Clearly, the Democrats could have recognized long before the Iowa caucuses and their South Carolina primary that they had a problem, which was becoming clear on Super Bowl weekend when their president couldn't even keep it together for the lighthearted pregame interview, even with regime friendly CBS carrying the game. Militant Normals were noticing, and calling attention.
The Super Bowl preceded a belated State of the Union, which took place early in March, and the Jarrett regency's cheerleaders hailed it as pugnacious and had fun with the rebuttal from Mississippi's junior senator Katie Britt. (Who is way hotter than Kamala Harris, but I digress.)
Then the Democrats got Our President to bait Our Once and Future President into a debate before the conventions adjourned, and it didn't go so well. Then the Biden loyalists started bailing. But even when the president abdicated the nomination, we saw none of the logical exits, which might have involved nods to the actuarial tables. Into the void step the conspiracy buffs.
By now, it is generally accepted that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former President Barack Obama were working behind the scenes to push Joey SoftServe out of the race because they thought he couldn't win a rematch against Trump. At the time, reporting based on informed sources indicated the plan was for Biden to withdraw and for a new candidate to emerge at an "open," and by that, I mean "Obama-controlled," convention.I've already broken down how any political hardball involving the 25th Amendment would require the participation of the vice president, and her dominant strategy would be to support that threat in return for a guarantee of the nomination. That's not, though, how Madame Speaker saw things unfolding. “'Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,' the former House speaker said in an interview with The New York Times, suggesting she had anticipated an 'open primary.'” If, as scuttlebutt has it, she was among the Democrat poobahs advising Mr Biden "we can do this the easy way or the hard way," what, if not the 25th Amendment, did she have in mind? Disclosures of Biden Family involvement in corrupt bargains? If so, that could have given Mr Biden incentives to behave in the way he did?
Taken as a whole, the facts paint a picture of Biden as an embittered man who was elbowed out of the way rather than voluntarily stepping aside. His decision to endorse Kamala in his withdrawal speech locked the Democrats into a convention that was a coronation rather than a contest. As a result, the Democrat king-makers lost their say on who would lead the party in the upcoming campaign and created an electoral Chernobyl that will smolder for years to come.Think this through, dear reader. If he abdicates the nomination, the Democrats don't start leaking those records. But if Donald Trump wins, doesn't his administration have the opportunity to release those records as part of a general swamp-draining effort? That is to say, fight the Democrat poobahs or lose the election, the Biden Family corruption becomes public.
Well, no. Eight years ago, to the great disappointment of the Breitbart wing of the Trump coalition, "Crooked Hillary" ended with the campaign. "Trump says he’s not interested in pursuing case against Clinton." In like manner, getting his Cabinet appointees confirmed (for what it's worth, some I like, some are clinkers) might take a lot of his energy.
In that game tree, the Biden camp's dominant strategy is to abdicate and undermine the Harris campaign by endorsing it.
I hope the tell-alls will tell all.
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