Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
The worry is that he is suffering from mental decline and could be destroyed by Trump in a presidential debate. Biden forgets, mumbles, misspeaks, loses his train of thought and appears, at times, confused.
Where Barack Obama achieved notoriety for “leading from behind,” Joe Biden, these last two months, has been leading from the basement.
And, one must add, doing so quite successfully.
Since his rout of Bernie Sanders on Super Tuesday, Biden has led President Donald Trump in every national poll and, lately, opened up a lead in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida. One poll has him tied with Trump in Texas.
Last week, however, reality intruded. Biden was forced to defend himself against the lurid charge of ex-aide Tara Reade that, as a senator in 1993, he had groped and assaulted her inside the Capitol complex.
Why did Biden go public?
Because witnesses were coming forward to say Reade told them of Biden’s misconduct years ago, and major media outlets began to give the charge credibility by moving the allegation onto Page One.
Media allies were signaling that they could not forever give Biden a pass on this, and he had to speak to the charges. Which is what Biden did Friday as he told MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski:
“This never happened … and it’s as simple as that.”
With that flat denial, Biden put his credibility on the line — in defense of his character. For one cannot equate what Reade claims Biden did with the reputation he has built over half a century as a decent and honorable man. Biden now has to persuade the nation this woman is deluded, wildly exaggerating, misremembering — or is deliberately lying.
If “nothing happened,” Biden must explain how well he knew Reade and why she left a plum job in the office of a U.S. senator after only nine months.
This is not a matter any presidential candidate wants to discuss while conducting his campaign. But this is only the beginning of Biden’s problems — and of his party’s problems with Biden.
With four months left before his nomination in Milwaukee, and six months before the November election, there are still among Democrats gnawing concerns based on Biden’s performance in the debates and primaries, and since, that he has lost the ability to articulate issues clearly and cogently, or to complete complex thoughts.
The worry is that he is suffering from mental decline and could be destroyed by Trump in a presidential debate. Biden forgets, mumbles, misspeaks, loses his train of thought and appears, at times, confused.
Moreover, Biden is no spring chicken. He would take office at 78, one year older than Ronald Reagan, our oldest president, was when he left office.
Biden has also signaled, by his references to being a “bridge” president, that he will be serving only the single term that would end in 2025 with him having celebrated his 82nd birthday.
“I view myself as a transition candidate,” Biden conceded last week.
This makes his vice presidential choice crucial. For that individual would not only become president instantly should something happen to a President Biden, but he or she would also become the leader of the Democratic Party, the probable presidential nominee in 2024, and possibly president.
Who will Biden select as America’s future leader, after him?
First rule: No white men need apply. Biden has ruled them out.
Indeed, no male candidate of any race or ethnicity need apply. The vice presidential nomination has been set aside for a woman.
A woman of color? Not necessarily.
But here Biden has another problem. It was a huge turnout among African Americans in South Carolina that rescued Biden’s failing candidacy and propelled him to his Super Tuesday triumph three days later.
Should Biden choose Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar as his running mate in a party that celebrates diversity above all, that all-white ticket would dismay and conceivably enrage the political elites of the black and Hispanic communities in the Democratic coalition.
If he chooses Sen. Elizabeth Warren, that ticket would also be all white. Moreover, it would point to a Democratic Party future far to the left of the constituencies that turned out in panic for Joe Biden because he was the last man standing athwart the forced march to the left of democratic socialist Bernie Sanders.
If Biden chooses an African American like Stacey Abrams, who lost the Georgia governor’s race in 2018, or Sen. Kamala Harris, who did poorly in the primaries and savaged Biden for his opposing forced busing to integrate public schools in the 1970s, would Democrats welcome either as the party’s designated future leader?
Michelle Obama, as Biden wistfully says, would fit the bill perfectly.
But the former first lady is unavailable. And while Biden is mulling over his choice in his basement, Republicans will be attacking his character, credibility and mental competence. Before the fall campaign begins, they will have soiled his candidacy good.
“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried,” said Winston Churchill, after the British gave him “The Order of the Boot” in 1945.
Campaign 2020 may show us our own democracy at its worst.
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Big Mike would add a sense of aesthetics to the old jackass ticket.
Don Lemon Says Trump Is Jealous Because Michelle Obama Is “Better Looking” than Melania
“Michelle Obama, as Biden wistfully says, would fit the bill perfectly.
But the former first lady is unavailable. ”
Aaahem.
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/05/04/democrat-operatives-launch-committee-to-draft-michelle-obama-for-vp/
4 May 2020
A newly-launched committee called “Draft Michelle Obama” is pushing for Joe Biden, the apparent Democrat presidential nominee, to select the former first lady as his running mate.
“Joe Biden has said he would choose Michelle Obama as his running mate ‘in a heartbeat.’ The aim of this campaign is to build on the substantial grassroots support for a potential Michelle Obama candidacy and help garner media attention for a vice-presidential nominee who has the power to beat Donald Trump,” the group said in a statement released Monday.
I keep telling people she has a record. “They” don’t ever want to talk about it but it will come up if she gets involved.
Please use the proper pronoun.
You keep telling but I can’t recall you showing. Bookies have dropped big mike to 33-1 from 200-1 on NYD. Tell me that the bookies would not have a better and more in the know idea then the both of us.
Michelle Obama is better looking to Don Lemon…because Don Lemon is gay.
Big Mike is better looking to Don Lemon because she’s a man. Oh, maybe that was your point.
“Don Lemon is gay”….so is Big Mike’s “husband”
Don Lemon thinks Mike Tyson is better looking than Melania. Why do all the rich niggas buy a white woman? It must be because all the sheboons are better looking, huh?
All Biden has left is a sympathy stroke !
Obviously should he open his demented mouth to debate anything with anybody with national coverage it should be an instant train wreck ! That being said the democraps have their dream come true the economy is in the shitter where it’s been heading for the last 40 years ! In the dems demented view it’s all Trumps fault . Regardless of the fact the dip shit dems have been in control a great deal . Republicans fair out no better for average Americans . We have the evil party that never misses an opportunity to make things worse and we have the stupid party that never misses an opportunity to blow an opportunity !
>That being said the democraps have their dream come true the economy is in the shitter
Now you begin to see the plan, all the states with the most tyrannical shutdowns are Demonrat run hell holes, so you can see the agenda at play:
This is not about a virus or protecting people, it is about destroying the economy so that Trump looses any credibility as a candidate.
If the demonrats steal the election, the US will turn into a UBI “green economy” sort of hell, very similar to the EU.
There will be states that will attempt to secede from the Union. There will be complete chaos and martial law following the election.
This is why the lock down is in place, and keeps getting extended, they are trying to quell any notions of freedom or liberty or respect of the Constitution.
If the Dems win, expect a security state similar to China, with SJW credit scores, facial rec everywhere, and a national work force to dig ditches to be filled in by other ditch diggers, on alternating Sundays.
“we dug and filled 200 trenches this month, Comrade”
Strange how the Democrats have totally dismissed Tulsi Gabbard. I don’t believe any report that says Biden is any competition for Trump in any way and is there really anyone who doesn’t see Biden’s mental decline whenever he speaks?
The Demsheviks hate everybody who isn’t a greenie commie buttpopper. Tulsi doesn’t seem to hate everybody so that is the disqualifier. Apparently hating us is their most sacred tenet.
The idea that Biden is ahead of Trump is laughable in extremis. These polls usually vastly oversample Democrats and undersample Republicans and Independents. That and the idea people get attacked, especially in Prog locales for not lovin’ the Reds has made traditional polling a joke.
We still hear the mantra about Trump and women yet 52% of them voted for him last time. Now that he showed what can be done it certainly isn’t going to drop.
There’s one main issue in 2020: coronavirus and the response to it. My guess is that there’ll be ~ 1/4 million deaths in the US attributed to COVID by election day. Nitpicking whether they died with COVID or from COVID won’t be an effective tactic. If you need to dispute the number of deaths, you’ve lost the argument already. Anyone who votes for Biden (assuming he’s still the candidate) won’t care that he’s senile. They’d just be voting for Team Democrat – an assemblage of nameless technocrats who they hope will have people’s interest at heart. The best argument against Biden is probably that he’s insufficiently anti-China and tolerated outsourcing our industrial production to them, leaving us vulnerable. Trump should probably start calling him “China Joe” or something.
The PTB are running the biggest social engineering scheme in the history of the world. It will matter not who the demonrats select as their nominee, by the time we get to November patriots will already be screwed. If we don’t want to take a poison vaccination it will be off to quarantine camp (or fun camp as Hitlory likes to call it).
“Biden has led President Donald Trump in every national poll”
So did Hitlery
“in defense of his character”
Biden is and always was a grifter, he has no character
“A woman of color? Not necessarily.”
Necessarily, they need the chocolate vote.
“But the former first lady is unavailable”
Big Mike 2020
The idiots on the left demanding that Biden pick a colored woman as his VP are the same idiots that want you to believe that race and gender are social constructs…..