NUMBER 2 SHOULD BE EASY TO DO
It appears that the Democratic Party has taken a page from the current commercials being run by a well-known stool softener.
When the Party was actively trying to choose its candidate for president who could beat Donald Trump in the 2020 election, they already had someone in mind.
Unfortunately the person the Democrats had in mind to become the 46th president of the United States was someone the ‘rank and file’ of the party not only didn’t want, but couldn’t stand.
Consequently that would -be candidate received such few votes in the various state primaries that she was the first to be forced to drop out.
So…the Party ‘movers and shakers’ were near panic…”what to do?”, they asked themselves.
Riding to the rescue was the somewhat unlikely figure, 80 year old James Enos Clyburn, Democrat congressman from South Carolina.
The very influential African-American, Clyburn came up with what to the Party’s “wise men and women” was a brilliant plan to rescue his party’s desired candidate,,,bizarre and unconventional as it seemed.
It was Clyburn who came up with the plan and it was he who actually put it into motion.
“Big Jim” was the one who had the idea that if the Party could get its main body of followers…those least informed and most gullible to get behind a candidate, any candidate, the Party would achieve its goal, Clyburn figured, The candidate Clyburn chose was one whom the wiser Democrat politicos believed was not only a ‘has-been’ in presidential politics, but actually a ‘never-was’ because he has been, for years, more of a laughing stock among American voters in general, but even among his fellow Democrats.
Although he had served as Obama’s Vice President for 8 years, Clyburn’s pick had been a miserable failure in his own past bids for “THE” candidacy.
It was fairly common knowledge among members of his Party that Clyburn’s pick was so successful in election and reelections to a Senate seat because he represented a small state with fewer voters than many congressional districts, and his family name was probably among the few that was widely known in Delaware.
Although, also, his name had become well-known in national politics because of his seniority-won Senate prominence. However, he was best known as a fool who often stuck his foot in his mouth with inappropriate, often widely offensive remarks so much that he became best known as a “gaffe machine”. He was selected by Obama as his running mate because Obama believed in his own omnipotence and intellectual superiority that he didn’t need a competent person in his number 2 position.
So, when Jim Clyburn shared his plan with Democratic elders, they saw its wisdom immediately.
With this person as the party’s nominee, they were sure that , to the national electorate and with the all out help of an ideologically compatible national media , this individual could be ‘sold’ as a “nice guy”, calmer and morally superior to his incumbent opponent, he would be seen as “a national ‘uncle’…a guy who would bring “normalcy” to the affairs of government; a guy whose “gaffes” were so goofy that they tended to make him “appealing” to ‘regular’ folks…many of whom saw in this prominent public figure some of themselves, recognizing they, too, from time to time, said dumb stuff.
The party ‘geniuses’, like Clyburn, also saw that here was the perfect ‘foil’, a somewhat unlikely “Trojan Horse” (or at least that part of a horse often used to describe their would be candidate) who would be perfect for the ultimate goal they all sought…the eventual, and early, ascendancy of the individual they all really wanted in the Oval Office.
And so, the Party “leaders’ readily adopted the “Clyburn Strategy”
To the Black voters of South Caroline, Jim Clyburn ‘their guy’ in Washington, greatly respected by Black voters nationally, gave his “candidate”, Joseph Robinette Biden the boost he needed for the Party’s nomination for President.
But, the ‘blessing’ was granted only after, securing from the hapless, senile, barely coherent Biden, his agreement to not campaign publicly, to make only policy promises first approved by Party leadership, to “campaign”under tightly controlled conditions, mostly from his home and primarily from tightly managed formats, and, most importantly, to name as his running mate, the individual the Party had chosen as its desired nominee for President.
Of course, Biden agreed in full to those terms, even though it is likely he didn’t know exactly what they were and was incapable of understanding them even if he did.
And so it came to pass that an overwhelming vote by the Blacks in its primary, South Carolina, due almost entirely to Clyburn’s endorsement, vaulted Joe Biden from near elimination, again, as a candidate to the top prospect for the Democratic Party’s 2020 nominee.!
Many Republican and Trump-leaning voters were delighted!
The Democrats would be naming the worst candidate in recent history as their nominee for President in the 2020 election.
(Personal note: I was among those who hailed this development. I thought, surely, no American, even only modestly informed and reasonably intelligent would think of voting for this boob. Joe Biden was devoid of any redeeming qualities to be the leader of the greatest and strongest nation on earth. Perverse toward women in his personal and public life, abjectly wrong in virtually every major government policy decision in his career, contemptual of any political opponent, and weak in every conceivable phase of the decision making process, I was convinced that he would be seen as the biggest and worst political joke any Party has ever attempted to play on the American people in the nation’s history!)
Most people, as I, who have respected America’s political process and the wisdom of the average American voter, it turns out, were wrong…Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States.
The cynical “strategy” of Jim Clyburn and of the Democratic Party’s leaders will soon become our nation’s grim reality.
Their “true candidate”…the dishonest, America-hating, divisive, incompetent ‘civil servant’, giggly Kamala Harris, will soon become America’s 47th president.
From the #2 position in our nation’s government to the world’s most important job…elevated due to the complete physical, mental, and temperamental inability of a pathetic Joe Biden.
Clyburn’s “strategy, effectively summarized can be accurately described by the nation’s now best-known producer of the stool softener known as Colace, and its’ advertising slogan: NUMBER TWO (Harris to #1) SHOULD BE EASY TO DO,
And history will show, sadly, that it was. dlh
