Scranton Joe Screws the Pooch

Wow!  I guess politically, I’m not an average American.  So, I can’t say what the rest of America thought of that performance.  But by my reckoning Joe Biden got his clock cleaned good and thorough.

Now this may have no effect either on opinion polls or election results.  After all, those things can be arranged independent of what actual people think.  But, wow.

Now obviously Joe was doped to the gills and he had been coached on all the questions that CNN was going to ask.  But it didn’t matter.  He still looked and sounded like a re-animated corpse.  He even managed to have the brain freeze moment we were waiting for.  He was stumbling through one of his rehearsed set speeches when he lost the thread of what he was trying to say.  He stopped for five or ten seconds and then just made some non sequitur to fill the dead air.

I’ll give him credit.  He didn’t fall down or befoul himself.  But it couldn’t have been much worse if he had.

So, the other side.  Trump hammered him the whole time.  The border, inflation, crime.  Over and over again especially with the crime caused by illegal aliens.  He was relentless.  And he was disciplined.  No matter what the question from the moderator, Trump concentrated on whichever topics were scoring the most points.  He was like a boxer who has opened up a cut on his opponent.  He kept after that weak spot and peppered it with jabs.  Eventually he settled on illegal aliens murdering Americans and displacing Americans from their rightful benefits; social security, Medicaid, housing for veterans, jobs.

By the end of the debate Biden actually got a little more lucid.  But by then it was too late.  Every Democrat big wig had gone into full panic mode and was calling up the FBI and the CIA demanding that they blackmail Biden into dropping out of the race “voluntarily.”

So, this was really, really bad for Joe.

Well, will he drop out?  I hope not.  With a performance this shockingly bad he might be able to make the election fraud-proof.  If all of a sudden Trump wins New Jersey and Virginia it doesn’t matter anymore if he loses Pennsylvania.  So, I’m hoping that Joe hangs in there.

But will there be a second debate?  At this point I kind of doubt it.  I don’t think Joe’s handlers want to risk another fiasco like tonight.  So maybe they claim some beef about Trump saying mean things and refuse the September meeting.

And I’ll have to at this point thank Donald Trump for giving me one of the best laughs I’ve had in months.  Trump was disciplined and for him, moderate.  He didn’t go over on his time and he didn’t shout while his microphone was muted.  He just methodically undermined Joe Biden’s whole term as president.  And most enjoyably he called Joe Biden an habitual liar.  And that is the most effective attack that you can end with when attacking Biden.  Because it’s true and it’s common knowledge.  And because inevitably you can point to a lie, he’s making right there at the time you’re talking to him.  He’s that constant.

So, by tomorrow morning polls will be circulating and it should be a crap-fest for Scranton Joe.  Not even Uncle Bosie can save him now.  Even Corn Pop would tell him it’s time to hang up the cap and bells.  But please Joe hang in there.