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The Democrat Strategy to Win the Election
On Sunday, there were nine days until the election, and Biden did not campaign at any events. Today (Monday), there are eight days until the election, and Biden is not campaigning at any events. Meanwhile, Trump draws large enthusiastic crowds wherever he goes. And he’s going all over the country.
Democrats appear to be even more concerned, however, by the Trump rallies occurring all over America, in which Trump is not even there. The boat parades, car parades, and marches through towns while enthusiastic Trump voters wave flags and demonstrate how excited they are to vote for their candidate. And then there’s, um, you know, Joe Biden.
The Arizona Independent News Network had a story last week about two parades – one for Trump and one for Biden, on the same day in Arizona (see picture above). The Trump parade involved well over 10,000 cars (some say 20,000 cars) and stretched out over 30 miles of interstate (some say closer to 90 miles of interstate). Waving flags, honking horns, and playing music. The Biden parade, according to the news story, was a little different:
Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes arranged for a mariachi band to serenade a parade of 6 voters as they drop off their ballots at an early voting center.
Nicole Pastuer, spokesperson for the Biden campaign, said of the parade in a tweet that she had “never seen people so excited—so proud and emotional—to vote.”
This is a representative Tweet from Nicole Pasteur. She is the Arizona Press Secretary for ‘Biden for President.” With Democrat voters spontaneously demonstrating how thrilled they are with their candidate, her job must be pretty easy. This is what Democrat enthusiasm looks like!
Such disparities cannot be escaping notice by Democrats. Surely they’ve picked up on a bit of a difference in enthusiasm, here.
One way to win an election is to nominate an impressive leader who exudes competence, with a powerful personality and an inspiring message of hope, promising better days to come.
The Democrats are, apparently, attempting to win this election with some other strategy.
I think I know what that strategy is. And I think we’ll find out for sure the day after the election.
But I think they have to get the election over with before they can attempt to win the presidency. I could be wrong, of course. Perhaps the riots, legal challenges, and voter fraud that I am anticipating won’t happen.
It just seems to me that Democrats aren’t terribly interested in the actual election. Joe Biden certainly doesn’t seem to be.
So I think their real effort to win the presidency comes afterwards.
We’ll see. In nine days.
Published in General
I just learned today that Joe Biden has done only 26 rallies since the convention. Since the convention. Curiously, 10 of them in Pennsylvania. The rest scattered among some other battleground states.
The President has been averaging, what, three per day?
Remember that most Biden voters are six feet under, so they can’t attend his events in person.
At least not before sunset. But that runs into Sleepy Joe’s bed time.
That’s absolutely astounding.
Not really. He was always a Potemkin candidate. Media, insider string pulling and a strategy to present a fossil as a front to keep from scaring elderly normals into bolting from the real agenda.
Biden flopped in every previous attempt to secure the nomination because he has no base, no natural constituency in large part because he has no principles, values or moral core. And he is not really likeable. He is creepy around women and says weird things.
Richard Nixon had far more fans and far more charisma.
When Biden does have a rally, despite enough cash and ground troops to bring out hordes, nobody shows so a public appearance is (a) embarrassing and (b) another opportunity to issue a gaffe so big the MSM cannot Tapper it into non-existence.
A Trump Parade rolled into Flagstaff on Saturday afternoon. The residents here had no warning that it was coming, Instead suddenly, Route 66, the main thoroughfare through town was jammed with honking cars and trucks, and motorists who were minding their own business were greatly delayed in getting across town. This certainly failed to positively impress local residents.
I grabbed one of my t-shirts and stood on the side of the road, holding up my Republicans for Biden t-shirt. I got lots of thumbs up from motorists who were stuck in the instant parade. (I do not know how to rotate the image.)
I hope nobody is stupid enough to vote for Biden because they got stuck in traffic once.
Does nobody remember the Clinton and Obama traffic snarls? Like, when getting haircuts?
Can you imagine how they’d react if an Antifa/BLM “demonstration” rolled into town?
Those seem to be your options: happy, joyful, enthusiastic people honking horns, or angry, murderous rioters and looters burning down your city.
Choose wisely.
To say nothing of Eric Holder’s.
Maybe they did it because you finally stopped hogging the restroom . . .
This is known as ‘justification’. When you have resolved to do something that goes against most every standard or principle you claim to hold dear, you have to find a way to rationalize doing what you know in your core is wrong.
So when you hate Trump for his personality and for his status as ‘not one of us’ you have to find justifications for abandoning all your conservative and constitutional principles and voting for the stalking horse for Marxism and Statism – Biden. Getting stuck in traffic one day is a perfect example. I mean, really! How rude!
Nobody, not one person, changed their vote because of a traffic jam. But plenty seize on it as one more justification for their turning renegade to all they claim to stand for.
Given the choice between originalist judges and packing the court, America first trade foreign policy and hastening American decline , and so on, what would Reagan do, after all!
I have a suggestion for a new caption for your T-shirt – I would suggest a quote from Robert Frost:
“A liberal is a man to broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”
Do you think the people in the parade are the only local residents supporting Trump? And if so, why haven’t you organized a Biden parade on the lesser-used side streets of Flagstaff?
I know you have a lot of company in your support as a Republican for Biden, but I cannot fathom why this movement exists when I look at President Trump’s conservative cabinet, which we will lose instantly in a Biden administration:
Ben Carson alone is worth keeping Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
When I consider the damage to the country that a Biden cabinet will do, I shudder. Why would any Republican wish that on the world?
These are the hardworking heroes who have kept the U.S. ship on an even keel for the past pandemic year.
Celebration of bad orange man are bad, clearly
wonder who the band members will vote for….
Flagstaff had a series of BLM demonstrations after the George Floyd death. They were peaceful, with one exception. When someone tried to commit vandalism, he was stopped and was turned over to the police by the BLM demonstrators.
It is not Trump’s personality per se, it is his character, that troubles me.
I did not recognize anyone in the parade as being from Flagstaff. I was a Republican Precinct Committeeman, and know a bunch of local folks. I was puzzled about this until I read that they had organized a caravan and went to a number of towns.
But Biden is unassailable, right? In your grand evaluation of their inner souls, you find Quid Pro Joe to be the easy choice. Says a lot.
The Dems are busy on phone banks and having people get their ballots in. They are taking COVID-19 really seriously.
I doubt it.
Moderator Note:
Please, no name calling.But Biden is AOK.
Here is something to consider. I don’t want to be a downer, but I think a lot of analysis is missing the obvious. This is not a normal year. It is a covid year. Not all, but most, of the people I know who are shuttering at home, wearing masks everywhere they go (even in their own yards), and refusing to interact with anyone are all leftists. Joe Biden is hiding in his basement, but so are a great many of his supporters. In WA state, ballots are mailed to your house. I voted 2 weeks ago. I dropped my ballot off at the courthouse rather than putting it in the mail… but I could easily have voted from underneath my bed.
I wouldn’t read too much into the fact that it is only republicans who are out at these campaign events this year. I am not so sure that it means they outnumber democrats or that their enthusiasm is exponentially higher. Republicans are the ones leaving their houses right now, but democrats are still going to vote.
Fat chance. We’re talking about Gary, here.
I like the simpler version. Don’t be so open-minded that your brain falls out.
Of course! Fondling women in public is a lot classier than saying the p-word in a private conversation, dontcha know . . .
I will say if Biden is going to win, it’s going to come down to ‘freedom’ vs. ‘security’ voters, since the outward enthusiasm is all on Trump’s side right now. Biden voters have to be too worried about the virus to show up at events, though as I’ve noted before lots of people you’d assume would be voting for Joe haven’t had problems going to BLM, Antifa or other events over the past four months (as for the phone banks, the question there is whether or not that will be more effective than the Trump door-t0-door efforts over the last few months, which again goes back to the ‘freedom’ vs. ‘security’ issue).
I would not care to have a beer or a coffee with either one.
That’s bad, but selling influence to Chinese Communists is far worse.