Where's walJO???
Posted on 05/28/2019 4:17:45 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Hey, why does that strategy sound so familiar?– The Washington Post carried a piece on Sunday titled “Biden’s Campaign is one of Limited Exposure.” Gosh, that sure sounds like something we’ve heard from a leading Democrat candidate before, doesn’t it?
Yeah, sure does. To see why, all we must do is hark back to 2015, when the Pantsuit Princess’s advisors decided that the best thing for her to do was to lay low and stay out of the public eye as much as possible. Why would that be the case, you might wonder? Well, it was because the Fainting Felon’s team recognized that they had on their hands an extraordinarily unlikable candidate, a candidate whose polling numbers fell in direct correlation with the amount of public exposure she received. Plus, they had a candidate with a variety of physical infirmities – like her chronic hacking cough and the fact that she was incapable of climbing a few steps up to a stage without assistance – that had to be carefully hidden from the public eye.
Thus, the Coughing Crook’s campaign was one of strategic hiding, a campaign designed to attract as little direct attention onto the candidate herself as possible. While Donald Trump and 15 other GOP contenders were duking it out on national TV every day, the Grasping Grifter was issuing carefully-scripted tweets, speaking maybe twice a week at the standard half-filled high school gymnasium, and otherwise avoiding any live contact with anyone who might ask an inconvenient question of her. That strategy continued right on through Election Day 2016, and we all saw how that turned out for the Democrats.
Fast forward four years, and we now see Creepy Uncle Joe employing the exact same strategy. While 24 other Democrat candidates are jockeying for position in the daily pecking order, desperately seeking all the free media attention they can get, the guy who has had more facial work than Cher and whose really bad hair plug job all fell out late in the 20th century has suddenly gone quiet following his much-heralded two week campaign kickoff a month ago.
It isn’t hard to see why. As we discussed last week, Biden very predictably jumped out to a big lead in the various polls during the 10 days following his formal campaign announcement, and then saw that lead quickly start to disintegrate in direct correlation with the amount of actual media attention he received.
See, Democrat voters love the idea of Joe Biden, but it was starting to become too obvious that they aren’t all that fond of waking up to the reality of Joe Biden. The idea of Biden is the thought that here’s the Washington, DC veteran of more than 40 years, an energetic guy who has seen and done it all, a guy who spent 8 years as VP to Barack Hussein Obama his own self, a guy who would ride in on his unicorn and vanquish the Evil Orange Man, thus taking our nation back to the glory days of 1% economic growth and the EPA regulating our swimming pools.
But the reality of Joe Biden is something else entirely. The reality of Biden is a guy who can’t keep his hands off of women and children at public events, a guy who will be approaching octogenarian status by the time January 20, 2021 rolls around, a worn out old DC hack who can’t attract a crowd of more than a few hundred people to an event in Downtown Philly, a guy with a real record as long as his creepy fingers that is chock-full of statements and positions that offend pretty much every one of the aggrieved special interests that constitute the Democrat Party’s fragile voter coalition, and a guy who can’t even speak in complete, coherent sentences when not reading from a script.
This is a man who has to be carefully controlled and handled, obviously.
Biden’s massive team of handlers understand that the key to Joe Biden becoming president is to ensure that voters go to the polls to elect the idea of Joe Biden, because there is no way on God’s green earth – or I guess they would say Gaia’s green earth – that the American people are ever going to elect the reality of Joe Biden.
These advisors must look at the long series of debates and a long and arduous nominating run laid out before them as a field of land mines, a withering and daunting process that could see their candidate’s clownish mouth produce utter disaster with every successive step. So, yes, they are keeping their accident-waiting-to-happen candidate out of the public eye as much as possible right now. Best to go into that debate season next month with a lead in the polls and see how long they can hang onto it.
Thus, the Democrats go from Hiding Hillary to Hidin’ Biden.
Maybe someday the Party that saddled us with Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and Barack Obama his own self will nominate a candidate it can actually be proud of. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful thing?
That is all.
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Where's walJO???
Where’s SleepyCreepyJoe ?
I’m waiting to see if Biden shows up at the first debate or will they shield him even from that. Maybe the DNC will put out the word that the other candidates are not supposed to challenge anything Biden says, much like what they did for Hillary Clinton.
Biden looks like Dementia is setting in..
They're still deciding which questions he's gonna receive...in advance.
Great idea!! This way Gropey Joe will be the rat nominee before they realize their mistake.
BOL......good one.
visiting ruth ginsberg?
Excellent, concise tag line
Brain transplant.
Most excellent. Exactly so.
there are two videos of his hand on the breast of young girls. Plus the hair sniffing and so on. Where is #metoo? Where its the class action suit from Gloria Allred? Are we going mohave another groper in the wh? Wasn’t Billy Jeff enough?
I don’t think limiting Joe Biden’s public appearances is a “strategy”, I think it’s being done more out of necessity. He does not look well, and doesn’t have the strength and stamina to wage a full time campaign for the presidency. Consider this: He did not participate in any public events in conjunction with Memorial Day observances. He’s been in politics for a long time, and knows the political game too well to pass up a photo op on a holiday with the significance of Memorial Day. His rivals for the nomination took part in these events. Why would he cede this opportunity to them? His last campaign event was almost two weeks ago in Philadelphia. I think there’s more than just a “campaign strategy” going on here.
I think Blackman is pushing his narrative as a way to fire up Biden’s opponents.
But he leads in the polls, and the election cycle is extremely long and arduous.
He’s actually smart to slow down and pace himself for going up against Trump, the “Force of Nature” who the Japanese treated like a American emperor this week.
Biden’s opponents want him to join the fray early so they can pick him apart.
At this point, Sleepy Joe, should enjoy his sleep. The horrors of defeating Trump will come soon enough — if he gets that far.
Nearly 50 years sponging off the citizens, without accomplishment other than deception and graft.
So Biden will steal the nomination from Weekend at Berney’s and start wearing pantsuits ? How many times can Bernie play dead lol.
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