Ready The Clown Car: The First Batch of Democrats Are Ready To Announce Their 2020 Bids

This is deeply disturbing to anybody who has any capacity for moral reasoning or who values human life in any meaningful way:

Meghan McCain to Amy Klobuchar: Will you at least say you’re against late-term abortion?

She won’t, of course. Her chances at winning the nomination would be spontaneously aborted if she did. But note her demographic profile: This is a midwestern, kinda centrist-y, kinda wonkish senator from a blue state who’s won three statewide elections by 20 points or more.

If anyone in the Democratic Party might feel safe expressing a whiff of moderation on infanticide, Klobuchar should be it. “I strongly support the right to choose in the first trimester and with some minor reservations in the second,” she might say, “but I think there’s room for regulation in the third.” That would put her very much in the mainstream of American opinion.

But it would place her on the right-wing fringe of the Democratic Party. Her national ambitions would end instantly.​

Talk about extreme. That describes the entire field for the Democrats this time around. All of them.

 

Ok, it appears that Joe Biden may actually be on to something here:

At rally, Biden pledges to unite the country: 'We're all in this together'

His party may be enraged by Donald Trump’s presidency, but Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden insisted Saturday that Democrats will not defeat the Republican president if they pick an angry nominee.

Facing thousands of voters in his native Pennsylvania for the second time as a 2020 contender, the former vice president offered a call for bipartisan unity that seemed far more aimed at a general election audience than the fiery Democratic activists most active in the presidential primary process. He acknowledged, however, that some believe Democrats should nominate a candidate who can tap into their party’s anti-Trump anger.

“That’s what they are saying you have to do to win the Democratic nomination. Well, I don’t believe it,” Biden declared. “I believe Democrats want to unify this nation. That’s what the party’s always been about. That’s what it’s always been about. Unity.”​

Of course he mixes this kind of talk with a good amount of race card playing and kowtowing to the Democrat left's extremely divisive and vitriolic "Political correctness" and "Identity politics" agenda. So it is hard to see how the latter does not serve to wash out the former.

But if Biden were to be able to lead the Democrats left back from the ledge of this agenda of intolerance and hatred, that could really be attractive to a lot of people. But it was just a few lines in a speech and he still has to win the primary. So it is hard to see him focusing on this theme with enough effort and enough discipline to allow himself to truly be defined by it.

 

Will they pardon Obama, Holder or Lynch? As long as these candidates are being asked if they will pardon someone who has not been charged with a specific crime, they should ask these candidates if they are willing to pardon these people also.

 

We are still 21 months out from the Iowa primary, so only a nitwit would expect this poll to have a high predictive reliability, but in the latest Iowa Starting Line/Change Research Poll, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are now tied at 24% each:

Biden, Sanders Locked In Iowa Tie

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are locked in a tie in Iowa atop the large field of Democrats running for the presidential nomination. An Iowa Starting Line/Change Research Poll of 615 likely Democratic caucus-goers that was conducted this past week, May 15 to May 19, found both Biden and Sanders garnering 24% among the Democratic candidates. The poll’s margin of error is +/- 3.9%.

Three contenders trailed the leaders with healthy percentages of support: Pete Buttigieg at 14%, Elizabeth Warren at 12%, and Kamala Harris at 10%. Beto O’Rourke came in at 5%, while Amy Klobuchar and Andrew Yang both had 2%. Everyone else polled at 1% or less.​

Get your seat-belts on ladies and gentlemen. It could be that we have a contest here after all. If Bernie Sanders somehow figures out a way to win in Iowa, the first primary, then that will change the voting patterns in the primaries after that. And then who knows how this might turn out.