Biggest Takeaways from This Week’s Democrat Debates

Before the two nights of Democrat candidates debating were finished, President Trump made the correct call on the overall winner: It’s “Sleepy Joe” Biden. The debate final results were President Trump 2, with Joe Biden coming in a distant second on the second debate.

President Trump wasn’t on the stage, but he was living rent-free in the candidates’ heads and with CNN’s disreputable “moderator,” Don Lemon.

There are some interesting, though not surprising, takeaways from both debates:

On the first night, Bernie Sanders the irascible socialist and “Her Stridency,” Elizabeth Warren dominated the debate. The rest just jockeyed for position as possible vice-presidential nominees or moderate surrogates for Joe Biden, who fear that the party is lurching left over a cliff.

John Hickenlooper encapsulated the moderates’ arguments best. The former Colorado governor pointed out that of the 40 flipped seats that the Democrats won during the mid-terms, hardly any of those winners followed the philosophy of Sanders and Warren.

Warren’s response: “You know, I don’t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for.”

Again, the main takeaway for the first night’s debate was this: Donald Trump won. The Democrats, without any help from the President, gave the overall impression of a giant amoeba. They have two pseudopods on their left—Sanders and Warren–and the party is dividing.

That divide may leave the center to fend for itself trying to protect its mid-term gains against Republican sound bites demonstrating that Democrats want everyone’s private health care insurance and more tax money.

Finally, Sanders and Warren avoided attacking each other. Could those two be planning to pair up in 2020, with Bernie, now 77, as a one-term president, succeeded by Warren? Or with Warren as President and Sanders as her VP?

The second night was mostly about Joe Biden. It was obvious that everyone knew that Biden was well ahead in the polling. They tried ganging up on him, but Biden defended himself well. He had a good command of the issues, and demonstrated experience beyond the callow idealism of his left-leaning ankle biters.

Biden deftly managed to shield his record with his ex-boss’s stature. Likewise, in his vengeance against Kamala Harris, Biden had backup. Gulf War Vet Tulsi Gabbard came after Kamala Harris with both barrels. Gabbard pointed out Harris’ poor record in defending accused rights in California. Harris, she charged, withheld exculpatory evidence from prisoners on death row.

There were some memorable moments from fringe candidates on both nights:

On the first night, while his fellow Democrats were arguing that illegal entry to the U.S. should be decriminalized, and that the whole problem was about mistreatment of children, Representative Time Ryan (D-Ohio) suggested that people who want to come in “should at least ring the doorbell.”

Then there was New Age whack-job Marianne Williamson, who had her moment in the sun. “This wonkiness,” she complained, cannot combat “this dark psychic force of the collectivized hatred that this president is bring up in this country.”

One reporter joked, “Next debate: ‘Show of hands, who pledges on this stage to be against dark psychic forces.’”

On the second night, viewers couldn’t help but “feel the burn” as Bernie Sanders threw up his arms, leaned forward and scowled when talking about his socialist vision of free stuff for everyone. Hickenlooper had a bit of fun mimicking Bernie’s arm toss, saying, “I can do that, too!”

During both nights CNN host Don Lemon was the Democrat red meat carrier. He tossed softball questions to candidates so they could hit home runs. For example, he asked Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, “… what do you say to those Trump voters who prioritize the economy over the president’s bigotry?”

Also, a significant takeaway was what didn’t show up in the first debate, and only once in the second: questions about the failed Mueller hearings. CNN spent thousands of hours of airtime over the past two and a half years trying to nail President Trump on Russian collusion. The only question in both debates was yet another softball to Corey Booker in the context of “Should Trump be impeached?” Booker’s answer was a predictable “yes.”

Finally, the prominent theme of both nights of debate was that too many Americans are suffering and have been left behind in an unprecedented growing economy. Trump, according to Sanders, is a pathological liar, a racist, and a homophobe. The only evidence cited throughout all that dark and gloomy invective is “because we say so.”

Are you going to believe the Democrats or the evidence of your lying eyes?


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