Run, Joe, Run!

Member Group : Jerry Shenk

President(ish) Joe Biden’s announcement last week that he will seek reelection drew mixed reactions.

Few of the corporate media outlets that were instrumental in dragging Joe across the finish line in 2020 were wholly enthusiastic. In fact, a New York Times writer reassured readers that, “[T]he American government can function without a healthy president.” (Thank goodness America has all those nameless, faceless, unelected, unaccountable, deep-state bureaucrats!)

Others panicked a little. The emerging evidence of the Biden family’s corruption concerns them, because corporate media cannot stonewall or airbrush it indefinitely.

The party hierarchy may be a bit panicky, too, but Democrats enforce strict party discipline.

Many of Biden’s alleged 81 million voters showed little interest, although most may be “anti.” More on that later.

The only genuinely enthusiastic responses to Biden’s announcement were laughter, much of it sardonic, and GOP confidence for 2024.

All those reactions are understandable in view of Biden’s advanced age – he’d be 86-years old at the end of a second term – his creeping dementia and physical frailty – few believe Biden can handle the rigors of another presidential campaign – and his unblemished record of failure.

Stephen Kruiser writes, “While it’s true that incumbent presidents don’t have to campaign as hard as the challengers from the other party who are vying for the nomination, Biden is going to have to get out of the White House at some point and make his case to the American people.”

Biden can be hopeless on teleprompter, and his unscripted public appearances have always been dicey, but doing either is especially risky now that he’s reached his dotage.

A recent NBC poll (margin of error ±3.1 percent) reveals that a generic, as-yet-unnamed Republican candidate would defeat Biden by 6 percent next year. And a CNBC Economic Survey reports that 70 percent of Americans polled, including 66 percent of independents and 57 percent of Democrats(!), don’t want Biden to run for a second term. Only 19 percent of respondents said they would support him.

Clearly, Joe is delivering on a promise made in his 2020 victory speech: “I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but to unify…”

But Democrats and media (pardon the redundancy) must try to put a brave face on things, because they’re stuck with Joe. The party cannot fire an incumbent, and Democrats have no bench. That’s why they settled on Biden the last time. Can you imagine a President(ish-ish) Kamala “Word Salad” Harris or President Gavin “A Little Dab’ll Do Ya” Newsom? Really?

Harris may be the worst, least-qualified vice president in history, and Governor Newsom’s hyper-liberal policies have driven more than 500,000 people out of California in two years.

Interestingly, Biden bypassed the customary practice of launching his campaign live in front of a crowd of enthusiastic supporters. Perhaps one couldn’t be assembled. Instead, his handlers released a 3-minute, falsehood-filled, prerecorded Biden voice-over video: “Joe Biden Launches His Campaign For President: Let’s Finish the Job.” The video, if anything, was even lower energy than Biden’s 2020 basement campaign – a feat few thought possible.

However, the video did not specify precisely which “job” Biden wishes to finish.

Does he want to finalize the progress he’s already made on 1) fiscal default, 2) destroying America’s middle class by compounding policy-driven inflation, 3) returning America to the Dark Ages with inadequate “renewable energy,” 4) using open borders to eliminate national sovereignty, 5) sacrificing children’s mental/physical health and the rights of citizens and parents on the altar of “transgenderism,” 6) leveraging Critical Race Theory into open racial warfare, and/or 7) involving America in a global war?

More Kruiser, on the video and Biden’s slurred voiceover: “The production value required to sell this fictional husk for another go-round is going to be enormous… If he can’t handle two-syllable words with multiple takes in a controlled environment, good luck with an acceptance speech at the convention.”

For fun, challenge anyone still willing to self-identify as a 2020 Biden voter to – quickly, without using the word “Trump” – articulate three positive things Joe has accomplished as president.

Yes, it’s a bit cruel, but it’s also potentially instructive. Millions of Trump-hating 2020 Biden voters’ inability to do it may reveal that the easiest way for the GOP to win in 2024 may be to nominate someone other than Donald Trump.

Food for thought…

https://www.pottsmerc.com/2023/05/01/jerry-shenk-run-joe-run/