Posted on 08/21/2019 6:12:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
Former U.S. Sen. George Hanks Brown (R-Colo.), who goes by “Hank Brown,” said in a recent interview that former vice president and current Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden is by no means a moderate.
“Senator Biden is a pleasant, outgoing individual,” Brown said. He was a colleague of Biden’s in the early to mid-90s. But Brown added that Biden is certainly no moderate: “He was consistently one of the most liberal members of the U.S. Senate. To hear him described as a moderate could only happen only in Washington D.C.”
Hanks’ comments on Biden came in an interview with National Review when discussing the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991 and comparing them to the way Democrats acted last fall during the Senate proceedings on Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination.
Biden, who was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee during Thomas’s hearings, delayed the process after Democratic attacks on the judge’s qualifications for the high court failed to bring down the African-American nominee. The delay allowed Thomas’ opponents to organize and bring forward charges of sexual assault that allegedly occurred years earlier, in a last-ditch effort to remove Thomas from consideration.
Brown said that, after his years of observing Biden, the former Colorado senator does not think his former colleague is up to the task of commanding the nation’s highest office.
“I never observed in him the qualities of intellect, vision, exceptional integrity, or savvy that are required to be an effective president,” Brown said. “I will be surprised if he survives the primaries.”
Biden currently maintains a double-digit lead in the polls ahead of any other candidate in the crowded Democratic primary. According to Real Clear Politics’ latest aggregate of polls, Biden leads, with almost 30 percent of Democrats backing the former vice president. That’s nearly 13 percent ahead of the second-place candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), followed closely by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
A new poll released from the Pew Research Center last week, however, shows the race is still anybody’s game as a majority of Democratic or Democratic-leaning voters voiced interest in several candidates and not just their first-choice preference. A majority of Biden’s supporters in particular reported significant interest in other candidates seeking the party’s 2020 presidential nomination.
Biden has attempted to frame himself as a moderate candidate with a track record of bipartisanship during his long time in government employ, even touting his friendly relationships with segregationist senators as examples of the former Delaware senator’s civility in government. His desire to tweak far-leftists’ signature pushes for government-run health care and decriminalizing illegal border crossings has caused some to buy-in the argument, but a closer examination of Biden’s policy positions reveal his moderation is more illusion than reality.
In race where the farthest-left candidates are dominating the Democratic primary field and moderate candidates dropping out, Biden would likely not be the front-runner if he were a true centrist.
I will be surprised if ANY of the current clowns become the nominee.
If Limbaugh hadn’t stopped it when he did we would have had 8 years of Cankles.
Agreed. With our world now officially Through The Looking Glass, one could imagine a Harris/Cortez run. Yeah, I know... But that Constitution is such a racist relic of oppression. Should we REALLY look to it for guidance? One can these days actually imagine such a scenario. Cortez has already condemned our Constitution for its insistence on the Electoral College. There is no reason to believe anything else is sacred. “We need to save our Country, not the White Man’s History!!!!” My blood just ran cold...
Perhaps arkancide?
he knows to much.
No. The article clearly shows he’s talking about political survival.
Talking to big lib acquaintances it is pretty clear that the ones in charge want fauxcahontis and are manipulating their constituents into being on board. It is almost like they all read from the same script
I wouldn’t be surprised, because of all the candidates there isn’t one really coherent, then; anyone can be the winner ... it’s all a matter of luck
And likely Obama, now.
Biden will be the nominee for the Dems.
Biden May have achieved a sort of pickled state where the Botox is acting as some sort of preservative. He is, to quote Princess Bride, mostly dead, but mostly dead is slightly alive.
I know I can hear “her” coughing.
Biden is a freak. Hillary will be the nominee, since the Democrats are pro-abortion and have nothing to offer Christian families.
She isn’t done until she assumes room temperature.
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