Posted on 07/09/2024 10:21:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There will be no reckoning among Democrats and their media lapdogs regarding their years-long effort to hide President Biden’s mental decline. No one will lose their job, precisely because they were doing their job – spinning false narratives to keep the left in power.
And, let there be no doubt, they will keep doing it. The current focus on Biden’s unfitness will last only until Democrats determine whether or not they can force him out. That effort won’t be easy. Biden is an empty suit with a boundless ego – he truly believes he is a modern-day FDR. Withdrawing because you’re not “all there” would be deeply humiliating.
If it becomes clear Joe won’t go, the party and its propaganda outlets will quickly pivot. Discussions of his physical and mental capacities will be shoved down the memory hole. His continuing gaffes and incoherence will be largely ignored, cast as boring facts that are already “baked in the cake”: Voters know about his limits so what’s the point of harping on them? Late night comics such as Steven Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel will probably try to make his ramblings kind of lovable – Joe says the darndest things. If Biden bows out, his replacement will be cast as the second coming of well, Jesus Christ, offering a path to salvation for an imperiled land.
Whether the candidate is Joe Biden or someone else, the goal will be to make the Democrat standard-bearer disappear from the race. When he or she is mentioned at all, it will be to cast the Biden administration’s unpopular record as one of high achievement. Look at all that the president and the Democrats have accomplished for the American people.
News coverage, instead, will seek to make the contest about Donald Trump’s fitness for office.
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Even without Kennedy. Joe has proven this past three weeks that his elevator doesn’t stop at all the floors. His goose is cooked to the point of being burnt.
But I think seeing them side by side will give many voters a sense of empowerment that there is a legitimate third candidate that has a legitimate chance at winning.
After 2020, after “COVID”, after millions and millions more illegal aliens have been waved into this once great country, it is pretty evident that the people of this country don’t have any say at all.
Not a bad thought
If Kennedy takes 10-15% of the democratic vote Trump would not only win the election but the democratic party may fracture.
Kenned6 will take as much from republican
He’ll get much more than that. Plus the Independent and first time voters.
I can’t see Kennedy taking any Republicans except Never Trumpers. I think he could really hurt the demodogs
It really is uncharted territory. He seemed open to a Democratic return should Biden drop out but I doubt that is in the cards for many reasons.
He told Stephanopolous, “I’m campaigning, and I’m running the world.” cAnt get more FDR-ish than that.
I think it is becoming clear, Joe won’t go at least not willingly. The rats may in fact rally around him, but as the election disaster becomes more inevitable, darker forces will demand a solution. Donald Trump cannot be allowed to win. Assassinating Trump would incite civil war, so I think that is out. An old man, unsteady on his feet, meeting a tragic untimely end, well…we could have a tear-jerker orgy and a younger fresher candidate (whoever—take your pick) taking up the banner would attract all manner of emotional cripples, which is a good half the electorate. Welcome the next president-to-be-named -later.
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I saw the end of Biden’s speech to the NATO folks earlier this evening.
He managed through the speech ok (did confuse Uranium with Ukraine once) but the fascinating part was not his speech but what happened next.
He called the head of NATO to the stage and then shook the NATO guys hand.
What was freaky was that as he shook the hand he was looking away at a ninety degree angle.
That was weird.
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