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Biden Has Become an Albatross for the Democrats
Townhall.com ^ | May 7, 2020 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 05/07/2020 4:24:51 AM PDT by Kaslin

Joe Biden is the apparent Democratic presidential nominee. After all, he had a seemingly insurmountable lead in delegates going into the rescheduled August convention in the postponed Democratic primary race.

Biden was winning the nomination largely because he was not the socialist Bernie Sanders, who terrified the Democratic establishment.

Biden was also not Michael Bloomberg. The multibillionaire former New York City mayor who jumped into the race when Biden faltered and Sanders seemed unstoppable. But Bloomberg spent $1 billion only to confirm that he was haughty, a poor debater and an even worse campaigner. He often appeared to be an apologist for China and seemed clueless about the interior of the United States.

The least offensive candidate left standing was Biden. Many Democratic primary voters initially had written him off as an inept retread, a blowhard and an impediment to the leftward, identity-politics trajectory of the newly progressive Democratic Party.

On the campaign trail, Biden insulted several voters, using insults such as "fat," "damn liar" and, weirdly, "lying dog-faced pony soldier."

Long ago he spun tall tales about how in his youth he had taken on a Delaware street gang with a 6-foot chain or slammed a bully's face into a store counter. More recently, he taunted President Trump with tough-guy boasts about taking him behind the proverbial gym and beating him up.

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1 posted on 05/07/2020 4:24:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Biden. Albatros? Dodo? Booby? You decide.


2 posted on 05/07/2020 4:30:44 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The real virus is the MSM)
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To: Flick Lives

Cuckoo bird.


3 posted on 05/07/2020 4:34:02 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Kaslin

Well the real kill shot the biggest scandal in American History exposed,The entire Russian collusion scam,Ukraine,Flynn,Papadopoulos,Manafort,Flynn,Page all a fraud,An attempted Coup of The President of The United States,Obama and Biden right in the middle of it along with all the Cohorts,Hillary,Shiff.
Come Mr. President get in the oval office,time for a National Address to the Nation on the Traitors attempted coup


4 posted on 05/07/2020 4:37:44 AM PDT by ballplayer (By)
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To: Kaslin

Why do they want to get rid of him? He is leading in all the national polls.

Run Joe run! Don’t let them take it from you.


5 posted on 05/07/2020 4:38:28 AM PDT by CapnJack
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To: Kaslin

The story ends with a whimper, not like Hanson. He usually makes his point well, not here.


6 posted on 05/07/2020 4:40:13 AM PDT by Fungi
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To: Kaslin; windcliff; stylecouncilor
If he was a fish:

He could be a flounder.
sucker fish
crap, I mean carp, well maybe I was right the first time.
smelt, has multiple meanings.

7 posted on 05/07/2020 4:46:09 AM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: Kaslin

I’ve lately heard polls that put Biden ahead. So what’s the problem? The gut who the polls say is leading is an albatross? Funny kind of albatross...


8 posted on 05/07/2020 4:50:10 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: CapnJack

I actually think this is why Trump is playing it frustratingly safe with the reopening.

The Dems don’t have a viable candidate. Joe is a senile sex criminal. Cuomo scrooooooood the pooch on COVID. Hillary has not become one bit more likeable, Bernie is Bernie, and Moochelle will get no quarter on disliking America or her $300K job shifting indigent minorities away from her hospital.

Trump is confident in his base and economic recovery. Maybe too confident in the latter. So he is trying to appeal to the nervous nellies suburban female vote. It’s become his safest re-election strategy.


9 posted on 05/07/2020 4:58:02 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Kaslin

For the first time ever, IMO, VDH gets it entirely wrong.

Biden was always a set-up for the eventual nominee, and the comrades running in the primaries all knew it (including Bernie). The splitter strategy was brilliantly manipulated to produce exactly what exists now: a Biden who cannot be the nominee.

There is one candidate and one candidate only who could ever unite the various factions, and that is Big Mike. Even the Bernie Bros will not protest that installation.

The Big Mike campaign has been running in the “background” all throughout the primaries, all focused on the eventual Phony Narrative to be unrolled in the fall: BM is just as smart, probably smarter than Hilldebeast, but BM is a world historical figure beloved globally who will bring peace and unity to an America torn apart by an Evil Orange Man.

And you are an evil racist if you do not participate in praising Our Savior Big Mike.

As fraudulent and ridiculous as this plan is, it is the best the DemoKKKrats have, and many many millions of Americans will be euphoric at the opportunity to say they voted for Big Mike.


10 posted on 05/07/2020 4:58:20 AM PDT by Gratia
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To: Kaslin; All

Uh...VDH...the Dog-Faced Pony Soldier POS should be in a Ukraine prison.

Along with others, he has destroyed the sincere-goodwill and honest-intentions, of hard-working, humanity-loving, tax-paying AMERICANS. Why are YOU giving him cover? He’s been a virulent strain on the body politic for nearly 50 years and wants more.

NO justice, NO republic with liberty and justice for all, NO America.


11 posted on 05/07/2020 4:58:49 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Kaslin
If they replace him the only legitinate replacement is Bernie.

Say that around every Berniebot you know so when the Dems pick anyone else the Berniebots will get even angrier and more disgusted with the party.

12 posted on 05/07/2020 4:58:55 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Parachutes are only anecdotally effective due to the lack of significant double blind testing.)
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13 posted on 05/07/2020 5:00:33 AM PDT by real saxophonist (If you don't have a gun, sell some toilet paper, and go buy a gun. - Colion Noir)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Analysis BUMP!


14 posted on 05/07/2020 5:01:47 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

You are 100% correct. See the last item on my profile page.


15 posted on 05/07/2020 5:03:12 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.")
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To: Kaslin

Except...... The consensus of the Democrat powers that be is that Biden is the nominee

Convention peace is better than a loss of the election


16 posted on 05/07/2020 5:06:34 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Kaslin

They have 6 months to plugs the leak. I don’t think they can do it, and they know that Trump is too strong a force.


17 posted on 05/07/2020 5:07:12 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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Besides, his social-credit score?...no, SOCIOPATH Demerit Score is off the charts...as the little-girl-groper VP of the most EVIL (words & deeds) administration in the history of this fabulous republic. Grievances? Too many to list at this time.


18 posted on 05/07/2020 5:09:41 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Alberta's Child

I don’t like my own conclusion but I think we’re likely correct.


19 posted on 05/07/2020 5:20:58 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Kaslin

The bet here is that, “Demented Joe” will not be the RAT nominee.


20 posted on 05/07/2020 5:24:12 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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