Joe Biden Is Collapsing
New Republic,
by
Walter Shapiro
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
2/9/2020 4:56:46 AM
Joe Biden brought his “No Malarkey” tour to a New Hampshire debate stage on Friday night. But in promising to tell the truth, he accidentally exposed his own doleful (or I should say, Bob Dole-ful) prospects in Tuesday’s opening-gun primary. In his first words of the debate—the moment when candidates are usually the most scripted—Biden confessed, “I took a hit in Iowa and I’ll probably take a hit here.” It was a novel campaign strategy; few candidates ever say, “Vote for me because I’m going to lose here.”
If his comments were a brief misstep in an otherwise smooth debate, it would have been one thing.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Kitty Myers 2/9/2020 6:52:55 AM (No. 312709)
"the dewy Pete Buttigieg"
I've never heard of a man described as dewy before. Just sayin'...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MOBeef4u 2/9/2020 7:28:19 AM (No. 312731)
I think, #1, the author must have meant “wet behind the ears” in referring to Mayor Pete. As for Biden, decrepit, washed up, mummified, dried up would all be apt descriptors. Either way, wet or dry, they are both losers. As for the rest of the field, I can’t imagine which would generate any enthusiasm from the voters on the Left although that won’t stop a lot of them from pulling the lever for anyone with a D behind his name. I say his because I see no way that their candidate will be of the female gender (and because it’s correct grammar).
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/9/2020 7:43:01 AM (No. 312740)
This is the New Republic - a leftist rag. So I didn’t read past the shot at Bob Dole, who is a true war hero.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Red Jeep 2/9/2020 8:02:27 AM (No. 312757)
So how wrong were all the polls that for months showed Biden leading by a lot to the other Democrat candidates?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
janjan 2/9/2020 8:14:59 AM (No. 312770)
Biden was supposed to be the DNC’s firewall to prevent a Sanders nomination. Bloomberg is not going to replace him as Mr. Popular. The Democrats are headed for a split Party disaster that was inevitable.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Krause 2/9/2020 8:16:29 AM (No. 312771)
Why would you vote for someone that should/could be indicted for quid pro quo!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
walcb 2/9/2020 8:22:27 AM (No. 312777)
The Dimocrats are composed of many factions they try to pull together. It works pretty well when they can coalesce to support one candidate but when they have 15 or so it presents problems because the factions get split and what is left is a pathetic majority that supports socialism. A Guttfeld song comes to mind. Animals are great, trees are great, abortions are great, women are great (old white men are not), globalism is great (America is not), government run health care is great (American health care is not), electric cars are great (oil that powers the generators is not), etc. You see how it all seems to fall apart. All Trump has to say is America is great (KAG), economy is great (KAG), self sufficiency in oil (KAG), etc. The Dims don't have a viable response.
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There's a story behind Joe's running...an no one really knows what it is, or the true purpose of this farce. Certainly no one with any sense ever saw "victory" in Joe Biden, who cannot do well without rigged elections in his home state. His defeat in Iowa represented the highest vote percentage he has ever otherwise achieved. Go figure.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/9/2020 9:04:32 AM (No. 312815)
“I don’t know what about the past of Barack Obama and Joe Biden was so bad."
Any person who can not answer this question with a long list of sorry details about what was so bad about the period from 2008 to 2016 in America has no business in politics because he is either a liar or a dunce. In Biden's case I believe he has both bases covered.
The top people in the democrat clown car, Sanders, Klobuchar and Biden, all have records of self-enriching corruption that would alienate anybody but a thoroughly brainwashed democrat. Whichever piece of garbage rises to the top will be shredded like a piece of parmesan cheese the first time he/she faces Donald Trump.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
padiva 2/9/2020 9:12:45 AM (No. 312822)
It's too bad. The POTUS debates with Biden and PDT would be a hoot.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/9/2020 9:28:56 AM (No. 312844)
We sure don't see Obie trying to pull Plug's campaign out of the ashes. Time to hang it up, Plugs.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/9/2020 9:29:43 AM (No. 312846)
The Democrats impeached a President to save Joe Biden's ass, and what did it get them.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 2/9/2020 9:31:13 AM (No. 312851)
How can he collapse when he was never there? Biden has never won an election outside of Delaware.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 2/9/2020 9:37:42 AM (No. 312865)
Barisma Joe can't collapse fast enough for me and that's 'No Malarkey'. I can't wait for Barr to hand the human gaff machine a criminal indictment. I want to see Joe Malarkey doing his pushups in a jail cell along with his 'energy expert' son Cocaine Snorter Biden.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Lucky5 2/9/2020 9:39:24 AM (No. 312869)
I never thought he would make it this far. He is a laugh though. I love how he said he would be dead before one term was up, so his VP pick would be very important. He says the most crazy, not inspiring trust at all things. 0bama refused to endorse him. His own President, who picked him.
Come on now, that is to me, the nail in the coffin. At least if you are 0bama worshiping leftie.
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The biggest sign that Joe is dead in the water is that obama won't stand near him.
Bloomberg has obama front and center on his many paid ads. Not sure if obama agreed to that, but if he did, it speaks volumes.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 2/9/2020 10:05:08 AM (No. 312907)
It's been obvious for months that Biden couldn't cut it He only campaigns 2-3 days/week. He gets snarky and belligerent with questions from voters. He looks older and more befuddled every passing week. Fundraising is lackluster and mostly from liberal PACs. And then there is Hunter....
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
little guy 2/9/2020 10:16:09 AM (No. 312918)
Ya know --- I'm beginning to lean a bit toward the wild internet rumor that the shadow Deep-State Dems actually begged Joe to run so that their impeachment efforts had teeth.
Simply put, if Joe DIDN'T run then the Trump phone call is immaterial and becomes irrelevant. It means Trump asked for an investigation into a private citizen, not a real POTUS candidate. Nothing to see here. Remember, Joe decided to actually run for POTUS about two weeks AFTER the phone call. The Deep-State Dems buttered Joe up, begged him to run, gave him some bucks and he took the bait. Yeah .. yeah ...we're behind you all the way Uncle Joe! Only they weren't.
Sleepy Joe has outlived his usefulness and now can be done away with as impeachment has not caught on like they hoped. The bonus? The Bidens are being really investigated now ... clearing the path for the brokered convention they always wanted.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
kono 2/9/2020 10:21:51 AM (No. 312922)
Isn't this about the stage of the campaign when Biden usually either collapses or fades away?
His prediction of failure could be the most memorable 'career-limiting remark' at a major campaign debate since Admiral Stockdale's famous "Who am I? Why am I here?"
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/9/2020 10:46:06 AM (No. 312930)
Will Biden drop out, and if so, when? The Biden campaign reminds me of the Jeb Bush campaign from 2016.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 2/9/2020 11:04:18 AM (No. 312956)
For two generations Biden has run for president. He even beats Hitlery on failed campaigns for president and that is saying something about his losing message. The best he ever did in two generations was 1% of the Dem primary vote. 1%! Even two generations of Democrat dumb could see what a loser Biden was and is. He isn't collapsing. He never was a top tier candidate. He was place on his exalted throne by the Kneepad Media, not by voters.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Kate318 2/9/2020 12:18:25 PM (No. 313044)
This is why the whole impeachment scam was such a farce. Joe Biden was never, I repeat NEVER, going to be a political rival of President Trump. The whole premise was ludicrous.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 2/9/2020 12:30:59 PM (No. 313055)
#3, don't get all teary about Bob Dole. He was at least a much a backstabbing deal maker when he ran the Senate as anyone ever was. The ENTIRE reason that we have background checks required for rifles and shotguns is Bob Dole PERSONALLY inserting it into the Senate bill at the last second in the middle of the night. The deal had been made for handguns only.
The antigun Brady Campaign had worked the hardest that they could for background checks ON HANDGUNS ONLY, because they knew that they would NEVER get agreement if rifles and shotguns were included. It had been a years long fight to get the handgun checks. Finally, it looked like the handgun background check bill would barely squeak past, and at the last second, Dole inserted language to include rifles and shotguns. Backstabbing SOB, in my opinion.
Dole was my Senator and I despise the man for that act and for other RINO type stuff he did.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
lakerman1 2/9/2020 12:34:33 PM (No. 313058)
in the end, nobody likes old Jo very much. He is the glad-hander at work who doesn't accomplish anything, but takes credit for co-workers' achievements. He is Michael Scott at The Office, taking credit for the Golden Ticket, then blaming Dwight Schrute for coming up with the idea, when it backfires, then taking credit for the idea when home Office likes it.
I would guess that every person reading this post has had the Jo Biden character in their workplace.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
coldoc 2/9/2020 12:48:48 PM (No. 313073)
Dont be so quick to write off slo joe. That great and wise seer of fox juan williams still has him beating everybody, including PDJT. Of course, juan is an idiot.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/9/2020 12:49:34 PM (No. 313075)
Biden at 4th place in Iowa finished out of the money. He is done. Stick a fork in it bruh.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DVC 2/9/2020 1:27:56 PM (No. 313103)
Let's hope he has "fallen, and can't get up".
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 2/9/2020 1:30:55 PM (No. 313106)
RE #24:
Years ago, when I was working retail, I had an assistant manager who was like that. We would work all day on displays and stocking and she would come in once we were done and tell the manager that it was all her doing. But if something was wrong with a display, she was the first to throw an associate under the bus. She is the reason I, and many others, left my job there.
I have also worked with asskissers and glad handers at other jobs. They tend to get away with everything that others would be canned for. I despise people like that, especially when I spot it in a politician.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Vincent Vega 2/9/2020 1:31:33 PM (No. 313108)
At first glance, I thought the line under the title of the article read "who's going to pick up his 'marbles'...……..not "mantle".
I think I had it right the first time. He's clearly lost his marbles, to the extent he had any in the first place.
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Another disposable commie rag
You don’t have to convince me that your rat bastid candidates are all losers
See you in 2024!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Readaholic 2/9/2020 2:27:37 PM (No. 313161)
This is rich:
"At some point soon, establishment Democrats will have to face the reality that Biden, for all his personal virtues, probably doesn’t have what it takes to win the nomination in 2020."
PERSONAL VIRTUES! LOL!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/9/2020 2:36:55 PM (No. 313168)
Joe Biden calling a potential voter “a dogface” is not going to get the corrupt, nasty, and seemingly senile Biden elected as the next President. As far as Barack Obama is concerned, he has his own candidate picked out, and we will find out who that person is when Obama presents his candidate to the Democrat Super Delegates at the Democrat National Convention.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
49 Ford 2/9/2020 8:39:17 PM (No. 313394)
I'm with # 31. That part about "personal virtues" bugs the hell out of me. Everyone in the know within the Beltway (both parties) knows him for the snake that he is. 35 years of support for the Hyde Amendment thrown overboard in one afternoon. His worthless cokehead son who knocks up strippers. It all speaks volumes about what a POS he is. I am SO looking forward to his speech ending his campaign.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
DustDevil31 2/10/2020 7:56:44 PM (No. 314457)
They all are going down. Plugs was never a contender. In anybody’s mind. Dems have no candidates and no prayer of beating Trump.
Get out and vote, max cheating will be attempted.
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