A comment on Friday's blog post took Susan Wild to task for hosting Jill Biden last week, and then questioning her husband's capacity over the weekend. Wild was correct in being cordial to Mrs. Biden and not mentioning the controversy on Jill's visit to Allentown.
Also in a comment yesterday, I mentioned that Biden's condition will move no votes to Trump's column, regardless of who ends up as the Democratic candidate. The only candidate who may gain some votes from the Democratic malaise is Bobby Kennedy Jr.. I wouldn't assume that all people looking at Kennedy are from the D column. Given the alternatives, he is appealing more and more to Democrats, Republicans and independents.
This election may end with a weak turnout. The real threat to democracy is when the people realize that their desires are irrelevant and make little difference, something that is painfully obvious with present democrat candidate.
ReplyDeleteBiden has a point. I’ve heard no democrat suggest that he should be REMOVED as president under the 25th Amendment, only that the will of MILLIONS of primary voters should be subverted because of the current polling in the general election.
ReplyDeleteThat’s wrong.
If Biden isn’t competent to run for another term, he’s not competent enough to stay in office. Until the democrats wanting Biden out start saying that, they have no credibility.
Democrats want to have their cake and eat it too. Kudos to Biden for standing up to them.
The contention that the Democrats either have to remove Biden from the presidency now through the 25th amendment for the remaining 5 months of his term, or run him again for another 48 months is ridiculous.
DeleteMike, As an activist in the local Republican committee I can honestly say in my thirty years ever seen the party so united and the rank and file more on board. As well we have seen many new volunteer faces and yes, young people showing up as conservative activists. I almost never hear what I heard so much of in 16, and less so in 20, "I will never vote for Trump". What I hear often is he's an a**hole but he's not dangerous or a radical like the alternative is. In other words, he's our a**hole and gets our vote. I suspect very few Republican will be voting for Kennedy or any other alternative candidate this year. One more point, if Trump gets elected he's done. He can't run again. In January 29, his term expires and despite the Dem's fevered whipped up of fear of a Trump dictatorship he will be private citizen Trump and go back to golfing all day. If we are both still here when that happens we can have a lunch, clink coffee glasses and say cheers to that.
ReplyDeleteI suppose that's what blind partisanship does to people, he's our "a-hole", and "gets our vote".
DeleteMike, you show an uncritical bias clouding your thinking when you imply insult. Let me ask you, how many Republican events have you attended? I never saw you at one. So you really don't know how Republicans approach their allegiance to their party. I can tell you, myself included, most activists and voters see their Party as merely less bad than the alternative. In fact if someone shows up who's Mr. or Mrs. totally all in on the party this person would be viewed as charmingly nuts or a con-person. If you want to find blind partisanship their is plenty of that around. It truly has been in front of us, on full display since the media said oral sex isn't sex. That was a long time ago and the folks that bought that canard are still buying every clearly false narrative that their media talking heads spew out. I've seems list of them in respected conservative journals. To paraphrase Dicken's, let's just say it's very long chain the media and Democrats has wrought link by link, yard by yard over these many years. The debate was their visit from Marley's ghost.
DeleteScott, It is my perception that if Trump wins in 2024 it is because of the MAGA, who were just as likely union Democrats formally, not Republicans. They are cultists, living the former reality shows they watched. I hope that the real Republicans share the values you proclaim. It would have been nice from my independent point of view if they had not let Trump so dominate the party.
DeleteMike, are you saying Republican voters are " cultists "? If so, please explain your reasoning so that we can be assured you, yourself aren't just repeating one of many media slanders of Republicans.
DeleteI was referring to the MAGA crowds at Trump rallies. Were they at rallies in 2012? Did they even vote Republican before Trump? Will they be voting Republican in 2028? No reply please. This comment was for clarification, not dialogue.
Delete“Wild was correct in being cordial to Mrs. Biden and not mentioning the controversy on Jill's visit to Allentown.”
ReplyDeleteWild was being a slimy politician by appearing loyal to Jill Biden in person while knifing the President in the back in private.
If she wanted the President removed from the ballot, sho could have found any number of plausible reasons not to show up for the Jill Biden political stop. Honestly, nobody would have missed her.
The dishonesty, double-dealing, and back-stabbing displayed by Wild is why people hate politicians.
Jill Biden was in the Lehigh Valley for a Latino Caucus, scheduled before Joe Biden's meltdown. Wild's hospitality was appropriate.
DeleteBiden is clinging to office, well Jill and Hunter are anyway. That is why they don't want him to quit
ReplyDeleteJill is used to the trappings of being First Lady, living in the White House, all of their servants, etc, She doesn't want to give all that up.
Hunter has been convicted of several felonies and there is more legal issues coming his way, he needs a pardon to stay out of jail
What do the bidens have to look forward to after leaving office ? No book deals on the horizon. No flashy Hollywood or Washington friends to hang out with. Joe's been grifting for the past 50 years, and it looks like he's reached the end of the road. No more selling influence and name, no more foreigners to bribe him for one reason or another. He wants re-election to keep the status quo going. Otherwise he's got nothing but that thousand-yard stare which no one will pay attention to any longer.
I suspect that we the people are about to get a deluge of positive spin about Kamala Harris. Its already starting, but its going to really reach a crescendo after the RNC next week. Its pretty much impossible at this late date to put anyone else new on the ticket for the Democrats. Kamala is the only feasible alternative to Joe and the amount of positive spin about her is going to be overwhelming trying to sell her as presidential material.
Miss Giggles and word salad vs President Trump.
I suppose we will see who the gullible voters are
What 7:12 fails to see that the loyalty to the party is not loyalty to Trump. I’m a Republican who will not vote for Trump. I saw how he turned the office of the president into a money making business for his family and their loyalists. I remember how his lack of understanding upended our world standing. I remember how he ingratiated his family into world politics without any understanding beyond donor value (Goya beans). I saw how he insulted his staff members after they got out of his inner circle. I saw how he allowed his blind loyalists to attack the Capitol building that killed Americans on January 6th. Blind loyalty is always blind. Trump had his chance. He did very little for the common American. He did a lot for his future Mara Largo and Bedminster Club members, the 1%. I’m a Republican who won’t vote for him this time. The party had four years to develop real leadership. Instead it gave us Jim Jordon and MTG, and many Republican leaders bailed as Dent did. And with Trump’s daughter in law running the RCN I don’t see much hope. I agree that Biden really shouldn’t run again. But the Republican Party should have turned their attention toward tomorrow, not yesterday.
ReplyDeleteAnyone can say they are a "Republican", but what I read in your comment is pure Democratic nonsense.
ReplyDelete11:22 - You covered every CNN and MSNBC talking point, most of which were debunked years ago.
ReplyDeleteI highly doubt you are a Republican, other than when you post. I guess the strategy is make enough false statements and hope something sticks. You haven’t quite perfected the believably aspect yet, but keep trying.
Registered Republican since 1980 and have even voted straight ticket sometimes. You can’t “debunk” any of the points I mentioned since they are factual, as noted. They are not CNN’s talking points, they are facts. Blind loyalty is almost always blind. You reacted, as blind loyalists do, by isolating me by identifying me as “other” or belonging to the “other side”. I suspect because you don’t tolerate other views within the party. Party line all the way. I assure you, I’m an active Republican. I just pick my people. I don’t leave it up to the RNC or the DNC.
DeleteIts pretty much impossible at this late date to put anyone else new on the ticket for the Democrats.
ReplyDeleteThis should be an embarrassment to America. Although Britain's parliament got rid of their prime minister they appointed another one within two months. France in one month. I know we have a different form of electing our leader however neither of those two countries wasted around two years (and millions of dollars in Pennsylvania alone) to come up with two of the worse possible choices. If I were they, looking over here, I'd ask myself what the hell is wrong with the American system that could allow this to happen? The longer you draw this fiasco out, electing a leader, the more chaos grows between people. NOT SMART !
What’s the fiasco? Democrat voters made their choice, republican voters made theirs. That’s democracy at work, baby.
DeleteI realize that the press has finally started to cover Biden’s mental capacity, but he’s not much different from 2020 and has never really been the sharpest tool in the shed. Anyone who couldn’t see this was either lying or willfully ignorant.
Everyone seems to want as many people voting in elections as early as possible, until they don’t make the choice you agree with. Or until some start to worry that the people’s choice can’t win.
Now we have a group of politicians and political advisors trying to overturn the will of the people on the democrat side. And some people are buying into it as acceptable. Sad.
anons@1:18 & 2:09: I appreciate your readership, and you are welcome to comment anytime on a post point, but please take no offense if your replies to each other don't show up. While some bloggers dance for comments, I often limit them directly to the post topic.
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