Democrats know how to win!
Some fear if they don’t speak up, people will think them cognitively disabled. Joe Biden last week took Mark Twain’s advice, spoke and removed all doubt. The president of Mexico put up barbed wire to guard his border against Gaza, according to our current President.
Joe Biden can’t hide in the basement this time
• “Many Americans are quite concerned abgout the 81-year-old President’s crepuscular mien.” — Maureen Dowd
• “Yes, Biden’s age matters.” — David French
• “Biden can’t count on Trump’s unpopularity any more.” — a former Clinton adviser
• In an NBC News poll conducted in late January, 76% of respondents said they had concerns that Mr. Biden lacked the necessary mental and physical health.
• “Moving on from Biden” — Madison WI bicycling former mayor
This dues-paying RINO respects Democrats for one thing: they know how to win. Despite what Tom Loftus said when he ran against Tommy Thompson in 1990, Democrats DO shoot their wounded. A little history:
By 1944, FDR was a dead man walking … err, being wheeled … and the party machine politicians knew it. But the same journalists who air-brushed his wheelchair out of public awareness ignored the man’s apparent morbidity. Henry Wallace was the sitting vice president and the old pols were damned if they would allow that useful idiot, a real pinko, to accede to the presidency when The Old Man keeled over. They filled a room at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago with cigar smoke and — with FDR’s blessing — chose Harry Truman, himself a product of the Kansas City machine — fully cognizant they were anointing the next President.
That is how it is going to work at the national Democrat(ic) party convention in Chicago this August 2024. Party poobahs like Axelrod, Plouffe, Panetta, Schumer, Pelosi, the Clintons, the Obamas, Rahm Emmanuel hold a surprise party for Old Uncle Joe while Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis hide under the cake cart.
The boys will sing “For he’s a jolly good fellow” while Kamala pops out of a cake wearing nothing but frosting, singing “I wanna be loved by you.”
We owe this inspiring scenario to the germ of an idea planted by Ross Douthat. The question Is not if Biden should step aside, the NY Times columnist thinks — but how. Wait for the Democrat(ic) National Convention, he counsels. Formally announce what had been long speculated, withdraw from the race and throw the nomination open to the delegates. Sounds like biblical prophecy to the Werkes.
There is precedent, of sorts. Adlai Stevenson allowed the convention to choose his veep in 1956. JFK made a run at it before yielding to Estes Kefauver. May take multiple roll calls, but think of the eyeballs! Zoom in on Travis Kelce’s girl friend in the sky box. The tight end himself chest bumps Nancy Pelosi. O.K., so it took 103 ballots over 16 days for Democrats to nominate their loser 100 years ago. Guy named John W. Davis prevailed among the 60 candidates who received votes, including the early favorite, Wilson cabinet member William McAdoo, who was endorsed by the KKK. (Republican Cal Coolidge, having succeeded to the presidency after the death of Warren Harding, prevailed that November.)
Whomever the Dems nominate is likely to be more palatable to the electorate than Biden/Kamala; both are more underwater than the wreck of the Titanic. Swing state polls like the Marquette Law School poll here in Wisconsin show Trump merely tying the off-the-charts unpopular incumbent.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Trump fatigue is real. Sore loser man will take the House and Senate down with him and not a few governors. That’s been his track record in the last four election cycles. America is yearning for fresh — and (let’s admit it) younger faces, someone who has left fewer tracks in the snow — and made fewer enemies.
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It’s a good plan for the Dems. Biden’s issue is senility but they portray it as pure age. They’ll get a younger puppet and then point the finger at Trump being old.
How to get rid of Harris? Cold hard cash under the table.
Anyone see Biden’s Tik-Tok video in which he makes it clear to young voters that he is the embodiment of their crotchety old uncle who inisists on making a fool out of himself by trying to look/sound “hip”? I suspect he was advised to do it by the same people who advised him to hold a press conference to “refute” charges of being senile.
I like your FDR analogy, but I think a better one might be Woodrow Wilson, who suffered a debilitating stroke and essentially turned over the executive branch to his wife. From what I’ve seen “Dr.” Jill would be more than eager to take over from Joe should he somehow gain a second term (if she’s not already done so).
This reads like that red wave post from days gone by. You guys need to worry about tRump and the crazies that follow him. When being questioned he said “I don’t recall” over 30 times. Have your fun now because the s@#t ain’t anywhere near the fan yet.
Denial ain’t just a river in Mexico.
You must mean “a river in Egypt”, as in de-Nile.
Nemo’s channeling the cognitively absent, elder-abused DementiaJoKe.
Funniest thing; Fact-Checking DOWN_SUBSTANTIALLY Under JoKe Administration
Probably ain’t nothin’ to it…right?
The Gotch
OK, Gotch. I catch on eventually. 😊
“I catch on eventually.”
Sooner rather than later is The Gotch’s experience.
Anywho, imagine someone being so mind-numbingly imbecilic that they think Righty “caved.”
Heh! The WI Legislature (most of ’em, leastways) is playing 4 Dimensional Chess while Ichabod Evers and his Useful Idiots are playing pocket pool.
It’s almost too much to take…….
Almost…..
The Gotch
The repuks caved again!! This time it wasn’t to Donny; it was to TONY. New maps are on the horizon, the sky is blue and the sun is shining. Let the house cleaning begin. BYE BYE VOS. Don’t let the door hit you in the a##.
With the Lefty PLANdemic in the rear-view, we now have (heh!) the Lefty DEM_PANIC up close-n-personal; to wit:
NIGHTMARE: Special Councel’s Assessment Of JoKe’s Mental Fitness Triggers democrat PANIC!
Small wonder idiot Lefty imbeciles (forgive the redundancy) slobber in a hopelessly desperate manner in hopes that the lucid won’t realize that DementiaJoKe, and his support, are unravelling in REAL_TIME.
It gets worse.
BiDUMBnomics at work: JoKe’s Tweet Touting Economic Gains HAUNT_HIM As Wall Street Sees Sharp Declines
Ah Lefty; so MUCH embarrassingly crushing ignominy, so little time!
The Gotch
Reading this is like listening to the word salad gibberish of Rump at one of his rallies.
Single Parent Households Are One Of The GREATEST INDICATORS Of An IDIOT’S Future Poverty And Substandard Education.
The Gotch
Squire, everything I’ve seen states that the Democratic National Convention is scheduled (in 2024) to be held August 19th through 22nd in Chicago. The Republican National Convention is scheduled for July 15th through 18th in Milwaukee.
That being said, I think you are underestimating the difficulty the Party Poobahs are going to have taking the keys away from grandpa, the “most qualified person in the country to be president”, and his 3,000+ pledged delegates. According to the Democratic delegate rules (2024), if a presidential candidate gets the support from a majority of the pledged delegates on the first ballot (1,968 pledged delegates) he wins the Democratic nomination.
Rachel Maddow convinced me of his cognitive fitness with her [almost Richard like] reasoning after Biden’s disastrous Presser, “he rides a bike.” If Biden does go down, I wonder if Lance Armstrong would be interested in the job.