Posted on 04/05/2019 4:49:57 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Todays Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Tired of all this #WINNING yet? The fake news media pretty much ignored the story, but U.S. weekly unemployment claims fell to their lowest point since the records began being kept half a century ago last week. The Trump economy is so strong that even Sears, which has been shuttering outlets since the Carter Administration, is opening new stores again.
The ADP private sector jobs report showed only 129,000 new jobs being created in March, but that low number is largely due to the fact that there are more than 1,000,000 more job openings today than there are unemployed workers. Given that, we can expect the governments non-farm payroll report to be issued this morning to also come in with a low number.
All of which ties back to the reality that the biggest problem we have in Trumps economy is finding enough qualified workers to fill all the jobs being created. Thats a good problem to have.
Hes experienced, maybe too much so. One of the things supporters of Joe Biden point to when making their case for why hed make the best nominee for the Democrats in 2020 is that hes experienced, and he certainly is. Biden was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972 at the age of 29.
During his first term in the Senate, he served with such blasts from the past as J. William Fulbright, Sam Ervin, George McGovern, Frank Church, Russell Long, and 1968 Democrat presidential nominee Hubert Humphrey. Fulbright was first elected to the Senate in 1945, Ervin in 1954.
But, while long years of experience in national government may be a positive for Biden in his run against an assortment of no-accounts in his partys primaries, is not necessarily an advantage in a general election against Donald Trump, who was elected in 2016 over another experienced candidate specifically because he was an outsider.
Indeed, since Biden first came to Washington, the American people have shown a very strong bias against electing experienced guys like him to serve in the presidency.
Going back to the 1976 election, here is how many years experience in Washington DC our past seven presidents had when they got elected:
Jimmy Carter 0
Ronald Reagan 0
George H.W. Bush roughly 20
Bill Clinton 0
George W. Bush 0
Barack Obama 2
Donald Trump 0
Combined, those seven presidents had about 22 years total experience in the DC Swamp, with Bush 41 having almost all of them. Bush 41, as we all remember, was defeated in 1992 by an outsider, Bill Clinton, who got a big assist from an even more authentic outsider, Ross Perot.
Are you seeing a trend here? I am.
Biden will no doubt be running as the guy who would bring us the third term of Americas Worst Mistake, Barack Hussein Obama, for whom he served as Vice President. Oh, hey, didnt the Pantsuit Princess, who served as Obamas Secretary of State, already try that one? Howd that work out for you, Democrats?
But what other reason would the American people have for electing Biden to the presidency? It certainly wouldnt be based on his senate record, where he was wrong about literally every major issue our country has faced over the last 46 years. It couldnt be based on all of his achievements as Vice President since, like every Veep, he didnt accomplish a damn thing while serving in that office.
It definitely wouldnt be based on his comparative youth and vigor, since Biden will be older on Election Day, 2020 than our oldest previous serving President, Ronald Reagan, was on the day he left office after serving two full terms. When you really get right down to it, the only real reason why Biden appears to want to run is that he regrets not running in 2016, when he reasonably should have, and now thinks it is his turn to be the Democrat Partys nominee.
Nominating anyone because it is their turn, lacking any other compelling reason for doing so, almost never works out for either party in modern times. Lets go back to 1976 again and take a look at those results:
1976 Gerald Ford (Loss)
1980 Jimmy Carter (Landslide Loss)
1984 Walter Mondale (Record Landslide Loss)
1988 Bush 41 (Won, became a one-term POTUS)
1996 Bob Dole (Landslide Loss)
2000 Al Gore (Loss)
2004 John Kerry (Loss)
2008 John McCain (Miserable Loss)
2012 Mitt Romney (Loss)
2016 Pantsuit Princess (Loss)
Look at those results. In all that time, the only its my turn candidate who was nominated by either party and actually won the election was George Herbert Walker Bush, and he only won because he was carried into office on the enormous coattails of Ronaldus Magnus. When left to run on his own devices after four years of deviating from the Reagan agenda and raising taxes, he also suffered a miserable defeat.
Joe Biden will most likely not go onto become the Democrat nominee in 2020 Im frankly still not convinced hes even going to make a go of it, with all of these women still coming out of the woodwork to complain about his handsy habits.
But if he does get the nomination, Donald Trump and all of his supporters should celebrate.
That is all.
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The other way of expressing the idea is that nobody has been elected POTUS without attaining at least VPOTUS within 20 years (less, I think) of first attaining statewide office. By that standard as well, quite obviously, Joe Biden is (too) Slow Joe.. . . the only its my turn candidate who was nominated by either party and actually won the election was George Herbert Walker Bush, and he only won because he was carried into office on the enormous coattails of Ronaldus Magnus. When left to run on his own devices after four years of deviating from the Reagan agenda and raising taxes, he also suffered a miserable defeat.
The only sitting VPs ever to be elected POTUS were John Adams (who was elected VPOTUS before the 12the Amendment, thus was not nominated as Washingtons political heir) Martin van Buren (Andrew Jacksons VP) and Bush41. My turn is just about the worst criterion for selecting a candidate and - unless the POTUS is extremely popular - that emphatically includes being a sitting VP.
I still think Hillary would be The worst.
I think that the Democrats and their allies in the MSM are becoming increasingly hostile because they have realized that their chances of unseating President Trump in 2020 are very slim. Now a lot can happen in 18 months in politics but right now given the economy and the cast of clowns who have decided to run on the Democrat side, it’s looking positive for President Trump.
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