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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is obscene. The time for this conversation was a year ago. The RNC can rally around a twice impeached convicted felon who gutted the DOJ and staged a coup, but our ethical, quite effective president and presumptive nominee is being pushed out weeks before the DNC because he’s getting old.

The media and Dem leadership is doing a good job setting the stage for a Trump win. [/quote]

The democrats recognize that Biden has been a good president. However, the rapid decline of his health simply prevents him from continuing. It's human nature, not a machiavellian plan to push him out.[/quote]

Doesn’t really matter. The chaos at this point and the public discord within the party has been more damaging than Biden staying in the race and having Dems surrogates prosecute the case against Trump. I fear that that Dem leadership has done irreparable damage to the campaign.

Not to mention that Kamala is going to face a lot of the same electability issues that Hilary Clinton did - and make no mistake, it has to be Kamala due to optics and logistics around campaign funds. Beyond her own electability issues, who would her vp be? Nobody who would be an asset (ie newsom) would do it due to their own presidential aspirations. She’ll have to choose someone who brings little to the ticket like Hilary chose plain Kaine. The only people who would do it - like a buttigieg - are bigger liabilities than assets. Sad but true. Kamala is best positioned as the veep on the ticket. I say this as a woman who very much wishes it weren’t true.[/quote]

+100

Thank you for the voice of sanity.

Democrats are walking into a worst-case scenario: Biden lame duck Presidency + Harris trying to duke it out in an open convention floor primary.

These "NextGen" Democrats (aka Gen X backstabbers) have made a mess of everything.

Absent them putting away their knives and rallying behind Biden, the next-best strategy is for [b]Biden to resign so Harris can run as an incumbent. [/b]She will then need to appoint a VP that can get through the House and Senate. [/quote]

It has to be this. Nothing else makes sense. If he’s too old and feeble to run then he’s too old to finish his term. I don’t actually believe he is stricken with anything other than regular old age and he can’t bounce back from regular wear and tear quickly enough, but the optics are such at this point that there’s no other way.

But what should’ve happened was everyone rallying, getting through and then forcing him out after the election. It’s what the Rs would’ve done. I’m sick of trying to be better than them, not when the alternative is Trump and his chaos and cruelty and ego.

If they push him out and we still lose, I’ll blame those who pushed him rather than helped.[/quote]

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