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.
And the 2020 Steal is going to pale in comparison to what they have planned this November. If you have any doubts, ask yourself why Jill is so adamant that Joke remain in the race.
Over confidence will bite you in the ass...
I don’t trust the lefts desperation and they’ll lie, cheat and steal to get what they want.
With cheat-by-mail-in ballots, they just keep producing and counting them for a week after Election Day until the Democrat is ahead.
So you think if a precinct is shown to have 120% voter turnout, that will be enough to trigger an audit with full signature verification? They can tie up something like that in the lower court for years. Trump STILL has an open case in the lower courts in GA that began when a poll worker reported that she saw a stack of tens of thousands of mail-in ballots that had no creases or folds and were different to the touch from the other mail-ins. The judge had a deadline back in 2023 when he had to make a ruling, and he still has not, and nothing has happened. And the rumor is that all of those mail-ins in question have been 'mistakenly' destroyed. Trump 'lost' GA by 20,000 votes, and if those mail-ins had been thrown out, it could have changed the result. This is what Democrats do. They will hold things up in the corrupt lower courts indefinitely. Meanwhile, their friends in the media will repeat the mantra that no fraud has ever been proven, when the reality is that the evidence for fraud is never allowed to be presented.
Do you also think that being 10 points up is the 'shame margin' for Democrats to call off the Steal? I say they have no shame at all and after 2020 will stop at nothing, no matter how brazen, to retain power. When Biden 'wins' one week after Election Day with 100 million 'votes' what is anyone going to do about it? SCOTUS? State legislatures? RINOs in Congress? They'll shove their cheating down our throats and anyone who voices objections will be called election deniers, and anyone who protests in the streets will get the J6 treatment.
I can't believe that so many on our side believe that Trump's margin of victory will be too big for the Democrat cheat machine to overcome. I pray to God I'm wrong.
The MOOCH does NOT WANT TO RUN....she WANTS TO BE ENTHRONED WITHOUT HAVING TO RUN!!
They have to be smart in so many bad ways because they can’t afford to be honest about anything. It’s their only choice of “lifestyle” now, and it’s starting to look like there’s no escape except to be serving time in prison, where they’ll find plenty of other people who look like them.
Democrats are going to “win” in November across the board, and all this agita will be a distant memory. The GOP is not a serious party.
They made their selection so should be made to live with it.
All this pearl clutching over what? It isn’t as if he must step down since his handlers have been making the decisions for 4 years.
I hope the Dems lose in historic proportions, they rightly deserve it.
I want him and his family in prison.
By the time Grant took over, the corruption was baked through and through the Federal government.
by Derek Hunter, not David. I recognized his inimitable “voice” just from the headline.
“Woodrow Wilson, James Buchanan and LBJ are in the top three.”
What did James Buchanan do that was so bad?
Civil war.
His administration had the last chance for averting the Civil War.
“His administration had the last chance for averting the Civil War.”
His administration did avert war.
It's Derek Hunter
He used to be on a Baltimore radio station in Rush Limbaugh's spot; then they moved him to 9 AM to noon; then suddendly he was gone. He says it like it is, and it isn't always comfortable for the lefties and their sympathiizers.
OK.
Just going by the article.
Townhall.com ^ | 7 July A.D. 2024 | David Hunter
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