President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

I can accept disappointment. I can even expect to be disappointed. I refuse to give up hope that there are a few individuals with the spine to try to make a difference.

I'm prepared to stipulate that they are in short supply. Most of the R's who are willing to admit to themselves how bad it is simply concede the field and slink away.

Hope is important in a time of so much bad news.

 

Even if 6 GOP congress members just up and quit tomorrow, I doubt MAGA Mike will give up the gavel.

 

Yet again the Very Fine People turn out to protest too much about butt stuff.

https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/...r-before-killing-him-court-records-claim.html

 

Trump becomes first Republican ever to secure the GOP Presidential nomination three times.

You think about the great Republicans over the last 150 years.....and then Trump?

I am looking forward to one of those primaries from the past where a little known politician gains steam as the primary season goes along, coming out of nowhere and really capturing the national attention. This Clinton/Trump/Biden era has been a drag. Only Bernie made it interesting. But then again - this country needs some new blood.

 

Don't forget, Clinton came from out of nowhere in 1992. All the big Dems stayed on the sideline because GHWB looked unbeatable in 1991. (But then we read his lips.)

 

If I were the Gov of a state, I doubt I’d call a special election at this point unless the feds or the parties wanted to pay for it. I’m not spending state funds on it. Allow the Nov winner to be seated early or whatever, but don’t have a special election just to turn around and do it again in a couple of months. And that’s not even for political or nefarious reasons.

 

The GOP denied Ulysses S. Grant a third nomination. He only was the best general in the winning side of a critical war and won twice with overwhelming Electoral College margins. But this guy gets three:

 

That's what I'm saying. H. Clinton, Trump and Biden have been in the public eye for 25 years plus before they won the nomination. Obama for four years after the keynote DNC speech in 2004 before he was even a Senator. I'm trying to think of the last GOP nominee who would be considered a "fresh face," someone not nationally known - Romney was pretty well known. Dewey?

 

Nixon? 1960, 1968, 1972.

 

oops. Good company. Nixon seems so tame these days. Take away Watergate and the race-baiting - he wasn't so bad.

 

Mayor Pete is known at this point but he is the freshest and brightest of the fresh and bright.

Newsom is 56 and known but like Mayor Pete he's the best of the best.

 

Dewey ran twice and was the governor of what was then the most populous state in the country. Hard to call him a fresh face. Wendell Wilkie in 1940 was the last GOP nominee to really come out of nowhere in the pre-nomination campaign.
As for the Democrats, JFK maybe. It's hard to believe now, but he was a candidate attacked for being too young (43) as Biden is for being old. And Nixon in 1960 was only 47.