*groan* Don’t you hate when some people take simple common courtesy for an invitation to get familiar? I mean, the person wasn’t even invited to the party, but you welcomed them in, took their coat, gave them a drink, and they fueled up on your munchies. Then how do they repay that kindness? They want to crash on your sofa.
That’s the way it’s starting to look right now in the Democratic party for the 2024 primarties. The Democrats did everything right here. For once they banded in solidarity, there isn’t even a whiff of an opponent if Biden decides to renew his lease. The Democrats even revamped their primary campaign calendar, packing a diversity heavy early schedule that puts Biden in the catbirds seat.
But even with all of that, it appears that someone didn’t get the memo. Or maybe it’s just that they are such a fringe flake character that nobody bothered to send them the memo in the first place. But now it appears that it’s done.
So, who is this rogue challenger, spoiler of the Democrats best laid plans? None other than everybody’s favorite spiritual advisor and healer, incense burner, occult shop owner, and bead shaker, Marianne Williamson!
Remember her? She ran in the original field of 600 back in the 2020 Democratic primaries. But unlike some faux candidates, she went at it. She actively campaigned, made television and campaign appearances, and caught on just enough to get enough grassroots fudraising to make the debate stage, where she was always entertaining. Off the wall, but entertaining. She might have been on a slightly different frequency, but at least she was willing to put some elbow grease into it. What next? Tulsi Gabbard takes a leave of absence from FUX News to try a little sabotage campaign?
I know what you’re thinking, Who cares? With that kind of competition it’s not like Biden is going to have to leave the White House or anything, It’s like in 2012, when Obama ran for reelection against a guy running from prison. The carnival just came to town, that’s all.
Normally I wold agree with you, and may not even have written this. But not this time. In this case, Williamson could actually be a very useful and much needed motivational tool. Here’s why.
The original plan was that the 2024 GOP field would be filled with bed wetters and mouth breathers like Traitor Tot, Ron Pissantis, Sedition Josh Hawley, Greg Abbott, and Cancun Teddy Cruz. Fine, let the feral civet cats chew each others tails off. They’re all fighting for the same drooling 35% of the GOP Trump base, all Biden has to do is sit back and watch.
But there was a monkey wrench that got thrown into the works. Because now the GOP is going to have at least one moderate candidate running. But even though Nikki Haley’s campaign is a dogs breakfast of contradictions, she’s still going to be gearing her pitch towards moderates. And that includes independents.
Which presents a problem for Biden and the Democrats. Because independents are a critical part of the coalition that Biden and the Democrats are going to have to bring together next November to get the job done. And especially at this early stage, you don’t want the only campaign message that independent and soft GOP voters are hearing to be coming from a moderate GOP candidate. After all, people only think about what they hear. And if Pence actually jumps in, then that’s two competing moderate GOP voices, both proclaiming to be the future of the GOP.
So Biden gets to use Marianne Williamson as a projection screen. She gives Biden the excuse to hit the battleground states early, apy her brief lip service, then carpet bomb Haley’s ridiculous positions and contradictions, and drag up all of the worst shenanigans of the monkey island crowd. Put together a powerful rebuttal of the MAGA GOP’s insanity, and tear down Haley’s political baby food rhetoric.
Of course Biden can stay home and let Williamson burn herself out. But right now he’s riding an agenda high, with positive accomplishments to show, and more from the infrastructure law that will just bloom this summer. Hit the road under the guise of a primary campaign, and use it as an excuse to nail the entire GOP field to the wall with independents and soft GOP voters.. Oh, and send Marianne Williamson a nice bottle of wine. After all, she’s doing you a favor here.
There were bound to be fruitcakes taking a shot at the nomination. Yes, she made the debate stage last time but hell, it wasn’t THAT hard. And she made plenty of us groan and think about her the same way we thought about some of the other “WTF are they even doing here?” candidates – as in quit embarrassing yourself, and more importantly wasting OUR time with you tilting at Presidential windmills and STFU and go away!
But she is something of a flake and just might say something that’s so incredulous Biden will have a momentary brain-lock on a debate stage. Hell, GOP folks will probably donate to her just to try and create that very scenario. Look, I do still have a sense of humor. When I was a kid I got a kick out of Laugh In’s Pat Paulson. Or for that matter more recently when he was on Comedy Central Stephen Colbert’s “run” (it was to expose campaign financing) but Williamson? SHE’S NOT FUNNY! Just a flake.
That’s IF she makes a debate stage Denis my friend…If only 2 of them are in, they may just up the polling floor to something like 7% to keep her from qualifying…