If the fix was in, it probably didn’t matter. Anyone would do. Unfortunately, we may never know.

It’s still my opinion that Joe fit the needs of the party very well. He could be cast as moderate, he could be hidden in his basement because he was in the most vulnerable population for Covid-19, and he could be manipulated after he was elected. The MSM could build him up as a fictional character who would restore moderation to the country. And many LIVs and RINOs bought it. Liker you, it mystifies me as to why they did.

You just asked. And the answer is ‘who cares’? Bernie Sanders in 2016 was polling better than Hellary against every Republican alternative. What you fancy is a marketing point isn’t.

I do not understand what motivates fools, and that includes the fools in my own family. They were willing to cast a ballot for a grotesque crook whose cognitive decline was manifest. That there was a great deal of fraud I have little doubt, but it was atop tens of millions of people being perverse and stupid. One disaster after another we’ve seen, and they just pretend it isn’t happening.

“Rubbish.”
Thank you good sir. May I ask which other Democrat candidate could have posed successfully as a moderate? Or do you believe the electorate was willing to vote for anyone except Orangeman Bad? Or, since they rigged the election in swing states, it didn’t matter who they nominated? I await your superior insight with bated breath.

Buttigieg was an indifferent performer as Mayor of South Bend and he’s an inveterate resumé builder and resumé puffer. However, he’s actually a quondam executive, has no known history of Warren-style biographical fiction, and doesn’t have any known history of throwing heavy objects at staff members. (All three of them have more ‘g’ than Harris).

Harris wasn’t any ‘logical choice’ and choosing Stacey Abrams – the quondam tax lawyer whose household finances are a mess – would have been another indicator of cognitive decline. Her occupational life has consisted of flitting from one thing to another and the most consequential public sector positions she’s held have been deputy corporation counsel (a patronage appointment) and state legislator.

Race and gender definitely gave Harris the job, but the other choices weren’t that great either, and for all the talk elsewhere about Harris being a California radical, it seems like the script for Democratic office-holders has already written and would be followed by any vice president.

I suspect if Biden’s team passed on Harris, they might have chosen Val Demings, rather than Stacey Abrams. Abrams would have antagonized too many people unnecessarily. Demings was something more than a left-wing icon (like Abrams), but she had been a cop literally (rather than metaphorically) like Harris, so Kamala was the logical choice

Harris wouldn’t have to be elevated by Congress. Biden resigns (or dies or is judged incompetent by the cabinet) and she’s president. I doubt a Republican Congress would block her choice for vice president. Most of the other choices she could make would be equally bad, and Republicans wouldn’t want Pelosi a heartbeat away from the presidency until 2025.

Also, Ron Klain or somebody else in the administration very much like him might just stay on. Harris has had trouble picking reliable people and might just decide to rely on Biden’s team for the rest of Biden’s term.

All-Expenses Paid Trips to Middle-Eastern Countries are a Thing. I know it’s congenitally difficult, but try not to Play Favorites, now… You being a Naturalized Brooklynite and all.

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Gabbard went to Damascus on a trip paid for by Assad supporters and when later asked if he was a Dictator and a murderer she never answered the question. Gabbard, like Glenn Greenwald is a left-wing paleocon. She also is an apologist for Maduro in Venezuela and the Iranian mullahs and let us not forget that she eventually endorsed the Drooling Idiot currently in the White House.

I have sometimes wondered if there is a commemorative plaque at whatever spot on the highway out to Jamaica which Fitzgerald may have had in mind when he wrote the chapter about the fatal car accident. I suppose it wasn’t a real place, but it’s possible there might have been some kind of place like that with a garage next to the road, back in the day.