Stop saying Biden is the 'most electable'. Trump will run rings round him

[mystery-ak]

Stop saying Biden is the 'most electable'. Trump will run rings round him
Nathan Robinson

Did we learn nothing from 2016? Trump is savagely effective at destroying establishment politicians – and Biden would lose

Sat 4 Jan 2020 05.30 EST
Last modified on Sat 4 Jan 2020 16.42 EST

Supporters of Joe Biden are unlikely to be persuaded by most of the common criticisms. They know he can be rambling and unintelligible. They know his record is unimpressive and that he doesn’t really have “policy proposals”. None of this matters, though, because to them he has the most important quality of all: he can beat Donald Trump. Nothing you can say about the former vice-president’s record, platform or mental state matters next to the argument that he is the best hope Democrats have of getting Trump out of office.


There’s just one problem: it’s a myth. It is a myth just as it was a myth that Hillary Clinton was a good candidate against Trump. Biden is not, in fact, the pragmatic choice. He would not beat Trump. He would lose. And we must say this over and over again. Forget his flubs. Forget his finger-nibbling. Biden would be crushed by Trump. If you want Trump out of office, don’t support Biden.

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[XenaLee]

Biden's an idiot.  He was only chosen for VP because he was a useful idiot.   Now he's just a senile, even more moronic, idiot.   Not useful any more (which is why Obama hasn't endorsed him).

[PeteS in CA]

Who among the current Dem crew plus Hillary would be electable? Every one of them seems bent on offering more free shit than the next and who can alienate larger segments of the US than the next. For a while, the least obviously insane among them was Marianne Williamson!

[Cyber Liberty]

Stop saying Biden is the 'most electable'. Trump will run rings round him

It's possible both are true.  It may be Trump can run rings around everybody in the Rat field.   

[Wingnut]

Stop saying Biden is the 'most electable'. Trump will run rings round him

It's possible both are true.  It may be Trump can run rings around everybody in the Rat field.   

He has them "steppin and fetchin" once again.  They can't help going to their default position on a Trump action.   It's like; are they really that stupid...or is Trump that good?   Trump  has the Rats wound tight they  don't they are being played.

[XenaLee]

Who among the current Dem crew plus Hillary would be electable? Every one of them seems bent on offering more free shit than the next and who can alienate larger segments of the US than the next. For a while, the least obviously insane among them was Marianne Williamson!

Offering "free shit" to the freeloading invaders while enabling millions more illegal invaders, Cloward-Piven-style.... paid for with the sweat and hard-earned money of LEGAL citizens and taxpayers of America.... even while debilitating and weakening America's military and national defenses.   If that doesn't describe an "enemy within".... nothing does.

[jmyrlefuller]

Literally nobody thought Hillary Clinton was electable. Bernie Sanders was considered more electable, and he is as far left of a socialist as there is. When he's considered more electable than Hillary Clinton, she's not electable.

So the author's central premise is false. The Democratic machine managed to force the only candidate who could possibly lose to Grab'em by the... onto their party.

Give it a rest.

[Cyber Liberty]

Literally nobody thought Hillary Clinton was electable. Bernie Sanders was considered more electable, and he is as far left of a socialist as there is. When he's considered more electable than Hillary Clinton, she's not electable.

So the author's central premise is false. The Democratic machine managed to force the only candidate who could possibly lose to Grab'em by the... onto their party.

Give it a rest.

"Electable" is the sole criteria partisan Rats have when going into the voting booths this year.  Nothing else matters, there are no other principles involved.  At the moment they have themselves believing it will take a far lefty to beat Trump. 

If they ever caught the notion it will take someone more to the right, they'll turn on a dime.  Like 2004.  (Kerry was relatively "right" only when compared to Howard Dean, who had a good lead in polls until Iowa.)