Slippin' and Slidin' with Biden

I’m going to preface my main premise with this:

I will vote for Joe Biden even if he is an ambulatory cadaver. In fact, I will vote for Joe even if he’s not ambulatory. Just as long as he’s still alive. Period. Because if he wasn’t alive, Kamala Harris, of course, would then be the standard bearer. And I will vote for her. Accordingly and happily.

Any talk about any other nominee is just Democratic Chin Music: People who like to hear themselves talk even though they make no sense. The only person who has access to Joe Biden’s huge campaign war chest is Kamala Harris. The nominee is going to NEED that war chest more than they’re going to need your individual opinion or vote. So shut up and keep your silly wet dreams in your own bed.

End preface.

We all know Joe Biden screwed up at the debate. We all know that he asked for this debate. That was his big chance to overcome the feeling that he’s just too old. Well, he didn’t. And so now everyone knows he’s very, very old. All people age differently. But Joe ain’t aging well. And though we might say the WSJ article was a hit piece, and that he wasn’t wandering off in France but was going to see the nice paratroopers, we know there’s more to it than this. Look at the way he ALWAYS walks now. He didn’t use to walk like this: He used walk with stride! he used to run with Obama! he used to fall off his bike and yet never broke a bone! But those days are long gone.

Since the debate he’s handled the fallout poorly: staying out of sight, changing his story; and finally taking the interview with George Stephanopoulis. Did you see it? I didn’t. (SlingTV is fighting with ABC so it wasn’t until recently I got to see more.) He wasn’t as bad as in the debate... but he wasn’t good either. The facts are Joe Biden is not going to reverse the aging process and be a spring chicken in the next couple of months. He’s slow. Slow Joe.

But he also lost it: He was asked how he would feel about a Trump Victory. “Well, as long as I gave it my all.”

Wrong!!! There is no substitute for Victory in this election! Your answer is unsatisfactory and evidence of another goddamn senior moment. Just because you may be dead when fascism returns doesn’t mean we have to live in it. Try not be as despised in death as Ruth Bader Ginsberg (rightfully) is. Leave a legacy you can be proud of.

Fortunately, there IS a substitute for Joe Biden: Her name is Kamala Harris. So pack it in, Joe. And do so quickly. The apologists will say “But the Republicans rally around Trump and he’s a liar and a sexual predator and a criminal, so Democrats need to do the same.” No. Truth matters. We are not a bunch of knuckle-dragging tree swingers: We are human beings concerned about our country and our fellow countrymen. We don't follow "leaders" we follow people who attempt to point out the way.

After withdrawing, Joe will have his hands full In the coming months. He can concentrate on running the country, fighting inflation, aiding Ukraine, and trying to knock some sense into that Netanyahu Yahoo. And, if he needs to go to bed at 8pm and maybe take a nap during the day? Do it! Leave the arduous campaigning to all the other Democrats. There’s a big bench there, so they tell us. Use it.

In closing, a lot of people will NEVER vote for Trump; a lot fewer people will NEVER vote for Biden. But if Biden is taken out the equation…. Where do those people go? To Bobby Jr?? I doubt it, and if they do, be sure to check them for brain worms since they won’t be able to find the polls anyway.

Democrats require Never Trump voters. Got ‘em already! What’s needed are the Worried-Biden-Is Too-Old voters. Biden withdraws? Problem solved.

Joe Biden is the only one who can make this happen. So I’m hoping that (publicly or privately) enough people speak up, and that Joe doesn’t get all Cranky-Old-Man-Stubborn about it. If he does, every little slip-up he makes between now and Election Day is going to go viral. And he is going to be horribly embarrassed. What a crumby way to spend the next few months.

Whatever the result is, the Democrats, must get it ALL done in the coming week. (Every day this is debated we are LOSING.) So if they can’t talk the old geezer into it, give up. They shouldn’t prolong it. Otherwise the fascism that’s coming is going to be their fault as well. Let it be on Joe's old white-haired head.

Pull out Joe! Pull out... like Trump’s daddy oughta done.