Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
All in all, a triumphal week for Biden, who racked up 11 state primary victories. Before last Saturday, he had not won a single primary in three presidential campaigns. But if earlier reports of the demise of Joe Biden were premature, so, too, are today’s confident predictions of a Biden sweep this November…
A week ago, the candidacy of Joe Biden was at death’s door.
On a taping of “The McLaughlin Group,” this writer suggested it might be time to “call the rectory” and have the monsignor come render last rites.
Today, Biden’s candidacy is not only alive. He is first in votes, victories and delegates, and is favored to win the nomination and, by most polls, to defeat Donald Trump in November.
“The World Turned Upside Down” was a song the British army band is said to have played at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown. That title applies to what happened in the U.S. political world in the five days from Feb. 29 to March 4.
Going into South Carolina on Feb. 29, Joe Biden had run a miserable and losing campaign.
Starting as the odds-on favorite for the nomination, he finished fourth in the Iowa caucuses, fifth in New Hampshire and then was routed by Bernie Sanders in the Nevada caucuses. His fundraising was anemic. His debate performances ranged from tolerable to terrible.
On the eve of South Carolina, his proclaimed “firewall,” the media conceded he might win but wrote him off as a probable fatality on Super Tuesday when 14 states went to the polls.
Then came South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn’s endorsement of Biden, which solidified and energized the African American vote in the Palmetto State and led to a Biden blowout in Saturday’s primary.
The nonstop free and favorable publicity Biden gained from the victory created a momentum that Mike Bloomberg’s billions could not buy. Over that weekend came the withdrawal of Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar and endorsements by both of Biden as the party’s best hope against Donald Trump.
Came then Biden’s sweep of 10 of the 14 states holding primaries on Super Tuesday. Wednesday saw the withdrawal of Bloomberg, who endorsed Biden and pledged his vast fortune to help Joe and the party defeat Trump in November.
Moreover, for Trump, as Claudius observed in “Hamlet,” “When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.”
For 10 days, the Dow Jones average has gyrated wildly, wiping out trillions of dollars in wealth, while the coronavirus slowly claimed victims and dominated the world’s media. Predictions of a pandemic, a global economic downturn and a national recession were everywhere.
All in all, a triumphal week for Biden, who racked up 11 state primary victories. Before last Saturday, he had not won a single primary in three presidential campaigns.
But if earlier reports of the demise of Joe Biden were premature, so, too, are today’s confident predictions of a Biden sweep this November, marching over the political corpse of Trump and bringing in a Democratic Senate and Democratic House.
As Yogi Berra said, “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
Bernie Sanders’ “Revolution” remains unreconciled to a Beltway-Biden restoration, against which many of the Democratic candidates railed before dropping out, including Elizabeth Warren.
Sanders, for whom this is the last hurrah, must decide whether he wants to go down fighting for his cause or stack arms and march into Biden’s camp.
If Sanders chooses to fight, he can, even in near-certain defeat, be victorious in history if his “movement” one day captures the national party as it has captured a plurality of the party’s young.
If Sanders goes into the coming debates and forces Biden to defend his votes — for George Bush’s war in Iraq and for NAFTA and WTO trade concessions to Communist China — he may still be crushed.
But Sanders is a true believer. And, for such as these, it is better to die on the hill you have lived and fought on than to march into camp to be patted on the head by an establishment that secretly detests you.
Then there is Biden’s vulnerability.
He may be hailed by a fickle media as a conquering hero today. But after the cheering stops, Biden is going to be, for the next eight months, the same candidate he has been for the last eight months. Here is a description of that candidate by The New York Times the day after his Super Tuesday triumph:
“Any suggestion that Mr. Biden is now a risk-free option would appear to contradict the available evidence. He is no safer with a microphone, no likelier to complete a thought without exaggeration or bewildering detour.
“He has not, as a 77-year-old man proudly set in his ways, acquired new powers of persuasion or management in the 72 hours since the first primary state victory of his three presidential campaigns.
“Mr. Biden has blundered this chance before — the establishment front-runner; the last, best hope for moderates — fumbling his initial 2020 advantages in a hail of disappointing fund-raising, feeble campaign organization and staggering underperformance.”
It ain’t over till it’s over.
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I’m really looking forward to seeing the democrats tear themselves apart over the next few months. I’m sure I’m not the only one feeling that way.
If you didn’t see the deep state in action with buttboy and not a clue dropping out of the race 48 hours before super Tuesday to hand it to Biden and keep their political contributions as a tithe, then you are blind as bat soup is food for you. Bernie could care less he has a wife taking 20% of every political contributed dollar at the tune of over $20million. I hope he enjoys his short lived retirement Because his bad heart wont allow him to enjoy those millions and like a good communist that money will be returned to The state and The people eventually, with little use to him.
Forgetful Joe will blow it on an open mic and people will realize that dude should be a patient in an Alzheimer’s institution. The idea the left are in cahoots with China etc on spreading this virus is a joke. However, that said, when enemies have a common enemy they may still have their own methods of fighting which allows Each to use said methods to go after their common enemy. The left are desperate to pin the virus and economy tanking on trump but that too will fail. Every economy is falling how and why that is Trumps fault is a joke. So, watch for them to attack his response like they did Bush in New Orleans with the Hurricane. Problem is Trump ain’t no novice and gets shit done.
He may surprise and have a plan. But of course the media will never show his accomplishments. But if The USA fares better than other countries it wont be deniable trumps winning again. They are such losers, they hate winners. They do not know how to win nor understand the feeling of winning. This market will roar after Trump wins. Cap ex will explode. If the House flips and senate gets stronger it could be a 40% return in 2021. Would be record setting as seems to be the norm under Trumpy.
Of course the deficit will explode to $40T by 2022 and by the time he is out, I fully expect our national debt to approach $60T at the top end and the lower end at $40T. Minimum wage will easily be $15 and The funny thing is trump brought that in. Funny how he is shoeing in many policies of the left and the right is complicit as long as their man does it.
That part about spreading the virus. It would go right along with agenda 21 and trimming our large population down. I don’t put anything past the psychopaths in power. Bill Gates probably got a boner hearing about a possible pandemic.
Sanders was walking away with it and i think the DNC didn’t like it.
I find it hard to believe anyone voted for this old senile fool. Sanders sure runs a piss poor campaign. It reminds me of Ron Paul’s campaign, In the end I figured out that Paul didn’t want to win or had fools advising him.
They just need him for a bit, a place holder for the real candidate…whomever that might be.
Nightmare scenario. Sleepy Joe wins the nomination and picks Hillary as his running mate. Joe wins ?!?!? and he either gets Epsteined or institutionalized and voila, Queen Hillary.
Then does that mean Slick can get bjs in the Oval Office again?
The DNCC strategy was clear: dilute the field. Butti, Klobo, Warren and Bloomberg accomplished what the DNCC wanted: to keep Biden close early on before his Southern appeal kicks in, and dilute Bernie’s impact in California.
I looked at Bernie’s performance in the first 3 primaries – he got less numerical votes in every single one vs. 2016 – when he lost to HRC.
For Super Tuesday – I looked at CA, TX, NC, VA and ME – same thing: Bernie got fewer votes than 2016.
Biden also outperformed his Real Clear Politics poll estimates in all 5 of those states, including winning Maine and Texas, and crushing Sanders in NC and VA.
Given that the polls say Warren, Sanders and Biden would all beat Trump one on one – the DNCC feels safe with Biden.
Thus while I agree with Pat’s conclusion, everything before that is much less well thought out.