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Many Americans were not alive and most others scarcely remember when President Richard Milhous Nixon resigned as the 37th President of the United States on August 9, 1974. He made no confessions of “high crimes and misdemeanors” with which the House Judiciary Committee charged him over Watergate in its bill of impeachment. But he left office after two years of divisive public debate over the Watergate scandal when he concluded that he no longer had “a strong enough political base in the Congress” to make it possible for him to complete his term of office.
Certainly, many of the Democrats wanted his head, but what seemed to seal his fate was when some of his staunchest supporters suggested that he should resign. After meeting with the then Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Pa.), the House Minority Leader John J. Rhodes (R-Ariz.), and Sen. Barry M. Goldwater (R-Ariz.), he made his decision and helped to prepare soon-to-be-President Gerald Ford.
As potential legal problems for President Joe Biden grow and further evidence of his mental decline become more evident, the support for the president is at an all time low. The media can cover for him by refusing to report the information coming out of the House investigations, and the Democratic party can continue to claim that there is no evidence of his wrongdoing. But the cost of letting his demise stretch out into the key 2024 campaign risks them losing the presidency and both houses of Congress.
What will get President Biden to resign? He may be forced to leave office if key Democratic supporters in Washington communicate a lack of support. It’s not farfetched for them to come to that conclusion. This close to the 2024 elections, the Democrats cannot afford a protracted impeachment and damaging testimony from a steady stream of whistleblowers who point to his family’s corruption and party coverups.
Yes, there is an obvious problem with any such decision by Democrats. Kamala Harris is no Gerald Ford. In fact, recent NBC News polling indicates that Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged as the least popular vice president in American history. With only 32% of registered voters expressing a positive view of her performance, the poll indicates a distinct negative view of Harris. A whopping 49% of the respondents voiced a negative view with a significant 39% of this group expressed a ‘very negative’ view of her tenure in office.
Yes, a wounded Biden may be a problem in 2024, but an unpopular Kamala Harris may be just as bad for the Democrats. They could decide to make her win the job through a revived primary gauntlet. But unfortunately, such a battle could further hurt a party responsible for four years of rampant illegal immigration, crippling inflation, and unpopular environmental restrictions ending our country’s energy independence.
Biden won in 2020 not because people wanted him; he won because far more hated Trump and wanted him out. Now, the Biden/Harris team has had a record Democrats will have to defend, and it will not be easy to do so. Either Biden or Harris would have problems in 2024. Even if many who voted for Biden refuse to vote Republican, all it would take to ensure a loss is for a lot of past Biden voters to just stay home.
As it stands, the 2024 election is the GOP’s race to lose. The Democrats have an unpopular president and vice president in office. Many of their signature “accomplishments” are far from popular. Crime is up. School performance is down. Voters are primed for a Contract with America that will help right the ship. Republicans want all candidates running to agree to support whatever candidate wins the nomination in order to participate in the coming debates. Not all are sure they can. Maybe it’s time to change our priorities.
We have been too focused on the right candidate and not enough focused on what we want any candidate to champion once in office. It’s time to come together on a Contract with America all Republican candidates can endorse.
Find out what unites the party as a focus for 2024, and then require support for those priorities to participate in the debates. It’s time supporters realize that the person chosen may not be as important as what they can accomplish through the team they bring in and the coattails they have in securing control of both the Senate and the House.
No president will ever be perfect. We have certainly done a great job of proving that. But then again, none of us are perfect either. It’s time to rally around a Contract with America that will provide a vision most voting Americans can get behind.
Phil D says
A Harris “administration” will expose and confirm once and for all that this country is run completely by Deep State operatives, and that elections mean nothing.
Beez says
BO is the head of the Deep State oligarchy in the U.S. a gay racist and atheist but sometime Muslim who detests America.
VietVetInOhio says
2020 was the same. No way Joe Biden won- it was all by illegal ballot harvesting, late night runs of the same ballots through machines over and over, 3AM deliveries of unmarked ballots to Detroit. Wake up, America!!
commonsense says
Paulson: “Biden won in 2020 not because people wanted him; he won because far more hated Trump and wanted him out.”
No. Biden “won” because of massive election fraud. In his recent book, “Final Battle,” David Horowitz notes that in Georgia, for example, Biden supposedly received just under 12,000 more votes than did Trump. But Trump and his legal team claimed that illegal ballots had been cast by or in the name of a) more than 2,500 felons, b) 66,247 underage voters, c) 2,423 unregistered voters, d) 4,926 individuals who had failed to register prior to the state’s voter registration deadline, e) 395 individuals who voted in Georgia and one additional state, f) 40,279 people who had moved across county lines in Georgia without re-registering in their new county of residence, g) 30,000 to 40,000 people whose absentee ballots lacked a valid, verifiable signature, h) 30,311 voters who had moved out of state and thus were no longer eligible to vote in Georgia, and i) 10,315 people who were dead.
And that was just Georgia.
Bob says
Let’s not forget the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story
SPURWING PLOVER says
The Deference between Biden and Harris id very small indeed
Ugly Sid says
Biden “won” because of a corrupted election process.
News junkies anticipated resignation over blatant corruption before the Inauguration.
The network that placed a professional criminal specializing in government corruption in our White House remains in place!
Phil Hartmark says
Biden “won”? I expect more from purported conservative scribblers.
Ugly Sid says
Biden won the Presidency the way pickpockets win billfolds.
Eeyore says
I’m not sure whether Terry Paulson is a spokesman for Ronna McDaniels or Mitch McConnell. Either way, no sale. Put up someone I can stomach, or I sit it out. And I know I’m not alone. I will note that either DeSantis or Trump will do. But no more Romneys or McCains.
And everyone should stop telling us “what Republicans want”. You don’t know that. You’re just selling the same loser-certified garbage that was used against Reagan. The GOPe tries very hard to claim they were united behind him, but I was there. They only (partly) played along when his success made it impossible to do otherwise. Until then, he was “divisive”. So was Gingrich, so was Trump.
Success will not come from milk and water politics.
aristotle cam says
Terry, you sound like a very nice guy. But, your Golly, Gosh guys we really gotta do something lacks any real
Zing. The opposition is gushing blood from every orifice on their body! Most of our Republican leaders are-like you
Terry-completely feckless. Republicans like McCarthy and Jordan are(our leaders?) and wave their arms and write letters. Dems, mainstream media, major news are all plotting to steal 2024. This is why Trump gets thousands of
citizens to his Rallies. He knows how to crush the enemy!
K.F.Smith says
The “Golly, Gee, Gosh” of the republican party gave us McCain, Romney, Dole, and the Bushes.
This wing of the republican party probably consists of several closet Marxists who have purposely driven the party to the edge of the cliff.
DC says
Biden won because of obvious voter fraud. NOT because he was hated more then Biden.
Frommer Bischkva says
You read it here first:
1. Kamala goes first. For any number of fake reasons: health, to spend more time with her family, etc.
2. “Biden” “nominates” either GAVIN NEWSOM or MICHELLE OBAMA as VP
3. The FBI and every federal agency under the sun releases everything on Biden
4. Biden resigns, and either MO or GN become president
5. Our new “president” picks some other asshole to be VP
6. A new pandemic, war, or act of “domestic terrorism” right before the 2024 election, so a repeat of the 2020 fake election
7. We’re FUCKED
Robert Hagedorn says
If the media supported Biden honestly, his support would be less than 30%. This is a very mild statement and not unprecedented. Truman left office under 30%, primarily because of MacArthur. But if 1952 had had 2023’s media, his support would have been over 40%, he may have run for reelection, and may have defeated Eisenhower.
Justin Swingle says
Joe will cash out after he pardons Hunter.
George Soros and Obama will continue to run the show with Kamala filling in to make it look good. We don’t want to get the people worked up thinking the Constitution has been again shredded.
They’ll resurrect Michelle, clean up her ranting racism and position her to be the next sovereign as the billionaire class finishes off America in the name of saving us.
Backgammon says
Michelle and Obama couldn’t be bothered with the actual work of being President. The Peons can suffer their way through whatever we decide they can take. They prefer the behind the scenes while yachting or jetting around with people with real money!
Don’t you know!
Walter Sieruk says
Considering everything about that horrible Biden/Harris team the only semi-“good” thing about Joe Biden is that he might not be as horrendously dangerous as Kamala Harris.
The justified fear is that is this goes even further and Kamala Harris , in time, takes the place of Joe Biden in the Office of the United States President, things in America would not go from “Bad to worse” but entirely skip the word “worse” because things the US would then go from bad to the very worst possible. With Kamala Harris, sitting in the Office of the Presidency it would be a complete and total catastrophe for America.
To explain this in another way, as to compare Joe Biden with and to Vladimir Lenin and then compare Kamala Harris with and to Joseph Stalin.
Of course, Lenin was much more intelligent than Biden .Nevertheless it’s not as terrible to have the feeble-minded socialist, Lenin type character, Biden sitting in the powerful Office of Presidency in Washington DC than have that rude, obnoxious abrasive callous Communist, Stalin type character, Kamala Harris sitting in the powerful Office of the Presidency in Washington DC.
The damage that Kamala Harris would do to America to be so complete that the harm that she would inflict on the United States would be irreversible.
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Still, it’s wise to remember that “The lesser of two evils is still evil.”
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden is terrible, but he resigns from Office as the predicament stand now Kamala Harris when then become the next President of the United States, the result of that total catastrophic for America.
The damage and harm that she would do to the United states be so severe that it would most probably be irreversible. As Abraham Lincoln had said, “You can’t unscramble eggs.”
To put this in another way , if VP Harris, by any means, “by hook or by crook,” actually does become the next US President then I’m glad that I’m no longer a young man and I’m also very sorry for the children of this country.
Jim says
If people hate Trump, it might be because of the endless stream of misrepresentations and slander issuing from the mainstream media, leftist universities and entertainment industry. People whose heads have been filled with lies and distortions are not in a good position to choose a good president.
John Reese says
Will biden resign? What you really mean will obama remove him….when it is convenient to pick his replacement.
I’m afraid we might as well forget Trump, Desantis, etc. Our elections haven’t been fixed. The Deep State Washington Sewer is in charge.
What we are seeing in America today is not normal…..the corruption is so much more than we’ve ever had.
Walter Sieruk says
Considering everything about that horrible Biden/Harris team the only semi-“good” thing about Joe Biden is that he might not be as horrendously dangerous as Kamala Harris.
The justified fear is that is this goes even further and Kamala Harris , in time, takes the place of Joe Biden in the Office of the United States President, things in America would not go from “Bad to worse” but entirely skip the word “worse” because things the US would then go from bad to the very worst possible. With Kamala Harris, sitting in the Office of the Presidency it would be a complete and total catastrophe for America.
To explain this in another way, as to compare Joe Biden with and to Vladimir Lenin and then compare Kamala Harris with and to Joseph Stalin.
Of course, Lenin was much more intelligent than Biden .Nevertheless it’s not as terrible to have the feeble-minded socialist, Lenin type character, Biden sitting in the powerful Office of Presidency in Washington DC than have that rude, obnoxious abrasive callous Communist, Stalin type character, Kamala Harris sitting in the powerful Office of the Presidency in Washington DC.
The damage that Kamala Harris would do to America to be so complete that the harm that she would inflict on the United States would be irreversible.
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Still, it’s wise to remember that “The lesser of two evils is still evil.”
Walter
Ted says
Good try. Trump is the only sure way to victory. The election was stolen and will be again. Get your head out of the sand. Elections are over. You are 10 years behind the times.
David Cashion says
“81 million votes, my ass”
David Cashion says
Moochell is the one in the wings.
Nan says
I’m seriously wondering whether Joe Biden is even still alive. There are so many pictures of him with altered features that it’s hard to know whether he’s got doubles and triples.
staffsgt7 says
poor Obama – who will he pick next? Kamala Harris – the braying donkey?! Or Newsom? I would be he is not easily controlled but would do many of the things to take our country downward like Obama wants.
K.F.Smith says
1. Biden didn’t win the election. Even Fox was in on the scam. To paraphrase, Hell hath no fury as a deep state scorned. All these judges who refused to act, they were probably in on it. Look at Pennsylvania.
2. Trump had to go. The fact that the deep state scum resorted to such tactics to unseat Trump shows just how good of a president he really was. He was a mortal threat to the criminal enterprise known as Washington D.C.
3. It appears we’ve seen the last of honest elections in America. Unless we are prepared for serious battle with these criminals, our country has entered a period of darkness.
4. As for Nixon, communists hold a grudge, forever. They were going to get him for what he did to Alger Hiss, and did. Watergate was probably a democrat operation.
RS says
This is actually Mr. Obama’s third term. Biden is very easily controlled to do whatever hes told, his mental and physical health is on the steady decline. Most believe the big plan is to drag Gavin Newsom in as Vice President to replace Kamala Harris, and and then eventually be elected or put in place as President.
Laura says
I doubt that the people who are behind the puppet will let him resign. Harris is an idiot, but she will be worse because she can at least function unaided and can get around more.
Jim says
Biden won because the Democrats used every dirty trick they could dream up to get him elected. It was not simply people wanted him. They were deceived about him by campaign propaganda and promises. They changed election laws, they manipulated ballot boxes. Sometimes they added fake ballots. They kept Joe out of sight so it was harder to see him in person. They hid his real character behind fake biographies and promises. They slandered Trump for four lonjg years and prosecuted and impeached him in every way. It will have to do the same this time to win again. But it is harder to keep people in the dark about Joe, because so much information is being revealed about his corruption and lies and bad policies.