I'm melting! I'm melting!
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.
We are really screwing up taking Biden out this early. Time to flip the perception back to get him as the main man.
Operation Chaos II.
Well, yeah...but look at the Democrat alternatives. :)
But all the alternatives suck even worse...
Hillary is in the wings awaiting the call.
Does he mean that Biden will die before the primaries are over?
His brain is dead already.
Nobody is taking him out. Quite the contrary, the Hoax News Media seems bent on making sure he’s the nominee. They took out Kampuchea Harris already, and Buttplugs. They can’t take out Dinobernie, however, and he will be a problem-—at least, his supporters will be.
This is it. The others are so horrifically leftist that Biteme looks positively Churchillian in comparison.
“”Hillary is in the wings awaiting the call.”
She is done. She spent 1.3 billion dollars and still lost a rigged election to a first timer. She will never be on the ballot for any office.
It will never be Cankles again. The yuts/whackadoodle left would revolt.
Will he capsize? Or different Hank?
Donald Trump is the reason. He was the only candidate that could beat her in 2016. And he did.
Now she is finished. The witch is finally dead.
I'm melting! I'm melting!
Amen.
Yep, that’s their only recourse. We’ve demolished the ones out there now.
We’ve done the work for the left.
Hillary is in the wings awaiting the call.
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Her speeches for acceptance of the nomination and the presidency speeches are already in TelePromTer bluetooth form and ready.
And as the great old song said (true of Hillary,Michelle and Oprah)
All I Need Is The Girl
(Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington And His Big Band)
Got my tweed pressed, got my best vest, all I need now is the girl
Got my striped tie, got my hopes high
Got the time and the place and I got the rhythm,
Now all I need’s the girl to go with ‘em
If she’ll just appear we’ll take this big town for a whirl
And if she’ll say “My, darling, I’m yours”
I’ll throw away my striped tie and my best-pressed tweed
All I really need is the girl
Got my tweed pressed, I got my best vest, all I need now is the girl
Got my striped tie, got my hopes ‘way up high
I got the time and the place and the rhythm
All I need’s the girl to go with ‘em
Mm, if she’ll just appear we’ll take this, this great big town for a whirl
And if, if she’ll say “My, darlin’, I’m yours”
I’ll throw away my striped tie and my best-pressed tweed
All I really need is the girl
Coda: May God protect us from the evil Dems winning over President Trump. Amen.
I don’t believe Biden wants the job.
I’m not sure Biden knows what the job is.
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