Posted on 06/28/2024 7:30:19 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Much of the commentary on last night’s disastrous debate has focused, quite reasonably, on the next four months and the question of whether Joe Biden can defeat Donald Trump.
The answer: probably not.
Yet it is critical that Donald Trump be defeated. And so there are calls—compelling calls, in my view—for Joe Biden to step aside.
But let’s be honest: Last night provided ample cause for concern, not just about the next four months, but about the next four years. Even were Biden to prove the doubters wrong and and defeat Trump again, it is difficult, after last night, to answer with conviction the obvious question, perhaps the most important one:
Is he up to the task of serving another full term as president?
Those of us who were enthusiastic 2020 Biden voters—as I was—have to ask ourselves this question.
Those of us among the 40 percent of Americans who approve of Joe Biden’s job performance so far—as I do—have to ask ourselves this question.
Those of us who believe the country owes Joe Biden a debt of gratitude, not just for defeating Trump in 2020 but for governing responsibly since then, have to ask ourselves this question.
And if the answer is that Joe Biden is not up to it, we have to be willing to say the difficult truth: We owe Joe Biden a debt of gratitude, but we do not owe him four more years.
How can we make the case to our fellow citizens for four more years if Joe Biden can’t make the case for four more years himself?
Of course we can and will make the case against Trump. But it’s hard to make the case against Trump without making the case, with some degree of conviction and credibility, for his opponent.
Biden deprived us of that last night.
For Never Trumpers this is particularly tricky.
How many times have we used this Orwell quotation against Trump, his apologists, and his enablers: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command”?
We’ve been right to do so. As we saw and heard again last night, Donald Trump is a liar and demagogue. He is also an aspiring authoritarian. He is a dangerous and contemptible figure. He should never again be president.
But how can we deny the evidence of our eyes and ears when it comes to Joe Biden?
The evidence of our eyes and ears is that Biden should step aside.
We will be accused of being handwringers. But it is not we who are wringing our hands in private while putting on a good front in public.
We will be accused of urging a risky course. But surely the greater risk is trying to persuade our fellow citizens to pretend all is well. A messy and unpredictable open Democratic convention would be risky. But that risk is better than an orderly march to a neat and predictable defeat.
We will be accused of being unrealistic. We will be told there’s no way Joe Biden will step aside. That will be the excuse of senior statesmen and prominent Democrats for not making a serious effort to persuade him to do so. But their “realism” is merely a cloak for fatalism and defeatism. It’s a form of apathy in the face of a crucial task.
“Country First” is the motto that many of us opposed to Donald Trump have embraced. It’s not too much to ask of President Biden.
—William Kristol
Sure, then you lose Georgia, Wisconsin, and Nevada
Shhhh….he’s rolling.
I am a nobody, but I do pay attention to what is going on, and I got what I expected from Biden last night. How did the mighty beltway insider expect something different?
More bull from the Bullwark.
Trump should ask people to think,
1. Who is running (ruining) this country??
2. Why do they try to hide all this from you the American public
3. What will Brandon be like by election day??? How about next January???
4. Do you really think Joe and the Democrats are for YOU knowing what you know now and what has been on display???
Lying losers.
What country does he want to be first?
This loser is supposed to be a republican?
And it helps to think in terms of Monty Python’s Dead Parrot Sketch.
True, Bidet usually rises to the occasion when he’s angry and full of hate. But everyone knew there was a bigly chance he’d unravel even if you ran 10,000 volts thru him.
For YEARS they’ve misdirected, lied, and harassed anyone pointing out Bidet’s mental defects. “He stutters…”. “Hey, Trump stumbles and gets names wrong, too…”. “He’s pining for the fjords.”
Rather than face the heat and daggers accompanying the “how in the Wide World of Sports did you NOT see this possible outcome?” commentary, they are hoping the splatter from demanding a replacement and throwing Bidet under the bus blinds people to their complicity in selling us a parrot that’s stone dead.
These people would sell their dead Mom for power. And they’ve been caught. This is glorious.
High ranking Democrats and their donors have always known that Biden is demented and a traitorous criminal. These globalists so viscerally hate the American people and the American nation, are so pompous and evil that they actually believe that this charade to keep power cannot be stopped.
Seriously though, I wouldn’t be surprised if he had a very bad accident.
“Country First” is the motto that many of us opposed to Donald Trump have embraced.”
Don’t make us laugh Bill. I don’t which country comes first to you and your globalists, but is sure isn’t the United States!
They aren’t going to replace him but hopefully this full day of panic drops his numbers some.
Great entertainment, Dementia Joe vs Genocide Joe
Their convention gonna be a doozy
The Dead Parrot sketch — a good analogy.
The Republicans have a pretty strong case that public money was spent holding a primary election under existing rules, even if they are Dem Party rules. You can't change the rules after the primary has been held.
The only way to get rid of FJB is to have him either resign or die. It is most delicious that he he is refusing to step aside, and has even shown signs of a "miraculous" recovery after the debate.
Every second he hangs in there, the better our chances become. More power to the Jill and Joe show.
"Come on, Joey. You can make it. Just one tiny step down. I'm holding your hand real tight."
Fake Republicans in a panic for their buddy President Retard
President Eisenhower warned us against the MIC. And he knew because he was a General.
The MIC is a necessary evil, but we need to find a way to restrain it and to stop corrupting our politicans.
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