No. of Recommendations: 3
I have supported good Republican Presidential candidates in the past, including Ronald Reagan and the late great John McCain. However,
Many of us were once conservative, and labels don't mean that much, most thinkers are an eclectic bunch. But just from analyzing this group,we have WTH, Commonone, and Albaby - and Albaby has been a great source for knowledge about how politics works well in advance of the event here.
Albaby told us the worst outcome was Biden staying on, we would lose the Presidency and down ballot if Biden stayed. Losing down ballot as they become dragged down with Biden. The best outcome was Biden throwing to Harris and Harris becoming the nominee. We stood a good chance of keeping the down ballot and having some effect (counter balancing)as the power to impeach is one way - not very effective though. We do this before the Convention. Harris is legitimate in every state as she primaried with Biden, so good protection against lawsuits.
The last way was an open convention with free-for-alls (My description) for a couple of weeks until we choose a nominee. Chaos, with an attempt at unity at the end of the convention. We tarnish some of the players as they get tarred with knocking off Biden.
So with Biden throwing to Harris we now can unite behind Harris earlier than the convention and we need to buttress our down ballot.
But I do agree with Commonone that Trump is more of a wild card than we want in the opposition - we know he will bend DOJ to have investigations of people he doesn't like (revenge), he will more likely spy on folks, deportation shows will be ongoing - it will be interesting to see how the courts handle this, and we are likely to see new methods tried for monetizing being the President.
Odd bit of trivia - we had other countries shipping us their "suspicious" Japanese during WW2- we got a bunch from Peru, etc., . When the war was over, we shipped them to Japan. These Peruvian Japanese were not welcome in recovering Japan. Our history with internment camps is not good.
