Who’s Going to Replace Biden?

Check out this 1-minute YouTube of President Biden over at the G7 Summit in Borgo Egnazia, Apulia, on June 13.

The Leader of the Free World wanders off from the other six. Five of them just stand there, clueless. Only Italian PM Giorgia Meloni goes over and guides him back to the rest of the group. Typical for an Italian, she’s also the most stylish of the group in that pink outfit.

This comes shortly after the Wall Street Journal’s June 4 expose, “Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping.” Subhead: “Participants in meetings said the 81-year-old president performed poorly at times. The White House said Biden is sharp and his critics are playing partisan politics.” It’s pretty long, but worth reading. If you can’t get behind the paywall, an MSN link is here.

The guy obviously has lost it. As you can see from watching earlier videos, he has declined even from just a couple of months ago. He’ll be 82 in November.

An inflection point is the June 27 debate with Trump. If Biden starts fading during the performance, it’ll be over for him. Democrats should import Meloni to help guide him to and from the stage.

Who’s going to replace him? Some possibilities.

Kamala Harris. She might get the job even before next Jan. 20 if he gets so bad he’s removed by the Cabinet under the 25^th Amendment. It’s also possible the folks behind the scenes running the show make her a deal: She gets to be president after Biden is tossed, but doesn’t get the nomination at the Aug. 19-22 Democratic National Convention.

She will say, “I need to concentrate on running the country during this time of crisis, so I can’t spend time campaigning. I’ll endorse whomever the Convention picks. Beat Trump!” She becomes the second black, first Asian and first woman to be president. She retires to her presidential library in San Francisco to write her memoirs and sit on numerous lucrative corporate boards.

Or maybe she’s given the nomination at the Convention because they don’t want to snub Asian, black and women voters. She’s incompetent and nobody seems to like her. But her rise may be inevitable.

Gavin Newsom. A couple of months ago he would have been a shoo-in. But his shambolic rule of California has made this state even more disastrous than it was. Homelessness, housing unaffordability, crime, taxes, regulations, business environment, unemployment, gas prices – all are getting worse by the day. I know so many people who are leaving. I think about it a lot myself. Then I check the temperature in Phoenix, where I likely would end up, and it’s 110 degrees F today. No thanks.

Newsom’s Machiavellianism also is too obvious. Everything he does is to grab that presidential ring. He’s even way too obsessed with abortion, which already almost is mandatory in California for the first-conceived child. He doesn’t realize what appeals to the big Democrat moneybags doesn’t sell even to many working-class people who don’t necessarily want abortion to be made illegal.

He’s wrecked this beautiful state so hideously he might even lose to Trump here on Nov. 5.

Michelle Obama. She says she doesn’t want it. And she spent eight years seeing how impossible the job is. But could she turn it down? The first woman and second black president? Furthering the agenda she helped hubby pursue? She’s 60, a prime age for being president. Barack obviously would help her share the burden. She would appeal to Democratic nostalgia from the pre-Trump era.

It's hard to come up with any negatives from the Democratic perspective.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She’ll be 35 on Oct. 13. Democrats are worried they are losing the youth and Latino votes to Trump. AOC could change that. She would be sold as the youngest candidate ever. What a contrast that would be with Biden.

The negatives are the freshness when she came on the national scene six years ago has worn off and she’s sometimes shrill. She’s spent too much time around Bernie Sanders, absorbing his Socialism Schtick. She’s with the kids on the Gaza protest marches. But that conflicts with the party elders, who support full aid to Israel for the war.

Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, et al. These are just retreads from 2020. Nobody wants them.

Nikki Haley. She said she’ll vote for Trump, a tepid endorsement. But she could be convinced to switch parties on a “national unity” ticket with somebody like Buttigieg. She would promise to make Mitt Romney Chief of Staff.

Somebody Else. A problem for Democrats is their “bench” is so weak they had to go with Biden in 2020 to prevent Bernie, now age 82 and absurdly running for re-election, from becoming president and stealing all the billionaire donors’ stuff. Biden is both symbol and reality of the Democrats’ senescent ruling class. The Republicans aren’t much better. Trump just turned 78. McConnell is 82, finally stepping down as minority leader.

America, once the shining beacon of youth and energy, itself has become antiquated, botching almost every international policy, from Ukraine and Russia, to Israel and Gaza, to China and Taiwan, to BRICS+ replacing the G7 at the head of the world economic order.

Countries get old, too. Like Biden, America is just wandering off —————