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

Can Democrats make lemons into lemonade?

Unable to prevent embracing the left, Democrats will seek to revise America’s perception of it. This lemons-into-lemonade course is the Democratic Party’s only alternative, as a 2020 nominee from their left appears increasingly certain. Next year, the party will essentially challenge the nation: Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

The preponderance of Democratic 2020 field is on the left; already it is collectively attracting the preponderance of Democratic supporters. The field’s fragmentation and the base’s enthusiasm will ensure a competitive and spirited contest that will push the eventual nominee still further left. Even before this process really begins, the contest has started more to the left than any Democrat nominee has ever finished.

The extreme to which their nominee is most likely to go will foreclose their usual approach of claiming to be centrists but governing to the left. Obama mastered this strategy. America’s most liberal president, he assiduously avoided campaigning as one. Instead, he cast his Republican opponents as off-center, hard conservatives — despite neither being so.

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Joe Biden is now saying that 'almost anybody' can beat Trump. Which if that is right, do then what is the need to have Joe Biden as their candidate.

Joe Biden now says 'almost anybody' can beat Trump...and poof goes a key argument for his candidacy

The former vice president responded, "I hope she’s wrong. I don’t think that’s the case." After an extended answer about the need to elect somebody who understands the African American community, Biden said, "I think there’s other people in the race who can beat Trump."

When Capehart asked Biden who he had in mind, Biden responded, "Well, I think almost anybody."

This is a bit of an odd answer for Biden, who has made the idea of electability a central part of his candidacy. To the extent that people think that virtually any other candidate can beat Trump, there's less of a reason to take a risk on somebody who would be the oldest president in American history, entering his 80s during a first term.​

Does anyone really believe that Joe Biden is a better candidate than Hillary Clinton was? And he is leading the field by nearly 2-1 over the next candidate in many polls?

Answer: No, he isn't. Hillary was a stronger, better candidate than any Democrat currently running. And we know how here two presidential campaigns turned out.

 

Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang is proposing the use of giant space mirrors to combat "Climate change".

Andrew Yang proposes ‘giant space mirrors’ to combat climate change

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s climate plan aims to get the US to net-zero carbon emissions with a range of new initiatives — including investing in major geoengineering projects like giant mirrors in space.

However, his 20-year, $4.87 trillion climate plan differs in one way and that’s in terms of geoengineering — the notion that humans should take deliberate and large-scale action concerning climate in order to stop or slow down the planet’s warming. Yang’s plan would provide $800 million to NASA, the Department of Defense and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to research geoengineering, which includes investigating “giant foldable space mirrors” as an emergency measure of last resort.

“Space mirrors would involve launching giant foldable mirrors into space that would deploy and reflect much of the sun’s light [away from the planet]. This method would be extremely expensive, which is why it should be investigated as a last resort. However, since we would be able to ‘undo’ the mirror after deployment if needed, it’s less permanent,” Yang has written.​

Correct me if I am wrong, but are we not down to our last 11 years, according to these people? Doom is currently all but certain and there is no time to waste? Right?

Anyway, I hope that the candidates will discuss this idea during their next presidential debate, coming up later this month. Perhaps they can all be asked if they are willing to endorse such a plan? Good idea, yes?

 

It is the dog days of summer. Labour Day weekend, actually. It is very slow right now.

 

It is reassuring to see that some of these people still have some lingering compasion for humanity.

 

Howard Shultz will not run for President. Oh, well. It was fun while it lasted.

Howard Schultz announces he won't run for president

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on Friday in a letter to supporters announced that he is no longer considering a 2020 presidential bid. Schultz, who first announced he was considering running as a “centrist” independent in January, wrote in the letter Friday that “an independent campaign for the White House is not how I can best serve our country at this time.”​