Someone has decided…
…that Joe Biden is too old, too white, too Sleepy (is that the same as “unwoke?”), and too loaded with baggage to be able to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020.
Funny thing is, till now Biden had seemed to be the one best poised to beat Trump. Then again, it’s very early. But I really don’t know who the Democrats think should be their front-runner instead. Seems to me that none of the present candidates have the oomph to be carried to victory.
But voters often surprise me.
I have never understood the deep affection for Biden so many Democrats seem to feel. I didn’t understand it even when I was a Democrat. His “loveable, crazy old uncle” schtick has long grown stale and, in any case, why would you want a crazy old uncle in the White House?
He strikes me as half senile now, but he’s always been an odd duck…prone to endless gaffes, erratic comments and odd behavior. And yet, so many Democrats just shrug it all off , when most other politicians (particularly white males in today’s “woke” Democratic party) would have long seen their political prospects collapse had they said or done half the things he has.
In short, I hope this is a calculated attempt to take him down and I hope it is successful. It’s long overdue.
Put him out to pasture already.
The MSM is going to have to go through some very strenuous contortions to avoid considering the phenomenon that is Hunter.
Ackler:
No one was interested in Biden till Obama the Wonderful chose him as Veep. Since then, people have been forcing themselves to like Biden, for want of a better alternative candidate.
That’s my take on it, anyway.
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People are also tired of all the political infighting and probably saw Biden as respite. If he gets knocked out, the battles in the clown car may make Trump seem like the respite they want.
The remarkable thing about the list of Democrat candidates is that, by this time next year, one of them WILL be the nominee… even if none of them seem in any way reasonable.
Perhaps in retrospect it will appear inevitable. But they’re going to nominate someone. My only question is: will they at least try to avoid the appearance of impropriety this time? Or will they play the shady games they played in 2008 and 2016?
A generation ago, Pat Buchanan offered that Biden’s absurd appropriation of Neil Kinnock’s biography made the term ‘hollow man’ nearly literal. You’d have thought a demonstration of mendacity that blatant would have wrecked him, but the voters of Delaware returned him to Congress four more times. Delaware was something of a red state prior to 1990; in subsequent years, the Republican Party there seems to have been taken over by people so inept that Christine O’Donnell was one of the better performers in statewide contests.
Aside from the clownishness, he has no executive experience, hardly any history in the private sector, and an embarrassing academic history. Yet, he’s still going.
“… till now Biden had seemed to be the one best poised to beat Trump.”
No he isn’t. He’s just the most likely with a “D” to advance to the position of delegated contender .
Maybe if he WANTED the office, WANTED to campaign, or HAD some demonstrative history, and didn’t need to be drafted by the puppet masters as “the most sensible one” relative to the fright wigs and floppy shoes found in clown car…
But let’s hear some MORE of Mr. Biden’s “thoughts”, identity group speeches, and THIS weeks version of his “big ideas”.
The guy is a stuttering, half senile geezer.
The kind of con man who’d put his arm around your shoulders, lean confidently in, and try to sell you a clunker, or some worthless land that is underwater in the gator infested Okefenokee swamp.
I have to say, it seems clear and undeniably a truth that Joe’s love for America is touching…
Biden is low energy. He reminds me of me on that count. I’m now obviously old and decrepit and so is he.
IMO, Biden seems sensible to those Dems who are still somewhat sensible. But he has no chance in this field. The Dem voters in the caucuses are going to go for more high energy and woke candidates. I think that Mayor Pete and Elizabeth Warren will be leaders in the primaries after a couple of debates. Mayor Pete because he sounds reasonable and is very much like Obama in that people see in him what they want to see. Warren because she is very high energy and has “plans” for everything. Bernie may hang in for a while, but he seems to be fading. I see no other Dem candidates that seem to have much to offer. However, considering my predictive abilities in previous political races, it would be smart to bet against my picks. 🙂
Rather than turning toward name recognition, they need another stealth candidate. It worked for Obama, no? Of course, a hidden life is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain.
They are not deciding those reasons, those are the reasons for public consumption
They are deciding that point on self preservation…
Looking to what the public’s attitude would be after Biden takes the great stats and hope baby boomers and others have in new businesses, etc… and slams the break to move backwards a bit…
When he is a dolt usually, the dems dont get the blame of anything as a whole, its just the dumb arse… however, as President Post Turtle everyone will blame who for putting him on the post as the only choice vs the alternative vote?
Sensible is relative to the field. Since the field is a bunch of lunatics, Biden’s brand of BS makes sensible out of senile.
I think Biden is probably the only Democrat who could take Trump down. Of course, this current group of Democrats don’t seem to like him too much and are doing their best (or having the media do their best) to undermine him. I’ve known many reasonable liberals over the years who liked Biden.
Biden is this year’s “old hand who has waited his/her turn” candidate. We’ve seen those before: Muskie, Dole, Mondale, Jeb!, McCain and Hillary.
They are known quantities comfortable to voters and they usually start strong a year or so out, but they turn out to be poor candidates as the campaign heats up and people get to know them better. These candidates don’t really have a good reason to run and voters discover they really don’t have a good reason to vote for them.
I’m immune to Biden’s charm after I heard how mindlessly vicious he could be in his debate with Paul Ryan in 2008.
I think Biden is probably the only Democrat who could take Trump down.
Melissa: On paper, yes. He’s got a great strategy as the only not-insane Democrat in this cycle. Unfortunately, just as Hillary was Hillary, Joe Biden is Joe Biden. He’s not smart, he makes mistakes and he has no charisma to offer voters. All that will become increasingly obvious.
Plus the SJW long knives are out for him and he’s got plenty of soft targets.
JB s an idiot ad siltanouesly a talented grifter. He is a stopped clock that is never twice right a day. He will not be the dem nominee. That belongs to a ovary blessed white black or brown. The fight is between Kamala or Cheroke Liz. In this battle XY need not apply. Sorrg Cory, you have an estrogen deficiency.
I don’t believe that Slow Joe will survive the Democrat primaries.
I also do not believe that those primaries will result in a clear favorite, and that the Convention will have to painfully come to some compromise candidate. It could be one of the current 23, or it could be some dark horse from (ouch, sorry to say) left field.
This will be an election pitting Capitalism against Socialism, and it will be an existential contest.
There is a good reason why Obama won’t endorse Biden, and her name is Michelle! None of the 23 will really catch on, so a second Obama/savior will come to the rescue, perhaps as late as at the Dem convention.
Looks like Warren may have the current right stuff to go the distance in the Dem primaries after Biden and Sanders wither away. Earlier I was betting on Harris, but whatever she got from Willie Brown, it wasn’t his political brain. I would bet on Brown in Harris’s body against Trump. (Sounds like a fun Hollywood movie!)
Democrats don’t care about Fauxcohantas business. Though Trump will torment Warren endlessly on that score if she ends up running against him.
I go with Lowell that Michelle Obama is not far-fetched if the Dem primaries get crazy enough and they just might.
Boy, wouldn’t that be a grisly development. Bill, then Hill. Barack, then Michelle. New frontiers in nepotism!
Since the field is a bunch of lunatics,
Grotesque careerists pretending to be lunatics. Award for the most egregious goes to Kirsten Gillibrand.
Not sure if Delaney, Hickenlooper, Gabbard, or Yang have offered any lunacy to date.
Sanders, I think, believes what he says. I’m wagering he’d prefer to dump the SJW crap and stick to tax rape.
Joe “decaffeinated” Biden… woke and sleepy. Wake-up, Joe.
I go with Lowell that Michelle Obama is not far-fetched if the Dem primaries get crazy enough and they just might.
Long term patronage recipient whose chosen cause was making school lunches even more unpalatable than they have been. A woman who, by some accounts, wanted her husband at age 39 to get out of public office and was wretchedly disappointed when he flubbed the interview for the director’s job at the Joyce Foundation. A woman whose comment about political fundraisers was that being in other people’s homes was giving her a lot of great decorating ideas. I’m sure she’s just itching to be in it.
Art Deco: Please credit my words, if you’re going to use them.
I don’t think Michelle O. is itching to run for President, but she strikes me as a serious enough leftist to do so in order to further that agenda, as well as to restore what she could of her husband’s legacy, if it seemed a reasonable possibility.
In 1967 Lurleen Wallace, wife of George Wallace, ran for and won the Governorship of Alabama, when her husband wasn’t eligible to run again. It was clear to all, she would be a figurehead and her husband would be running things behind the scenes. As it turned out, she had a fatal cancer and spent the final fifteen months of her life as Governor.
It’s a very messy story, but my point is that it happened, so I wouldn’t rule out Michelle in 2020.
You’ve got to know Obama hasn’t given up his pursuit of power and influence. He didn’t leave the White House to go back home and study oil painting as Bush 43 did. No, he rents a house in Washington and is operating behind the scenes.
I don’t doubt if there was a real chance to return to the White House with President Michelle, Obama would push for it.