Count me out when it comes to the double header of Democratic debates happening this week. I'm pretty much ready to vote for whoever gets the Democratic presidential nomination, and in oberving the various candidates, I've concluded that, except for a few outliers such as Bernie Sanders and a handful of opinion poll one-percenters, they all pretty much see things the same, they merely see them from a different point of view. And I am tired of all the internecine squabbles among them. Though, I do have to say something about the latest issue, that being Joe Biden's comments about having to work with segregationist senators to get anything passed, back in the 1970s. He didn't mean to say they weren't horrible guys or that he agreed with their racist views. He just said he had to work with them to get things done. On the other hand, he probably shouldn't have talked about how he and they were "civil" to each other in order to overcome their differences. Biden only reminds people of how chivalric and gentlemanly Southern Democrats of yore comported themselves, with their cultured drawls and their polite manners, yet hey were rabid racists who advocated any means necessary to keep blacks down.
Anyway, I already have a presidential candidate for 2020, and that's the ultimate nominee. Which likely won't be Joe Sestak. Let me get another candidate out of the way. Sestak, of course, is a retired Navy admiral who served two terms in the House of Representatives, representing Delaware County, Pennsylvania. He not didn't qualify for the double debate, he announced his candidacy three days before the debating was to commence. Sestak will likely cite his military experience as an asset, and he's a good left-of-center guy on domestic issues, but his unfashionably late start will ensure his premature end as a presidential contender. Also, mainstream Democrats have not forgiven or forgotten him for defeating incumbent Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter in the 2010 Democratic U.S. Senate Democratic primary, only to lose to Republican challenger Pat Toomey that fall. (Sestak's 2016 comeback failed at the primary level, and Toomey was re-elected.) With that sort of track record, he isn't going to get very far. Hey, I like the guy, but I'm afraid Sestak just can't win.
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