Biden Breakdown

By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/21/2015 - 1:28pm |

Bye Bye Biden

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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/joe-biden-will-not-run-for-president/

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I'm so glad Biden decided not to run. He had only two paths to victory that I could see and he probably would have to use both of them. He would have to run a nasty campaign against Hillary using all the common republican talking points, emails, authenticity, trustworthyness lack of bipartisanship, etc. It would have been ugly and if he didn't beat her she would have been greatly weaken in the general. And he would have to lump Hillary with Sanders and attack them from the right as too liberal and socialist.

It would have been bad for the democratic party and bad for the liberal values and policy I support.

by ocean-kat on Wed, 10/21/2015 - 3:13pm

Digby discusses Biden's bipartisanship problem.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.cz/2015/10/thank-you-joe-but-youre-still-wron...

30 years in ever-worsening politics and outrageous behavior hasn't cured him.

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/21/2015 - 3:39pm

I do not just love Joe, I love the idea of Joe.

I shall miss him.

But his time has passed.

Even though Joe is and has been a Great American.

We are all better for the memory of Joe.

by Richard Day on Wed, 10/21/2015 - 7:09pm

Good one, Mr. Day.

Yeah, where ya' goin to run to now? The "enemies" comment was not exactly the high road.

by Oxy Mora on Wed, 10/21/2015 - 7:17pm

There ya go.

I wonder how one might review an entire life.

The entire life of someone who played by the rules and 'won'?

Joe has been a great man and a great leader and a good husband and a good father.

I feel that as far as my memory is accessible, that I would agree with 90% of this man's votes.

But recall that these votes go back many decades.

Oh I am off line again. haHhHhh

How many roads must a man like this have to walk....?

by Richard Day on Wed, 10/21/2015 - 8:06pm

Well, Rinse and Prewash had a mouthful to say about Biden's not running. He has been real quiet these days, so I thought maybe Koch had him locked in the basement.

This is his official statement from the RNC.

“The Vice President’s decision not to enter the 2016 race is a major blow for Democrats, who now will almost certainly be saddled with their unpopular and scandal plagued front-runner Hillary Clinton," said Chairman Priebus. "Vice President Biden was the most formidable general election candidate the Democrat Party could have fielded, and his decision not to challenge Hillary Clinton greatly improves our chances of taking back the White House. With each revelation about her growing email scandal or conflicts of interest at her State Department, Hillary Clinton is getting more beatable by the day."

https://www.gop.com/rnc-statement-on-vice-president-bidens-announcement/

Maybe Rinse and Spin needs to stick with counting flowers on his wall paper and playing solitaire.

by trkingmomoe on Wed, 10/21/2015 - 10:57pm

I forgot about this old song. hahhHHhhhHHh

Thank you for this! ha

I will play this for my son who is arriving in the next two days!

by Richard Day on Thu, 10/22/2015 - 12:07am

Have a good visit.

by trkingmomoe on Thu, 10/22/2015 - 12:11pm

And here's the first Hillary bounce - expect Biden quitting & the Benghazi hearing to bounce her again, both early primaries (now tied in New Hampshire) & nationally.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 10/23/2015 - 8:36am

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