Biden Time and Warren Warning

Donald Trump keeps producing more evidence that he used his office to collude with the Ukrainian government to have Joe Biden and his son investigated.  Former special Ukraine envoy Kurt Volker just gave Congress a whole record of White House electronic correspondence on the need to get the Ukrainians to investigate Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine in exchange for weapons.  Given the younger Biden's business dealings in China, Trump has publicly called for the Chinese to investigate him as well.  This means Trump is asking two foreign governments to intervene in the 2020 presidential election.  Trump is in deep trouble.

So why do I think he's going to get re-elected in 2020?

Two reasons - Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren.  Biden was reluctant for too long to address the question of his son's business ventures - none of which have proven to be crooked - and when he finally did,  he didn't satisfy a single pundit or primary voter despite his forcefulness.  Biden was the strongest candidate the Democrats had to go against Trump, but Trump's needling of Hunter Biden's business deals in Ukraine and his conflation of that with the former Vice President's efforts to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired - because of corruption charges against the prosecutor! - have rendered Biden damaged goods.  Trump could then whip him after getting acquitted by the Republican Senate following his impeachment.  The needling . . . and the damage done.

Elizabeth Warren, who now leads in the Democratic primary polls, has no chance of getting elected President because . . . she's a woman.  There, I said it.  But there's another reason she can't get elected - she's a liberal.  You see, a lot of people who would ordinarily not vote for Trump will gladly do so if Warren is his opponent because of her European-style social democratic politics.  She wants Medicare for all!  She wants to tax hedge fund managers!  She wants free college for poor kids!  She may even want  to . . . impose fuel economy standards that will force Americans to give up their F-150s and drive small hatchbacks!  (And make us eat muesli for breakfast.)   You know - she wants us to be like the French.

Trump has neutralized Biden and will encourage the Democrats to nominate Warren the same way Nixon's henchmen neutralized Edmund Muskie in 1972 and got the Democrats to nominate George McGovern, who only carried one state - Massachusetts - in the general election.  A Warren nomination would probably lead to the same result - the Democrats would only carry Massachusetts.  And being liberal is more toxic than being a woman.  If Warren, whose original last name is Herring, were a man named Warren Herring . . . with the same progressive politics . . . and were the 2020 Democratic nominee for President, she/he would still lose. A liberal Democrat named Warren Herring would lose the White House in 2020 as sure as a conservative Republican named Warren Harding won it in 1920.

Did I happen to mention that Warren is from Massachusetts?