Posted on 03/18/2020 6:22:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
It's an indisputable fact that the Democratic Party has moved left in recent years. Now, the party is about to choose a standard bearer in the person of former Vice President Joe Biden, and what has become clear is that Biden has not only shifted left with his party over the years, he has taken significant leftward steps in recent weeks.
Three examples.
First, for years, Biden has defended the Obama administration's record on deportations against those on the left who criticized Obama as the "deporter in chief." Then came last month's Nevada caucuses. After ugly losses in Iowa and New Hampshire, Biden was struggling for life in Nevada, and trying to appeal to the Hispanic voters who made up a substantial portion of state Democrats.
All of a sudden, Biden backtracked on the Obama deportations he used to defend. "There were too many," Biden told Univision's Jorge Ramos. "I saw the pain in the eyes of so many people who saw their families being deported. I know what it's like to lose family members. It was painful."
As the Nevada vote neared, Biden promised that if he became president, he would not deport anyone -- no one, under any circumstances -- during his first 100 days in office. After that, Biden said, he would deport only those who have committed felonies in the United States. Biden repeated the pledge at his recent debate with Sen. Bernie Sanders, his last remaining rival for the nomination.
A second example. Just before the debate, Biden announced he was adopting some of Sanders' positions on free college for all. "Today, Biden is adding to his agenda by adopting Sen. Sanders' proposal to make public colleges and universities tuition-free for all students whose family incomes are below $125,000," the campaign said.
Biden's proposal was modeled on a bill Sanders offered in 2017, and that was also part of Sanders' 2016 battle with Hillary Clinton. Sanders has since moved on -- he now proposes free tuition for everyone, regardless of income. Accordingly, Sanders rejected Biden's move. "It's great that Joe Biden is now supporting a position that was in the Democratic platform four years ago," Sanders said in a statement released just before the debate. "Now we have to go much further." Still, Biden had moved unmistakably toward Sanders.
A third example. Back in the 2000s, Biden, then a senator, fought with Elizabeth Warren, then a Harvard professor, over the issue of bankruptcy. She wanted to make it less wearing on those who have to declare bankruptcy by, among other things, allowing them to include student debt in their bankruptcy filing. Biden opposed the idea. Years later, Warren made a similar plan part of her presidential campaign before dropping out after the Super Tuesday primaries earlier this month.
Now, with Warren withholding her endorsement, Biden is moving Warren's way. Before the debate, he announced that he "agrees firmly with Sen. Warren that we need to fundamentally reshape our bankruptcy system." Yet another leftward move.
Is Biden undergoing some sort of late-in-life reassessment of his beliefs? Perhaps, but it appears more likely his shifts came for baldly political reasons. He needed Hispanic votes in Nevada. (By the way, even with his no-deportations pledge, he didn't get them; Sanders beat him 50% to 17% among Hispanic voters.) He needs Sanders' support, and his voters, when the Vermont senator finally gives up the race. He needs Warren's support, too.
So Biden's positions on three big issues -- immigration, college education and bankruptcy -- changed virtually overnight to fit the political requirements of the late stages of the 2020 Democratic primary. And all involved a move to the left. For months, Biden dominated the so-called "centrist" or "moderate" lane of the Democratic race. But now there is no longer a Democratic race. Even as commentators touted his centrism, Biden strategically moved left to consolidate the support he needed for the nomination.
Soon he will have to come up with the version of Joe Biden who will run in the general election. At the moment, all politics, as all life in the United States, is consumed with coronavirus. But at some point, the virus will subside, and the campaign will re-emerge. President Trump will fiercely attack Biden for moving left, leaving voters to decide whether Biden really is the centrist he was made out to be.
Americans are currently getting a taste of Totalitarian control, curfews and shortages at supermarkets.
November will be our chance to say, “Loved it, let’s have more of that!” or else we can vote for Trump.
Calling Joe Biden a centrist is like calling McGovern a moderate.
Watch him become a “centrist” again once he gets the nomination. These empty suits are nothing but puppets manipulated by their handlers.
When was the last time they moved to the center?
Remember, Obama picked the dumbest white guy he could find...for a reason.
UN FRIKKEN BELIEVABLE that this arrogant, international extortionist, dog-faced, POS pony-soldier is a presidential candidate in the republic in 2020.
Many Americans woke up in the middle of the night from nightmares only to re-awaken this morning to the nightmare of a new day.
Biden was Obama’s life insurance:
“Do you really want HIM as President, if something happens to me!?”
God help us.
Democrat, Joe Biden is a political dead duck in the political waters and never will come close to becoming the POTUS. The hard, cold facts are that with POTUS, Donald J. Trump “Slaughtering, Politically” Joe Biden in both the Florida & Texas POTUS Primaries by over 100,000 vote victory margins, dooms Biden’s future hope to be elected POTUS.
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But...it’s worse then just Texas & Florida, because POTUS Trump has also beaten Biden in about at least nine to ten other states. Biden being beaten by Trump who is receiving massive votes for a POTUS Candidate that has no opposition so to speak of in his own party.
In addition...the Trump biased, Media has taken note of the terrific job Trump is doing in this massive unforeseen world crisis. Shucks...Democrat, Joe Biden could not take the garbage out...let alone run this great country through crisis. This 2020 POTUS game is over....POTUS, Trump will be massively re-elected by the American people come this November 3rd, 2020...period!!! Biden will end his career in the Obscurity garbage bin where he so rightfully belongs!!! Case Closed!!!
In the BIG GOV since 1973...so I guess Joementia, VEEP CREEP in the most EVIL administration in OUR country’s history, deserves his shot... and we deserve ours in November. BLOODLESS revolution. Thanks FF.
READY - AIM - VOTE - REPUBLICAN (we can get the rest in subsequent elections)
Gotta start cleaning the crap out of CONgre$$ sometime. We are never more than 2 election cycles away from more freedom, less tyranny.
It’s for OUR children, not the children of these CRIMINALS.
535+++++ vs. 330 MILLION
The only thing missing when Obama picked “I dont know joe” was a court jester costume and a bag of tricks
I was certain he’d trot him out with a big red clown nose...or a dunce cap.
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