their day of reckoning is coming to
an end. If they don't win in 2020, they cannot keep justice at bay,
regardless of how stacked in their favor it has always been in the
past. And standing in the gap as their last-ditch prospect to save
them from President Trump's re-election and spare them from long delayed
judgment is none other than Corn Pop's archenemy. The one
"reasonable" Democrat in the race who has already burnished his
"moderate" credentials by fully embracing Bernie's Green New Deal,
Warren's Medicare for All, and Beto's door-to-door gun
confiscation. Nothing says "electable centrist Democrat"
like "D'oh!" Biden's full tilt toward Marxist
socialism. No wonder Chuck Schumer sounds like some injured animal
in the forest, lashing out at tree branches all around him. That's
what small, weak, dying creatures do when they know the end is near.
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