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.
If Bidone ever gets to debate Trump,which I predict will not happen,Trump will make mincemeat outta that brain dead Ahole.
The problem with this flawed analysis is that the base did not watch the debate and does not actually know of the question response thought to be off putting.
Biden is the leader and the person likely to win the nomination because he is perceived as a Democrat and not a socialist
We have to be careful about being overly confident. None of the polls take in the dead vote, the trunk of a car ballot vote and under-report the illegal vote. Everyone must still get out and vote!
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
-- George Orwell
This could be the Democrat version of the Republican nomination process in 1996. If they think there’s no chance in hell of winning, why not just nominate a useless old fool instead of damaging the future prospects of a younger candidate?
Clinton would never agree to run as VP to Michelle Obama, and vice versa.
Those two hate each other with a red hot passion.
Like the socialists in France, once the democrats got filthy government and usury entitled rich, they worked to undermine young entrepreneurs and the poor willing to take risks to make money.
Soinstead of pitting rich vs poor, they pit ethnic hatred, global warming reversals colonization and gender studies political correctness
> The problem with this flawed analysis is that the base did not watch the debate and does not actually know of the question response... <
Right. The average Democrat will not hear about Biden’s latest slip. The media will instead report on how Trump got a parking ticket back in 1980.
Only if you are working a hazardous or dirty job on the front line of an oil rig, something like that.
Glad you called out Root on that point. It’s BS.
For some good schadenfreude viewing, find 2016 election night "Young Turks" coverage on Youtube.
President Trump faces three major challenges in 2020:
We need to work very, very hard to turn out the Trump vote in 2020.
Re # 5: Agree! The orchestration to make Big Mike the nominee is not even subtle. BM will be (falsely and ridiculously) presented as the non-partisan savior of a divided America, here to restore civility and good will.
The soviet media will push the daily Narrative that BM just wants us all to get along, and how could any good person oppose such a laudable goal?
Biden does not want to be president. He is part of the BM plot, as is Warren and probably Alfred E. Newman.
But Crooked Hillary will be no where near this thing. The idea is to project civility and peace, not rancor and acrimony. More likely that a Klobuchar, another communist phony “moderate,” will be VP, and more likely than that is some benign white male who also specializes in the tactic of being a phony moderate.
I think a lot of people in ‘ the trades ‘ will vote Trump even though they are union members.
A lot of them speak the union line, anti-Trump blah, blah, blah but they have not had this much work available to them in
years. There is so much work for these people they can not keep up. Home owners can’t even get them to show up they are so busy.
Trump did this. A Trump replacement will take it all away.
Maybe with benefits, yes.
I believe it will be the other way around. Table cloth on the top and miss “first time proud of her country” Michelle.
M. Obama will be a flop of course. She is as bad as Biden off script.
Really.
After saying he would get rid of the old jobs, he promised them new "high paying" green jobs. But the numbers don't add up. A surface coal miner can work an hour and dig enough coal for almost 20,000 kWh of electricity. A solar installer might get five panels up in that hour which will generate 2,000 kWh in the first year of operation.
Of course the panels keep generating. But even giving the coal miner just a penny per kWh that's $200 an hour.
Biden is this election’s Rudy Giuliani...
#### you Root, I don’t care what your reason is for putting these 2 in the same sentence.
#### you twice.
Could have just as EASILY used hillary from that year’s primaries
#### you a third time.
I’d take Jimmy Stewart any day of the week as president.
And let us not forget the late and great Mel Tillis.
I am seeing new Bernie bumper stickers
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