Just yesterday in this space we wondered if Biden voters were honest enough to feel buyers’ remorse, having elected a man seemingly destined to go down in history as among the worst and least-qualified ever to hold the office of the presidency.
That was written early in the day. By days’ end, anecdotal evidence had rolled in that Biden voters either see no problem and are ready, willing and able to double down on their support of the cognitively impaired one, or they in general see Republicans as inherently evil and Biden as merely an unfortunate victim of events that have made him look bad in office.
I find it telling, though, that the latter crew doesn’t want Biden back for a second term.
Example one: While at a picnic (NOT FOR A COUSIN’S BIRTHDAY, ALTHOUGH WE DID END UP SINGING TO HIM!) a typical liberal type was there, picking verbally at a conservative. I took advantage of the opening to pose my Biden voter buyers’ remorse question.
No, the man does not regret his choice. Instead, he is pleased with Biden’s performance. All is well. He’d vote for him again. And again and again and again as was the case with many “voters” in the past presidential election.
This Biden voter (apologist) was unswayed by raging inflation, investment markets plumbing historic lows for the first six months of a year (worst since 1970 in the case of stocks, worst since 1788 in the case of long-term government bonds), the botched Afghanistan exit and all the other failures already in the Biden regime’s run.
Showing his intellectual depth, this guy said Biden, for all those problems, still was better than Trump. Trump would be the president who presided over strong investment markets, modest inflation, energy independence for the United States, and zero adventurism by Russians or Chinese.
Yeah, Biden’s much better than Trump.
But this man suffering from partisan blindness regarding Biden is far from alone among the masses.
Example two: The local Democratic propaganda organ “newspaper” ran not one, but two letters to the Readers’ Forum on the day of my previous blog post.
The first claimed to be an independent voter, which is code for a liberal who loves to flaunt independent status, but votes straight Democratic in every election.
Ask the next independent you encounter, or Democrat for that matter, to name the last Republican candidate for whom they voted. You will hear crickets.
Meanwhile, a Neanderthal Republican like me can tick off voting for a Democrat for county commissioner most recently, and through the years voting for a Democrat for governor and U.S. House, among others.
I also have withheld votes for disappointing Republicans such as Arlen Specter and Pat Toomey, who walked and squawked more like Democrats.
I did not vote for carpetbagger Republican senatorial candidate Dr. Oz in the past primary, and will not vote for him in the general election.
But our “Independent” letter writer spewed anti-Trump sentiment and also had a lengthy list of politicians with whom he disagreed. Curiously, all are Republicans.
This man also is for gun control, although he made sure to mention he owns “a few guns” and is a former military man.
Allow me to remind that formerly being in the military does not equate to automatic sainthood. Some notable examples: Presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was an ex-Marine. Adolf Hitler served in the Bavarian Army. William Calley of My Lai massacre infamy also was a military man.
This writer admitted to being “not really thrilled” with Biden and feared Republicans could win the presidency in 2024, which he seemed to equate with the nation losing its democracy.
Such an independent and confused thinker!
Another writer, a familiar name who bores the masses with his political missives as frequently as the paper’s reader-submission limits allow, presented a laundry list of Biden shortcomings, but attributed them to failures of others or simply to bad luck.
Biden is painted as a latter-day Job of Biblical note and for all the failures on his watch, Biden is portrayed as a good guy because ostensibly he still goes to church regularly. Does Biden’s staff give him a crib sheet, a la his press conferences, telling him to enter the church, sit down in a pew, look at the pulpit?
But even this Biden supporter wished out loud that Biden not run for re-election in 2024 and instead yield to a younger more vibrant candidate, which would mean almost anyone still on the right side of the grass.
To sum up the last letter: Biden’s doing a great job, but I sure hope he doesn’t run again.
Maybe the reality is sinking in for some.
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