By Rob Janicki
Make no mistake, Hillary will crash and burn, which leaves Democrats
with the question of who will replace her as their standard bearer on
November 8, 2016.
Will it be Senator Bernie Sanders or perhaps Vice President Joe Biden?
Beyond those two, the Democrats don't have anyone that is electable
by any measurement. Let's face it, former Maryland Governor Martin
O'Who? and former Virginia Senator Jim Webb, both of which have all
the name recognition of a missing person on a milk carton, aren't
going to excite anyone in or out of a coma.
Bernie Sanders' only real role is proving the point that Hillary
Clinton is supremely vulnerable at this point in time. Hillary's
prospects are only looking dimmer as she faces not only a mounting
public relations fiasco, but the genuine possibility of legal jeopardy
over her private email server, which she used for private and
government communications. Sanders' ascension in the polls is more of
a negative reaction and alternative to Hillary than to his crumbling
old persona and socialist pipe dreams only a European socialist could
embrace. Sanders will turn 75 just before the 2016 election.
Then there's Joe Biden, just one step away from another embarrassing
gaffe that highlights his entry level into the world of dementia or
Alzheimer's. Remember Joe the Groper? Joe will turn 74 in November
2016. There hasn't been much that Biden has been on the right side of
history over his 36 years representing Delaware in the U.S. Senate.
Prior to that Joe served on the New Castle County council from 1970
through 1972.
Essentially, Joe Biden has never held a real job in the private sector
at any time in his adult lifetime beyond his mid twenties, which is to
say he has supped at the public trough for an entire adult lifetime.
I don't expect Biden to enter the nomination process because he's just
not up to it and he has too much adverse political baggage to contend
with. I expect Biden to bow out graciously.
So, where does that leave the Democrats? There's only one person with
the national name recognition, campaign funding resources and a
campaign team staffed and already in place to fund and run a national
campaign with a reasonable chance to win the Democrat nomination.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, Princess Lies A Lot, representing
Massachusetts, is the only real hope for the Democrats to put up a
credible and possibly electable presidential candidate. However,
Warren has repeatedly indicated that she is not a candidate for the
Democrat presidential nomination, which is what everyone says until
they are presented with an overwhelming opportunity to enter a
campaign.
It must be remembered that Warren already has an ex officio outside
election committee made up of former Obama campaign staffers, said to
number about 300, waiting in the wings. Additionally, Warren has some
very wealthy campaign donors also waiting in the wings for her to
announce her candidacy before they announce their political
contributions to her campaign run for the Democrat presidential
nomination.
Warren easily matches up with Bernie Sanders in her very liberal
progressive ideological foundations. But, unlike Sanders, Warren has
never tried to openly associate herself with socialist ideology.
Instead, Warren simply spouts what are socialist political
principles, while claiming to represent the once great middle class
and a return to the strength and vibrance of the middle class of
yesteryear.
If, as I believe, Warren is to enter the fray of campaigning, she will
have a small window of opportunity before the first primary in
January. If Warren does not enter the nomination process soon, she
will miss two very important debates to be held by CNN and those are
Nov. 14 in Des Moines, Iowa and Dec. 19 in Manchester, New Hampshire,
the two most early telling debates. Watch for something serious in
the form of an announcement from the Warren faction sometime in
September. If it doesn't happen by early October, it probably won't
happen.
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