Posted on 03/05/2020 5:23:46 AM PST by Kaslin
And then there were two…and a couple of stragglers.
As of this writing, the remaining Democrats running for president are Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Tulsi Gabbard. That’s it, that’s the best one of the two major political parties in the United States in 2020 could come up with.
Of course, the only criteria Democrats have for their candidate is “someone who can beat Donald Trump.” That’s an interesting bar for people who claim to care about the country. They don’t give a damn who their candidate is, what they want to do, or even if they have the mental capacity to string together a coherent sentence, as long as they poll well against the president more than half a year before anyone will vote for anything.
They differ on who that person is, with Sanders having the advantage of an army of true believers - comrades in arms, if you will - who’d do anything for him. Think of how much praise those members of the Iraqi government were heaping on Saddam Hussein as they were being dragged out to be executed, on his orders, and you get a sense of how deep that loyalty runs.
Biden, the only other remaining candidate with a chance at the nomination, inspires no one. His lackluster campaign has been one unforced error after another. His slogan might as well be, “I know Barack Obama.” His mentions of the former president are downright Pavlovian, he finds a way to shoehorn it into every answer. It’s like Barack Obama is running by proxy. It’s unclear who thinks a man on the other side of the edge of senility is a good choice to lead the free world, but at least he doesn’t admit he’s a socialist.
The other two, Gabbard and Warren, are done (or never really were).
Gabbard won’t quit because she’s got nothing better to do. She’s an insignificant member of Congress who isn’t liked in her own party because she occasionally criticizes them, and they don’t tolerate differing opinions. She’s also an isolationist, which endears her to some on the right who happily ignore her other, radical left-wing positions because it allows them to seem bipartisan. Why would she quit when she gets to travel the country on someone else’s dime while avoiding work? It’s liberating to have so little staff and an acceptance that you aren’t going to win, it frees you up from needing large fundraising numbers. All you need is the airfare and hotel covered, the rental car is a bonus.
Elizabeth Warren has a tough choice to make: does she believe the things she’s run on, or does she want to help Joe Biden? She can’t have both. If she drops out she helps Bernie, if she stays in she helps Joe by siphoning votes away from Bernie. Aside from a sex scandal involving Bernie and Biden, with each other, there’s no way she can win (and then only maybe because that might fly in the modern Democratic Party). The writing is on the wall, or the smoke signals are in the air (to put it in terms Warren can pretend to understand), the only question remains is whether or not she as big of a fraud as a candidate for president as she was when she was a candidate for a job at Harvard.
So the choice for Democrats comes down to two people who’ve never really held adult jobs outside of government. Bernie floundered until finding a town in Vermont as crazy as he is, and Joe has collected a government check since his rumbling days with Corn Pop. What both of these men don’t understand about making it in the real world could just about fit into the Grand Canyon.
It’s clear the party elites, the people who run the show behind the scenes, are desperate for Biden to win. Sure, he’s not playing with a full deck, but at least he’s not showing all his cards.
Bernie’s biggest mistake was being too honest. He admires left-wing dictators and wants to destroy capitalism. He couches it with the word “democratic” before he says socialism, but socialism is socialism. Say what you will about the man, and he is crazy, but at least he’s not a liar.
Biden, on the other hand, has a long history of lying. He doesn’t just lie about his policy proposals, he lies about his accomplishments, he lies about things he’s done (being arrested for trying to see Nelson Mandela in prison, for example), there’s very little he doesn’t lie about. His only defense against all the lies he’s told is he might be too senile to know he’s lying.
So one candidate is crazy, the other is a different kind of crazy. Of course, you have to be a little crazy yourself to vote for a Democrat running for any office, so it’s only fitting.
The Democrats are betting everything on the old guy with dementia and not the old guy who had a heart attack.
Whoever the Democrats choose to be their Presidential candidate, is only a front person for the person chosen to be Vice-President nominee. Neither Burnie nor the guy with the glazed-over eyes, Sleepy Joe, could ever complete their first term.
Burnie’s head is going to explode any minute, and Joe is just being Joe, already slipped into the long twilight. Either one could be removed as President within months under the 25th Amendment.
The whole DNC may not be senile but they are crazy.
Let’s help them become even crazier and re-elect Trump.
The Democrats are betting everything on “free stuff” and vote fraud.
Can you imagine the debate discussion with the Trump team at present?
Would you rather the debates be capitalism versus socialism (a worthy debate to watch, with Trump talking)....or would you rather this be Trump talking to a nutcase uttering ‘lying dog-faced-pony soldier’ about every six minutes?
With our luck, the night before the first debate....Joe will watch back-to-back episodes of Billy Jack, and throw six to eight Billy Jack quotes at Trump at key moments.
“Burnie’s head is going to explode any minute, and Joe is just being Joe, already slipped into the long twilight. Either one could be removed as President within months under the 25th Amendment.”
So the question is obvious... WHO WILL BE THE VP IF EITHER JOE OR BERNIE GETS THE NOMINATION?— BUTTICHECK, HILLARY, STACEY ABRAMS, WHOOPIE GOLDBERG, SURFFER GIRL.....or the other question is who will actually be the nominee coming out of the conflicted food fight convention. Pattie Murray for president.
A 2020 anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, ant-life political cartel in The United States of America.
Rally the shooters, Bern. The Young Jerks, Cenk, would support you. Too bad your comrades won’t.
Even the world socialists website, his comrades, don’t like this fraud.
By Patrick Martin
3 March 2020
World Socialist Web Site
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/03/dems-m03.html
“Sanders’ response to the Democratic Party’s open and unrestrained hostility to him exposes the depth of his own political demagogy.”
Yep, I’ve said, Karl would spit on him...uncle Joe would put one in the back of Bourgeois Bernie’s head.
What a FRAUD that “INDEPENDENT”/”SOCIAL DEMOCRAT” for 20 years on the body politic.
His position papers on “the struggle” show it. Wait...what?...
Feel the Bern, lemmings/Cenk. Thanks for the laughs.
It’s all yours International Extortionist. Tell everyone Hunter can be Sociopath of State to set up the Biden Global Initiative. After all, you and he were “Father/Son of the Year 2019”. You can pick up your award on The Streets of San Francisco.
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I’m hoping it will be Stacey Abrams. She seems extremely unappealing — in a very different way from Elizabeth Warren, but with the same aura of “Nobody wants that”.
That is my plan. Trump 2020
Casey has never had a challenging election or reelection campaign because his string pullers manage him so carefully-- appearances only before carefully prescreened audiences, a lot of cookie cutter television commercials and an army of synchopants who think they are voting for his father.
They may be crazy but their not stupid. Never underestimate your opponent. They need to be hit right between the running lights. We’re going to have to fight fire with fire. Give them hell. That’s the only thing they understand.
They’re. Not their.
In Biden's case, the party may intervene and tell him whom to pick. On his own, he could pick Stacy Abrams or even Kamala Harris. No doubt it will be either a woman or a minority, if not both, but there are other choices out there who would not scare away undecided voters.
For Democrats, Biden represents a return to the Obama years, which for some reason they hanker for. Camelot 2.0.
Yes, but unfortunately many elected Republicans think being statesmen means getting along with Democrats while they (the Democrats) try to skewer them with contrive accusations, endless investigations and general skullduggery.
The seriousness of the charges only goes one way and the magnanimity of the exonerations the other because the RNC suffers from Stockholm Syndrome.
They wouldn’t even charge Hillary with perjury for saying I don’t recall to Congress when Hillary was part of the team to argue it was!
(How do these Leftists ever write their memoirs?)
Of course in the last year or so some never Trumpers have shown their colors by choosing to walk off of the line in the midst of the fight rather than even seek re-election.
A vote for a Democrat, any Democrat for any office, is a vote to impose a Stalinist dictatorship on this country and send yourself to the Gulags.
I registered in 1919 as Republican ( Ronald Reagan was the first republican nominee I voted for in the General election. I voted for him again when he ran for reelection in 1984 this time in the Tennessee primary and then in the general election. I did the same thing for President George W. Bush 43 and I will do the same thing for President Trump.
Ronald
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