For those who like to look at a political event or election as a contrast event or election, relax. You’re about to get your fondest wish.
The Republican National Convention was a total joke. In terrible taste, like sitting in the audience of an Andrew Dice Clay concert. The loyal fans loved it, but everybody else got up and left in disgust. Mainly the viewing audience.
Think about the mechanics of this for a moment. The nominee accepting the party’s nomination for President is a felon convicted on 34 counts and awaiting sentencing. There were delegates there to cast their votes for Trump that are under active indictment in three different states for their roles in the fake elector scheme in 2020, along with delegates that were present at the Capitol on January 6th. And one of the prime time speakers woke up that morning in federal prison. What a rogues gallery, huh?
As I stated earlier, this RNC ws unique in my many years of covering these things. Normally the worst part of observing and reporting on a Republican convention is an endless parade of third rate ass hats you never heard of, slobbering incoherently for about six minutes of verbal diarrhea each. Not this time. The media’s coverage of individual speeches maxed out at about two minutes. While MSNBC showed Hulk Hogan on the stage, they didn’t cover a word. The whole thing was a disaster for the RNC and Trump. And still, the RNC insisted that the party came out of the convention unified.
Then again, there was never any doubt about the mongoloid idiots in the GOP base being unified around a criminal maniac. It was the Democrats that were at loggerheads, with their entire party and electoral strategy in tatters. And in three weeks it’s the tattered Democrats who are about to have a convention many pundits were threatening would be a repeat of Chicago in 1968, minus the police riot.
And what a difference a month will make. After today’s Biden announcement, the rift in the Democratic party over the path forward has disappeared faster than that clown repairing the leaky aquarium with his wonder caulk on television. Which is total bullsh*t, since pretty much any caulk applied to the hole on the inside will seal thanks to the water pressure behind it.
The Democratic National Convention is going to be a combination Biden love fest as well as the nomination of a presidential candidate. Joe Biden is actually a lucky man. He’s going to be able to sit there for three days and listen to his funeral eulogies while he’s still upright and taking nourishment. It will be a fitting ending to his long and distinguished career, capped off by his own emotional address to the audience.
And I can pretty much guarantee you that the networks won’t be cutting off any Democratic speakers mid sentence. What a potential powerhouse lineup! How about Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi, Congressman Jim Clyburn, former President Bill Clinton and former First Lady Hilary Clinton, all paying homage to President Biden’s half century of service, and giving the old guard seal of approval of the handing over of the torch to the new generation.
And then the young Turks like AOC, Pramila Jayapal, Ayanna Pressley, Jasmine Crockett, and Hakeem Jefferies, thanking President Biden for his stalwart service and dedication, and his selfless decision to step aside, officially taking up the torch to the future of the Democratic party.
The Hollywood ending to this love story would be for President Joe Biden to make an emotional farewell speech, and then introduce Kamala Harris as the nominee for the Democratic party presidential seat. But I don’t see that, for two reasons.
First of all, Biden has put more than 50 years into public service. He deserves his own shining moment in the sun for his grand hurrah. I look for Biden to have the prime time slot on Wednesday night. Give him as long as he wants to recap his record, and say goodbye to public life. And I’m betting that when he says, God bless America, and God protect our troops. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and Jill walks on the stage, the ovation will last longer than Trump’s rambling dreck.
Here’s the second reason. Biden is officially passing the torch to Harris, and introducing her would steal her thunder in the most critical moment of the campaign. I look for her husband Doug, possibly flanked by his daughters, to make the announcement, and then turn it over to Harris for her solo moment in the spotlight. And while Biden has always been an effective, and even a motivational speaker, he has never been a naturally aspirational or fiery speaker. I look for Kamala Harris to burn the house down with her acceptance speech.
Yeah, so the GOP came away from their schlock convention unified. So what. All that means is that every inbred redneck with a stars-and-bars flag and a pickup truck with Buckhorn beer cans rattling around in the back is jazzed up. Nobody else is. But properly handled, the Democratic National Convention ends up with not only the Democrats unified for the fight ahead, but with a strong emotional and political argument for the undecided voters that the Democrats are the party with the positive, uplifting vision and agenda for the future. The RNC got basically no bump from their testosterone fest. I’m betting the Democrats grease the skids with the way forward with theirs. Don’t touch that dial.
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
The British were fired up but lost.The Confederacy was fired up supporting slavery…didn’t bring them victory. The nazis, with 40,000 salutes in Nuremberg sure looked formidable…they lost and Germany was a pile of rubble at the end. The Maga crowd can wear all the phucking hats and gold shoes they want…they are going to lose in a yuuuuge way!
Not this year they won’t. Not after the f*ck-wad party f*ck-wits screwed up this badly. I’d be shocked to see a single magat candidate lose a race in November. And von shitzi will likely win by a landslide never before seen. V.P. Harris, while more competent than many, is hated about as much as Hillary was. particularly by the magats. This WILL be a repeat of 2016 only this time the f*ck-wad party will be no more.
We had a chance to wipe up the floor with the magats. The f*ck-wad party operatives, as well as morons like reiner and such-like, killed that chance and killed it very dead.
I suggest that everyone who considers themselves a progressive gear up for a bad time ahead and start figuring out a way to start the revolution because elections are OVER after Jan 2025.
You once said you were sorta Jewish, Scott, so remember this phrase: “From your lips to God’s ears” my friend 🙂
bwolofsky…have a fancy certificate from the reform temple in Springfield Mass. Unfortunately I’m like groucho…I don’t want to belong to any group that would have me as a member. When asked my affliation, I always say I’m a methodist Taoist jew. ha. I’m really just a seeker, but like Townsend said in the song…I won’t get what I’m after until the day I die…and that’s just conjecture.
gee murf, how much are the f*ck-wad party operatives paying you to sing their praises? Or are you deluding yourself that there will still be an election race anywhere in the country that won’t be won by a magat candidate?
F*ck you people are pathetic .
Then, you can show yourself out. And, by all means, let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya.
Or, as la Diva Gloria once sang, “Go on, now, go! Walk out the door! Don’t turn around, now, you ain’t welcome anymore.”
Wow, spike, do you take meds to control the damage from all that bile? Or, just enjoy the pain your deteriorating innards cause the rest of us?
Spike all I can say is work through your negative expectations and perspective and vote democratic. At 71, having lived through many horrors, I’ve learned the only way out of any darkness is get THROUGH IT! Hey we all saw the billionaire MSM treat Joe unfairly. Life isn’t fair…never has been and NEVER WILL BE…but everyday you draw breath YOU’VE decided to endure and accept it. So go do whatever you need to but come back to the fight when your done. This is no time to be a deserter.