November is a Bidenary choice until it isn’t

Created
Wed, 03/07/2024 - 00:30
Updated
Wed, 03/07/2024 - 00:30
What’s the plan, Stan? A lot of savvy people don’t see how flighty and fickle (and disinspiring to voters) they appear with their post-debate insistence that Joe Biden step aside for another Democrat. They’re dressing up their panic as strategery.  I’m with Rick Wilson on this. November is a Bidenary choice until it isn’t. Steadfastness is a virtue Dems need more of. Much more.  The other point I’d make in this is a lack of any global sense of the race from the Biden-panicked. Dobbs, Chevron, Trump v. U.S. might as well not exist. Someone I spoke with shrugged off Monday’s SCOTUS decision as “expected”! None of the commentary I’ve seen offers any perspective on how Trump himself may be bleeding support, on his electability. All some Democrats can see is Biden’s bad debate. One play is not the whole game. The focus needs to be back on Trump’s perfidy, on his cognitive and legal impairments, and on the conservative thirst for a urinary unitary executive. There’s a conspiracy to end America. Thanks to the Supreme Court, we’re poised for dictatorship if Trump wins. I was at the Raleigh Biden rally about 15 hours after last Thursday’s debate and Biden was ON. Hot, even. “Oh, but he was using a teleprompter,” several who weren’t there told me. Teleprompters inject stimulants now?  Perhaps Thursday’s debacle was a bad reaction to cold medicine. (That happened to me at 16.) Perhaps it’s more, as Carl Bernstein told Anderson Cooper last night. (He’s been saving this for his next book?) Whatever. By request:…