Posted on 03/12/2020 5:35:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
Bernie Sanders doesn’t know when to quit. In movies, that’s an admirable trait. But they only make movies about people who eventually win, even if it’s just a moral victory. When someone who’s lost, and lost badly, doesn’t quit it just comes off as pathetic. And Bernie has become pathetic.
That, however, isn’t to say that Joe Biden rallied the troops and surged to victory in the classic sense, he won because more Democrats than not simply do not want Bernie Sanders as their nominee. “Any port in a storm,” and when there’s only one port left, that’s where you dock your ship. Biden is the candidate who survived long enough to be that port - the destination voters settled for because the alternative was worse.
Not exactly inspiring.
That’s been the story of Joe Biden, he’s not inspiring, he’s just there. He’s the gruel of politics: he’s food that will keep you alive, sure, but no one ever craves it.
What is there about Biden to excite people? He’s not Donald Trump, but then neither was any Democrat. He’s a rich, old white guy, none of which is in favor with the party’s activist base. He’s also spent his life in power, in government, so he has no impressive accomplishments that inspired his entry into politics. He’s simply always been there. He’s the personification of “establishment.”
Bernie, for all his insane ideas, excited his voters - it’s almost cult-like. There’s no talking them out of it. They’re going down with the ship.
Biden is…what is he?
Where Bernie is offering major policy proposals (all of which are awful), Joe is just there. He offers standard boilerplate Democratic awfulness. Who gets excited about what’s standard?
On health care, the status quo has no greater champion. Biden will “build on Obamacare,” he says. What does that mean? He doesn’t know. It’s just a catchphrase. What he’ll end up doing is reinstating the individual mandate, one of the least popular aspects of the law that forces Americans to buy something they either can’t afford thanks to Obamacare mandates, or don’t want. It’s an idea people hate, which is why he’s not asked about it and his handlers don’t make his speak about it on the stump.
On foreign policy, Biden talks about how he’ll “restore respect for America abroad.” How? Biden is a clown. He was a champion for war with Iraq who now claims he voted to authorize it in the hope of avoiding it. Joe has repeatedly claimed he “knows” all these world leaders personally, and they secretly tell him they support him. Who are they? Do they exist? Does anyone believe there are world leaders excited at the prospect of a Biden presidency because it would be good for America? To the extent that any foreigner is rooting for him it’s only because he will weaken the US on the world stage. Is there anyone who looks back at the Obama/Biden years as great for this country on foreign policy? Do we need more wars and ISIS rebuilt? It’s not an accident Obama’s former Secretary of Defense said Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
On labor, who wants to be forced to join a union? A President Biden would.
Like every Democrat in the race, Biden is a wholly-owned subsidiary of big labor union bosses, who are going to dump millions to get him elected. They aren’t doing that because they think he’ll be good for the country. Joe will get rid of “right to work,” the ability to choose whether or not you want to join a union. Unions are terrified at the prospect of voluntary membership, which tells you everything you need to know about what they’re offering. They need the forced dues to fund Democrats, and Democrats want that funding.
You can also expect an obsession with race under Joe. One of the Obama administration’s last acts was to launch a program to sue companies over alleged hiring discrimination based not on evidence, but math. If you don’t employ “enough” of a particular race of people as determined by faceless bureaucrats, even though there is no evidence this is based on race, the Department of Labor might sue you claiming discrimination. For reasons unknown, the Trump administration hasn’t dropped these suits, and there’s no reason to think Biden would do anything but expand them. Is there anyone who thinks what the country needs is more of an obsession with race?
Biden is a shell, a doddering old man who wants to check the last elusive box left empty on a long resume of government jobs. He’s not going to lead because he’s never led and he no longer possesses the mental abilities to do it. He wants the chair and the desk; the powers that be in the Democratic Party see him as an opportunity to get the band back together. A Biden presidency would be marred by score-settling and supporter payoffs. Unchecked graft while Joe spins in the chair screaming “Weeee!” in between bowls of Jello and tightly scripted, very short teleprompter reading events.
In many ways, it would be worse than if Sanders were elected. At least Bernie has no friends to pay off and few allies in Congress willing to push through his agenda because they hate him. Biden would be a rubber stamp for anything put in front of him.
Is there anything about a President Biden that would excite anyone who isn’t already dependent upon government power and money? He’s not President Trump and he’s not Bernie Sanders, and that’s all he has going for him. If not being the incumbent was enough to win an election, President Romney would be finishing up his final term right now.
Pathetic, something Bernie and Biden have in common.
And what if Joe can’t even make to May? He looks and sounds bad. Then Bernie has played his cards right.
What many of therm are starting to realize is that it’s NOT Biden they’re going to be electing...it’s whoever is chosen as his running mate.
As you just KNOW The Witch of Chappaqua is licking her chops....
‘settle for’??
How about ‘stoop to’?
The DNC has talked about “plurality” of delegates determining the nominee.
If Bernie stays in with a few hundred delegates, and if Joe has a health collapse before the convention, Bernie may be the last guy standing. And he will have plurality. It would be awkward indeed to reject him at the convention. Perhaps Bernie will really opt for a waiting game.
Settling on Biden as the placeholder while they arrange the actual nominee...
There the meat of it. As others have pointed out, Democrats" haven't chosen Biden. The Democratic Party leadership has selected him in a smoke-filled back room. They did so not because Biden can win, but because as head of their party, they'll remain in party power. And that means they'll continue all their graft.
Biden's support has nothing to do with electability. It has everything to do with money.
Kas I love you but am often tempted to click on Derek Hunter articles; I invariably find no original ideas. Okay. Bernie is a “clown.” It’s as if this guy reads yesterday’s Townhall / Breitbart and regurgitates it, sometimes word-by-word.
“Settling on Biden as the placeholder while they arrange the actual nominee...”
Bingo
The donkeys do the “Weekend at Bernie’s” bit with Plugs until they rid of Sanders, and then they pull a Tom Eagleton move on Biden once the geriatric socialist is completely out of the way. Who they’ll plug in at the last minute is the real question.
So the Rats have put all their marbles in one basket with holes in the bottom.
Democrats have nowhere to go....Joe Biden is a loser and Bernie Sanders is a loser...and worse then that, the fool Democrats have failed at seizing a golden opportunity by standing with and supporting POTUS, Donald J. Trump in his mission to lead the nation in our hour of acute danger to the nations health and future!!!
I am looking at the mail-in voting results taking place in Florida right now and the Democrats are getting slaughtered by POTUS Donald J Trump. IMHO...until the Democrat Party gets rid of Pelosi, Schumer, Clyburn, etc., they will continue to fail. Betting on Biden or, Sanders, will prove to be the biggest mistake they ever made. They have no one.....not Hillary Clinton, not Michelle Obama nor, Barack Hussein Obama who is in the 100% hiding mode, as of the moment!!!
This is why the rats are pushing Bernie to end it. They know Joe may not be able to keep the car on the road until the convention. So if Bernie stops they can put Joe on ice. Think of it the DNC is pushing to put a man with clear dementia symptoms as their nominee
I would like to hear what these two bafoons would do about the Coronavirus if they were, God forbid, C in C.
Yes. The DNC wants to get through the Convention with Biden as the nominee and a carefully chosen VP (possibly Hillary). As soon as the nomination is official, Biden can be declared incompetent and his VP can finish out the campaign.
If Biden has to step aside before the Convention, it gets awkward.
And I still maintain there is an outside chance that Mitt Romney could play a role as a “unity” candidate either as VP or as Dark Horse at the Convention.
I still think there is a 50-50 chance Sunday's debate will be cancelled. What happens if Biden has a complete meltdown on live TV in front of a national television audience? What if something happens that they can't explain away simply as a "gaffe" or "charming" or Joe "speaking his mind?" How do they then justify not giving the nomination to Bernie? The DNC has painted themselves into a corner.
Even if they did nothing, the media would claim that they single handedly whopped it
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