A part of me wonders if Joe Biden
was more cogent than he let on in public. It’s not exactly like that
classic SNL skit with Phil Hartman, who played an aloof Ronald Reagan in
front of the cameras but a commanding political force behind the scenes
around the time Iran-Contra was in the news. For sure, he’s lost more
than a step, but this seems to be a tale of the ultimate political
revenge.
It appears @MarkHalperin
original reporting was right. Pelosi's plan was for an open primary,
but Biden stuck it to the establishment who threw him out by endorsing
Kamala 30 minutes after dropping out.
This is why Obamaworld, Schumer etc were so late to endorse.. they didn't… https://t.co/eNOa1krhKl
As
they whine on social media about their blowout loss to Donald Trump,
Democrats are also preparing to shank one another over who shoulders
most of the blame for the 2024 election loss. Biden and Harris’ camps
are at each other’s throats, the media is trying to torch everyone, and
this civil war could be epically entertaining. The first chapter is the
revenge of Joe Biden, who got pushed out of the race in July, only to
nuke the Democrats’ plans for a mini-primary. He wasn’t supposed to
endorse Kamala so soon. He did so anyway (via NYT):
Representative Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker,
suggested this week that it would have been better for the Democratic
Party if President Biden had abandoned his re-election campaign sooner
and the party had then held a competitive primary process to replace
him.
In an interview on Thursday with The New York Times, Ms.
Pelosi said what was widely reported around the time Mr. Biden dropped
out: that she believed it was implicitly understood that his exit would
be followed by an internal party competition for a new nominee, instead
of an anointment of Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Had the
president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the
race,” Ms. Pelosi said during an interview with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, a
host of “The Interview,” a Times podcast. She added during the
interview, which will be published in full on Saturday, “The
anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there
would be an open primary.”
Ms. Pelosi went on: “And as I say,
Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been
stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We
live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala
Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a
primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been
different.”
[…]
Mr. Biden endorsed Ms. Harris within an
hour after he ended his campaign in July, a decision he made only after
an intense pressure campaign from Democrats that Ms. Pelosi quietly led.
His support for the vice president, along with backing from many other
Democrats, choked off any avenue for a challenger to emerge. Over two
weeks, Ms. Harris swiftly gathered support from delegates to the
Democratic National Convention.
After the convention, Biden seemed to go out of his way to declare
that Kamala Harris was part of every major failed policy decision in the
Biden administration, rendering her incapable of untethering herself
from this failed agenda. She also didn’t have the intelligence to do
so.
Is it insane to suggest that Biden adopted a ‘if I can’t win,
no other Democrat can’ mentality? It sure seems that way, and in
keeping with the Delaware liberal’s cantankerous attitude.
“You screwed me; therefore, I screw you” – Joe Biden, 2024.
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