In the Hans Christian Andersen classic The Emperor’s New Clothes two weavers promise the leader a suit that will make him invisible to stupid people. In reality they give him nothing and as he parades naked through the streets no one dares say a thing because they don’t want to look stupid. The liberal media has declared Joe Biden the front runner and none will dare question his his failing campaign, insanity, and un-electability. The Federalist, like the one brave kid from HCA tale, just said, “Yo Joe, we can see your ding-dong.”
Joe Biden can’t get an endorsement from his former boss Obama or anyone relevant, but he did get the opposite of an endorsement from The Federalist so he’s got that going for him. This is actually pretty bad:
Joe Biden: An Anti-Endorsement
His long record of poor judgment and cozying up to bankers make him the wrong candidate to take on Donald Trump.
…the continuing candidacy of a man whose chief rationale for running—that he alone can defeat Donald Trump—has become increasingly threadbare. Like Hillary Clinton in 2016, Joe Biden offers the promise of picking up where the Obama administration left off: a restoration of business as usual for the K Street lobbyists and Wall Street speculators whose prosperity the 2008 financial crisis did little to disturb.
…the man posing as “middle-class Joe” has built his career and his family’s wealth on an eagerness to serve not the many Americans crushed by credit card debt but the very banks whose hands are around their throats. The candidate who insists Medicare for All is too expensive for Americans is also the candidate who, like Clinton, endorsed NAFTA, China’s admission to the World Trade Organization, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership—all of which have savaged US manufacturing and workers. Clinton’s record cost her the industrial heartland (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan) and, with it, the election.
I hate to throw cold water on someone when they are ranting against Joe Biden, but the main point of this anti-endorsement is that Biden favors policies that hurt workers and cost manufacturing jobs. Gee, didn’t President Trump tear up TPP, renegotiate NAFTA, and drop the hammer on China? For some reason The Federalist isn’t endorsing Trump even though he has done everything they think a candidate should do.
Biden’s long record of poor judgment—on everything from the 1994 crime bill that fueled mass incarceration to his botched handling of Anita Hill’s testimony against Clarence Thomas to his defense of Bill Clinton’s brutal welfare cuts to his support for the Iraq War to his role as cheerleader for Wall Street deregulation—renders him an even weaker opponent for a president whose reelection poses a clear and present danger to America’s survival as a constitutional republic.
Gee, didn’t Trump pass justice reform and pull our troops out of the Middle East? How is this not a Trump endorsement? Everything wrong about Biden is right about Trump and yet…
Stumbling through the primaries, Biden’s zombie campaign crowds out worthier challengers, handing Trump a free pass on the very issues that should be his Achilles’ heel.
On issue after issue, Biden’s candidacy offers Trump a unique opportunity to muddy what should be a devastatingly clear choice. The Nation therefore calls on Biden to put service to country above personal ambition and withdraw from the race.
Biden and his backers need to face the facts. It may still be unclear which Democrat is best positioned to beat Donald Trump, but we know one thing: The answer is not Joe Biden.
They forgot Biden’s age, deteriorating health, and encroaching insanity, but it’s still a devastating blow to a guy whose campaign is only doing great in the imagination of the liberal media propaganda machine.
The Federalist had the courage to stand up and say Joe Biden is a naked fraud, now all they need is for one of their own to point out that they accidentally gave a big thumbs up to President Trump’s policies and accomplishments.
