Posted on 06/12/2024 5:23:42 AM PDT by NetAddicted
A favorite parlor game among American political junkies in 2024 is guessing just how and when the Democrats will "help" Joe Biden make a graceful exit from the presidential race. The guy can't walk 10 feet to a podium without committing dozens of mental and physical faux pas along the way, so it isn't a stretch to think that November must seem like a century away to those who have to measure time in Biden years.
Before I launch into this, I will issue my standard Election 2024 disclaimer. I have no special powers of prognostication when it comes to politics here in the Republic; anything can happen in these acid-trip, topsy-turvy times. My commentary arsenal consists solely of guesses based on 40 years of observation as a political activist.
Regular readers of mine know that I have been swimming upstream against the current of popular "replace Biden" conservative opinion, particularly the idea that Gavin Newsom will somehow be placed atop a unicorn and delivered magically to the ticket. As I've repeatedly written, there are way too many moving parts involved with removing the present vice president of the United States from the board.
Oh, I've heard all the theories; I just don't think any of them are plausible. When most conservatives speculate on what the Democrats might do, they apply conservative thinking to the Dems' motives. They don't realize how committed the Democrats are to celebrating the two diversity checkboxes their double historic first veep filled out for them.
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Hill and Gavin might be a popular guess, but I wouldn’t rule out the gal cabal of Hill and Gretch.
Supposedly Michelle doesn’t want the presidential grunt work, but who really knows?
Problem with Hillary, is nobody likes her, and she’s already lost one time to Trump, just too much baggage. Obama’s are still extremely popular among the left. She is their cinderella candidate. She may not top the ticket, but Im still going with Obama/Whitmer, or Whitmer/Obama. Obama shores up the black vote they have been losing, and Whitmer gets them Michigan.
Are you trying to say I’m a plant? Not sure what your post is about.
I’m sure the bulk of the Dems don’t have her. I don’t really see that they are considering anyone who is likable.
And Michelle’s not in it for veep to anyone IMO.
I expect it’s hers if she wants it, and she’s got a couple of months to change her mind.
If Buttigieg hadn’t been such a disaster at Transportation, he would of been in the running to make the ticket, so they would have the first openly gay person. A female/female ticket gets them their historic breaking the glass ceiling moment.
If Buttigieg hadn’t been such a disaster at Transportation,
Outside of Conservative forums, does anyone even notice anything about him, other than he’s gay, and a hero to progressives everywhere?
I’m just going by: If she truly doesn’t want to run, the dems may get her to fill the VP slot, at least as a stand in to get elected. If she wants to run, she will be the top of the ticket.
I don’t see her buying that scenario at all!
Dems stick together, they will do what they need to do for the party.
I myself don’t buy that she doesn’t want to run. She and Obama probably have wanted to get back in the White House since they left it, after all they haven’t destroyed America yet...
We just disagree if you think that will involve Shelly as veep.
Oh, I can see your point, that she in no way would want to be second fiddle to a white women, since I do believe she harbors racist sentiments.
At this point, I don’t think she’s enough of a true believer to be a second fiddle to anyone.
Probably has barely got over playing that to Barry for so long—and lives a life of luxury and celebrity without lifting a manly finger.
I do think she would be the Pubbies’ worst nightmare, however, so could enough Dem billionaires team up to bribe her at a level to convince her?
Well, will have to wait and see, but going with a democratic ticket with two women, Obama/Whitmer, Obama/Grantholm, with one picked mostly for being popular among the left, and the other bringing in a swing state.
Plus the double girl-power novelty.
And not to forget the trying to bring young black democrats back to the democrat plantation.
Beyond Michelle for that, who? Booker? Warnock?
It’s not black women they are worried about, it is black men.
And Hispanics—any opportunities there?
I just don’t see Booker, Warnock having any kind of impact like Michelle would, she’s their cinderella story, reluctant leader, only running to save democracy from Trump. I could see an all african american ticket of Obama/Warnock, as a possibility.
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