That Debate Might Be the End of the Road for … Barack Obama

 You can’t make Newsom your nominee without wresting control of the party away from Obama.

Here’s a snap reaction to that utter debacle CNN offered up to the American people last night. I could tell you how awful that 90-minute train wreck was, but you already know. And you know what you’ve known for a while, but you know it with a lot more clarity — that husk of a man staring off into space when he wasn’t attempting to play Mumbles from the Dick Tracy movies isn’t fit to be president.

Democrats on social media and TV, the ones not accepting that Joe Biden is non compos mentis and can no longer win this presidential election, spent all their time during and after the debate screeching about what a liar Donald Trump is, and bitching at Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, who did a lot better job as moderators than anybody would have expected, for not stepping in and fact-checking Trump at every answer. They know how bad this is.

After the debate, Biden went from 86 cents to 55 cents on PredictIt for the Democrat nomination. The money is running away from him.

And maybe, so is the nomination.

But how does this work? I wrote a few days ago about Biden losing the nomination; I didn’t see a mechanism for dumping him out unless he goes willingly.

And as bad as Biden was on that debate stage, I didn’t see any evidence he’s ready to quit. I didn’t even see any evidence that he knows there’s a problem.

And Jill Biden — excuse me, Dr. Jill Biden, because we have to honor that community college education Ph.D. of hers when she’s effectively running the White House like no First Lady since Edith Wilson — absolutely doesn’t show any indication that she thinks anything is wrong. Dr. Jill has happily engaged in this elder abuse for four years running because of what she’s getting out of it; why would you think she wants to stop?

But the real reason it’s such a disaster for the Democrats to try to change Biden out is the reason he’s in the White House in the first place.

Barack Obama is that reason.

And yes, you should read Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It’s All Obama, where I discuss in detail how it’s Obama pulling the real strings behind the scenes here.

They’ve acted for the last four years like that was an asset. But now? Maybe not so much.

Remember, four years ago, the Democrats’ voters had very, very little interest in nominating either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. But they got Biden-Harris anyway, and for a very simple reason: those were the two most controllable puppets Team Obama could find out of the two dozen candidates in that field. It didn’t matter that nobody wanted either one of them. The deal got cut and all of the other players accepted their allotment of crumbs from the table.

Because it’s Obama’s party. It has been since 2008. Which is a very, very long time for somebody to be the most important political player in America.

Biden was clearly unfit to be president a year ago. His popularity was a problem even then, and so was his cognition. But Team Obama laid down the law that no one was to challenge him, and when Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., refused to listen, they chased him out of their party and refused to give him Secret Service protection.

A Kennedy who can’t run as a Democrat. And a guy whose father and uncle were assassinated can’t get Secret Service protection when he’s running for president. Imagine the ruthlessness of that.

They’ve been trying to force Biden down the throats of their own voters, not to mention the American people, all this time. They’ve now painted themselves into a corner.

Let’s say there’s no coming back from that debate, and it seems pretty safe to say that’s the case. Biden might hang on as the nominee, but he can’t win reelection.

So what do you do? If you’re Obama, that is.

You’ve got to keep a puppet, obviously. But whom?

Everybody wants to say Michelle Obama. But if that was going to happen, it already would have. Michelle Obama simply doesn’t want the job, and Barack Obama cannot tell Michelle Obama what to do. It’s also not in evidence that Michelle can turn things around. She’s never even run for city council or state rep, and now she’s going to get elected president?

I’ll bet you’ll start to see polling of that hypothetical. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see disappointing numbers for Michelle.

Who else? Kamala Harris, obviously. Except Kamala Harris is an even longer shot to hold the White House than Biden. The only thing you get with Kamala Harris is she keeps an iron grip on the black female vote, which is the most monolithic voting bloc in American politics. Problem is she’s utterly repellent to everyone else in America, and it’s not like she’s a good enough campaigner or communicator that she’ll grow on the voters.

Who else? Beyond Michelle and Kamala, the only other plausible Team Obama insider would be J. B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois. But when the voters find out about the super-rich Pritzker family and the wacko radicalism they embrace, and particularly the fact that they’re among the world’s most prolific funders of the transgender movement, that’s a dead end. Pritzker can’t beat Trump or even come close.

I’m not saying there’s a savior out there. If there was one, you probably needed some presidential primaries for someone to emerge. And Team Obama’s iron grip on the party prevented such a challenger.

Gavin Newsom, about whom Ellie Gardey Holmes has written the definitive work (and you should all pick up her new book about Newsom), is the name on all the Democrats’ lips right now.

But Newsom is not a member of Team Obama. And he has an ego even bigger than Barack Obama’s. Gavin Newsom is not going to be Obama’s puppet.

Meaning you can’t make Newsom your nominee without wresting control of that party away from Obama.

And Obama is no more likely to voluntarily give over the reins than Joe and Jill are to voluntarily give up the trappings of the presidency.

That looks like a war on the horizon. It looks like a death struggle inside the DNC, AFTER the opportunities to run a legitimate primary contest have passed.

I have another theory. I explain the fact that Trump’s last 40 minutes of that debate were uninspired and lousy as being a function of his knowing that it was a disaster for Biden and it was garbage time. And that Trump was trying to “lay up” and not demolish Biden so badly as to chase him out of the race.

The fact that nobody on the Democrats’ bench looks like they could beat Trump doesn’t change what’s obvious at this point: Trump beats Biden if the race doesn’t fundamentally transform.

And right now, any real fundamental transformation on the Democrat side seems like it would have to start with their moving away from Obama.

I don’t know that they can do it. I really doubt he would accept it. But if this isn’t the end of the road for Team Obama, I think we can see it from here.

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