Sleepy Joe

I never thought Biden would run.  He had chosen not to against the big girl, this was four years later, and he didn't do much of anything in the meantime.  He wasn't a particularly prominent veep.  He got off a few zingers and he had that patrician look and a thunderous voice, though mostly when I heard, "and this morning Vice President Joe Biden said," I would cringe

So I was surprised when he tossed in his hat, but I thought who wants this washed-up old guy?  He won't last but a few weeks.  In fact for awhile there he had a pretty good lead in the national polls.  Later on Sanders took that lead, and I thought Biden will dwindle out.  His performances at the debates were lackluster.  He was still leading in the moderate lane but Amy and Pete were competing with him and then moneybags Bloomy entered the race spending like a drunken sailor,  He didn't make much of a showing in Iowa or New Hampshire and folks wondered if he could even win in South Carolina.

But then he won huge in South Carolina,  Huge.  Pete dropped out and a day or two later so did Amy.  He went into super Tuesday with not much money or presence on the ground and won huge there also.

My girl Warren looks like she is out of it.  I wanted to like Sanders I have fondness for the left, but up close I did not like him so much, something of a sorehead and not a man of compromise.  But, you know, the main point is dumping Trump.  Some people like soreheadness and hate compromise, if he was getting out the votes in the primary maybe he could get it out in the general election.  But the moderates were firing on him and there developed a fringe element that claimed that Sanders was just as bad as Trump, the implication being that come election day they would be sitting on their hands.  This is what I feared most, some dems not standing by their man.

But one of the things that the Never Sanders element proclaimed, that not only was Sanders not electable but he would drag down the lower ballots bothered me, maybe we would lose the house.  Oh not likely, but possibly.  I always felt, just a hunch, that Biden would do better against Trump.

Right now it looks pretty even between Sanders and Biden, but Biden certainly has the big mo.  All along good dems have been thinking that uniting to beat Trump is the most important thing, and all along we have a tremendous urge to come together and march abreast down Main Street singing "Happy days are here again."  I hope they are.