Dear Joe…Biden

Dear Joe,

For most of your career you’ve been forced to swim upstream, but soon you may find yourself under water. Based on your recent talk in Dover, I know you are very close to entering the presidential race, but before you finalize your decision, I thought I’d reach out to you with some straight talk and frank advice.

Let’s first look at the positives. Of the dozen or so candidates already in the presidential race, you, without announcing yet, lead the pack.

When you do announce (intentionally), know your competition. They’re all way further left than you or even your former boss Barack. It’s amusing to watch them already backtracking on their socialist views.

Take Beto O’Rourke – you know that known computer hacker who was never brought to justice for his crimes. Even he realizes how outrageous the New Green Deal is, stating that he’s in fact a capitalist. But knowing what a pejorative term that is, he’s advocating radically changing this economic system because it’s, of course, racist.

Sooner or later all the candidates will come to this conclusion in order to snag a greater chunk of votes. They will all try to sell this hybrid capitalist-socialist creature as long as they say they will rid it of their favorite label – racism. Corey, Kamala and most of the others will adopt this neutral position until in their multicultural splendor, they all look the same and sound the same.

Then there’s Bernie. He has captivated the collegiate indoctrinated millennials and nearly beat out the apparent heir to the presidential throne, Hillary Clinton.

Bernie is offering everything from health care to education totally free, debt-strapped products of identity politics – millennials – are rushing to his cause. Nevertheless, you lead ol’ Bernie at least in Iowa where it all begins.

Here’s my fear. Politico and other rags are already labeling you as being too old. And they may be right. Just look at what’s happened to your party. A 29-year-old bartender has hijacked it. In fact, she is but a puppet who auditioned for the role of New York’s 14^th district representative. She is one of a slate of candidates that the so-called Justice Democrats tried to put in office. They succeeded with six, some of the most vocal and controversial in Congress today. And the strings of those radical vocal chords are all pulled by an un-elected cabal of left wing groups, including the Justice Democrats, Brand New Congress and others. Their stated goal is to recruit raw but charismatic candidates who need a lot of help to run, but who can promote a far left agenda quite effectively. In 2020 they want to run a 100 such provocative candidates.

Joe, if you’re lucky enough to get the win this time, you’ve got a lot of work to do. You don’t want to find yourself in a corner like your opponent Donald Trump, who can’t control his party. Don’t expect the likes of Ocasio-Cortez, the anti-Semites from Michigan and Minnesota, and several others to fall into your line. I know you can do better with this than Nancy Pelosi. She gets sideswiped aplenty these days. You remember her. She believes walls other than the one around her house are immoral, and rarely reads the legislation she votes for. Nonetheless, she’s finding it hard to ride the Congressional donkeys now turned bucking broncos.

Here are just a few target areas you should consider:

• Continue working on those nagging foibles. You know the right wing media will be all over you once you announce. And unlike their left counterparts who say all kinds of crazy things about your opponent Trump, they won’t lie.
• Stop calling half of America “the dregs of society.” I appreciate your candor, but “deplorables” didn’t work for HRC and your fine-tuning of her term won’t help you either.
• Take a basic course in writing. Nothing fancy, but you have to stop plagiarizing everybody. It helped you graduate from law school but you’ve done it ever since, even claiming words of the great Bobby Kennedy as your own.
• Watch what you say. Your gaffes are legendary and many will come back to hurt you. Racism is a big theme of your party so don’t repeat such things as “You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.” Or “They want to put you back in chains.”
• Learn to spell. J O B S is a four-letter word, not three.
• Remember President Roosevelt didn’t go on TV and comment on the stock market crash.
• Barack’s last name is Obama, not America.  I know you admire the man to a fault, but don’t follow in his footsteps by bad mouthing our country abroad and apologizing to folks who need no apology.
• Whatever you do, don’t refuse to debate with FOX News moderators. Sure, they will ask tougher questions which you won’t be able to get beforehand, but the alternative may be to take the president behind the gym and beat him senseless. You don’t want to go there again: besides you’ll need to muster all the energy you can to match his pace on the campaign trail.

Let me leave you as we began, on a positive note. By 2020 I’m convinced the Democrats will find a way to rig the Electoral College and let vote the thousands of immigrants they are fighting hard to have flood this country illegally. Forget the headlines that you will be the Hillary of 2020. The media only says that because they are pushing hard for Beto at this time.

Hope this helps Joe. Now go save the party from going over the brink. That, of course, assumes the party actually wants to be saved.

All the best,

Bob Taft