Posted on 04/25/2015 11:08:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s very easy (and fun) to ridicule Joe Biden as a buffoon, but there are more than a few people who take him seriously as an alternative to Hillary Clinton as Democrat nominee. Biden fever is rising as Hillary herself is getting harder and harder to take as a serious nominee. Scott McKay argues in the American Spectator:
If ever there was an ill-fitting and ill-considered elevator pitch for a political candidate, it’s the narrative of Hillary Clinton as the defender of ordinary Americans. The sales job, which reportedly was the product of months of consideration from the Clinton campaign gurus, unraveled almost immediately. (snip)
If the Democrats are in position to win presidential elections consistently barring a major foul-up, then the smart play is to run someone anodyne and safe rather than to test their current demographic advantage.
But who is that anodyne, generic Democrat for whom they can shelve the ethically challenged, marble-mouthed former First Lady? There is the problem, and there is the dilemma the Democrats find themselves in as Schweizer’s shot reverberates through the countryside.
Writing in US News, Mark W. Davis argues that Joe Biden is the best alterative:
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is a happy warrior. But O’Malley’s inability to help elect his lieutenant governor as his successor has reduced him from a middle-weight to a welterweight.
Elizabeth Warren’s firebrand style could be counted on to cement a coalition of urban liberals with, well, more urban liberals, but the Massachusetts senator’s appeal among socially conservative Hispanics and blue-collar whites is questionable.
Jim Webb, the Reaganite ex-Marine turned populist liberal, is at best a curiosity.
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I don't see this in any of the latest polling. She LEADS in every poll today even with the email and Clinton Foundation scandal news.
Biden fever? That sounds like a sound condition that should get the person infected with it committed to a mental institution
I’d love to see the Idiot Biden run, he’s always good for a laugh.
“Biden fever? Is that like Dengue fever or Hemoraghic fever?
Hillary’s main vulnerability is she’s ethically challenged and is a cold fish.
She doesn’t across as a decent and likeable person to people.
I think it's some kind of encephalitis...
It was Democrats who threw her under the bus.
They may do it again. They know damn well that her track record indicates she'd be very comfortable as a Beltway Republican.
I confess, I don't believe it.
Maybe it had more to do with Ryan’s incompetence, but Biden did blow him away in their debate.
Plugs McFlubface?
Sure, why not another foul joke in the office of President.
*groan*
That is the RESOLUTE DESK, fashioned from the timbers of the British warship HMS Resolute. It was a gift from the British to President Hayes in 1880. He HATES the Brits due to his posssibly delusional fabrication about them having imprisoned and tortured his grandfather when Kenya was still a British colony.
Well, one thing about old Joe, he certainly isn't a cold fish.
“I’d love to see the Idiot Biden run, he’s always good for a laugh.”
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Tell that to Supreme Court Justice Bork. Biden can be dangerous, particulalry if you understimate him.
Never underestimate Biden.
He knows the keepers of power in DC.
He knows that McCain and Schummer are the real power brokers in the Senate.
Ryan should have wiped the floor with him in the debates.
I suspect he knew every question in advance.
After Obama, a stupid drunk would be moving up.
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