Posted on 05/16/2019 4:59:49 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update, Part II (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
I know it’s a repugnant subject, but let’s talk Democrat politics this morning. – First, we’ve had Irish Bob O’Rourke re-boot his failed campaign this week, and boy what a massive fail that has been. As part of his “reintroduction to America”, he live-streamed himself having a haircut and massage! I swear I do not make this stuff up.:
Oh, he also appeared with the four nagging, substance-devoid shrews on The View, which I suppose meant that Tuesday’s episode of The View actually featured five nagging, substance-devoid shrews. There, he apologized for his being white, male and privileged, and the very next day he’s got a video up of him having a hair cut and massage. Why do I get the feeling that, before the week is over, Irish Bob is going to announce that next week he will re-re-boot his failed campaign?
Here’s the amazing thing about that video: Some supposedly “professional” campaign advisors told Irish Bob that that was just a fab-o idea. Well, they probably didn’t use the term “fab-o” since they’re probably all under the age of 80 or so, but still.
Seriously, who in their right mind would think that this is a good look for their candidate? No wonder Donald Trump decided not to listen to such “professional” advisors during his 2015-16 campaign.
Speaking of truly awful political ideas… – Bill DeBlasio is now a candidate for president! Aren’t y’all thrilled out there in Flyover Country? Yeah, neither are the people whose lives he has helped to make miserable – the citizens of New York City – 76% of whom told a pollster this week that their communist Mayor really should not go down this road.
The James-Comey-tall Mayor first announced his candidacy at a Monday event Trump Tower, which some idiot told him was a very clever idea. That is, until he was mocked by protesters riding down the escalator behind him carrying pro-Trump signs. How is that none of these campaign “professionals” thought that it might be a lousy idea to place their candidate in front of a public escalator?
The Marxist Mayor then traveled to Iowa for a kickoff rally. There, the people who printed the signage for the event misspelled his name as “DiBlasio”. Since only a few dozen showed for the event – and who knows how many of them could even read – it didn’t really much matter.
In any event, DeBlasio joins New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand as Empire State presidential candidates who have literally no rationale at all for entering this race. They will both leave the race without having won a single delegate to next year’s national convention.
Hey, there’s nobody in the field named George yet – maybe he should run, too! – Over in London, dimwitted actor George Clooney told the assembled press that “we are facing a pretty absurd time in our lives.” No word if he was referring to the 2020 Democrat presidential field, but he should have been.
The Biden Juggernaut is already fading. – When Joe Biden kicked off his campaign at the first of May, I told you that he would experience the best polling numbers of the entire campaign season in the first 2-3 weeks following his announcement. Sure enough, he did put up some phenomenal numbers in the first few polls issued early this month, rising to as high as 46% support in a poll put out by The Hill and 44% in the Harvard/Harris poll. Very impressive given the number of candidates in the field.
But very predictably, the bloom is already coming off the Biden rose, as the excitement among the deluded Democrat voter base fades and the reality of the energy-devoid, elderly candidate-who-has-been-wrong-about-everything-for-half-a-century sets in.
We’ve seen two new polls this week, and Biden is sub-40% in both, sitting at 39% in Morning Consult and 33% in the Emerson poll. The Emerson poll is the most current, having been conducted from May 10 through May 14.
Karl Rove, whose political analyses stopped being in any way relevant along about April of 2015, was on Fox News on Wednesday marveling at Biden’s 23-point lead over The Commie in the also no-longer-relevant RealClearPolitics average of polls, but that lead will be down to less than 10 in a month, and will be completely gone by October.
Joe Biden is this cycle’s Jeb! Bush, the guy with all the establishment support, a ton of money, zero energy and, at the end of the day, zero appeal to the people who actually vote in these nominating primaries. I still think his campaign ought to just start calling him Joe! and get it all over with.
That is all.
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All 50 states go red. Snowflakes riot. Demand end of Electoral College, but they also don’t get the popular vote.
DNC goes into receivership, and nobody notices.
Since 1988, the Dems have been fielding weak candidates: 1988 Dukakis governor of Massachussets, small podunk Northeastern state, home of Willy Horton and Whitey Bolger and the Kennedy crime family; 1992 and 1996 Bill Clinton, governor of Arkansas, small podunk Southern state, home of the Clinton crime family and assorted friends, many of whom died of Arkancide; 2000, Al Gore, overrated Senator from Tennessee, and member of Gore crime family, author of junk science books and films about global warming; 2004, John Kerry, overrated Senator from Massachusetts, known for fake throwing medals over a fence, spending 3 and a half months in Vietnam, and trading heavily on his status to butt in line, park in handicap zones, and stiff restaurants for bills all over Boston; 2008 and 2012 Barry the community organizer from Chicago. Now we’ve got a whole smurf village raring to go. What’s missing is the religious fervor that animated Clinton and Barry’s candidacies, and which deTocqueville says is a sin qua non for selling centralized administration of any kind to the people. Barring the unforeseeable, this will not even be close, no matter which smurf gets the nomination. Trump will win in a landslide.
As for Hillary, don’t even get me started. She utterly sucked in every sense of the word.
And AOC says
“be sure and tip the waitress so i can steal the tips!”
I’ve been in crowded elevators with more people!
There has to be a Dem somewhere who can at least put up a credible fight. This is pathetic.
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