Why Sleepy Joe is the Democrats' ideal nominee

wnd.com ^ | 3/4/2020 | Erik Rush

[rktman]

Erik Rush figures party is hoping to minimize damage and look to 2024

[rktman]

Since some folks seem to have tech issues going to wnd, here is the piece:

A few weeks ago, I deconstructed an interview featuring Democratic strategist James Carville, wherein he bemoaned the prospect of Bernie Sanders becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. Generally, Carville believes that Sanders as the nominee will all but guarantee a victory for President Donald Trump in the general election.

Specifically, Carville's objections to Sanders were twofold:

1. Sanders is actually an Independent, rather than a Democrat, and

2. Sanders represents a radical leftist archetype that remains highly unpalatable to most voters.

I'm not certain why the first point upsets Carville so much, and it isn't really germane to this discussion. The second point, however, is the more significant one and is a concern shared with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Democratic leadership in Washington.

There are a lot of people outside the Democratic Party – including the president – who believe that the party ought to let whomever is most attractive to the base and amasses the most delegates secure the nomination. In theory, this is how it's supposed to work and why we have primaries in the first place. If the party has become overrun with radical socialists and communists, so be it; have them state their case and let the voters decide.

Unfortunately, that isn't how the party has operated in recent years, to which Sanders himself can readily attest. Given the momentum Sanders was generating and the relatively poor showing former Vice President Joe Biden had going into Super Tuesday, it looked like Sanders was on track to become the Democratic nominee.

Things obviously look different now, with Joe Biden having captured key states in this week's Super Tuesday primaries. While this looks really good for Biden, it could wind up resulting in a contested convention, which wouldn't be good for the party.

A large part of Joe Biden's Super Tuesday success can be credited to his fellow nomination-seekers, specifically those who dropped out of the race and immediately threw their support behind him just prior to Tuesday's primaries. It would also be fair to say that these former candidates probably did so for a reason.

All of this isn't to say that the Democratic leadership wouldn't love a Sanders win at the convention, because they would. They're certainly in line with his policies, no matter how communistic they may be; they're just afraid that Sanders' overt representation of those policies are "too much, too far and too fast" for the electorate.

As I pointed out in my earlier column referencing the Carville interview: Carville essentially said that in light of the fact that Donald Trump's election was a mandate against socialism, the Democratic nomination-seekers should tone down their rhetoric and enact their hard-left policies once they've been elected, as Barack Obama did.

In other words, the Democratic leadership know that they can't win elections by allowing radical socialist and communist candidates state their case and let the voters decide. They must be deceived into believing that the Democratic Party is still the party of their parents or grandparents.

Which makes Joe Biden the ideal candidate.

Here, we shall have to put aside any prejudices we may harbor concerning Biden – or any appraisals we have of him based on the evidence at hand, for that matter – and factor in the Democrats' fear, desperation and their ability to control narratives.

Consider this: When Barack Obama was president, he didn't really do anything. Even his supporters acknowledged that he was far happier being president than he was actually doing the job. It's well-known that Obama's senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, handled most of the day-to-day duties of the president (the Iran nuke deal figures most prominently here); Obama himself largely traveled the world, ran his mouth and signed bills and executive orders.

So if Biden did win, short of his sliding into catatonia, it's likely that his non compos mentis status could be spun away in much the same way his gaffes are being handily passed over by the press. In theory, Biden would be the perfect puppet; Democratic leaders would simply need to provide an adequate support system to prop him up for optics while they ran the show.

With Bernie Sanders as the nominee, however, their problem is twofold:

1. The Democratic leadership know that Sanders will get pasted by President Trump in the general election.

2. The Democratic leadership know that placing Sanders' policies, and Sanders himself, front-and-center during the campaign has the potential for doing immeasurable long-term harm to the image of the party in the eyes of the electorate. In fact, they may have considered the possibility that following a Sanders loss, moderate Democratic voters might call for the formation of a new party.

Biden, on the other hand, is eminently more electable than Sanders. As a former vice president who'd been in the Senate since 1973, Biden clearly has name recognition. As such a prominent fixture in American politics, he'll be far easier to pass off as moderate than a vociferous, unapologetic socialist like Sanders. Despite his many gaffes, Biden still looks and sounds like a moderate Democratic politician rather than a belligerent, drunken moron.

Joe Biden will probably get pasted by Trump in the general election, but perhaps not as badly as would Sanders. A likely – and probably realistic – fear on the part of the DNC is that many moderate Democratic voters will simply stay home on Election Day if Sanders is the nominee.

Finally, as others have pointed out, if Biden is nominated and loses, the party won't have sacrificed a dynamic candidate with promise whom they might have supported in 2024.

[rktman]

IOW, no weekend at burknee sanDUHs. He better borrow some KY from peter. Several times now I’ve seen the ‘#NEVERBIDEN’ from burneebros around the web. Popcorn! Get yer popcorn!

[Oldexpat]

Trump 2024

[sushiman]

Neither Biden or Sanders will be the nominee methinks .

[PGR88]

He’s ideal because he’s a puppet of the deep state and IC

[Mr. K]

Sleepy joe/ hilLIARy

That is the worst outcome for us.

She has the deep roots to pull out all stops. If you think there was voter fraud before, this time will be a doozy UNLESS THEY START TAKING IT SERIOUSLY!!!!!

MANDATORY MINIMUM JAIL 10 YEARS FOR *ANY* GOVERNMENT FRAUD (INCLUDING VOTE FRAUD)

None of this 3 month slap on the wrist, only to come to a standing ovation from the Democrats.

[bert]

Biden...... there is no feasible alternative

[PGalt]

With Tulsi as a VEEP pick. He could get out of The Clown Car and travel the swamp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGTlb3qOrAo

[rktman]

Show of hands. Who thinks he can go the full term before the dementia takes him out of the picture? Then you might have peter as pres + 2 election cycles? 😳

[Cobra64]

Nope. No jail time for voter fraud. A rope is permanent.

[PGalt]

Good point. Joemential is cognizant enough to do it, or will his masters with their hands up his Peter Buttsexual do it?

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Okay, here’s what is going to happen.

Biden will choose Warren as VP. If he wins, she will resign due to health problems. He will then pick Hillary to be VP. She will suicide him and then she will be president.

And the left if happy, happy, happy.

[samtheman]

Thanks for posting the text. WND gives me a virus alert.

[samtheman]

He’s ideal because he’s a puppet of the deep state and IC
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I don’t know what IC is but yes, I agree. Biden the puppet. That’s why the DNC wants him.

Puppet of the DNC.

[rktman]

Yeah, it did that to me a while back and I hadn’t clkd on them for about 6 months. Haven’t gotten the big red page yet but figured that one was good enough to post the entire thing as a comment. Guess the mod will let us know if they don’t like that.

[volunbeer]

I had to close out my browser thanks to the virus alert that locked my browser. WND, GP, Breitbart, and other sites frequently linked on here are cauldrons of viruses and spyware.

I try to avoid them and had not clicked on a world nut daily link in a long time. They should be ashamed of themselves. I support the right of everyone including the clickbait boom boom crowd to make money, but there has to be a better way than to invade and degrade the computer of your audience.

Sorry - back to the subject at hand

[samtheman]

I bet hackers are trying to make WND unreadable.

[samtheman]

I think it’s hackers targeting conservative sites and lack of IT ability on those sites to prevent such hacks.

Just my opinion.

[volunbeer]

I think they are just greedy. Bongino has done the same thing with his podcast page that now features pop ups and rolling ads. I used to be able to stream it on my drive home with no problem and now I am halfway home fooling with it at traffic lights to get it to work.

Not a good business model. I have listened to maybe 2 of his podcasts in the last 2 weeks whereas I used to listen to all the shows although I freely admit that I fast forward a lot of it to the interesting stuff.

To use a techie term (I am not a technie) their webpage is “kludge”

[volunbeer]

WND does a good job of that themselves. When you subcontract for ads on your webpages you turn over control of the site for the user to a third party company.

I refuse to go to these websites. As I said above, I want them to make money, but having good content and a few sponsors is a better business model than having dozens of clickbait headlines that do not match the story with a blitz of invasive ads and pop-ups on a webpage.

Sigh.