While many in the white elitist media
continue to push for fellow white elitist Elizabeth Warren as Joe Biden’s
running mate, others are pointing out that it would be a mistake for him to
pick someone who has her own agenda that runs counter to his own. Warren
certainly does have an agenda—her own megalomania, and who wishes more than anything
to be able to sneak in the back door,
having failed to get in through the front door on her own merits. One supporter
of her claim to the second spot insists that she is the only potential nominee
who “stands out.” Well, he’s right about that—but not in a “positive” way.
Warren’s “sexism” attacks on Michael Bloomberg and Bernie Sanders may have
excited the media, but the electorate was clearly less impressed; even after
“destroying” Bloomberg during one debate, Warren still finished no better than
third in the subsequent primaries even in her own home state. If Warren were the VP nominee
and she continued on this track, voters would see clearly enough that this
election is about her, not Biden. It is very unlikely that she would attract
more female voters, and more likely she would alienate male and swing voters.
Look, it is one thing to attack a
candidate’s positions, and it is quite another to have plenty of ammunition to
attack a candidate’s character, That was the difference between Sanders and
Warren in the eyes of most progressives; Sanders was the real deal, and Warren
was just a fake, someone for whom being “progressive” means nothing more than
being an “oppressed” woman who wanted to overturn the “patriarchal” system. Great
with the “plans”? Note how she put her health care “plan” on the backburner
after being forced to explain what exactly the “plan” was. Warren was such a
hypocrite and pathological liar that for years she insisted that she was a
“minority” when prospective employers could clearly see she was white—proof
that white women could and did benefit from affirmative action more than real
underrepresented minorities, and by “cheating” if necessary.
Let’s be real: If Biden wanted to
attract the hardcore progressives to his campaign, the only logical choice is
Sanders. Sanders likely would have beaten Donald Trump all by himself in 2016,
and with him on the ticket Hillary Clinton would have easily have won in 2016,
but she remains too vindictive and lacking in self-awareness to admit that even
now. The problem Biden faces now is that he painted himself into a corner that
he didn’t need to do, and seriously limited his choices.
So who else is out there? Pretty
slim pickings if you ask me. Amy Klobuchar is clearly out; this was the
candidate who was the only one to raise her hand when asked who would not
support a progressive in the general election. The media can blame whoever they
want for Kamala Harris’ campaign sinking like a stone, but the fact is she
lacks something—I don’t know, charisma? Gretchen Whitmer? After all those
scenes of “insurrection” in Michigan? Stacey Abrahms? People are actually
serious about that? That’s all the Democrats need is a Sarah Palin-type on the
ticket.
But there is another potential VP
candidate who makes a lot more sense. The
New York Post’s Michael Walsh tells us that Michelle Obama would be the
“perfect” running mate for Biden, because she “checks all the boxes” for both
the “moderate” and “progressive” wings of the party. He also suggests,
cheekily, that after he wins the election, Biden could just step aside and
claim illness so that she would step in as president to continue the Obama
reign. But the truth of the matter is that Michelle Obama remains a popular figure
among Democrats; she at least has some knowledge of the workings of the
presidency, has at least some opinions about policy, has shown an interest in
humanitarian causes, and being a lawyer she knows something about the law,
unlike some other people we know. If Biden picked her as his running mate, that
is something I could get “excited” about.
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