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.
> The problem with this flawed analysis is that the base did not watch the debate and does not actually know of the question response... <
Right. The average Democrat will not hear about Biden’s latest slip. The media will instead report on how Trump got a parking ticket back in 1980.]]]]
Well of course thats always the case but this is short, clear and on video. A great addition for a Trump or GOP campaign ad.
They have Hillary.
Nah.
The viciousness of the rivalry will scuttle that as if it had never been even a thought.
There is zero possibility of a two way campaign if the Democrats run the Mooch.
Obama was a key participant in robbing Bernie Sanders of the nomination in 2016 and as I explained to you before (and as you have just taken into account by ignoring the issue entirely) if the Democrats try to put someone in who wasn’t in the primaries, then Bernie’s faction runs it’s own candidate.
Mochelle with her vacuous platform of “vote.for me, I’m black. If you don’t you are a racist” isn’t going anywhere in a three way race.
A lot of the old GOP has been announcing their retirement or has retired already in the last three years.
Trump has been changing who the GOP is at about the same rate which he has been changing the courts.
Biden and the Democrats have told working people they are deplorable and the Democrats hate them and want to take away their jobs.
Now we get to the hard part—working people have to believe them!
That’s ok. You and I are talking about two completely different things. You are talking about whether BM will win the election. I am talking about BM getting the nomination.
Wow, as I read that I could hear Trump's voice in my head. Scary.
Biden lost the election the moment he opened his pie hole and said his first word.
Yeah, that's BS. And my weekly number of hours worked was consistently around 60.
The demoncrats want us to focus on the Presidential election. It’s why Pehosi is holding onto the Articles of Impeachment. We have to keep tight control of the Senate, maybe even gaining a seat or more. Take back the House with a landslide. Then and only then will I feel that we have the reins back with a trump victory. Because if the demonrats flip the Senate and keep the House, then its game over. We need to start zeroing in on local elections this year, even more so than ever before. Don’t take the lifting up effect that an upper tier candidate has on lower offices. Soros is already setting the stage for one of the most epic political conflicts held at the local elections across this country come 2020. Soros began this long time ago and this is the culmination of his work coming to a head since Gore lost in 2000.
Really?
12 hour shifts...overtime...quick pay rises for safety and emergency response tickets.
Not all are roughneck jobs
Starting salary for a wire line control tech is $100K
What have you been smoking?
“Maybe with benefits, yes.”
You just put your finger on it. Whenever economists talk about “pay” they usually quote the total average compensation package. This is how you get teachers making 100K, but I digress.
And as another poster noted... there’s mandatory overtime. A lot of these jobs — not all, but a lot — are 50 to 60 hours per week.
These are the numbers that your journalist pulls up when they are writing articles about the economy. The reader needs to ‘discount’ some of those numbers.
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’!
She does have three legs in which to run with.
Absolutely! My town was Red forever - this last off year election, two Dems ran as long shots. No one thought they had a chance. Less than 20% of registered Republicans showed up to vote. The Long Shot Democrats won. Now we are stuck with these far left wing lunatics for 4 years.
‘Democrat motivation. Last time they were so certain Hillary was going to win they didn’t turnout to vote.’
I think they didn’t turn out for Clinton because she was such a terrible candidate, in every possible way a candidate can be terrible...all anyone could think about when seeing her was an ex spouse, and why that spouse is an ex...
That would be a mud wrestling contest I would pay to watch: Obama & Clinton working out who gets the top of the slate.
“This reminds me of how Al Gore pushed gun control. I’m sure it cost him PA.”
Later on John Kerry ran away from the gun control issue like a little b*tch running from the schoolyard bully. Kerry might not have been very smart, but his advisors told him to lower gun control expectations.
Campaign ads will take care of that.
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