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.
Scatter brain Joe at his finest supporters call him a great thinker.
Son worked a few years for Transocean. Worked a month on and month off 12 hour days 7days a week. 120K a year and they got bonuses as well. He got married and is now a post man to be home more.
Some media type reported he was “really sharp” at the last debate - ha ha! More like a rusty nail ....
LOL indeed
The state reps and state Senators elected in 2020 control the remapping of the 2020 Census results.
FReepers and all good people should be focusing on State Rep races. A good State Rep vote can only help Trump. A good Trump vote does not necessarily follow with down ballot races.
Do any of you know what a full time UPS driver makes with OT these days? Some are making over 120K. That’s drivers with 5 years on the job. It’s a hard job, physically demanding and time off is limited. They will all be working this week except Christmas. Saturday’s for the last 6-8 weeks. 50-60 hours.
Wow, that's frightening to put it mildly....but I think Trump would annihilate them...:)
very true and VERY apparent!!
All good points, hopefully we don’t fall into the same trap. I know I’ll be voting over broken glass and I’m in New York.
All good points, hopefully we don’t fall into the same trap. I know I’ll be voting over broken glass and I’m in New York.
“The average one pays $150,000 a year.”
That’s average pay for a petroleum
engineer.
Roustabouts or roughnecks average
about $35,000, with all types
of job positions in between that
pay different rates.
The Mooch hates Hillary. I doubt any love flows the other way either.
Did Mr. Smith STAY in Washington?
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Searching within youtube brought nothing, but I knew I'd seen it recently. An external search engine found it.
Totally awesome! I can’t thank you enough!! I never tire of watching that video! Good fun.
No one on Earth would chose Hillary as a running mate.
Julie Anny had 2 major problems
1)He was pro-choice in a pro-life party so he was never gonna win the nomination, anyone who thought he was “unbeatable” was a fool
2)He had a novel strategy of ignoring the early voting states which turned out to be a critical blunder, (Bloomberg is doing the same thing and I think it makes more sense today than it did then)
Anyway, Biden certainly didn’t hurt himself in the primary by giving the only answer acceptable to environazis. As far as I know he still has the Blacks so it would be foolish to count him out.
One thing in Giuliani’s favor, though... Unlike with FAKE candidates McQueeg and Willard, chin deep in Derp Statery, Rudy would have run to win. He didn’t pull any punches running against General Stinkins Dinkins, an incompetent moonbat Demonrat who happened to be Black.
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