7.4-5.24

Election Countdown
4 MONTHS LEFT; STILL TIME
FOR THE RIGHT DEMOCRAT
TO DEFEAT DONALD TRUMP

 
NOTE: Things  are changing fast, so that anything I’m writing now might be out-of-date and irrelevant as you’re reading this.

THERE ARE ONLY FOUR MONTHS to go until the Nov. 5 election, and the astonishing events of the past two weeks mean that there’s almost no time to waste to ensure a positive outcome.
     Which is different than saying time has run out. Or, practically speaking, there’s no time left. Or that it’s a scientific fact that there’s insufficient time.
     The consequences of Donald Trump returning to the White House are too awful for our country, and really, the rest of the world, meaning that while there is still an opportunity for a Democratic win, we must take full advantage.

EVERYTHING CHANGED for the country on June 27, when President Joe Biden put on the most devastating public demonstration of incompetence and unfitness to campaign or to hold office in the history of politics, and this goes for things that really happened in the past, or have been imagined in great fiction, like a Shakespearean tragedy.
     I wish that was an exaggeration.
     But if you’re like me, you’ve had enough space to have processed how terrible Biden’s part of the “debate” was and to have reached some conclusions.
     Mine are simple:
     I want Joe Biden gone from the race, fast; and for him to be replaced by someone terrific.

I HOPED HE WOULD QUIT on July Fourth, which would have been a perfect patriotic occasion.
     But the day after will do. Supposedly, he’s to do a TV interview that night. That, too, would be fine moment for an announcement. So would Biden standing on a White House balcony and shouting: “I’m toast.”
     Heck, Fifth Avenue would do, watching Trump around shooting people, now that the Supreme Court says anything he does is okay.
     What I don’t want to hear is another word out of Biden’s mouth, other than “I will no longer be a candidate; if nominated, I will not accept.”
     Same goes for his campaign, his “team,” his “advisors,” his family, including Dr. Jill (not a medical doctor) and especially Hunter Biden, who belongs in jail, not at Camp David strategy sessions urging Dad to keep on keeping on.
     I don’t want to hear about what a great president he’s been, or what a debt we owe him for keeping Trump at bay four years ago, or that he’s a nice guy. That’s all just more “malarkey,” as Joe might have put in the days when he had something to say.

IF THERE’S the slightest chance that Joe Biden is, in any way,  still functional during some part of any day or night or week, and if he retains the ability to say something spontaneously and without the help of electronic devices, it should be that he understands that he is not fit to seek a second term and will release delegates pledged to him at the national convention.
     It would be nice if Biden’s withdrawal includes an apology, but none is needed. Because after what he put us and the rest of the country through two Thursdays ago, who cares whether he’s sorry, only that he’s gone.

MANY UNKNOWNS REMAIN in the next four months, but one thing is absolutely certain: Joe Biden cannot win.
     After his babbling, incoherent, slack-jawed debacle at the “debate” with Donald Trump, Biden cannot be considered a serious candidate, and it would be a betrayal for those of us who believe in Democracy to pretend he can or should.
     I personally want someone I can absolutely believe in, and her name is not Kamala Harris.
     A lot of people don’t like Harris. For me, her name now brings unpleasant associations. The fact that she's vice president does not mean she's entitled for consideration; to the contrary, she's dropped from my list as being part of the Fib Machine that hid the fact that Biden’s brain has been on the blink.
       I’m inspired by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
     You may have someone else in mind.
      I’ll be right beside you, as long as she or he, can win.
     So, Democrats, let’s get moving.
     And fast.
     While there’s still time.

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