Joe Biden is mentally and physically incapable of executing his duties as president. It’s worse than the mental trip-ups and the pervasive garbled phrases that sound like English. The man took two vacations amid the worst natural disaster to strike the country in nearly a century: the Maui wildfires.
To most voters, age and frailty come to mind regarding Joe Biden, which isn’t good. Couple that with the president’s failed “Bidenomics” pitch on the economy and the legal baggage that’s piling up from the bribery allegations, and you can see why his poll numbers are in the cesspool, but Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is sadly making attacking Biden’s age and competency more difficult.
McConnell has done some atrocious things, but also a lot of good as leader of the Senate Republicans. He’s arguably the best legislative tactician we have, but, like many of his colleagues on the Hill on both parties, he’s lost more than a step.
The Senate GOP leader had a fall at Reagan National Airport before he froze at the podium in July during a Hill presser. McConnell was escorted away and later said he was feeling fine. But in Covington, Kentucky, the aging Republican leader suffered another senior moment, staring into space for at least 30 seconds. It also couldn’t come at a worse time: he was asked about re-election and couldn’t respond.
One medical episode could have slid past the media, but two within less than three months. You know the media will have this ready for any Republican who comments about Biden’s age, health, and fitness to be president. The only other person besieged by similar health problems is Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who recovered from a bout of shingles earlier this year, which left her with partial facial paralysis, a complication from the virus. She, too, has been facing calls to resign, as her inability to do her job has clogged the judicial nomination pipeline.
So, does this matter? When has it, especially when it comes to maintaining power? The most shameless was the 2017 blackface scandal in Virginia, where then-Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring admitted to blackening their faces. Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax was engulfed in a scandal where he was accused of raping two women. Democrats knew all three of these clowns had to go but refused since if all three resigned, a Republican would assume the governorship.
If the liberal media wants to call out the GOP for hypocrisy for protecting McConnell and attacking Biden over age and health, let them. The Democrats are just as guilty concerning shielding Biden but wanting to toss Feinstein off a cliff. And that is a window into the upcoming presidential election, folks. The moral high ground is underwater. It’ll all be a months-long duel between Biden and Trump in the gutter, where nothing will be off limits.
This election will be where the candidate who bloodies the other first wins. You don’t care whether something makes you look hypocritical when trying to beat the other guy into a coma.
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BONUS: Democrats also defend Fetterman, who has never recovered from a stroke and was hospitalized weeks after he was sworn in the Senate.
