"One bad day" and the Democrat's are in paralysis. Trump gets a free pass on his debate performance.
Dinner conversations this past week revolved around the Democratic bench and who might be able to replace Joe Biden if he can be convinced or pressured to pull an LBJ.
Last night we dismissed the conventional wisdom that has suggested Newsom, Pritzker and Buttigieg.
Consensus last night around the dinner table was on Andy Beshear, governor of Kentucky.
This had nothing to do with what Beshear’s politics were. Most of those around the table had no idea.
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I imagine it is the same conversation going on among the various factions in the leadership (if you can call it that) on the Democratic Party.
Although with greater panic.
After Biden’s Titanic disaster last week Democratic big wigs and billionaire funders don’t know whether to shit or go blind.
Those who want to stay pat with Biden have argued that everyone has a bad day.
But a bad day for me means the milk for my coffee is sour. Or I had to spend too much time with the bureaucrats at the Brooklyn office of the Department of Motor Vehicles.
A bad day for the President of the United States?
A war with Russia?
China?
Was a bad day how we got into funding a war in Ukraine?
Does it mean taking Anthony Blinken’s advice?
Meanwhile, the lying, despicable performance by the liar-in-chief in the first debate gets a pass.
And this morning’s polling suggests that what had been a tie between these two awful might now be breaking for Trump.
This morning the New York Times asks, “How did we get here?”
I have a few ideas.
Biden was given a clear path to renomination by the Democratic Party bosses.
Nobody at the top wanted to suggest that the boss had not clothes.
Challengers to Biden were told to wait for their turn.
Instead they attacked the Left with much more enthusiasm than they gave to the right.
They pursued a war policy that alienated young potential voters along with Muslim and Arab voters in swing states like Michigan and Wisconsin.
They thought an early debate was an oh-so-clever move, blinded by Biden’s ability to read a teleprompter but his inability to construct a clear sentence off-the-cuff.
What now?
I don’t know.
What do you know about Andy Beshear?