Posted on 07/07/2024 8:45:25 PM PDT by lightman
It’s horrible when bad things happen to good people. This isn’t a story about that, this is a story about bad things happening to Democrats – think of it as evidence that karma may, in fact, exist. Or at least that God has a sense of humor. Because the corner that Democrats have painted themselves into has no good or easy way out, and the only have themselves to blame.
This doesn’t mean that Democrats are going to lose – never underestimate the Republican skill of being able to blow an election – it just means it will take extraordinary events in order to just get them back to even.
Does Joe Biden survive the week is not a crack about his age, it’s a question about his will. Sooner or later, the time will come where enough Democrats look at a shrinking calendar and poll numbers and realize there is likely not enough of the former to make up for the latter. But all of their alternatives are just as tainted by Joe Biden as Joe Biden is.
It’s a glorious mess they’ve created for themselves. That they’ve taken so much of the media with them is the icing on top. How can they get out of it?
There is no good way.
1) Biden stays. They can’t get rid of him, legally, anyway. I suppose the delegates could simply refuse to vote for him in defiance of their party’s rules. Not sure what would happen there, or what would happen if they walked out without voting for enough rounds that they got to the point where the Super Delegates get a say and they’re all free to vote how they like, but it would be fun to watch.
The problem is some state’s laws obligate delegates to vote how the primary commanded them to. It’s unlikely that the party of letting violent criminals go is going to charge hard after delegates not voting for a slightly animated corpse, but if their Attorney General is a Biden loyalist, you never know.
2) Someone who matters speaks out. It’s always funny when a few backbench Members of the House put together a letter complaining about this or that, trying to “pressure” leadership into the action they want. Unless it is all of them, or at least damn near most, these letter are political junk mail – quickly tossed out. Those who signed it might brag to their constituents about it, but it never matters. That’s all there is about Biden, so far.
There are very few people who could speak out and make it matter. Nancy Pelosi is one. I’d say Hakeem Jeffries, but he’s Pelosi’s puppet. Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. If they call for Joe to go, he won’t really have much choice.
But you have to remember that Joe has always been a nasty, vindictive person. He would go, but he could do a lot of damage on the way out the door. A decent portion of Democrats do like Joe, and would be angry at his ouster. There’s no reason to think they’d vote for the party after that.
3) Whoever comes next. Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom, were one of them to come out against Joe, could do serious damage, but it would be a suicide mission. They don’t like each other, so they’re both fighting to be seen as the most loyal Biden supporter right now. If Joe leaves on his own, they could lay claim, with varying degrees of success, to the mantle of heir apparent. But if one cracks too early and calls for Joe to go, it would likely lead to a flood of people doing the same right behind them, but they would be denounced as disloyal and opportunistic. They all are, but being labels as such would be damaging with the voters they’d need the support of.
Of these two – the obvious and only real options for replacing Biden – whoever breaks first, comes in last.
Will Democrats break? Will they bypass a black woman for a rich white man? Can they reanimate Joe to the point that he limps across the finish line? If they go convince him to withdraw as a candidate, will they force him to resign as president too? If not, how will they justify saying he’s unfit for a second term but somehow fine to be President now?
There are more questions than there are answers and they know it. And there are no good answers to the questions we do know about.
I would like nothing more than to have them keep Joe Biden on the ticket, not because I think he’d be easier to beat – though, I do – but because I want him to lose. I want one of his last memories as he drifts off into full dementia to be that American people rejected him and everything he did; that he will go down as the worst President in history. I want that to be the last thing that blends into the fog.
Joe Biden has been such a destructive force to the country, and a divisive force to Americans, that I desire he unambiguously know his presidency was the inflection point where the country recoiled in horror from his politics, his policies, his family and him.
Perhaps that’s cruel, but a man who made his name lying about his own life and his opponents, while making his fortune off exploiting the public trust, deserves nothing less. And the American Public, who’ve suffered under him, deserve at least that small measure of satisfaction.
I love your screen name! Frank Rizzo is one of my all time heroes.
You’ll probably have to say US Grant was worse than Joe Biden. But that’s only because Grant had eight years. Joe Biden may be out of power by this November.
You won’t be hearing “orange man bad” mantra anymore.
> Massive fraud.
That’s been the plan all along.
That, and encouraging all the Democrat loons and Lefties that JFKing Trump-Hitler would be a good thing.
This is that Craig Kilborn thingee that got him a Secret Service visit back in the day, on steroids, and times a thousand.
proud to say that I supplied freeper Registered the video with which we hung Kilborn out to dry. :-)
A year after losing, he might be sitting at home thinking he's still in the White House.
-PJ
“deserve to suffer.”
My gosh. One of the most used lines about my enemies in my posts.
RE: New Republic slander cover and story....
Thanks for posting.
Never saw it, of course. Shocking.
Anyone who clings to the “some Dems I know are not too bad” “they still allow me permission to attend family dinners and holidays if I promise to fold my hands and keep totally quiet because I support Trump” excuses, it is past time to be tolerant of the Dems’ evil.
Wilson and LBJ….. grrr…..
Grant was not that bad. Surrounded himself with bad people though.
I like this guy, David Hunter.
I’d argue the point
Can we get Pelosi and Schumer in a package deal?
Right now the democrats are focused on winning the house and senate so they can hamstring the coming Trump presidency with lawfare and legislative/bureaucratic ‘resistance’. There will be violence and rioting filling the headlines, occupations held in blue cities will be blamed on the Trump admin. We’ve got to be ready to take the bitter pill. There’s no way to avoid it.
Democrats know that the game is about winning and they know how to do it. In any case presented, the democrats will pick the win for themselves and not for America or Americans. You’re never running against the democrat candidate, who is irrelevant mostly venial and could literally be a houseplant. You’re always running against the democrat ‘democracy’ machine. They will keep counting until they get the number they need to win and then use the courts to stop the counting. We’ve seen this before.
The presidency race matters very little here.
Their only way forward is Moochie but she still says she won’t run. I just wonder if she is holding out for a bigger piece of the pie
Last paragraphs here are the best.
Never kick your opponent when he is down…It is a hell of a lot easier and more satisfying to kick the crap out of him.
Correction…”Never hit your opponent when he is down….”
Count on it
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