WINNING THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Democrats need to focus.   The object of the Democrat convention should be to elect someone who can beat Donald Trump.

  

The brightest and most able candidate is Mayor Peat.  But there is an elephant in the room that has so far been ignored.  Catholics, white fundamentalist Christians and the religious black community will never vote for a gay couple to occupy the White House.   Buttigieg is not

electable. 

Like Hillary, Joe Biden is the comfortable, Washington insider, considered next in line by the Ol’Boy network.   But Joe is not on top of his game.   Age matters when creeping senility begins to show.   Joe is not capable of winning a debate against Donald Trump.   He would be made to look foolish when confronted with a Trump attack.

  

Of the front runners, that leaves Sanders and Warren.

Bernie has a young following.   He is to the Democrat party what Trump was to the Republican.   He might hold his on standing up in a debate with Trump; but Bernie is a one trick pony.    He is an outsider and the overall enthusiasm for him seems to be limited to his cult followers.   But we can’t write Bernie off.

Elizabeth Warren occupies the same space as Bernie.   Though near the same age, she seems younger and is full of an energy that most of the other candidate’s lack.   She can occupy a stage and is perfectly capable of going toe to toe with Trump. 

 Policies be damned.  The person who can beat Trump will have to occupy a stage with him and make him look foolish.  It will be stage presence and pizzazz that will sway voters, not policies.  We need to keep our eye on the ball and nominate someone that is exciting and capable of a counter attack. 

The rest of the field needs to drop out.  They have had their thirty minutes of fame, and now need to make way for the selection of a candidate that actually has a chance of winning.

There are only two choices: Democrat or Republican.   If you don’t vote Democrat you are casting your vote for four more years of Donald Trump. 

THE ELECTION IS THE DEMOCRATS TO LOSE.

Democrats are the nerdy kid in school, and the Republicans are the school bully.   Even though the nerd excels in the classroom, he feels he must survives in the school yard by capitulating to the bully.

Democrats need to keep their eye on the ball.   The only goal they need to peruse is beating Donald Trump in the Electoral College.

All the policy wonk doesn’t amount to a hill of beans for an electoral college victory.   The only thing Democrats should focus on is running someone that can neuter Trump. 

Winning the Democrat nomination is a totally different fight than winning the Presidency.   Biden or Bernie or Warren might walk away with the nomination; but any one of these three would be raped by Trump in a debate.  He would go where they would not, or could not tread.

Warren has a plan for everything.   Of course, none of it is realistic as long as McConnell is in charge of the Senate.   Obama had great plans, but McConnell killed them one by one.   The main problem is, that when attacked by Trump, Warren would respond intelligently – which doesn’t work on a school yard bully.

Bernie reminds me of the old man yelling at clouds.  He would have the same problem with implementing any plan as Warren; and like Warren he wouldn’t know how to get down in the mud and spit in Trumps face.   He might bluster, but he would never land a fatal blow. 

Everybody loves Biden.  He is a good man and has spent his life in government service.   The problem is that Biden is passing his sell by date.    When attacked by Pamala Harris he didn’t know how to respond, and his come-back was: I think my time is up.    While campaigning in Iowa he said, ‘Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids,’ and twice in the last recent weeks he referred to British Prime Minister Theresa May as Margaret Thatcher.    Biden stated that the parents of the Parkland School shooting came to see him when he was Vice President.   The Parkland shooting was in 2018, and he was not Vice President in 2018 – he was probably thinking of the Sandy Hook School shooting.    When asked by the press about Trump calling him Sleepy Joe, Biden’s response was to challenge Trump to push-ups.   Biden might win the Democratic nomination, but Trump would eat his lunch on stage.

 

I understand what Biden is going through.  I am a few years older than him.   When in conversation, I go to comment on a person or incident and a word or phrase will not come to me.   I can visualize the object or person or what I am trying to say, but the word is not readily retrievable from my hard drive.    I would not presume to participate in a critical debate.  Biden is not up to it.

Again; the object is to beat Trump.   Policy be damn – we can debate policy after taking the Presidency. 

The pit-fighter we do have is Kamala Harris.  She is fast on comebacks, she is aggressive, she is take-no-prisoners.   She is black, she is a woman, she is by far smarter than Trump: she is everything Trump fears.   She could castrate him on stage; and she wouldn’t hesitate to do so.

Rather than falling into the standard Democrat mode of getting all policy obsessed and moaning and groaning about purity and politically correctness, we need to focus on who can take on Trump in a debate and make him look like the ass-hole he is.   In my opinion, Kamala Harris is the only one on the debate stage that can perform that task.

 

Fuck the poles.  I am not concerned about the idiot base of the Republican Party; I am afraid that the Democrats, in their naiveté, will hand Trump 

another four years.

the Ol’Buzzard

2020 ELECTION FROM TEN THOUSAND FEET

Buzzards circle overhead and ride the drafts to amazing heights, and the view from up there can be illuminating. 

 

Here is the Ol’Buzzard’s view of the Democrat field of Presidential hopefuls and the obstructions that could reelect Donald Trump.

1.    We do not need an ‘old person’ for President.  Experience is helpful but old people tend to stick to the ‘tried-and-true’ and see things from their view of their past.  Most old people are not totally comfortable with the technology and innovations of the present and the view of a future that they will not experience.

2.    Youth is not the answer.  Just as older persons tend to have set ideas and are less flexible, young persons lack world experience and tend to be idealistic and are overconfidence in their own views.

3.    We do not need a ‘cult leader.’   When voters line up fanatically behind a candidate it is often to the detriment of their own party; resulting in the election of the opposition party. 

4.    Democrats are liberal in their views; but we must remember that the most important outcome of the next election is to defeat Donald Trump.  We cannot let race, sexual orientation or gender be the basis of our support. 

5.    We must not vote for the coronation of ‘the next in line.’   This is always the choice of lawmakers that are awaiting their turn; and these people tend to carry a lot of controversial baggage.   

My view: It bothers me that Bernie has such a fanatic cult following held over from the last election.    Also, the Democrat ole-boy network is waiting for Biden to announce – and in my opinion, Biden is past his sell by date.

 

I really like Buttigieg, but his sexual orientation would undoubtedly alienate both Catholics and Fundamentalist Christians and most other religious organizations, some of which would likely support other Democrat candidates.   It is a shame that religion plays such a detrimental part of American life. 

If we are looking for a sure win, the Ol’Buzzard’s choice would be Michelle Obama.    The rest of the field is all-right; but I fear they are more conservative than their presentation and they just don't have the ZING.

Michelle for President
She would kick Trump's ass.

the Ol'Buzzard