2020 and … Biden.
Biden / Romney 2020!!!
Um. Er.
Theoretically, Biden is “in the lead” for the 2020 Democratic primary presidential ticket, so say national polls. Then again, Joseph Lieberman was at this point rolling into 2004, and everyone knew not to take that seriously. The problem this time out is…
… and maybe it’s the same problem as with 2004?…
… only more so because it seems that everything requires a whole lot of media oxygen,
Maybe even hitting around Iowa…
such that Beto O’Rourke is currently in third place in these “presidential sweepstakes?”…
And there’s this idea drifting around the Internet (floated by a longtime Republican operative, no less): a bipartisan fusion ticket pairing Biden with Utah Sen.-elect Mitt Romney, the last Republican presidential nominee before Trump.
The metamorphosis of politics, which once had Biden as a creature of 80s conservative tilting Democratic Politics — a big drug warrior and getting the tough on crime — evolving to the point where had he gone in for 2016 he’d have had his best bet arguing a point to the left of Hillary on foreign policy (as he arguably was within the Obama administration)…
… and then again, as arguably in some manners Trump was — though in places (would Trump have voted for the Iraq War?)…
Now he’s the last best shot for a Bloombergian third way, as against the encroaching Socialists of that young woman who won a House seat in New York City and that there Bernie Sanders…
… himself in second place in the Democratic Primary because… who the hell else does anyone know?
As per Romney — doesn’t the dude want to be president?
Or is he running for Senator of Massachusetts again, and as such trimming politics to …
“Unity”?
Actually, doesn’t Romney want to be a Republican?
And what of a Kennedy echo “torch has been passed to a whole new generation?”
I say Jay Inslee for President. Just because… oh, why the hell not?