OK people, I’ve had enough. Please stop it.
I am worried too! We need Joe to step up — I have faith that he can but know it is a tough job and needle to thread. Joe has been an incredible President and now needs to find a way to be great candidate — within his clear limitations.
But, we need to give him time to do this. The continued public rendering of garments does not help, push Joe to understand he needs to change or leave the race (the Biden campaign has got the message). It’s Joe’s decision (he holds all the cards). Stop talking, pushing fantasies (like the Whitmer, candidate X ticket). Right now, these public musings are only doing one thing — helping the Trump campaign.
Do you think the NYT Editorial, Ezra Klein’s musings or Lloyd Doggett’s speech are going to materially move the President? He has all the motivation he needs. No, they — and the continued public worry fest — are only serving the purpose of driving traffic and providing support to the Trump campaign by extending the story and providing great material for the ads they will run.
We face an incredibly well funded, dirty, increasingly competent, unethical and awful opponent who is actively feeding and pushing this media frenzy. We do not have time to have an earnest — “OMG…what do we do?” — conversation in public anymore.
If you want to beat Trump, shut it down. Give Biden time to respond. If he screws up again, or things get worse (like the polls really crashing), we’ll have no choice but to make a change however more public agonizing at this point — is only ensuring that you are helping to turn off donations, volunteers and burning days and time we can’t afford to lose. If you really want to beat Trump, get behind the candidate we have now.
We do not have time for this. We have a very real fascist threat on the doorstep (after the ruling on Monday). Let’s get it together, back Joe as long as he’s our nominee and go win this thing.