The party that screams from the rooftops about preserving Democracy just pulled a coup d’etat on a sitting president.
That same president, who had won the nomination of the Democratic Party to run for a second term, fell victim to a concerted assault from high-profile party members, a mutiny by donors and God knows what sort of threats offered up to him behind the scenes.
Clueless Joe Biden succumbed to the pressure Sunday, announcing he is dropping out of the race and endorsing his cackling hyena vice president, Kamala Harris, as his replacement atop the ticket.
The immediate question is if Biden is unable, for reasons of mental and physical frailty, to continue a run for re-election, should he not resign from the office of president immediately?
Does Harris, who was stapled to the Biden ticket the last time as a token woman of color, long on ticking boxes in the identity politics game but short on accomplishments, really have the stuff to be president?
Where were all these concerned Democrats the past three years or so, when it was clear Biden was not sharp mentally?
Do they really expect us to believe they just realized it when he presented yet another bumbling public performance in his debate with Donald Trump?
No, only when poll after poll indicated Biden was dead in the water, did the Democrats look to switch horses in the race.
To repeat, they did it in banana republic fashion. They undermined Biden, using their lapdog media as surrogates. They pushed him behind the scenes to get out and when the stubborn man refused, they made sure their urgings went public.
It must have been interesting in the Biden household of late, when wife DR. JILL BIDEN !!!! could be expected to have been screaming at doddering Joe to stay in the race and maintain her Marie Antoinette experience as the power behind the throne.
Failed Biden son Hunter could have been expected to be right there with his step mommy, knowing that if Joe goes, so do those questionable advisory jobs. And who is there to stand between Hunter and the cell door?
This, arguably, is the most sensible decision Clueless Joe has made in some time.
Democrat partisans, who election after election show themselves to be mindless cult followers voting for any candidate with a D associated with their name on the ballot, will fall in line behind Harris or whomever.
But the whole thing is amusing, particularly as evidenced by happenings in my ‘hood.
A Biden-Harris campaign sign showed up on a lawn up the block maybe two weeks back, and had disappeared by last week. Were they inside feverishly trying to white-out Biden knowing this was coming?
Meanwhile, at the other end of the block, a bevy of campaign signs, including some for Biden-Harris, had sprung up recently, front lawn and rear fence. As I write this at 2:48 p.m. Sunday, that Biden-Harris sign remains.
Maybe they have yet to hear the word.
There will be many procedural and legal hurdles for the Democrats to overcome as they shunt Biden unceremoniously to the sidelines. But make no mistake, any and all objections will be overcome.
When you go to the polls to vote this November, have a come-to-Jesus moment and recognize the Democratic Party for what it is, a cynical operation with no moral compass, just an insatiable urge to maintain power and exercise it indiscriminately against enemies, real or imagined.
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