CONVENTIONAL WISDOM

The DNC Convention started last night. I haven’t been this excited since my first root canal. The odds of me watching any of this is rank right below the odds of me watching the SF Giants kneel for the national anthem. I suspect ratings will be sky high, for those who don’t matter. Even these folks are likely to end up searching desperately for something else to watch. By the time we get the Joe and Kamala show on Thursday, half the country will have been cured of insomnia.

This is easy to predict. Joe Biden will be barely visible. Perhaps a short video clip, but even Thursday night he will show up virtually reading a teleprompter. Few are looking forward to it, which is why the DNC is promoting all the other speakers like Bernie, Benedict Kasich, Obama, and a cast of thousands. Anyone but Joe. No one could survive two hours of Joe. This won’t be the DNC Convention, it will be the EBC Convention, Everybody But (Joe) Convention.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, will speak on every night of the RNC Convention. He will draw more media attention for his appearances than all the other speakers combined. Trump doesn’t need anyone else. While there will be some nice speeches from Republican conservatives, everyone knows that Trump is the main event. Even those who hate him will be glued to their televisions, desperately hoping for a monster mistake. They are secretly, or not so secretly, hoping whatever killed his brother is contagious. Whether you love Trump or hate Trump, you can’t take your eyes off him.

You can’t beat somebody with nobody. Joe Biden is not nobody, he is less than nobody. Nobody always has the potential to become somebody. Joe Biden is a been there, done nothing, no longer capable of even pretending. If someone talks about being inspired by Joe Biden, they should immediately be given a drug test.

Biden will get a bump out of the convention, whether he gets a bump or not. The MSM will crown him the new Messiah but even they won’t believe it. Then, Trump will take the stage next week and Biden will quietly slip back into oblivion. Odds are high he will watch, or not watch, the RNC Convention from his basement. Kamala Harris will be reading up on the 25th Amendment in case Joe accidentally gets elected. Her loyalty to Biden consists primarily of dreaming about giving the eulogy at his funeral.

If, and that is a big if, Joe does get elected, the push to replace him won’t begin in four years. It won’t even begin in three years or two years, or one year. The push to replace him will start before he even gets inaugurated.  You didn’t really think any of them believe Biden is capable of being President, did you? That would be conventional wisdom, but it would be far from reality.

 

TDM