President Donald John Trump is scheduled to debate Biden in Cleveland, which 40 years ago was the home of the one and only Reagan-Carter debate. That debate turned a close race into a romp for President Ronald Reagan.
Ordinarily, I would advise the president to skip the debate despite his record of 14-0 in televised debates. He won each of the 11 Republican debates he participated in in the 2015-2016 primary season by slicing and dicing his opponents.
Hillary really thought she won all 3 of her debates with Donald Trump. That is what happens when you believe your own press releases even when Maggie Haberman at the New York Times slaps her byline on it.
But an incumbent president can only lose a debate.
Still, Reagan got Mondale so good that Mondale laughed.
Besides, President Trump is no ordinary incumbent, and 2020 is no ordinary year.
Covid 19 and a vicious media have combined to thwart President Trump's efforts to talk directly to the people. A debate would cut through the barbed wire barriers the media installed.
Biden appears to have the most to lose this year but because he often looks and acts like a dementia patient, he may need to appear at one debate just to show he is not too addle-brained to be president.
Democrats are not particularly choosy this year. They just wanted to prevent Bernie Sanders from becoming president, which would force them to actually implement such loser policies as Medicare For All and the Green Deal. That's the problem with promising pie in the sky. Eventually people expect pie.
Conservatives suspect that Biden will magically contract covid 19 which will allow him to remain in hiding.
The media certainly has opposed debates because debates allow Donald Trump to appear before the public unedited and uninterrupted -- well until his Fox News overlords prod Chris Wallace to break protocol and stop Donald Trump from telling the truth.
President Trump sized up Biden for Fox News on Monday. Biden ain't all there.
The Donald said, "I don’t understand what’s going on. He doesn’t seem to be answering questions and he can’t answer questions and much worse, a little while ago when he was on the stage with the Democrats, he couldn’t do well."
Biden cannot think on his feet, which cost him the nomination until Obama decided to stop Sanders once and for all.
President Trump said Biden was "horrible when he was debating the Democrats. Pocahontas just destroyed him."
Kamala Harris also stung him like a wasp with her "that little girl was me" line.
The president threw shade on Biden's mental acuity.
He said, "Well, I don’t know which Biden is going to show up because I watched him during the debates where they had 20 people on the stage … and he was a disaster, you don’t get worse. He was grossly incompetent. Then I watched him against Bernie and he was okay. He wasn’t Winston Churchill, I can tell you that, but he was okay. He was fine, I said it was like an even debate."
If Biden is as bad off as I believe he is and melts on TV, Donald Trump is going to have to hold back on the comic destruction of the man. I hope he piles up the zingers, but is willing to not fire until he sees some light -- any at all -- in Biden's eyes.
Bidet isn't going to get covid. That would be a death sentence for him. Dementia patients fare poorly since they can't remember instruction. Only a monster would expose him and since HiLlARy isn't running .....
ReplyDeleteJust say he is exposed. Responsible parents will think you meant exposing and cover their children's eyes.
DeleteDoesn't even need to be exposed to 'get' Covid. It will be a fake illness and the media will cover for him. And blame Trump.
DeleteJust look at "Fredo" Cuomo of CNN. He supposedly had Covid. Great series for CNN. Too bad he blew near the end with a visit to his property before his "emergence from quarantine".
DeleteThe Biden-Sanders debate was basically Sanders resigning himself to losing again. I think Sanders was bought off since he pulled basically every single punch in that debate.
ReplyDeleteKinda like, "I'm sick and tired of hearing about Hillary's emails"... the dems are great theatre and nothing more
DeleteI predict that somehow, someway, Biden will work in some version of "you're fired," and all the media coverage after the debate will focus on that supposed zinger.
ReplyDeleteI hope Trump doesn't underestimate Biden. After all, he made mince meat of Paul Ryan in their debate. All he did was give a big toothy smile, nod. and look condescending towards Ryan.
DeleteFor this debate, if Biden doesn't wet or soil his pants or start blubbering, he will be declared the winner by thr LeftMedia.
Trump needs a square knockout punchline (not a cheap or belittling shot)
I just can't see them letting Joe debate.
ReplyDeleteOver at Diogenes, Our Lady of Sarcastica predicts he will admit to catching the Bat Soup Complaint and can't do any more campaigning.
DeleteShe says Friday. Any time before Monday is likely.
Too bad nobody thought to get up a pool.
The problem for Biden is that if this debate actually occurs, the television audience will be massive, probably a record, just to see if Biden can actually complete a sentence. He will not look good and the President will win the undecided voters. I believe the President already has the advantage in the election, vote fraud notwithstanding.
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ReplyDeleteConservatives suspect that Biden will magically contract covid 19 which will allow him to remain in hiding.
ReplyDeleteAnybody in their right mind knows that's not necessary.
He's on Namenda, a last-ditch Alzheimer's drug by the admission of his own people.
He also can't take more than a few steps without getting winded, has to rest at least a day after taking a trip, can't even remember the Pledge of Allegiance, let alone y'know, the Thing.
"Some side effects of Namenda are dizziness, confusion, headache, sleepiness, constipation, vomiting, pain (especially in the back), and coughing. More serious side effects are rare but include shortness of breath and hallucination."
DeleteI'd pay good money to watch a debate where Joe starts hallucinating.
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DeleteFredo Cuomo faked getting the Chinese Virus, all to get sympathy going for his incompetent brother, the dumb one. Why not Biden?
DeleteBiden runs from the podium after every short speech he struggles through. He would never last through a debate with enough namenda in him to bluster and bully his way effectively. He would wet himself on national TV, not quite the look the left want to give the people about his ability to fake his way in office.
Our guy often makes a statement that is humorous...yet based on fact. I will say it is likely that Sleepy Joe will get a shot of Adderall prior to the show. Of course, in sports, that sort of thing is not allowed.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that there's any drug that will keep Joe lucid for an hour or more.
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ReplyDeleteTo paraphrase Duncan Hunter, a great Townhall columnist and talk radio host on AM 680 WCBM in Baltimore (I listen online 9am to noon; he's GREAT):
ReplyDelete"They've set the bar so low for Biden for these debates, all he has to do is show up and not soil his pants and he'll be declared the 'winner' "
Reagan Magnus RIP.
ReplyDeleteThe Democrats running a dementia patient makes this the most surreal election of our lifetime. Shameless blog plug on this topic: https://ktcatspost.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-most-surreal-election-of-our.html
ReplyDeleteKT, the Gad Saad link was hilarious! Thanks!
DeleteJoe won't debate in fact, I think given his decline seems to be accelerating, he won't be around for the election.Then we get to watch Kamala and, say, Hillary (the voice of "moderation") slug it out like
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I would bet a shot of intravenous glutathione before the debate will happen. The stuff is miraculous, but the effect is transient. End stage Parkinson's patients can walk almost normally for a hour or so, only to freeze up as the body metabolizes it.
ReplyDeleteBiden’s liable to be wearing an inconspicuous earpiece through which they’ll give him his lines.
ReplyDeleteIn his addled state, he will slip and and say “my earpiece isn’t working” or “speak louder. I can’t hear you”.
Delete"That's the problem with promising pie in the sky. Eventually people expect pie."
ReplyDeleteBest.Line.Ever.
Gotta go back to R. Emmett Tyrrell again - this is from 1984:
ReplyDelete“Remember, for twenty years the Liberals had explained to us how a cool, handsome JFK had whipped a hot, thrashing Richard Nixon and won the debate of 1960. Reagan had achieved practically an identical victory over the labored, hissing Jimmy. Yet the Liberals called it a draw. Practically every poll of ordinary Americans called it a Reagan victory. Still the Liberals called it a draw. Some of them even argued that Jimmy had won. When he was thumped so mercilessly in the subsequent election the Liberals were stunned. Events have continued to wobble the New Age Liberal not because we inhabit a New Age requiring new wisdoms but because HE inhabits a New Age, a personal hallucination that has lost touch with ALL wisdoms, even the wisdoms of yesteryear’s Liberalism.”
Ronaldus won by 44-6 in 1980 as a challenger, and 49-1 as an incumbent in ‘84, the year I voted for Fritz. Cue up the George Michael Sports Machine for a tasty replay!