Days after Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race, Newsmax still wasn’t done beating on him:
- Rep. James Comer to Newsmax: Biden ‘Slapped Democracy’ in Face
- Sen. Tommy Tuberville to Newsmax: Biden Owes Apology, Not Rhetoric
Larry Bell screeched in a July 24 column:
First, I want to be very clear about an age matter that gets a bit personal.
President Joe Biden didn’t finally get pressured to end his reelection bid primarily because he became old and doddering, but rather, because it became publicly apparent that he is selfishly irresponsible about being a great danger to our nation and the world.
I’m five years older than he is; nevertheless, I expect to have the good judgement to give up my car keys before I endanger fellow passengers and those in other vehicles — or should I fail to do so, my concerned family must pry them out of my cold, stiff fingers.
With keys to the Oval Office and fingers on the nuclear button, President Biden poses far greater safety threats as leader of our nation and the free world.
Prevalent media gaslighting talking-point attributions of Joe’s forced retirement to age-related cognitive and physical infirmities forget or intentionally ignore the facts: Throughout his long political career, he was never a brilliant, honest, accomplished, or ethical leader worthy of rising to a level anywhere near America’s highest office.
Quite the opposite.
[…]So, no, the largest issue isn’t that Joe Biden has recently been discovered to be chronically confused and dishonest.
Rather it is that this has been known for a very long time.
Nevertheless, Joe Biden received media press passes as arguably the most protected politician in modern American history, which got him elected anyway.
Jeferson Weaver got conspiratorial about Biden in a July 30 column:
But Biden’s decision to suspend his campaign was not enough for many detractors who argued that he should resign the presidency immediately, due to his cognitive limitations.
- So what if the same shadowy power brokers that forced Biden to end his pursuit of a second term also wanted to force him to resign from office in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris?
- What sorts of incentives or threats could they bring to bear to force Biden to quit the presidency?
First, they could resume their effort to badger Joe Biden into resigning by having everyone who is anyone in the Democratic Party constellation try to push, urge, demand or convince Biden to vacate the office for the good of the country.
Unfortunately for them, Biden’s reported fury at being forced out of the race would make it very easy for him to ignore these pleas for him to act for the good of the party.
Moreover, Dr. Jill Biden (perhaps the nation’s co-president), who is seemingly her husband’s most influential adviser, appears to enjoy the trappings of power and would not want to leave the White House before the end of his term.
Weaver suggested a weird sort of bribe to get Biden to leave the White House:
Perhaps the simplest way to convince Joe Biden to leave office now would be for the party to put together a very generous retirement package consisting of:
1.) at least $50 million in cash, 2.) a massive slush fund to build a presidential library at least twice the size of the Obama library with a Jill Biden wing and a gift shop featuring such items as original Hunter Biden finger paintings and leather-bound copies of Dr. Jill’s doctoral dissertation, and 3.) multi-million dollar annuities for all of the Biden family members (including all the grandchildren — however many there may be).
Joe and Jill might welcome the opportunity to kick back and enjoy a less stressful, donor-funded lifestyle.
Indeed, there might be more than enough money for Joe and Jill to build a full-scale model of the White House that they could continue to occupy for the rest of their lives as “America’s Forever First Couple.”
Despite his fervent desire to get Biden out, Weaver claimed that Kamala Harris ascending to the presidency “would represent the first sign of the Apocalypse.”