You've convinced me that the opposite is true. DeSantis is not Trump, and it is lazy to imply as much. It would probably be better in the long term if he gives Harris a well-deserved Walter Mondalesque obliteration. The Dems need to wake up from their psychosis and stop picking candidates on the basis of skin color and genitals, and letting the activist lunatics run the party.
The fact that this essay's argument boils down to:
1) The other guys are worse, and
2) We don't have any candidates better than an 80-year-old man who is clearly beginning to have some trouble with his mental faculties
suggests that we're in a "cable television" era of politicians where we have a bajillion candidates and they're all bad.
At least with the Obama election there was some sense of an overall positive, rather than "at least our guy isn't a Republican." This whole essay is an unintentional condemnation of Democrats.
C'mon man, really? The fatal mistake the Democrats made was to put in Harris as VP to a guy who's old and failing like Biden. I'm not a Democrat, but even I think the Dems could do way better than Biden or Harris.
You are so wrong. Joseph Biden is done. Just watch Dr. Jill and/or a grandchild walk him out for a speech. He is a doddering old fool. Take away the family horse holders and he is LOST. Face it and move on before it's too late. President Biden won because he was able to hide in his basement during COVID. You are trying to sell a senile old man because he isn't a Republican. That's a bad strategy.
The article mostly compares the option of Harris vs Biden. Both of these candidates have bad approvals Biden at 44% and Harris at 36%. For relativity Obama was at 51% before his 2012 election. The only prior presidents up for re-election with as poor approvals as Biden were George Bush Sr., Carter, and Trump. What distinguishes them all is that they lost their re-elections.
What about Gov Roy Cooper or Gov Andy Bashear, both popular governors in swing or red states. What about any of last terms crop, namely Klobuchar, Buttigieg, Booker Warren.
The most telling thing in the polls is the comparatives of Biden vs Trump and Biden vs DeSantis. Note that for the Dem to win, because of the nature of the EC, the Dem likely needs somewhere around a 3-4% advantage in the popular vote. Hillary lost at +3 while Biden won relatively narrowly at +4.5. Right now Biden is only +2 to Trump and DeSantis outpolls him.
We must take the opportunity to move confidently into the future and not default to Biden because it appears the easiest.
"The boldest measures are the safest" -- Horatio Nelson.
That Joe is talking to his family over the holidays about his decision to run for a second term seems reasonable. But it's grossly disturbing that the Biden family is deciding the Democratic Nominee and possibly the next president. They know full well that a YES decision will block another younger and more talented. We must ask ourselves if this is seriously what we want.
A second term as President must not be a courtesy, reward, or right. It should also be based on what the candidate can do in the new position and not solely on what they achieved in the old position -- Fernando de Lesseps performed a miracle building the Suez Canal but was woefully ill-equipped for making one in Panama.
Joe Biden will say he can do it and will push on until stopped. As there are enablers for Trump, they also exist for Biden. They can be well-intended folk, but imagination and vision have escaped them.
The obvious solution is for Biden to replace Harris and then step down (making his appointed VP, President). This would be both Constitutional and well-received (at least by some Democrats). Will he do it? I rather doubt it. Biden seems doomed to be Jimmy Carter II.
You've convinced me that the opposite is true. DeSantis is not Trump, and it is lazy to imply as much. It would probably be better in the long term if he gives Harris a well-deserved Walter Mondalesque obliteration. The Dems need to wake up from their psychosis and stop picking candidates on the basis of skin color and genitals, and letting the activist lunatics run the party.
The fact that this essay's argument boils down to:
1) The other guys are worse, and
2) We don't have any candidates better than an 80-year-old man who is clearly beginning to have some trouble with his mental faculties
suggests that we're in a "cable television" era of politicians where we have a bajillion candidates and they're all bad.
At least with the Obama election there was some sense of an overall positive, rather than "at least our guy isn't a Republican." This whole essay is an unintentional condemnation of Democrats.
C'mon man, really? The fatal mistake the Democrats made was to put in Harris as VP to a guy who's old and failing like Biden. I'm not a Democrat, but even I think the Dems could do way better than Biden or Harris.
You are so wrong. Joseph Biden is done. Just watch Dr. Jill and/or a grandchild walk him out for a speech. He is a doddering old fool. Take away the family horse holders and he is LOST. Face it and move on before it's too late. President Biden won because he was able to hide in his basement during COVID. You are trying to sell a senile old man because he isn't a Republican. That's a bad strategy.
The article mostly compares the option of Harris vs Biden. Both of these candidates have bad approvals Biden at 44% and Harris at 36%. For relativity Obama was at 51% before his 2012 election. The only prior presidents up for re-election with as poor approvals as Biden were George Bush Sr., Carter, and Trump. What distinguishes them all is that they lost their re-elections.
What about Gov Roy Cooper or Gov Andy Bashear, both popular governors in swing or red states. What about any of last terms crop, namely Klobuchar, Buttigieg, Booker Warren.
The most telling thing in the polls is the comparatives of Biden vs Trump and Biden vs DeSantis. Note that for the Dem to win, because of the nature of the EC, the Dem likely needs somewhere around a 3-4% advantage in the popular vote. Hillary lost at +3 while Biden won relatively narrowly at +4.5. Right now Biden is only +2 to Trump and DeSantis outpolls him.
We must take the opportunity to move confidently into the future and not default to Biden because it appears the easiest.
"The boldest measures are the safest" -- Horatio Nelson.
That Joe is talking to his family over the holidays about his decision to run for a second term seems reasonable. But it's grossly disturbing that the Biden family is deciding the Democratic Nominee and possibly the next president. They know full well that a YES decision will block another younger and more talented. We must ask ourselves if this is seriously what we want.
A second term as President must not be a courtesy, reward, or right. It should also be based on what the candidate can do in the new position and not solely on what they achieved in the old position -- Fernando de Lesseps performed a miracle building the Suez Canal but was woefully ill-equipped for making one in Panama.
Joe Biden will say he can do it and will push on until stopped. As there are enablers for Trump, they also exist for Biden. They can be well-intended folk, but imagination and vision have escaped them.
The obvious solution is for Biden to replace Harris and then step down (making his appointed VP, President). This would be both Constitutional and well-received (at least by some Democrats). Will he do it? I rather doubt it. Biden seems doomed to be Jimmy Carter II.