We are the drain the swamp people

Our support of Ol’ Joe is sincere

• We think he accurately reflects all elements of the Democrat Party
• Immoral – stupid – senile
• Poor Dems (see below)

At Breibart by John Nolte (excerpts)

Young Turks founder and co-host Cenk Uygur fears the ongoing media cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental decline will ensure Donald Trump’s reelection.

Here are some of the highlights:

I know the progressive base and I know the establishment, and I know we’re going to go to war, and a war like you’ve never seen because progressives online are not going to go quietly… They’re not going to be like, “Oh, Joe Biden’s senile, we’ll let it go.”

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Joe Biden did not get arrested with Nelson Mandela. Who makes up a lie like that? An incredibly stupid person makes up a lie like that; an incredibly immoral person makes up a lie like that.

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Biden is not going to beat Trump. Biden is either near senile or actually senile. Watch any of the tapes. Biden lies non-stop. He’s going to get caught. Okay, the media is covering for him, but they’re not going to be able to cover when the Republicans come for him and when Trump comes for him. He’s not going to beat Trump. The establishment candidate is less likely to beat Trump anyway. We just had 2016, the establishment candidate lost to a doofus like Trump.

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And now, here we go, an establishment candidate that is far worse, with his mental faculties under question… And you’re going to run that guy against Trump?

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Biden has always been one to put his foot in his mouth. Nevertheless, there is no question he is not the man he was during his vice presidential days. He’s physically frail, mentally frail, and there has even been a notable decline over the course of the Democrat primary.

Running for president is exhausting, and I suspect Trump intends to do what he did to Hillary Clinton, which is to work his 2020 opponent — be it 77-year-old Biden, or 78-year-old Bernie — into the ground.

The media can try to cover up Biden’s cognitive decline, or try to spin it as something charming about good ol’ Uncle Joe, but the media world is an entirely different place now. It’s no longer 2008, where the media can cover up Barack Obama’s troubling racial past, or 2012 where they can cover up a Benghazi. The media bent over backwards in threes to cover up Hillary Clinton’s 2016 health issues — and that cover up failed.

What’s more, nothing changes the fact that when Biden is up on that stage, be it at a debate or rally, it’s just him and him alone, and as we have seen over the past few months, this almost always results in disaster.

Keep the following in mind…

One of the reasons Biden sailed through Super Tuesday was the lack of media focus on him the weeks prior. He’d been written off for dead, no one was paying much attention, so the troubling pileup of brain freezes he suffered during those crucial days — including the fantasy about being arrested — got almost no attention.

That all changes now.

And if he wins the primary, the spotlight will intensify even more, as will Trump’s fearlessness when it comes to capitalizing on Biden’s decline.

And if the fake news media don’t want to cover it — New Media and social media will be happy to step in.

Poor Dems:

They really are between a rock and a hard place this election what with Trump’s success.  A brokered convention producing someone other than Biden or Bernie will not do, won’t help. Who would it be that could win (other than by Republican incompetence)?  This is not like days of old when the poobahs could gather in a smoke-filled room and announce the candidate with the minions kept in the dark with few vested in a candidate. Today in such a scenario the party is easily painted as corrupt. The VP pick will not help, has never been able to overcome serious weakness in the nominee.

The emerging nominee, Biden, Bernie or brokered will have adopted the most leftist of views because that is where and what the party structure is. There is no likely saving issue for them as all have already been dialed in or are of a turnable table nature.

This is now all about stopping Bernie from embarrassing the party as a whole with the truth as to where the party is and is headed. It is about avoiding direct repudiation of goals held dear. Better to swallow hard than to choke to death.  Better to concentrate elsewhere, save the House, strategic retreat to a harassment campaign,  pursue-protect-expand state holdings. Friends in the media will do their best to soften the presidential embarrassment this go around.  Prepare for 2024!

And so for Democrats “the chickens have come home to roost”

They cain’t hep it. They been saddled with a candidate with a silver foot in his mouth . . .

Related reading:

Nolte: Democrats, Bernie Bros Brawl over Joe Biden’s Mental Health 

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Aol editors are largely of the same ilk that claimed Trump was a germaphobe, didn’t like handshakes etc.

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Congress should send you $1,000—and another $500 for each of your children—as soon as possible. (not a joke.)

By Jason Furman at the WSJ

The Case for a Big Coronavirus Stimulus

Mask would not work over the beard anyway, and we know how important looking cool is

This is what is ‘out there’!

JasonFurman is a professor of practice at Harvard, was chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, 2013-17.

Mr. Furman is the Democratic Party’s “IDEAL”.

He is a former chairman of Obama’s “Council of Economic Advisors” (imagine the kind of economic “advice” this guy was giving! Easy to understand now why the Obama years were an economic disaster for America…remember Biden’s “summer of recovery”? Following that summer, America continued with record number of working age Americans ‘out of the workforce’, record number of food stamp recipients, persistent unemployment?

Furman’s second qualification to be the “Ideal Democrat Thinker” is that he is teaching elite students how to “fundamentally transform ” America into a “Bernie-ville”…he’s a Harvard “educator!

Thirdly, Furman gets his ‘thoughtful solutions’ onto the Wall Street Jourfnal’s Op-Ed pages.

(If you would like to learn more about Professor Furman’s solution to the Coronavirus crisis you’ll have to find it on the internet yourself. The subhead should tell you all you need to know…hand out ‘free’ money to voters…both Bernie and “The Sleepy One” can jump on that idea.)         dlh

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• We promised you “ad nauseam” on this theme AND WE DELIVER –

Democrats are all in the same car, silent or not

On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, and times previously, we opined essentially that no Democrat presidential candidates should be referred to as essentially more moderate than the other(s).

Related commentaries this week have reinforced that theme.  Regrettably conservative commentators like Erick Erickson continue to applaud that moderation is reflected in the support for Joe Biden by Democrats. We suppose so, if delusion is to be credited.

Gary Bauer at Campaign for working families:

The Mythical Moderate

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I want to focus on something that is infuriating me. It’s the false narrative being perpetuated by many in the media, including Fox News, and many Never Trumpers. The narrative is that Biden’s win is a triumph of “moderation.” That’s a total lie. It is a complete myth.

My friends, Joe Biden is not a “moderate.” He’s not a “centrist.” Maybe he was 30 years ago, but not today.

The difference between Biden and Sanders is that Sanders is honest and not ashamed to admit his agenda is socialist. Biden is mimicking Obama and Warren by disguising his radical agenda with words like “progressive” and “reform.”

Let me remind you who the real Joe Biden is.

Biden supported same-sex marriage before Barack Obama did.

Biden believes in abortion during all nine months of pregnancy, and is committed to forcing you to pay for abortions.

Biden is all in on a big government takeover of healthcare with an even bigger version of Obamacare.

Biden wants to give free healthcare to illegal aliens.

Biden has apologized for deporting illegal aliens.

Biden’s immigration “reform” plan is more foreign aid and no border wall.

Biden is weak on communist China.

Biden is an enthusiastic advocate of the Iran nuclear deal that gave the ayatollah’s regime billions of dollars, put it on a path to nuclear weapons and threatened the security of Israel.

Biden is all in on the radical Green New Deal. He’s even threatened to put energy executives in jail.

Biden will appoint radical justices, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who will distort the Constitution and use the Supreme Court to impose a radical agenda on the American people.

Biden suggested he would put extremist Beto O’Rouke in charge of his gun control policy.

What about any of this suggests that Joe Biden is a “moderate”? Again, you don’t have to take my word for it.

This media analysis found that Joe Biden’s platform is more liberal than Hillary Clinton’s.

The Washington Post editorial board recently declared, “No, Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden are not ‘centrists.'”

Axios wrote that Biden has “taken positions to the left of Barack Obama — illuminating the liberal drift of the entire party.”

Please share this report with your friends and family members. Don’t let them fall for the lie that Biden is a “moderate.”

Chris Stegal at TownHall

Moderate Is a Myth  (excerpt) (image not in original)

. . .  How dare you – as a conservative – pretend anyone in the Democrats’ field isn’t a full-blown socialist? Furthermore, how are the current luminaries of their party – Obama, Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer, etc. – how are any of them fundamentally different than Bernie Sanders? The answer is they’re not. They’re just better salespeople.

If I heard it once, I heard it a million times during coverage of Tuesday night’s election results. Fawning beltway media praising the “impressive, stunning, momentous” return of the Biden campaign, as if to celebrate a return to establishment normalcy for the swampy elites.

Biden has five decades of big government stank on him and that makes Republican, Democrat, and media establishment as comfortable with him as an old pair of jeans. They’d all love to see Biden win the nomination and go on to defeat President Trump.
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They believe Joe Biden is a return to the politics of yesterday, as though that’s romantic. For establishment-types to claim the Democrats’ past is a moderate fairytale, they either stopped paying attention or are willfully misleading. Neither Biden nor any of the Democrats in this 2020 field are moderate.

Mayor Pete, you say? The guy who told a woman in Iowa – on camera, to her face – if she’s pro-life she has no home in the party. Klobuchar, perhaps? She’s supported mandatory, federal gun buyback programs and reversed her position on making English the official language of the United States.

Bloomberg? Lots of brass-buttoned, brandy snifter establishment-types had high hopes for him. Thankfully only American Samoa was duped. The man dripped with contempt for humankind. Blacks, pregnant women, overweight people, gun owners – he was an equal opportunity, nanny-state regulator of the worst order.

Meanwhile, President Trump has been so destructive and disruptive to the game in Washington, D.C., Biden has become the establishment’s support donkey. The folksy, Amtrak-riding, working-class fella from Scranton was always a romanticized version of the former vice president, but it’s certainly the furthest thing from being true today.

Biden wants huge tax hikes, open borders, limitless abortion, and trillions in spending on a man-made climate change hoax that proudly destroys good-paying energy jobs.

Oh, and he wants to put Beto O’Rourke in charge of gun control. Yes, the same Beto O’Rourke who said the government simply “wouldn’t allow” certain legal firearms any longer. “Yes, we’re going to take your guns,” he said proudly in a 2019 debate.

There’s nothing about anyone in the Democrat’s field that’s moderate, including their newly invented front-runner Joe Biden. Sure, they may act moderate. They may say the right moderate things. But how do they govern and vote? What are their policies?   . . .

Maybe it is. But the dirty little secret is they know Biden and every other Democrat want the very same things Bernie does. Quite frankly, they’re not uncomfortable with it either. But they have to win first. So they want their socialism sold softly.

Just don’t call it “moderate.”

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Warren to quit.    Our question: Does it help Bernie?

Iron Eyes Cody, who was every bit the Indian Elizabeth Warren is, would he be distraught?   America needs to know.

Still crying over trash on the side of the road

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I Iwant to tell you. Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”

Hey “Schu”, where’s the “decorum”?:

Telling a crowd of baby killers (er, excuse me, “Abortion-rights activists” ), “I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you you go forward with these awful decisions…” ‘Chuckie’ Schumer sounded like the leader of a lynch mob…or, as a column in the Spectator referred to him,…a “Mob boss”!

Where was the respectful, “Justice Gorsuch” and “Justice Kavanaugh”? Where was all that ‘Senatorial decorum’? And the threat? Schucks! That’s just Chuckie’s true character coming out in the guy.

Why should there be any reference to the “New York Putzhead*” as “Senator Schumer”…least of all, “Senate Minority Leader”? (We think maybe former NY Senator D’Amato may have correctly identified ‘Chuckie’ all along.)           dlh

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Chuck Schumer, Wise Guy
Yet his threats against Supreme Court justices are no laughing matter.

*D’Amato: Schumer’s A ‘Putzhead’*
By ADAM DICKTER October 23, 1998

Sen. Alfonse D’Amato made an impassioned pitch for support at a closed-door breakfast meeting with Jewish leaders this week while denouncing his Democratic challenger, Rep. Charles Schumer, as a “putzhead” who could not match his record on Israel, according to several participants.

The comments, including the Yiddish vulgarism, allegedly were made during a meeting at the Manhattan offices of George Klein, a Republican Jewish activist and real estate developer. Recounting his support for various Jewish causes, D’Amato expressed surprise that polls did not show him faring better among Jews.

“You guys need to get the message out,” D’Amato, who is seeking his fourth term, reportedly told the gathering.One source said the senator also mimicked a Schumer ally, Manhattan Rep. Jerrold Nadler, calling him Jerry “Waddler,” an apparent reference to the congressman’s girth. Nadler had appeared the previous day at a Manhattan press conference defending Schumer from D’Amato’s attacks.
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* TOP DEFINITION (Urban Dictionary)

Putz —  Vulgar Yiddish slang for penis, i.e. “dick”. Not to be used lightly or jokingly.

Related reading:

(for the record, we expect nothing but disappointment from Justice Roberts)

All Eyes Are on John Roberts in Critical Abortion Decision

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Biden’s Back! Wins Big in 9 States

Vermont and California Communists Go For Bernie

Lizzie Loses Even in Little Big Horn, Massachusetts !?

Super Tuesday Raises Some Questions:

1) Which Biden Did the Voters Go For…Joe, or, as he recommended, “the Other Biden”?

2) Ilhan Omar Endorsed Bernie; Rumored that He may Be Another of Her Husbands; Will the FBI Investigate?

The day after also raises some questions:

1) Is Lizz staying in for now at the behest of the powers-that-be to dilute Bernie strength and help prevent sufficient delegates for Bernie?

2) Or is it pure delusion, like her plans for everything?

Scroll down for posts earlier in the day

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At least Little Mikey knows at some point to pull an investment going nowhere

via QC Times:

V’PAC: Trump is at least a hundred times more likable outside NYC than Bloomberg, so he was going nowhere as a presidential aspirant.  On the down side this will just refocus his FU money.

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How about ‘Sleepy’ Joe and STACY ABRAMS?!

THAT’S MY DREAM TICKET FOR THE DEMS ! No Joke !        dlh

Jarrett Calls on Dem Presidential Candidates to ‘Break with Conventional Wisdom and Announce a Running Mate That’s a Woman of Color’

Former President Barack Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett on Tuesday urged whichever 2020 Democratic presidential candidate emerges as the leader after the conclusion of Super Tuesday to “break with conventional wisdom and announce a running mate that’s a woman of color,” especially if it is Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), former Vice President Joe Biden or former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Jarrett explained on CBS’s “This Morning” that “these are not normal times” and argued having a woman of color “would send an important signal” heading into the next round of primaries.

“I think that whoever emerges tonight, particularly if it’s Bernie Sanders, if it’s Vice President Biden or even if it’s Mayor Bloomberg, what I would do is break with conventional wisdom and announce a running mate that’s a woman of color,” Jarrett stated before being cut off.

“Tonight?” asked host Gayle King.

“No, not tonight,” Jarrett replied. “Certainly before the next primary. Woman, person of color, someone who reflects the diversity of our party. And yeah, that’s not usual, that’s not what they normally do, but these are not normal times. And I think it would send an important signal going into the next round of primaries to do so with a running mate.”

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• Note, all the double and triple entendre “tool” definitions pertain
• Biden victories do not put a lock on nomination, yet (go Bernie)
• Not assured that he will be, but we should be satisfied beating Biden in the general however goofus tool that he is
• If he is the standard bearer doesn’t that say something about the Dem standard?
• Not sure a Biden saves down-ticket federal offices, but it helps
• Arguably, Bernie victory allows the Dems survival instinct to kick in and concentrate on down-ticket
• Nevertheless, let’s light a candle for a tinderbox Milwaukee convention, hang in there Bernie!

Reading The Federalist and TownHall we note some differences of opinion, among them or with us,  as to the implications of the results of yesterday’s Super Tuesday Democrat primary election.  However, they are worthy in their entirety (links and some excerpts below).  We note the universal conservative commentator wisdom that the dominant liberal media will now pivot shamelessly to support Biden, so many having been part of the effort to succor alternatives to Bernie or Biden.

We intend to repeat ad nauseam our irritation with conservative commentators who imply or outright credit Biden primary voters as virtuous in trying to save the party and maybe the country from socialism vis-à-vis Sanders. Some of them ably reported on the pivot to the left of Biden and his ever more extreme positions in order to appeal to Bernie voters. Picking him now was not before and certainly not now a saving virtue for a party which is content with extreme assaults on American constitutional government and culture embraced by all the wannabe nominees.

Most Dem primary voters are just tools, and are open to the nanny state and the government takeover it necessitates, essential globalism and the opiates contained in culture rot —  because they have heard little to defend the American Republic and Western values from the dominant liberal media and education and church institutions intent on denigrating it.

The Republican Party’s  job is to define Bidenism as just as bad as Bernieism, indeed the Democrat party and all its nominees as fellow travelers with the same mind-set.  Ask yourself, what is the essential difference between any of their positions on guns, right to life, government control, health care, higher taxes, etc?

John Daniel Davidson at The Federalist:  (excerpts, bold our emphasis)

Joe Biden’s Big Night Won’t Be Enough To Solve Democrats’ Bernie Sanders Problem
The Super Tuesday narrative is that Biden was vindicated and he’s stronger than ever, but the primary map and the upcoming states suggest otherwise.

With a sweep of the south and key victories in Minnesota and Massachusetts, the media narrative today will be all about how Joe Biden is the comeback kid, back from the dead, risen like a Phoenix from the ashes. That sort of thing.

It’s the kind of story the media loves. They love it so much it doesn’t matter whether it’s true, or whether the media was writing Biden off less than a week ago. The surprise comeback, vindicated frontrunner narrative is going to be pushed so hard by the mainstream press and the Democratic establishment in the coming days, you’ll think Biden’s nomination is pretty much a done deal.

What the headlines and the narrative won’t tell you is what any casual survey of the Democratic primary map plainly shows: Super Tuesday didn’t solve the Democratic Party’s Bernie Sanders problem.

Yes, Biden had a good night, but so did Sanders. He won Colorado, Vermont, and Utah, as well as the biggest prize of the night, California, and basically fought Biden to a draw in Texas. He also earned enough votes to pick up delegates in every state Biden won—and he did all this with Sen. Elizabeth Warren siphoning off voters who would otherwise have voted for Sanders, while Biden benefited immensely from the eleventh-hour consolidation of the moderate vote and the endorsements of Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, and Beto O’Rourke.

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As the smoke of Super Tuesday clears, Biden and Sanders are locked in a battle for delegates, and at this point it’s very unlikely either will have a majority going into the Democratic National Convention in July.

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If Mike Bloomberg stays in the race until then—which he might, if only for pride’s sake, having just spent a half-billion dollars to win American Samoa—that will likely change the outcome in Florida, and not in Biden’s favor. Come March 18, we could well be reading headlines about how everyone underestimated Sanders after Super Tuesday, how in fact he’s been the frontrunner all along. The media are predictable like that.

All of this isn’t to deny that Biden had a big night. He won states he hardly visited, states where he spent almost nothing on TV ads, states where he had almost no ground game or field offices. It was by all accounts an impressive showing, and yes, something of a comeback.

But let’s not kid ourselves that the driving force behind Biden’s Super Tuesday resurgence was the consolidation of the moderate vote just in the nick of time. Who knows whether this eleventh-hour clearing of the field was simply blind luck or the secret machinations of the Democratic Party determined to stop Sanders at any cost, but the effect was to deliver a significant number of delegates to Biden in Minnesota, Massachusetts, Virginia, and elsewhere.

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The Sanders wing of the party on Tuesday showed that it cannot be muscled aside, certainly not by Biden and the also-rans, and certainly not before the convention in July.

Therein lies the danger for the Democrats. Nothing about Tuesday’s results suggests any change in the fundamental problem facing the party. It is divided, almost down the middle, between moderates who will do anything to stop Sanders and leftists who will support no one but Sanders. No amount of narrative-shaping by the media or chest-thumping by Biden will change that.

V’PAC Note: Again, there are no moderates running and any enablers have no claim to virtue

Emily Jashinsky at The Federalist  (excerpts)

How Would The Media Cover Biden Versus Trump?

Joe Biden is not the media’s preferred Democratic candidate. He never has been. But he’s still a Democrat candidate, which means the press prefers him to Donald Trump.

If Super Tuesday were a primary of corporate newsrooms, Democrats’ nominee would be Beto O’Rourke. (Or Harry Potter.)

Should Biden’s over-performance on Tuesday clear a plausible path to his nomination, the media will be in something of a bind. Thankfully, they’re relatively shameless.

Like Hillary Clinton, Biden is far from a perfect candidate. But a binary with any sentient being opposite Trump makes the choice obvious to the press. That, of course, would involve months of groping for excuses to depict Biden as the clear alternative, which would involve months of downplaying his many, glaring flaws.

Those flaws are not merely political disadvantages, as the “Hunter did nothing wrong” coverage would have you believe. They are substantive, involving establishment entrenchment, policy questions, and fitness for office. That’s not to say Trump doesn’t have flaws, only to note that Biden’s will be treated much differently. The coverage of his son’s relationship with Ukranian gas company Burisma, which was mostly treated as an unserious complaint, is a great example as to why.

In a hypothetical Trump versus Biden matchup, there would, of course, be some great reporting on the former vice president’s flaws, even from major corporate outlets. But there’s no question the press will stretch to defend Biden’s gaffes while also stretching to latch onto any potential slip-ups from Trump.

Against Trump, the media will cast Biden as Affable Uncle Joe. Oddly enough, if he makes it through the primary, Biden will almost certainly enjoy friendlier coverage.

Kylee Zempel at The Federalist:    (excerpts)

Media’s ‘Anything But Joe’ Panic Has Done Nothing But Make Them Look Stupid
If the media wants Trump to lose in 2020, they’ll have to walk back their Biden criticisms and come to terms with the fact that nothing they do now can stop an old white man from occupying the Oval Office come January.

We Watched the Media Pendulum Swing

The best part about political media advocacy is that its perpetrators are so unabashed in their support and condemnation. One never need wonder about the media’s presidential preference because the pendulum swings fast and hard.

When Harris was the momentary savior, the press worshipped the ground she walked on. Debate moderators gave her an uninterrupted lane — “Hey guys, you know what? America does not want to witness a food fight; they want to know how we’re going to put food on their table,” Harris lectured, crucifying Biden with the media’s help for his busing policies and 1994 crime bill.

The press would usher Harris all the way to the Oval Office, and bury Biden as a brutal racist, or so they thought. As it turned out, however, Harris was wildly unlikable in a manner that resembled Clinton, if Clinton had also put lots of people in jail. So the media pivoted. . . .

That leaves only one option in the media’s ongoing war to undo the 2016 election and unseat the bad orange man in 2020: hype up Biden. After a year of knocking him down in favor of anyone else, the media must face the music.

Mike Vespa at TownHall:   (excerpts)

The Block of Voters That Gave Bernie Sanders Heartburn on Super Tuesday

There has been a debate among Democratic voters: do they want a guy who can beat Trump or someone who runs on their left-wing principles. One has a better shot of winning but is an entrenched part of the Democratic establishment while the other is a revolutionary, ‘burn it all down’ left-winger that risks slaughter in the general. What to do? It seems the former in both of those choices won out on Super Tuesday.   . . .

The late decider block is what saved Biden in a lot of places.    . . .

Super Tuesday proved that Biden, for whatever reason, is viewed as the safe choice, the choice who can best beat Trump this year, Mike Bloomberg’s money didn’t do anything, and Liz Warren is pretty much sticking around to sink Sanders. Hey, he’s the guy who reportedly told her a girl couldn’t beat Trump. She’s out for blood, a third-place finish in her home state of Massachusetts be damned.

California may be what saves Bernie after this marathon round of primaries. And he should be thankful since a bad showing here could have derailed the Bernie 2020 train, which is already half off the tracks now. What a difference a couple of weeks make, huh?

Side note:  We are pleased that the youth of these commentators bodes well for conservatism.

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