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My Time Is Up
Okay, I’m a bad person for immensely enjoying this cup o’ Schadenfreude. But … how can you not enjoy this cluster* of a Democrat primary? I mean, for one, it has such beautiful symmetry with the prior GOP primary race of 2015/2016. Lunchbucket Joe plays the part of Jeb!, the favorite, the front-runner, the pedigree. Jeb! (please clap) and Joe surged to the lead in their respective summers (2015 and 2019).
They both did all the right things in putting their resumes together over the course of decades in a substantive career. They had consultants, fundraisers, and money locked up. And they both counted former Presidents as their best buddies in the entire world! And they were contenders! Oh boy, is this parade great!
But alas, along the parade route to each’s inauguration a protest broke out to shut the parade down.
In response to a booming economy, low unemployment, and an America that is getting greater every day, the loons in Joe’s party are suggesting free stuff for everybody … including non-citizens who have illegally entered our country. And appearance is of the utmost importance now! Forget success, knowledge, experience or accomplishments. It only matters what you look like! And what gender you pander to, including supporting the right of a trans female (i.e. a man) to abort a baby too. Old and white is definitely out! That is, unless you are a communist who has the inner child of a 10-year-old or you are a fake Indian who identifies as a female. If not, this is not your party any longer, old man!
So, just like Jeb!, Joe can see the writing on the wall. These new kids on the block have just worn him out. ‘My time is up’. What once were his ‘strengths’ … are now just more weaknesses to the crazies running his party. Back in the day, his party was a big tent. Yuge. It allowed for the likes of Grand Kleagle Byrd, James Eastland, and Herman Talmadge, as well as lionizing serial philanderers, rapists and murderers and raising them to the highest levels of power in the party, with the media’s “All-In” advocacy and propaganda.
But no! Now that it’s “Joe’s Turn”, all of that is thrown out the window and is a detriment to his resume rather than an enhancement. Nobody told him! He’s been the good soldier. He stood down for Hillary in 2016 in the interest of the party, even though he could have been the third term of his best bud Barack. This could not be more unfair!
So, what’s a guy to do? Is it time to just pack it in? My time is up in this cruel, cruel world?
If you’re Joe Biden, that’s not what you do! You are the Scrapper from Scranton after all! When the going gets tough …. the tough get going! You have dirt on the other contenders too. Release it! America needs you! Don’t let these kids take it from you!
Fight, Joe, Fight! Let’s get Physical!
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This could get good.
Do you think Joe might get mad enough at a future debate to bring up Willie Brown?
We can hope. “I thought we were beyond having women sleep their way to the top and into public office, but not Kamala Harris…”
Yet, it is easy for Joe to be the most sane.
I predict that Joe Biden will transition to being visually female and win the nomination. You heard it here first.
Leave it to the Germans to have a word for malicious delight in the misfortune of others.
Joe is dumb. Dumb people come to wrong conclusions. He thinks that he should play opposite Trump ( sorta) so he acts humble, polite, and soft spoken. Maybe he’s partially right, except the side effects of that portrayal is looking like a “please clap” kinda guy.
To someone like Joe, or Jeb!, for that matter, the Presidency is the pomp, the circumstance, and the importance. They think it’s about the person, the man. And that person is an actor who simply fills a role. If that were the whole Presidency, Jeb, Joe or any number of empty suit phony politicians can fill the job, and try to get through the day saying as little as possible, changing as little as possible and trying not to do anything that could be or look like a mistake.
We are watching old time politicians wither away. Finally….
The best thing I ever heard about Biden was right after Obama picked him for a running mate. He was making one of his famous foot-in-mouth speeches, and a friend of mine noted, “Remember, he’s the gravitas.”
Columbo,
The dignity of the Democratic Party would be thrown into the mud. Surely you wouldn’t want that.
Regards,
Jim
Better Joe than Kamala.
However, don’t count “Good Ol’ Joe” out just yet. It only takes one turd for a front-runner to step in, then they sink into the abyss known as the has-been cesspool.
And even those turds rise to the top and resurface . . .
Mark Steyn was predicting this a month ago. Perhaps the NTers should start reading him.
Biden-Harris: a match made in not-Heaven
Biden’s primary fate is probably going to come down, ironically, to the same type of ‘silent supporter’ that carried Trump to victory in 2016. Not the same people, of course, but Democrats who look at the party’s Warp 11 move to the far left, and know that in the party’s bubble, that’s what all the cool kids are talking about this summer, but don’t want to go that way, and at the same time, know they might be declared an Enemy of the State by other hyper partisan, hyper-angry Democrats, if they come out openly and say that prefer the geezer who opposed busing when Richard Nixon was still in the White House.
But he needs a lot of those people to be concentrated in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, and he’s in a party that tends to act far more on both their emotions and which buttons the media collectively starts to push, when it comes to which candidates are and aren’t favored. If the media decides Kamala Harris is the party’s next Golden Child to follow Barack Obama, wacky-but-lovable Uncle Joe being Obama’s VP might do nothing to stop the stampede (even as Harris makes her own gaffes, such as not simply attacking Biden over his alliance with Southern Democrats in the early 70s on busing, but then coming out and backing the idea of forced school busing as a key part of her plans for the 2020s).
Don’t the stupid and ignorant deserve representation also? Don’t the arrogant? Josephine Biden for President 2020!
I remember back when the claim was made that Obama had picked Biden because, unlike Obama, old Joe had been on the Senate foreign relations committee since time immemorial, so that gave the “team” the foreign policy chops Obama lacked.
And I thought “Yeah, right. Biden, who’s been wrong on every foreign policy issue I could recall.”
Rather I just concluded he’d been picked as Obama’s insurance policy against impeachment for when he’d begin his “fundamental transformation of America” shtick.
I think your conclusion is spot on, and I agreed with you at the time. If it were not for the utter, arrogant incompetence of Obama and his team, we’d have a lot more to do to straighten out the country. It’s bad enough as it is, but they wanted to make it worse.
It’s not whether Joe Biden was really a foreign policy expert with “gravitas”, it’s whether the media thought they could sell him as such to the American people.
This is one of the advantages of being a Democratic candidate: you just have to look the part, the media will do the rest.
Bingo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJhCjMfRndk
Reagan’s comeback after a terrible debate with Mondale.
I still think Joe will win the nomination. After all, Hillary did… Despite the gross of candidates running, they are all so far left that the average Democrat voter will not even buy in to it. They know a Warren or a Sanders won’t beat Trump, and “beat Trump” defines the platform for the party this election.
I don’t believe Joe can beat Trump, but they do, and that is what counts.
No matter who wins this free for all, it will be fun to watch as they each tear the others down for not being woke enough, or socialist enough, or pro abortion enough. Can the gay white guy really represent the straight black woman and can she represent the Hispanic illegal? Of course not. In the end, the majority of Democrat victim groups will feel, well, victimized by the winner not being one of them.
It’s gonna be an interesting year.
I can see the entertainment value, but then I reflect that one of these loons has a fair chance to be the next President. Kinda ruins the fun for me.
In CNN poll, Harris & Warren rise and Biden falls.
Biden doesn’t have the power base of Clinton, Inc., that Hillary had behind her, in the many thousands of people who saw a big payday for themselves in both money and power if Hillary won the election. Biden’s main asset with the Democrats’ voter pool isn’t who he is, but who he was as Obama’s vice-president, to where he can run as supposedly being Obama’s third term.
That’s one of the factors in the attacks by Harris and others on his opposition to busing. It’s not just to make him look bad for who he was aligned with, but to try to untie him from Obama by throwing race cards at normally-wacky-but-lovable Uncle Joe. All Obama has to do between now and Iowa is come out and say something that sounds supportive of one of the other candidates and it wouldn’t matter if he never says anything about Biden — his candidacy would sink like a rock if the voting base and the media thought Barack was now pulling for someone else.
I would find it hilarious that the Democrat platform is now in support of busing, if it weren’t so horrifying. I was bused in 6th grade within a suburb of Cleveland — from one white neighborhood school to another. There were maybe four black families with kids in the whole school system. But, hey. This is government efficiency in desegregation.
Yes, I see that. But none of the other candidates have the power base that even Biden has. He is a terrible candidate ( as was Hillary, Kerry, Gore, etc) but he is, on paper at least, the best they have. Sure, the multitudes running will savage him on many issues, but in the end, when you have to pick your candidate, and all you really care is ‘beat Trump’, which of the identity wielding, victim hood touting socialists on the ballot have a serious shot?
When it is about winning first, people go for the familiar, experienced, moderate type. And due to the extremism of the rest of the field, that is Biden.
Of course with the left there is the possibility they will throw the dice on the gay guy or a woman, and think no deeper than that, but I think beating Trump will outweigh those considerations for the average primary voter and they will go with the ‘sure’ thing. And they will think it a sure thing. Like they did Hillary.
Well, well … well!
Kamala has now reached a virtual tie with Uncle Joe!
I’m guessing that Joe wants to open up a can of whoop ass on her … as does Lizzy (14%) and Bernie (13%)!
Kamala versus Biden is from the deep psyche of the dems. Woman of color challenges old white guy. That’s the drama they’ve been itching for. Facts don’t matter here. Biden has a role and Kampala will make sure she pretends well enough that the scene plays out for the audience watching the soap opera.
And politics is a lot like a soap opera in another aspect. Everyone has a job but no one works.
Kamala will be anointed by the dnc hacks to be the female Barack … ‘the one that we’ve been waiting for’ … uh, huh …
From a physical standpoint, she is most certainly a stronger presence …
I wonder what Michele thinks?
I’d enjoy the flapdoodle that would follow if a debate moderator would ask all the current crop of Dems in the race to pledge their support to whoever their party’s eventual nominee may be.
Not only would their responses provide laughs, but it opens the way for either Hildabeest or Michelle to emerge as the save-the-party candidate. Heh.