Posted on 12/22/2019 4:00:44 AM PST by Kaslin
First of all, let me go on record as saying I've never thought Joe Biden would win the Democratic presidential nomination. Biden is this election's Rudy Giuliani. Rudy was the big name in the 2008 GOP primary. Everyone thought he was unbeatable. He never won a single state and quickly dropped out of the race.
I've argued for many months that Biden will go nowhere in this Democratic primary. First and foremost, Democrats don't want a straight old white male.
Then there's Biden's mind. It's clearly not functioning at top speed anymore. Biden is not just old but slow and foggy. He could never be the president. Time has passed him by.
And then there's Ukraine. Forget President Donald Trump. It's Biden's political career that was destroyed by this Ukraine story. Americans know something smells rotten about the Bidens in Ukraine. Even if it's not criminal, it's certainly dirty. That disqualifies Biden.
The problem is Democrats have no other candidate. So Biden, for better or for worse, remains the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
But in Thursday's debate, he committed a major sin. He alienated his base -- the only group in the party that still backs him. In speaking of economic growth, the moderator asked, "As president, would you be willing to sacrifice some of that growth, even knowing potentially that it could displace thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of blue-collar workers, in the interest of transitioning to that greener economy?'"
Biden answered quickly and boldly: "The answer is yes."
End of story. There's your Trump TV advertisement. Even if Biden somehow still wins the nomination, Trump will destroy him with working-class and middle-class voters.
The follow-up in a debate between Trump and Biden would be equally powerful. Biden would claim that those workers would all find new jobs in the "green economy."
Trump would answer: "Really? Like Solyndra? Like many green companies that received billions of taxpayer dollars under Obama-Biden? They're out of business. Billions lost forever on a pipe dream. A liberal fantasy. Good luck. I'll stick with oil and gas jobs. The average one pays $150,000 a year. Anyone want to give up your job for Joe's nonexistent green jobs? You want to take that chance, vote for Joe. I dare you."
The only hope Biden had was to gain the support of white working- and middle-class voters in places such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Michigan and Wisconsin. Now they're gone -- forever. Middle-class workers will never gamble their jobs on Biden's green jobs -- not unless they also like cold toilet seats, warm beer and broccoli as the main course for dinner.
Trust me, the Democratic Party's presidential candidates -- even supposedly moderate Joe Biden -- are now officially poison to working- and middle-class America. It's not even close. It's Trump by a mile.
By the way, here's a quick snapshot of the electorate before Biden's deadly words. One of my friends runs a Las Vegas construction company. He loves Trump. His annual revenues are up from $17 million to $65 million under Trump. He says every single construction worker he meets -- steelworkers, plumbers, electricians, machinists -- all support Trump. These are union guys. That was before Biden's words on Thursday.
My advice to Democrats: Order your depression pills. Get your minds prepared for five more years of Trump. The deal is done.
Really?
Talked to flooring installer who worked in my home recently. He is for Trump because he feels Trump will keep work coming his way.
Making conclusions about losing is a faulty premise...that is incorrect to assume Biden, et al, are the real candidates. They are not...this whole orchestration will be in a new act starting Jan 2020 when Mooshell enters with her , person of color rescue, and declares she can solve things. I also predict, with dueling, “ we have dirt on you”, Clinton will be her VP candidate. Yep, I believe Soros will have convinced her that’s all she gets.
It is curious. Biden is a terrible candidate with a ton of baggage. But he is the best they have. Which is why, in desperation, they had to try to smear Trump with impeachment.
I agree. A lot of blue collar guys don’t love Republicans but they see Trump
as one of them. He speaks their language and he understands them.
What do they see? Democrats vowing to destroy their jobs out of sheer hatred for Trump. The election is over.
Slow Joe, like Hillary, will made to eat his words. So he signed up with AOC’s Green Deal. He’s toast.
The Democrats’ bid to run interference for him with impeachment won’t help.
The most famous stuuterer is Jimmie Stewart.
A good friend of mine stuttered as a youth...he overcame it with just a little bit of training.
> The average one pays $150,000 a year. Really? <
I’m guessing that includes overtime. A lot of those guys work 48 hour weeks, and even longer.
A friend of mine is a prison guard. He pulls in well over $100,000 per year. It’s all about the overtime.
Serieslee. That made me laugh as well.
I had a friend who worked the oil fields for a while. He made good money, but the job was physically very strenuous, you’re working outside in summer heat and bitter winter cold, it’s physically dangerous work, and you’re working far from any town,so he was living in a trailer.
He didn’t last long, too old (50s) to keep up.
Best I ever did was 120,000 and I was 12 on 12 off 7 days a week for 5 months of that year at a nuke plant. Plus a ton of OT at the Shell Terminal in Port Arthur, Texas. I see why Janis got the Hell out of Port Arthur
The average one makes $150 thousand?
Not working for Nabors.
Get real
If you think Mooshell will run, think again.
She is too darn lazy! Her only ‘run’ is to run away from anything that requires the slightest ‘work’!
Plus, her gigantic a** will keep her from ‘running’!
I forgot Rudy was even in that race.
“...too darn lazy...”
I agree with you - she hated being in the spotlight at the White house - because she hated that every minute of her day was accounted for - she is too lazy to like this as you point out!
The only way she would run is if she is coerced into it.
Deval Patrick and he has his own problems.
VP Klobechar
Charming
What Biden just did is to repeat the same mistake. No working person can trust the Democrats.
I live in Appalachia and President Trump's support is darn near 100%. The Dems don't stand a snowball's chance in hell.
My Dad stuttered as a kid but overcame it and won many speech debates. He was also an ultimately better man than Joek.
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