Either Biden or Warren will get to lose to Trump

Today Trump has a narrative busting 49% approval rating according to Rasmussen.

Hotair tells that Harris is fading...fading since Tulsi Gabbard* vivisected her record on crime. Harris gets 1% of the black vote.

Warren is getting 21% of the overall vote while Biden still leads at 32%

This race will quickly come down to Biden vs Warren.

We still insist the Democrat Party of 2020 is incapable of nominating a white man.

Oh, by the way, Trump  gets a 30% or so approval from African American voters as of 30 July.

Draw your own conclusion, but there can be only one.

*God she's cute, love those surfer outfits.

The Dem's Bench: Legacy Edition

Oh god, please say the buzz is true. Please let Chelsea Clinton run for public office. God, Hashem, if you let this happen I'll start going to synagogue again. Honest Injun and pinky swear.

It's not that I think a local Republican will beat her. He wont.

It's that I want to watch the media (those fake news experts) fawn all over themselves telling us how great Chelsea is. How qualified she is, how the depth and breadth of her experience working for mom and dad (her fake one, that is) and marrying into another Dem political family qualifies Chelsea for political office.

Also, I want to watch her on the campaign trail. It will be a challenge to see how vapid her stump speeches will be.

Honestly, what could she talk about in her life?

Let's review. She grew up in the Arkansas Governor's mansion and then the White House.  When her fake dad was elected president and resigned the governorship the Clintons had no place to go. Then she went to college, and then grad school. She worked at NBC for a brief time (wonder what the network thought it was buying with that hire) worked at one of those investment firms for a bit, and then at mom and dad's charitable foundation.

Charitably [there's an interesting word choice-Ed] Chelsea has done absolutely nothing. Uncharitably, [that one's more accurate-Ed] she's a vampire princess.

Now I suppose Chelsea could run for a congressional spot in her new home district in New York State. Coincidentally this is my old congressional district. As it happens we know exactly where her mom and dad's (the fake one) house is. We have no idea where Web Hubbel lives.  Anyhoo, this is small potatoes. Congresswoman Chelsea? Please. Why aim so low? We need Senator Chelsea. Chuck Schummer isn't going anywhere, so Senator Gillibrand is simply going to have to find something else to do.

We'll war game that in another post.

The Dem's Bench, Viable

Way out in California, so long as it remains part of these United States, the Democrats have a very viable and gifted candidate. We refer of course to the state's junior senator, the talented and lovely we must admit Kamala Harris.

Of course Harris benefited greatly from her relationship with California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown. The two were a hot item for some time and brown oversaw her appointment to several state boards in the early 1990s.

Since then she's served in a variety of legal posts culminating with the state AG position. This she parlayed into a Senate seat.

Her views are utterly conventional for the Democrat Party and uninteresting. But what is interesting about Senator Harris is her background. She's black and Indian. Coupled with her womanhood, this is a three-fer for the Democrat Party. Check, check and check. If Harris 'comes out' during the next few years we'll know she's serious about 2020.

Sliding off the Dem's Bench

We're at the end, I think, of the Democrat Party bench. No, I take that back, we've slid off the end and we're looking at what's left of the Dem's bench. We'll do a quick rundown.

Senator Corey Booker: Former mayor of Newark. I can't say what he actually did for or to Newark. He seems like a fine human. I think I voted for him when he ran in 2014. Or was it 2012? I dunno.

Senator Elizabeth Warren: Me white man, trade big wampum! Ahhhhhhahahahahah. Yeah, she's Native American alright, 1/32 if that. Privileged white woman and cultural appropriator. President Trump said yesterday that he hopes Senator Dances with Lies is the nominee in 2020. So do I.

Chairman Tom Perez: Former Sec of Labor and current head of the DNC. At least its not the Islamist Keith Ellison (D, Riyadh). I don't know what Perez ads except the Dems being able to check the Latino/Chicano box.

Hillary! Redux: No, not really. Syphilis, Parkinson's, alcoholism, or it might just be a bad slip and fall in the bathroom...I don't know what'll get her, but Hillary! will be dead by 2020. I'm serious.

Graffiti that Bench

We've noted before that the after 25 years of the House of Clinton treating the Democrat Party like one of Bill's Arkansas State Employees the Dems have bench problems. Or do they?

We now shift to the Big Apple. This is the city in whose shadow we have spent most of our lives. NYC is famous for many things, graffiti being one of them, hence the title of this post. The graffiti was one of a hundred quality of life issues that Rudy Giuliani focused on during his fabulously successful two terms as mayor. The left always mocked Rudy's 'broken windows' theory of crime management. Remember, they miss the old New York of Kitty Genovese, Son of Sam, the Burning Bronx, the '77 Blackout, etc etc. If the left could, they'd put the peep shows and porn shops back in Time Square.

This brings us to Mayor Bill De Blasio (Sandinista, Nicaragua). Like the previously mentioned Gavin Newsom of SF, Mayor Bill checks off all the right boxes and he comes with a  few bonuses. He tried to get rid of the handsome cabs and he hates cops, plus, here's a big one, the city is going to hell again. The last time I was in NYC, unfortunately a few weeks ago, I saw bums laying in the streets and was accosted by a sqweeji man.

Ahhhh... that takes me back. I remember once in 1990 my dad and I went to a Yankees game, at night. Dave Eiland started but he came out with arm trouble to be replaced by Eric Plunk. After he gave up five runs I shouted, 'Hey Plunk! You suck!' to which me old man replied, 'Thank you for that editorial comment.' We were sitting next to a pair of drunk Puerto Ricans [in the South Bronx? You don't say? -Ed] In front of us were a bunch of Japanese businessmen, no doubt on a trip to buy some expensive real estate, and ironically, some Krauts. Yes, I had fun with that. Anyhoo, when we left the game me old man made a wrong turn, we went under a bridge after which my dad locked the doors. We emerged to be accosted by a bum trying to wash the windshield.

All that's left is for de-Blas to reinstall the porn shops n Times Square and we're good to go.

So de Blasio has definite appeal in the Democrat Party primary. Let's say he's got the old Howard Dean block locked up.

On a Bench Carved from Redwoods

Yesterday we wrote about the Democrat Party's thin bench after 25 years of being the House of Clinton's play thing. We also noted that perhaps the best candidate on a thin list of candidates is the seemingly competent governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo.

We move on now to California. Incidentally I'm all for the secession of those west coast weirdos. Anyhoo, we were on record here predicting that the 2016 Democrat primary would be a bloodletting between Joe Biden and Governor Moonbeam. Whoops. Said Moonbeam is retiring and almost certain to be replaced by his Lt. Gov, Gavin Newsom.

Newsom is among other things the former mayor of SF, wonder how Dirty Harry would feel about that. As far as policy goes, right now he's promising to introduce a state single-payer system to California, that is state-socialized medicine. That's certainly a winner with his constituents. Other than that we've no idea what his policy positions are except that he can check off all the right boxes vis-a-vis the boutique Democrat Party issues. Gay marriage, pot,  illegal immigration, grown men in the girl's room...you name it.

So there's another viable Democrat Party Candidate for 2020. Enjoy guys!

Benched

For 25 years the Democrat Party has been the plaything of the House of Clinton. The price has been steep, of course. Just look at the White House.

Said fealty has also starved the Democrat Party of talent. After Algore in 2000 they didn't really have much of a bench. So in 2004 the Democrats turned to Jean Francois Kerry, a careerist who accomplished nothing in the senate but who fulfilled their Kennedy fantasies.  Why Kerry served on a patrol boat and even has the same initials! Then of course came Barrack Hussein Obama. President Obama left a shattered Democrat party, a regional party with strong enclaves in the cities but nowhere else.

Forgive me for engaging in a bit of nostalgia, but my first presidential cycle was '88-'92. I was a Democrat myself back then, a Scoop Jackson type who wanted a strong military, hawkish foreign policy and activist Federal Government.  Going into '92 the Dems had a deep bench. This included the above mentioned Algore, Congressman Dick Gephardt, Senator Bob Kerry (NE), defense hawk Senator Sam Nunn and a slew of others. As President Bush enjoyed high approval rating in the wake of Desert Storm, most of the Democrat talent wussed out. In '92 the Dem primary was an eclectic assemblage, Doug Wilder, Pauls Tsongas (for whom I voted), Tom Harkin, Governor Moonbeam and of course Bill Clinton, of whom normal people like me had never heard.

Back then the political will-he-won't-he of the day was centered on NY governor Mario Cuomo, whom traditional NE liberals were begging to run. He was always the governor when I was a kid. And in 1982 when Ed Koch challenged him for the Dem nomination for governor Cuomo's people printed up bumper stickers which read: Vote for Cuomo not the Homo. Alas he never ran.

This brings us back to the current Democrat Party conundrum. As it happens Mario's son, Andrew Cuomo is the gov and stories are circulating about himself forming an presidential exploratory committee.

Is he doing a good job? I hear about corruption scandals. I vaguely recall something about him caping yearly property tax increases at two percent or some such. Honesty I haven't paid much attention to my home state in a decade and half. One point of note. When I cross the Hudson I take the ancient Tappan Zee Bridge. Andrew's been building a replacement. Every time I cross a staggering amount of work had been done. Remember, it took them a decade just to decide how they were going to replace the World Trade Center. Andrew's getting a new bridge up in a few years. That in itself is impressive.

Maybe he would be an impressive candidate.