Posted on 06/27/2017 7:36:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Joe Biden should announce he’s running for president in 2020. Right now.
Democrats need a singular voice representing the party. And as we saw in the recent Georgia special congressional election, that voice should not be Nancy Pelosi.
Cut the coy. Cut the Mario Cuomo routine. Just throw down Joe. You know you want to.
If you announce now, the next two years become a debate between you and Donald Trump. You become the shadow president.
You’ve earned it. You deserve it. You regret you didn’t run last time. Because you’d probably be president right now. Beating Hillary in the primary would have been tough, but if you had, you sure as hell would have had a compelling economic message in the general election in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin for those lunch bucket voters you know so well. And, therefore, would have won.
Every elected Democrat with an ounce of ambition is positioning themselves to run. But it's just creating 100 Davids against the one Goliath in DC. There is a lot of potential talent coming up through the ranks, but if you’ve got an old Babe Ruth hanging around the locker room, put him on the field. More importantly, a Biden candidacy now could eliminate, at least temporarily, the emerging rift between progressives and centrists. Biden has respect and credibility from both camps. And he could keep that fight from spilling over into a civil war that could kill chances for 2018 and 2020.
Democrats need a Goliath of their own to focus and dominate the message. And Joe, you’re it.....
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[You become the shadow president.]
Unfortunately, we already have a ‘shadow’ president.
This assumes he’ll still be consuming oxygen by then.
Mark McKinnon - consultant for W Bush and McCain. All you need to know.
He’ll need all me plugs!
He’d be 78.
2016 was his last chance.
Slow Joe-Mentum.
A little late for an April Fools story
That’s right, you idiot liberal leftists...
First, you ran one of the biggest criminals in politics, now you want to run the village idiot who says for “personal protection” you should just shoot through your door with a shotgun...
Run, Run slow joe. Idiots will vote 4 U.
Couldn’t take another 3 1/2 yrs. of Slow Joe mourning his dead son and necessarily having the Marxist Stream Media enjoining us to “Go For Slow Joe” in ‘20.
Trump should be so lucky to run against Joe “Bite Me” Biden.
It would be like Mondale vs Reagan.
He’s probably the smartest Democrat they’ve got.
And the fact that he’ll be almost 80 years old on inauguration day 2020 will be a big advantage.
He will turn 78 a couple of weeks after election day in 2020. Crazy uncles don’t become less crazy as they get older. Go ahead, Joe, run!
Because millennials so identify with someone who would turn 80 the following year after his inauguration.
And who knows what turn that icky situation with his son and his deceased son’s widow is going to take in the next 3 1/2 years.
He was just Obama's insurance policy against impeachment.
Hi use by date is long past. But hey, go for it. Some people just can't give up the spotlight and adulation.
No, Pelosi is still the Democrat House leader...Biden announcing a run this early will get about as much play as when Cruz announced that I-Carla was his running mate - meaning a chuckle and that’s about all.
At his age, he won’t be running, maybe shuffling to the 7-11 to speak in make-shift SinGlish to some Singaporean trying to earn a buck or two. He was a jerk 10 years ago, he’s a bigger jerk now.
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