NorvilleBarnes said:
I think we can all agree where this is heading. Either by 25th Amendment, resignation, or god forbid something worse, it's pretty clear we have President Harris on the near horizon.
Who should be her VP pick?
If the purpose is to help save our Republic and pick the one brand name Democrat still left who can operate to actual functional governance, then the only answer is Amy Klobuchar. She's a psychopath but she can run this country from an actual public policy perspective. She is, to my estimation, a very quiet warhawk, and that should be just enough to keep Putin and XI at bay for a while. Klobuchar absolutely positively will order a missile strike on anyone who breathes the wrong way.
If the purpose is for Kamala Harris' own self absorbed out of touch notion that she can actually win POTUS, the job then is to neutralize a future competitor. If she asks Gavin Newsom or Stacey Abrams, she positions the optics that those politicians are beneath her and must serve under her. Even if they turn her down ( which they will), the MSM will still have no choice to position both of them as refusing the call. This is an easy entry way to gut them in the press over and over again. David Axelrod can't control this kind of spin at that point. The problem is Harris has an incompetent media and coms staff. It would help the Identity Politics narrative if, as Ben Shapiro would put it - the "Ken Doll" archetype that Newsom brings - is seen as subservient to a minority woman in power.
As soon as the House GOP takes power, they will immediately impeach Biden. Which makes it close to impossible for him to resign. Resigning would be tantamount to an open admission of guilt. Even the MSM couldn't try to cover for that. What the GOP wants is Team Blue elected officials ON RECORD voting against impeaching Biden. By voting against it, they are rubber stamping Biden's horrible track record and appending it onto their own political jacket. If they vote for it, they are disloyal traitors and they will get railroaded by people asking why did they endorse him in the first place. If they don't vote at all, they look gutless.
Team Blue and the DNC are in a pretty horrible situation here. No one can force Biden to resign. No one can force him to not run again. And despite his lack of approval from most of America, he still has the entire office of POTUS behind him in any campaign. That's a tremendous leverage point in the primaries.
Media optics wise - down the ticket, strategically, every GOP candidate is going to look for photos and video of Biden and Harris standing and hobknobbing with their current Blue opponent. And then push that out as much as possible. Biden and Harris are toxic by association.
If it gets that far, as Abrams and Newsom will turn her down, then the most practical choice left is Buttigieg for political reasons. Again, it casts him in a submissive light, and it's an easy pathway to lay all the blame on him for the entire energy crisis. Mayor Pete might take it, knowing this, because it raises his national profile, and he could hope to distance himself away from the Biden regime for his own run ( unlikely and bad strategy, he's basically toast, he self destructed his entire political career track of moving into higher office, I have nothing against him personally, he's just really dumb at politics, you can get away with that at a lower level, but as you move up the food chain, those flaws start to stick out )
If Harris/Buttigieg emerges, then I'd say David Axelrod should run for his life. Because now they have every reason to neutralize him as a threat for their 2024 hopes. So Klobuchar is actually competent, plus she's a sadist, so she would understand that, if it got to this point, you have to purge all Obama loyalists out of the administration. Obama cut a deal with Pelosi, that's the only reason Axelrod put a pin on Newsom in the MSM. The larger issue here is Harris is an idiot, and Buttigieg is pretty dim, and they probably won't see the long con. But Axelrod shouldn't bet on stupid, he should just run.
Which hilariously might keep Susan Rice around for a bit longer. How she's survived politically this long is nothing short of amazing. If you stand in the middle of idiots while they massacre each other, sometimes you make it out in one piece because you are too dumb to take cover. Nothing would make this country a better place than all of Obama's former groupies getting punted out of power roles in real government. Good God did Obama totally destroy this country in such little time.
These people are all incompetent idiots. Everything they touch turns to ash and all their policies makes it easier for America's children to die.