Wow!\u00a0 I guess politically, I\u2019m not an average American.\u00a0 So, I can\u2019t say what the rest of America thought of that performance.\u00a0 But by my reckoning Joe Biden got his clock cleaned good and thorough.<\/p>\n
Now this may have no effect either on opinion polls or election results.\u00a0 After all, those things can be arranged independent of what actual people think.\u00a0 But, wow.<\/p>\n
Now obviously Joe was doped to the gills and he had been coached on all the questions that CNN was going to ask.\u00a0 But it didn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 He still looked and sounded like a re-animated corpse.\u00a0 He even managed to have the brain freeze moment we were waiting for.\u00a0 He was stumbling through one of his rehearsed set speeches when he lost the thread of what he was trying to say.\u00a0 He stopped for five or ten seconds and then just made some non sequitur to fill the dead air.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll give him credit.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t fall down or befoul himself.\u00a0 But it couldn\u2019t have been much worse if he had.<\/p>\n
So, the other side.\u00a0 Trump hammered him the whole time.\u00a0 The border, inflation, crime.\u00a0 Over and over again especially with the crime caused by illegal aliens.\u00a0 He was relentless.\u00a0 And he was disciplined.\u00a0 No matter what the question from the moderator, Trump concentrated on whichever topics were scoring the most points.\u00a0 He was like a boxer who has opened up a cut on his opponent.\u00a0 He kept after that weak spot and peppered it with jabs.\u00a0 Eventually he settled on illegal aliens murdering Americans and displacing Americans from their rightful benefits; social security, Medicaid, housing for veterans, jobs.<\/p>\n
By the end of the debate Biden actually got a little more lucid.\u00a0 But by then it was too late.\u00a0 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 \u201cvoluntarily.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, this was really, really bad for Joe.<\/p>\n
Well, will he drop out?\u00a0 I hope not.\u00a0 With a performance this shockingly bad he might be able to make the election fraud-proof.\u00a0 If all of a sudden Trump wins New Jersey and Virginia it doesn\u2019t matter anymore if he loses Pennsylvania.\u00a0 So, I\u2019m hoping that Joe hangs in there.<\/p>\n
But will there be a second debate?\u00a0 At this point I kind of doubt it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think Joe\u2019s handlers want to risk another fiasco like tonight.\u00a0 So maybe they claim some beef about Trump saying mean things and refuse the September meeting.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019ll have to at this point thank Donald Trump for giving me one of the best laughs I\u2019ve had in months.\u00a0 Trump was disciplined and for him, moderate.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t go over on his time and he didn\u2019t shout while his microphone was muted.\u00a0 He just methodically undermined Joe Biden\u2019s whole term as president.\u00a0 And most enjoyably he called Joe Biden an habitual liar.\u00a0 And that is the most effective attack that you can end with when attacking Biden.\u00a0 Because it\u2019s true and it\u2019s common knowledge.\u00a0 And because inevitably you can point to a lie, he\u2019s making right there at the time you\u2019re talking to him.\u00a0 He\u2019s that constant.<\/p>\n
So, by tomorrow morning polls will be circulating and it should be a crap-fest for Scranton Joe.\u00a0 Not even Uncle Bosie can save him now.\u00a0 Even Corn Pop would tell him it\u2019s time to hang up the cap and bells.\u00a0 But please Joe hang in there.<\/p>\n