After Julian Castro made the accusation Joe Biden is too old to remember what he said sixty seconds earlier I lost interest in this 1996 version of Michael Lewis’s book Losers and fell asleep on the couch next to the diva lab Pauli. I curled against her in a fetal position and fell asleep. We looked at each other knowingly. The look shared between us was clear… Trump will probably be re-elected.
I fear these Dems are in history what the GOP candidates in 1996 were when Bob Dole got slaughtered and Bill Clinton won a second term despite the fact Monica Lewinsky evidently gave him blow jobs in the oral office.
None of the Dem candidates I like made this debate’s cut line. Michael Bennet as I wrote earlier never had a chance. He’s qualified, smart, and not a communist. Timmy Ryan from Ohio’s rust belt like me is old school and like Bennet isn’t a communist either. Neither of these reasonable guys ever had a chance.
In case you’re not keeping score the Dems had all progressives except Sleepy Joe Biden and perhaps Amy K who herself has no chance whatsoever.
The Dems just don’t get it. Bill Maher gets it. He knows they’re in deep shit, that this progressive wing of the Democratic party is the best thing Donald Trump has going for him.
Bill Maher was on Morning Joe and nailed it. He knows what I know. That being college educated people who like having their own health care and who aren’t currently members of the Communist Party are going to vote their own economic situation given these Dem candidates even with our democracy and constitution being diminished every day by Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell.
If I had to vote for a ticket of the remaining Dems left standing at this debate it would be a Biden-Booker ticket. Moderate independents, you know—the ones who will decide this election are not going to go for a ticket of progressives regardless of how bad Donald Trump is.
In 1992 when Bill Clinton was smarter than his wife and had James Carvell instead of Robbie Mook running his campaign–they understood the landscape. It’s the economy—STUPID. And it always will be. People vote their economy even when the corrupt incumbent has Vlad Putin as his running mate.
How ironic…both the Dems and the GOP are running Communists for the Oval Office in 2020.
In 1992—two things saved Bill Clinton’s ass…those being an economic recession and Ross Perot having a Texas hardon for Bush 41.
So as I see it these Dems left standing need a mini-economic depression and some one like Ross Perot joining the race and draining votes from the Putin-Trump-McConnell ticket.
I have no idea who this person could be at the given moment. You have to think who the Trump base might find intriguing. Maybe Chip and Joanna Gaines could be available. That was sarcasm…kind of.
Obviously…no one now associated with the DNC ever saw War Room.
It’s the economy—stupid.
It you love or hate politics this is must see.