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The Sock Puppet as Sharp as a Tack
As the full impact of President Joe Biden’s policies continue to unravel, the Party seems to be dumping on Mr. Biden for not getting out of the race sooner.
Joe Biden’s policies not only didn’t work, they also created problems – like inflation. Yet President Joe Biden insists he could have defeated Donald Trump. Democrats aren’t mad at President Biden. Instead, they are angered at those who are now turning on Joe Biden after assuring the public Joe was as sharp as a tack when they knew otherwise.
Remember the furies that descended on special counsel Robert Hur when he said he wouldn’t prosecute Mr. Biden over mishandled classified documents because the jury would perceive him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”? Or when Mrs. Pelosi told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in February that doubts about Mr. Biden’s age and mental acuity were misplaced because “he’s always on the ball”?
If Only What?
On Sunday, the Washington Post reported that Uncle Joe still believes “he could have defeated Trump.”
According to William McGurn in the WSJ, this raises a question:
Were Democrats and the press more dishonest before the election, when they routinely reassured the American people Mr. Biden was sharp as a tack? Or are they now, after the election, when they insist Mr. Biden’s decision to run for re-election—which most supported at the time—doomed Democratic chances for holding the White House?
An Untenable Situation
The disastrous Trump/Bien debate made it impossible to cover Biden’s mental decline.
Americans saw that a president they had been told was running rings around staffers half his age was in fact confused and incoherent.
Biden’s Unforgivable Sin
President Joe Biden publicly embarrassed the leadership of the Democrat Party. Mr. McGurn writes what few Democrats will admit: Joe Biden “does not have all his marbles. “
But the Democratic Party never … quite admitted that, because to do so would raise certain still-pertinent uncomfortable questions: How can Mr. Biden be fit to be president but not to run for the office? The official line that Mr. Biden was a statesman who put his party and country first and stepped aside for a better candidate thus rings false.
If (President Joe). Biden’s policies were working, the American people might have given him the benefit of the doubt and maybe even elected Ms. Harris. But they didn’t. And rather than reconsider the policies, Democrats complain that Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris had a poor messaging strategy, that Mr. Trump was far better at taking advantage of new media—e.g., (Trump;s) interview with podcaster Joe Rogan—to get his message across.
Which misses the obvious: Mr. Trump won because he had a better message—because of better policies that yielded better results when he was president.
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