\nYears from now, when historians write the story of the 2020 U.S. presidential\nelection and they recall the names of the twenty-eight candidates who sought the\nDemocratic nomination, they will have just one question. They will ask, \u201cWho were those people, and\nwhat in the hell made them think they were presidential caliber?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One\nDemocrat who has been thinking\u2026 quite correctly\u2026 is Rep. Al Green, who has\nrepresented Houston\u2019s 9th<\/sup> Cong. District in Congress since\n2005. Green was one of the first\nDemocrats to call for Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment and he reiterated that\nposition in an August 8 interview on CNN. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n In that\ninterview, Green made it clear exactly how much he hates and despises Donald\nTrump, expressing a desire to not only remove him from office, but to do it in\nsuch a way that Trump would be totally and utterly destroyed. He said, \u201cTo\ndefeat him at the polls would do history a disservice. To do so would do our nation a disservice,\nand would not allow us to do (to him) what they did in 1868 when Andrew\nJohnson, who was the bigot of his time, who was impeached by the radical\nRepublicans…\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Green is convinced that \u201cThere ought to be radical\nDemocrats and Republicans who are willing to rise to the occasion and say to\nthis president, ‘You are unfit, unworthy, and you must be removed from\noffice.\u2019\u201d He concluded by saying, \u201c(Democrats) can’t let him walk the Earth without that\nstain (of impeachment).\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\nwould be interesting to know exactly who Green would choose from the\never-shrinking Democratic field who could even begin to accomplish what Trump\nhas accomplished. As a Democrat, he\nmight choose a colleague such as Rep. Hank Brown (D-GA), a member of the House\nJudiciary Committee who has now voted in favor of Trump\u2019s impeachment. It was Hank Brown who stunned Admiral Robert Willard, commander of the U.S.\nPacific Command, saying he feared that stationing 8,000 additional Marines on\nGuam would cause the island to \u201cbecome so overly populated that it will tip\nover and capsize.\u201d As proof of the old\nadage that the people get exactly the quality of representation they deserve, Hank\nBrown\u2019s intellectual capacity is representative of a great many Democrats in\nCongress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But who would Green select from among the\nremaining announced candidates? Of the\ntwenty-eight candidates who have announced, to date, four of whom were so\nunremarkable that no one knew they were running, thirteen have already\nwithdrawn, leaving fifteen candidates. \nOf these, six candidates (Booker, Castro, Delaney, Steyer, Williamson,\nand Yang) are seen as having not even a remote chance of winning the nomination,\nleaving Democrats with just nine candidates to choose from. These include Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO),\nformer vice president Joe Biden (D-DE), former New York City Mayor Michael\nBloomberg, Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-IN), Cong. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Sen. Amy\nKlobuchar (D-MN), former Massachusetts governor Duval Patrick, Sen. Bernie\nSanders (I-VT), and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Of these, seven have all-but-disqualifying\nfatal flaws. In addition to Joe Biden\u2019s serious health problems, making it all\nbut impossible for him to maintain a campaign schedule even half as rigorous as\nTrump\u2019s, he has major family-related corruption problems which haven\u2019t even begun\nto cause major damage, as yet. As the appearance\nof major corruption drag Biden deeper and deeper into the political mire, he\nwill find it impossible to continue. \nHaving already slipped to fourth in some national polls, Biden can be\nexpected to withdraw before the Iowa caucuses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a unique\ncase. Serving as the mayor of the\nnation\u2019s 306th<\/sup> largest city is not a major qualification for the\npresidency. Thus, his political fortunes\nmay ultimately rest on the strength of his military service and on the fact\nthat he is openly gay. At this point in\nthe 21st<\/sup> century, most Americans are willing to accept the notion\nthat a few of our family and friends may be homosexual or bisexual. Most are indifferent to the issue, taking a\nlive-and-let-live stance. However,\nAfrican Americans are known to be strongly anti-gay and it has been many years\nsince a Democrat has won statewide or national office without carrying a\nprohibitive share of the black vote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But the question arises, are there limits to\nthe tolerance that most heterosexuals display? \nIn other words, if a heterosexual couple would refuse to rent a spare\nbedroom to a gay or lesbian couple, would they be just as intolerant of the\nnotion of sodomy taking place in the White House\u2026 in the Lincoln Bedroom? As matters now stand, with Buttigieg seen as\na long-shot for the presidential nomination, the question of his sexual\norientation has not been an issue. But\nhow far does such tolerance extend? Democrats\nmay soon have to decide, but not until they\u2019ve entered the privacy of the\nvoting booth. The opinions they express\noutside the voting booth will not always inform the decisions they make inside\nthe voting booth. Scratch Pete\nButtigieg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Senator Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, is a\nself-described Democratic socialist. He\nhas developed a large following among young (age 18-36) liberals and\nprogressives. However, while he may\nattract young votes in the traditionally blue states, he would have a difficult\ntime in the South, the Southwest, the Mountain States, the Farm Belt, and the\nRust Belt. Sanders would be 83 years, 4\nmonths, and 11 days old when he completed a four-year term in January 2025. Having suffered a heart attack while on the\ncampaign trail in recent months, will he be able to withstand the rigors of the\ncampaign trail for the next twelve months? That is highly unlikely. Scratch Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Senator Elizabeth Warren is the one 2020\ncandidate who seems to have a bit of staying power and she appears to be in\ngood health. However, her insistence\nthat Medicare-for-all is a valid idea, in spite of her stunning cost estimate\nof $52 trillion over ten years, is bringing denunciation from every part of the\npolitical spectrum\u2026 left, right, and center. \nThe American people, while willing to pay for the best quality\nhealthcare, have a strong aversion to what has always been known as\n\u201csocialized\u201d medicine. They are not\nlikely to changes their minds on that issue in 2020. Scratch Elizabeth Warren. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mayor Michael Bloomberg, while a relatively\npopular mayor of New York, has proven himself to be quite dilettantish on the issues. He has bought into the \u201cglobal warming\u201d hoax\nand he has spent a great deal of political capital attempting to limit the size\nof soft drinks that New Yorkers can consume. As a multi-billionaire and a late entrant into\nthe race, Bloomberg is seen by a great many Democrats, even among his fellow\ncompetitors, as a rich man trying to buy the presidency. Scratch Mike Bloomberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, former Massachusetts governor Duval\nPatrick, having entered the race very late, has had very little chance to build\na field organization anywhere but in Massachusetts. And with a cheering-squad of just one, Barack\nObama, there is little or no chance that Patrick has time to create a political\nmovement behind his cause. Scratch Duval\nPatrick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of the twenty-eight Democrat candidates who\nannounced their intentions to seek the Democratic nomination, that leaves Democrats\nwith just three to choose from: Sen. Michael Bennet, of Colorado; Rep. Tulsi\nGabbard, of Hawaii; and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, of Minnesota. And if all these assessments are valid, we\ncan finally begin to understand why Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler, and Adam Schiff\nare so hell-bent on impeaching Donald Trump, on grounds that do not even\ndeserve to be called \u201cflimsy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And as the attorney general, the Justice\nDepartment Inspector General, and U.S. Attorney Durham begin to put some meat\non the bones of what is sure to be the greatest political scandal in U.S.\nhistory, Democratic chances in November 2020 will become slimmer and\nslimmer. Congressman Al Green has it\njust right. Since Democrats have little\nor no chance of winning the presidency, or to win control of either House of\nCongress, their only alternative is to remove Trump from office by impeachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a long-suffering victim of Democratic\ntreachery for sixty years, this is the day I\u2019ve been waiting for. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Years from now, when historians write the story of the 2020 U.S. presidential election and they recall the names of the twenty-eight candidates who sought the Democratic nomination, they will have just one question. They will ask, \u201cWho were those … Continue reading