Posted on 10/19/2015 11:35:46 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
“The Democrat presidential field is so weak, so incredibly feeble, that Joe Biden looks like he could be its savior.” That’s utterly priceless! The field is so weak and incredibly feeble that they’re going to send in another old, white guy - this one an escapee from the Village Idiot farm - to rescue them.
I heard from someone, who is very good friends of the Bidens, that this was still quite up in the air.
Biden has run before and never done very well. Now he could win the nomination by default since he is all that they have left.
They’ve done everything possible to save Hillary’s backside but guess it wasn’t enough so he has to step into the nomination.
No reason to be condescending.
My comment was about Biden not questioning Trump. I know Trump has been around the block a time or two.
My concern is that the general consensus seems to be that Biden is a circus clown or a fool or a crazy “Uncle”.
Biden is a mean, vicious, vile, in your face, do whatever it takes to win politician.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGNsZgI0MA0
People might laugh at what we in FR call “Crazy Old Uncle Joe”.
But be careful what you wish for if he wins the Democratic nomination.
He polls well against ALL Republican candidates.... better than Hillary.
I'm not sure that being VP assures much of anything. George H. W. Bush won in 1988 but Nixon lost in 1960, Humphrey in 1968, Mondale in 1984 (as former VP) and Gore in 2000. Johnson won in 1964 and Ford lost in 1976 as former VPs who were elevated to POTUS and ran as incumbents.Sitting Vice Presidents traditionally do well in elections. Even Algore almost pulled it off.
IMHO we have plenty to worry about, with Obama possibly packing Ohio with refugees who vote (D). But I don’t think Obama has enoughin
I don’t consider former VP and sitting VP to be the same thing at all. The office of VP is inherently of tenuous value; the VP is the political heir of the POTUS. That is the effect of the 12th Amendment. Since then there have been several VPs who inherited on the death of the POTUS. But men who, after the 12th Amendment, got elected POTUS as sitting VP are thin on the ground. Andrew Jackson saw his sitting VP win election. And so did Ronald Reagan. I think you won’t find another.According to
Nixon had five things go wrong which easily could have turned the squeaker 1960 defeat into a victory. One disappointment was that the popular President Eisenhower stayed above the fray rather than putting any of his prestige behind his VP. IMHO that would have been different if someone had told Ike that if Nixon won Ike would be the first POTUS since Andrew Jackson - whose picture is on the $20 bill - to see his sitting VP become POTUS.
- Nixon:
- A Life
I’d say, worry about ballot stuffing by immigrants in Ohio, and elsewhere, before you worry about Obama’s sitting VP having a tailwind from people wanting a third Obama term.
When Bush 41 was elected, he remarked that it had been a long time since the last sitting VP, Martin Van Buren, had been elected president [in 1836].
I guess I stand corrected, I always thought they usually won.
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