Joe Biden is the October surprise
By
Brady Leonard
October 31, 2024 1:56 pm
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Here’s Joey! It is fitting that still-President Joe Biden is making his presence felt in the waning days of the presidential election. Democrats should have expected that, like Jack Nicholson’s character in the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film The Shining, Biden would take an ax to the flimsy haunted hotel door that is the Harris campaign.
Democrats made a deal with the devil when they nominated Biden in 2020. Both Democratic elites in their smoke-filled rooms and everyday left-wing voters realized that they couldn’t nominate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a Marxist with little crossover appeal, fake Native American Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), or any of the dozens of also-rans such as billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, or now-Republican Tulsi Gabbard. Despite his already declining mental state, Biden was the only candidate with the centrist appeal and name recognition required to stop the dastardly Mean Orange Man Donald Trump.
The only problem for our friends on the Left is that Biden’s life has revolved around becoming commander in chief for over 50 years. Democrats assumed that the elderly president would gracefully decline to run for reelection and fade off into obscurity as a new, fresh face of the party led the progressive movement forward, but they failed to consider the pride of a man who has spent his entire adult life attempting to assume the ultimate seat of power in the United States federal government.
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