Posted on 05/14/2019 6:15:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Vice President Joe Biden predicted Tuesday that Republicans will have an "epiphany" and start working with Democrats once President Donald Trump is out of office.
"The thing that will fundamentally change things is with Donald Trump out of the White House. Not a joke," Biden told reporters at a diner in Concord, New Hampshire. "You will see an epiphany occur among many of my Republican friends."
The comment is the latest demonstration of Biden's effort to clash with Trump directly while also appealing to moderate Republicans, showcasing a broad appeal that could help him win a Democratic nominating contest in which voters are more concerned than usual with candidates' perceived electability. But it also highlights a major rift within a 2020 Democratic primary field in which other candidates -- particularly Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren -- are casting Trump as just a symptom of a GOP and a government now controlled by special interests.
Warren, in her campaign kickoff speech in February, said Trump is "just the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in America." Sanders said at an Iowa rally earlier this year that the stakes of the campaign are "not just about defeating Donald Trump."
The reaction to Biden's comments from the more liberal quarters of the party also illustrated the skepticism to his candidacy from progressive activists and voters.
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Our epiphany is going to be that we have nobody in the bullpen to replace him. Seriously.
OTOH...many Dems have had an "epiphany" and are sorry/angry at themselves for EVER having voted for YOU, Joe, and Obama!
Joe Biden should be in prison...
Nearly 50 years in government and we are 22 TRILLION+ in debt on your watch. Actually prison is too good for you Joe, you POS SCUMBAG.
Biden likes to make outrageous statements, and then follow it up with no joke. Kind of like the relative at family get togethers who tells crazy stories and everyone just nods and smiles.
My post Trump epiphany will be to work to elect more conservatives just like him, and to hold republican feet to the fire. I will never again vote for a turncoat republican like romney or mclame. I already havent voted for my idiot representative amash the last 2 elections.
Gee, I hope not.
I didn’t vote for Trump because I share the DemocRATs’ dark vision for the country. I voted for him because I oppose that vision. And I vote for people I expect to also oppose that vision.
Sure, we’ll be happy to work with you...as soon as you stop your gun-grabbing, baby-murdering, socialistic, hate-capitalism, sky-high taxes, race-baiting, phony-justice, the-world-will-end-in-twelve-years if we don’t tax you trillions, constitution-shredding ways.
"The thing that will fundamentally change things is with Donald Trump out of the White House. Not a joke," Biden told reporters at a diner in Concord, New Hampshire. "You will see an epiphany occur among many of my Republican friends."
I think he is absolutely correct.
If President Trump is no longer in office, the DC Elite will quickly return to status quo.
I doubt that.
He's a millionaire. He's been VP. He's an alcoholic. He's a cop-a-feel-ic. None of the media cares or will mention it. He has never had to take responsibility for any of the failures during his time in office.
One has to be clever to accomplish all that.
Bush League Republicans can’t wait until they can get back to business as usual, selling out the citizens and importing cheap labor for their donors.
Joe’s right for once.
Stunning.
Silent, non-supportive of President Trump conservatives,
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Republicans, not conservatives.
I did some checking into the common Twitter canard quacked by the Lefties that "the parties in the South flipped" and "the old racist Southern Democrats became Republicans".
This is a lie that is promoted by most college professors [because they're Lefties].
Here's what ACTUALLY happened, and this is why Joe is full of Mitt:
BOTH the Democrat and the Republican parties are minority parties [they hang at about 30-some percent]. The reason the Republicans are competitive is because the [real, not NeverTrump] conservatives vote with them most of the time.
If you examine the presidential voting records of the South around the time of GHW Bush through the first term of his son GW Bush, you'll see that the campaigns of Ross Perot made a huge reveal of the Southern non-racist conservatives.
They voted for PEROT, not Poppy Bush, nor yet Rapin Bill Clinton, especially in the 1990 campaign.
After the conservative dream of fiscal prudence died with Perot's second campaign, the real conservatives continued to vote Republican, making the South Republican.
The same racist Democrats are still there, slowly dying out in the rural districts, or holed up on the South's Big City plantations.
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This leads me to my point - if Trumpism fails, the REAL conservatives won't vote Republican. Something else will happen, and it's likely to be dangerous.
Yeah, but us REAL conservatives won't be voting for them.
See my post #35 for the analysis.
I am hoping Biden choses Comey as his VP, that is if he isn’t in prison by then, then he can choose Nadler
Biden hasn’t seen the right’s version of #resist. I’m not talking RINOs, I’m talking conservatives. Play nice together? After the last 3 years of 24/7 Trump bashing, I dont think so!
Joe. One common denominator for all that the nation is facing is the rise of a political ‘elite’, who have unlimited tenure in government, and who become delusional about their own abilities and the righteousness of their ideas.
Trump has shown that the political elite are actually pathetically unqualified for what they are in office to do, and are anything but elite. This is why so many in DC hate him. He has shown how naked and feckless most of you in government are. I have little to no doubt that all of you could be replaced tomorrow with people randomly chosen from construction crews, street corners, and bars, and that they would do a much more thoughtful and effective job than the vast majority of the pathetic losers in government do. Have a good night.
the firewall VP to obamaumao- no one wanted to take out obiwan because this greedy idiot would have taken over. the senator from MBNA— what’s in your wallet? Nothing thanks to credit card Joe, the original kick the debt can down the road. Senator from the corporatist’s HQ-— Delaware. Plaigerist dumba@@.
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