Posted on 07/04/2024 11:26:28 AM PDT by edwinland
The elected officeholders of the Democratic Party should take responsibility and press the president to leave. You can’t scream, “Democracy is on the line,” and put up a neurologically compromised candidate to fight for it. They haven’t moved for two reasons. One has to do with their own prospects: You don’t want to be the one who kills the king, you want to be the one who warmly mourns the king and takes his mantle after someone else kills him. The other is fear of who would replace him on the ticket, and how exactly that would happen. These are understandable fears. But the answer isn’t to hide in a dumb fatalism, a listless acceptance of fate. It makes no sense to say, “Joe Biden is likely going to lose so we should do nothing because doing something is unpredictable.” Unpredictable is better than doomed. This is a party afraid of itself, literally afraid of its own groups and component parts. They are afraid of their own delegates. Party professionals think letting the convention decide would reveal how fatally shattered and divided the party is—how wild it is. But that’s how the party looks now, with its leaders in Washington frozen and incapable and no one in charge. What a tragedy this is. A president cratering his historical reputation, his wife and family ruining any affection history would have had for them when Donald Trump wins. They have no idea how they’re going to look.
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“They have no idea how they’re going to look.”
And they don’t care about anything but power.
They will JFK him and nobody will care But he** , Jill will get a full spa day and photo op.
The paralysis we’re watching is happening at a particularly inconvenient time for the Dems, and it’s their own fault. To stick with Dementia Joe at this point is effectively to state that the American government can function without a President for four more years. There are a lot of administrative wonks who would be delighted with that arrangement but the rest of us, not so much. The problem that remains, however, is who will bell the cat?
They have taught some of those parts that violence is an acceptable means of protest when they do not get what they want. Now, one wrong move means violence might be unleashed upon them.
Joe’s reputation??? He’s always been a big mouthed idiot plagiarist who says whatever he thinks he needs to say regardless of the truth. Only fools and users ever thought he was worth anything.
Now if they could only find a MAGA to do the job. Maybe the FBI could use some mentally deranged individual and prompt him through psyops.
JFK was very popular so Biden would be no problem.
Peggy Noonan, desperate for the D’s to do something to keep a Republican president out of the White House.
She went south years ago.
Why has this man with a history of brain injury not had a recent EEG his med protocol may need revision. heartless Democrats just care about themselves.
“What a tragedy this is. “
Peggy, the tragedy occurred 4 years ago when your treasonous GOPe friends helped the rats steal an election and put that evil prick in the White House.
Piggy Noonan - a legend in her own mind.
These people who control information really do think they are better than everyone else. They are very sick individuals.
Sorry to say, but my personal recollection of the weeks before 11/22/63 is somewhat different from what you wrote.
JFK was in Dallas that day his popularity was waning, particularly in the South. LBJ and Texas Governor John Connally were concerned about losing TX for the Democrats...
I am today 28,008 days old, so in ‘63 I was around 16 years old...and in Louisiana where I was born and raised, politics is the State’s #1 most popular form of entertainment and I was watching.
ROTFLMAO!!! I’ve seen it at least twice.
Other point is that Hillary’s 3:00 am example is dead on right, except the real historic example is what happened to Hitler on June 6, 1944 at about 6:00 am, when his keepers didn’t let the vital message demanding release of two panzer divisions that were near the beachheads get through to him, forfeiting any chance of stopping the liberation.
My most leftwing, MSNBC-watching friend texted me before the debate was over. “They have to find a new candidate, Biden is demented.” She works as a caregiver, has enough medical knowledge to know what she’s talking about.
I wonder how many other lefties got the message loud and clear too.
To me, their plan seems to be to keep on gas-lighting.
— Oh, he just had a bad night
— Joe still runs rings around his aides
— He is sharp as a tack in meetings
In other words, who are you going to believe: Us (The Establishment) or your lying eyes?
Besides, the other guy is “Hitler” [/s]
original wsj article archived without the plethora a crap that msn covers their pages with ...
Thanks. I gotta start using that site.
there’s a great chrome addon for the archive function: once installed, you just click on the archive icon and if the article is already archived, the archived article displays on a tab on your browser, and if not already archived, it will archive it ...
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/archive-page/gcaimhkfmliahedmeklebabdgagipbia?hl=en-US
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