3/2/20
What a difference a few days makes! Here are a few thoughts/questions in the
post-South Carolina Democratic world:
- · The Democrats have left themselves with four weak candidates.
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Bernie Sanders’ lunatic views are
incapable of being seriously considered by anybody over the age of 25 who does
not pour (or whatever one does to serve such current
fascinations) trendy, expensive coffee or spout nonsense on a college
campus for a living.
o
Only a few days ago, people were seriously, and
legitimately, questioning Joe Biden’s grasp on reality as he appeared to
fancy himself as a challenger to Donald Trump in some sort of bizarre contest
to see who could utter the most, and most outrageous, malapropisms. Whether forgetting what state he was in,
calling civilians on the campaign trail “lying dog-faced pony soldier"s, forgetting what office he was running for, or failing to recall that it was the
Obama/Biden, not the Biden/Obama, administration in which he served, Mr. Biden
seemed endlessly capable of making people shake their heads in astonishment at
the effects age seemed to be having on him.
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Only a few weeks ago, people were writing off Michael
Bloomberg after a debate appearance that could only be described as a
disaster. (See THE
2/19/20 DEMOCRATIC DEBATE: “HEY (MIKE), DID YOU GET THE LICENSE NUMBER?” “LICENSE NUMBER?” “YEAH, THE LICENSE NUMBER OF THE TRUCK THAT
HIT YOU.”) Mr. Bloomberg showed all the warmth of a Norge
and all the empathy of Marie Antoinette in that debate and was mildly
acclaimed in the next only because he managed to avoid repeating his performance
as the human equivalent of the Hindenburg. Remember, too, that, as of this writing, as
he sits as one of two alternatives to the self-proclaimed socialist Bernie
Sanders for the Democratic nomination, Mr. Bloomberg has yet to appear on any
primary ballot or to have garnered one official primary vote.
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Yours truly has described Elizabeth Warren
as “human vinegar” in a nod to her likeability quotient. Elizabeth Warren presents no alternative to
Bernie Sanders, other than her gender, which, judging from the primary results
so far, means little to the Democrats.
And how often does a pale imitation beat the real thing?
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All four candidates are in their 70s; the men
are all in their late 70s. Yours truly,
along with many of you, can vividly remember 1980, when the 69-year-old Ronald
Reagan, seeking his first term as president. was widely considered far too old
to be president. Some, especially among
the very Democrats who have limited their 2020 choices to four septuagenarians,
think that Mr. Reagan, or at least his second term, proved that judgment
correct.
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And, before anybody says it, the chances of a deus
ex machina candidate emerging from a brokered convention to lead a divided
party to victory in a general election are, shall we say, small.
- · Why did Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar decide to fold up their tents one day before Super Tuesday? Virtually all the money that was going to be spent on the primaries tomorrow has already been spent. Why not stick around for one day and see if you can catch lightning in a bottle? Admittedly, yours truly doesn’t know the politics game, but it seems to defy common sense to quit when continuing for a day would seem to cost little or nothing. Joe Biden couldn’t have promised the vice-presidency to both of them. Or could he? See the first sub-bullet point in the prior bullet point.
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I will make this argument again, and now there
will be no way to prove me wrong: If Amy
Klobuchar would have become the Democratic standard-bearer this year, the
general election would have been over before it started and we would see our
first woman president. See the first
bullet point in the now seminal PRESIDENT
TRUMP CANNOT WIN, BUT THE DEMOCRATS CAN LOSE, IN 2020, 1/9/20. Therefore, anything that was bad for Amy
Klobuchar in the primaries was good for Donald Trump. Therefore, South Carolina, and a very poor
and hasty decision made by Ms. Klobuchar in its immediate wake, was very good
for President Trump.
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Yes, Mr. Biden’s victory in South Carolina
was impressive, but it was South Carolina.
South Carolina is a beautiful state brimming with wonderful and smart
people, I am sure, but it is small, very southern, and, after all, sure to go Republican
in November. Yet, it appears that
this small, relatively inconsequential state that is firmly in the pocket of
the opposition has resulted in the Dems, if anything I have written above or in
previous posts is true, having all but conceded November to President Trump. But this should not surprise my readers; see,
again, PRESIDENT
TRUMP CANNOT WIN, BUT THE DEMOCRATS CAN LOSE, IN 2020, 1/9/20.
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