Subject: Re: Biden’s easy road to the nomination - The Washington Post
From: "Alexander S. Mackler" <[email-masked]>
To: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 20:42:11 -0400

I'm tired of her thinking anyone is buying her goading him into the race.
She's a nutbag who only happens to hate Hillary more than she hates JRB.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Eric Schwerin <[email-masked]
> wrote:

> Never trust a conservative on this but....
>
>
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2015/08/19/bidens-easy-road-to-the-nomination/
>
> Biden’s easy road to the nomination
> Vice President Joe Biden shares a hug with President Obama after Obama
> eulogized Biden’s son, Beau Biden, during his funeral in Wilmington, Del.,
> in June. (Pool photo by William Bretzger/The Wilmington News-Journal via
> Associated Press)
>
> Vice President Joe Biden is not yet running for president. Nevertheless, the
> latest CNN poll
> <http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2015/images/08/18/rel8b.-.democrats.2016.pdf>
> has him at 14 percent and Hillary Clinton at 47 percent. The 43 percent
> not-Clinton vote (Biden’s 14 percent plus 29 percent for Sen. Bernie
> Sanders) nearly equals her support.
>
> It stands to reason that if Biden got into the race, he’d peel off both
> Clinton voters (who are in despair but know Sanders is unelectable) and
> Sanders voters (who want a non-corrupt, working-class champion who is
> electable). Without running a single ad, he would likely jump into second
> place.
>
> From there it is simple. He lets the GOP, the media and the FBI work their
> will on Clinton. As a member of the executive branch, he can refuse to
> answer any question about her legal difficulties. Instead, he runs a
> blue-collar-friendly race, stressing his own Scranton, Pa., roots and
> reminding voters that he was the one fighting for gay rights and gun
> control in this administration. (All that has the benefit of being true.)
>
> Moreover, Biden emphasizes Clinton’s rotten political skills and
> unelectability by doing what she is incapable of — wading into crowds,
> holding town halls, talking to any reporter he can find, doing the Sunday
> shows and — most important — going all in to win one of the two early
> states, most likely New Hampshire. He can shake every hand, visit every
> diner and sit in every living room, lavishing early-state voters with
> attention, something they cannot resist. Sanders’ out-of-state mega-rallies
> are impressive, but it’s not clear that will get him results on caucus
> night in Iowa in February. Biden knows that and knows nearly every
> Democratic official who matters in every state. (He has run for VP twice
> and run on his own for president twice — in 1988 and 2008.)
>
> Biden has two silent endorsements. First, he plays on the president’s
> obvious affection and respect for him, which is palpable. Second, there is
> Beau Biden. We now know Beau wanted his father to run for office. It may be
> too emotionally grueling and even off-putting for Biden to invoke his
> deceased son, but Jill Biden, a tremendous political asset in her own
> right, can do it. Moreover, the country saw Biden through new eyes in the
> aftermath of Beau’s death — heroic, brave, gracious, stalwart. It is that
> image of the reluctant public servant tested by personal tragedy that is
> most compelling. In a way Hillary Clinton can never do, Biden can connect
> emotionally with voters — more than ever in the aftermath of his son’s
> death.
>
> Let’s face it: Hillary Clinton is in a precarious position. One more FBI
> revelation or a strong shove from Biden may send her over the precipice.
> Let’s see whether Biden fully grasps that and is fully prepared to take her
> on. If he does, he’ll earn the eternal thanks of his party (and the media,
> which will have someone entertaining to cover) — and the respect of the
> country at large.
>
>
> Eric D. Schwerin
> [email-masked]
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>

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