First, let me say
that I have always liked Joe Biden. What???
My conservative friends are probably apoplectic by now, and my liberal friends
think I have lost my mind, both not
understanding the why I so bravely make this statement.
Let me explain.
In 1987 or 1988, when Mr. Biden was campaigning
for President the first time, I was a registered Republican. Before I
continue, I was a registered Republican until 2018, when I became a registered
Libertarian. To paraphrase the Great
Ronald Reagan, I did not leave the Republican Party, it left me. Anyway, I
have always voted for the person, not the Party candidate. For
example, I voted for Ed Koch for Mayor of New York, Daniel
Patrick Moynihan for US Senator, Bill Clinton for President in his
second term. I am also voting for Senator
Monica Martinez, a NY State Senator, who works for all the people in her district, even those of us who are not in her
Party. I have always felt that the person who did something that merited my vote, would get my vote, which
is my right.
To continue, I felt
that Mr. Biden, while a Democrat, said things and had done things in the
Senate that merited my vote. I had voted for Ronald Reagan twice, and I still
feel he is one of my two favorite and best Presidents in my lifetime, the other
being John F. Kennedy. Biden, at that time, seemed like the best candidate the Democrats could offer,
as I did not Like Vice President Bush. In addition, I knew that while he was
Reagan’s VP, I felt he would not follow in Reagan’s footsteps, should he be
elected.
Biden, who was a moderate Blue Dog Democrat,
seemed like the best alternative to Bush the Democrats could offer.
When they nominated Dukakis, I had no choice but to vote for Bush.
Fast forward to 2007 and 2008. Biden decides to run again, and his opponents were Hillary and Obama.
In my view, Biden, the moderate, was the
best candidate, for me, that the Democrats could offer. So, when the
Democrats nominated Obama, I could not
vote for the Obama-Biden ticket, even though I liked Biden. So, while I
voted for Mitt Romney in the NY Republican primary, I voted for John McCain
against Obama. And in 2012, I voted for Romney.
Now here we are in 2020, and a much holder, by 33 years,
Joe Biden is the presumptive nominee for the Democrats. But this is not the quirky, amusing, thoughtful Joe
Biden from 1987. This is the angry, forgetful (at best), hijacked Biden who is being used by the Democrat Party
as a placeholder until the nomination, or the election.
Sadly, he is not
being protected by his wife or his children. This is a man who is suffering
from some form of dementia or Alzheimer’s.
It is sad that his legacy will be that he was a sick, old man, who fought to achieve
something he would not remember because he was used, misused and abused
by a party who left him in the dust and did not give a $#!+ about him. For this, Mrs. Biden and his children should be
ashamed of themselves. But they aren’t because they don’t give a $#!+
either, or they were bought off. Either way, they are a disgrace.
There are other negative things people say about Biden,
but I prefer to attribute these things
to the fact that he is not well. He was always
a Democrat; he was always a man I would
have loved to have had a beer with; he was always a likeable guy.
And, I still like
him.
