By DEXTER DUGGAN
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s unexpected vote-winning surge on Super Tuesday raised some embarrassing, although possibly unlikely, questions for Catholics.
If Biden were to go on to be elected president in 2020, while Democrats maintained their majority in the House of Representatives, two of the top elected positions in the U.S. government would be held by radically pro-abortion bad Catholics — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), who is second in line of succession to the presidency, as well as Biden.
And if Biden happened to have chosen a bad Catholic to be his vice president, it’d be a Democrat bad Catholic trifecta.
What a deep, miserable shame — not that red-handed pro-abortion bad Catholics already in politics don’t shame practicing Catholics every day anyway.
Moreover, the head of the judicial branch, Chief Justice John Roberts, an appointee of weakly pro-life GOP President George W. Bush, also is Catholic, although not a pro-abortionist. However, Roberts isn’t assumed to be deeply pro-life in the way that Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an appointee of corrupt Dem President Bill Clinton, is known to be pro-abortion.
By the way, nationally known law professor Jonathan Turley noted at The Hill political site on March 3 that Roberts’ stand is uncertain on the Louisiana abortion case argued before the High Court on March 4, June Medical Services v. Russo. The case is about allowing medical safety for women, and abortionists’ questionable standing to sue for others, which should be easy to decide under a rule of law.
But any challenge to any aspect of dirty permissive abortion is treated by dominant media pro-abortion propagandists as, if you’ll pardon the term, the death knell for abortion. And Roberts has shown that he prefers not to make dominant media angry.
Meanwhile, Biden’s comeback on Super Tuesday, March 3, suggested there are weeks of political battle ahead for the Democratic presidential nomination, with belligerent socialist foe Bernie Sanders unlikely to step aside for a man, Biden, he views as a corrupt agent of the establishment.
But even if Sanders were to surrender soon, what of his zealous backers, who, as in his 2016 race, view Sanders as being unfairly drubbed by insider manipulators?
And when many surprised media members said the night of March 3 that Biden had just made a “stunning” political comeback, weren’t these the same big voices that were shocked in 2016 when “loser” Donald Trump defeated supposedly invincible Hillary Clinton for the presidency?
As the libertarian Reason magazine’s website observed the night of March 3, “As Super Tuesday finally transfigures the Democratic presidential nomination process into a binary choice between two old, occasionally problematic white men whose enduring popularity is consistently underrated by a baffled mainstream press, it’s worth reflecting on just how poorly the media’s preferred candidates performed in the 2020 race.”
National conservative commentator Quin Hillyer told The Wanderer on March 4 that Biden gets some credit, but he still has a bad record.
Hillyer said: “The Democratic voters saved their own party by giving a big boost to Joe Biden, a patriot and an institutionalist, ahead of the dangerous socialist, Bernie Sanders. On the other hand, it shows how far left the Democrats have traveled to think that the very liberal Joe Biden is now considered, relatively speaking, a ‘moderate.’
“Biden is nothing of the sort,” Hillyer said. “He is a strong proponent of radically legalized abortion policies, and an adversary, in terms of public policy if not personal practice, of traditional values across the spectrum. What a shame.”
Even if Biden sometimes seems like an amiable old goof, count on it that policy-making in his administration would be carried out by fierce warriors on behalf of the Dem Culture of Death, Planned Parenthood and ACLU radicals whose priority is choking off you and me.
As to the extent Democratic leaders have exiled practicing Catholics, the liberal Jesuit Thomas Reese noted in his March 3 opinion column for Religion News Service: “Most Democratic candidates make little effort to speak about abortion in a way that would encourage anti-abortion voters to join them.
“Obviously, the Democrats would never support making abortion illegal,” Reese added in his column that was carried in the liberal National Catholic Reporter. “Most candidates have committed themselves to public funding of abortion in some form.”
His column was headlined, “Catholic voters ignored by Democrats at their own peril.”
It’s worth remembering that a few decades ago, pro-life Democrats were all over the place in the U.S. House of Representatives. If Dems have put themselves into peril today, they can thank their own ostracizing policies.
On the campaign trail, Biden’s truculence against ordinary citizens shows the danger of intemperance for a man in his high position, such as recently attacking as “liars” audience members who dared question him, including a mild-mannered female college student who Biden weirdly insulted as a “lying dog-faced pony soldier.”
And who could forget Biden saying in 2018 that he’d take Donald Trump “behind the gym and beat the hell out of him,” despite Biden today being lauded for his supposed civility. Biden, known for his own unwanted advances toward women, including sniffing their hair, was puffing out his chest against Trump’s own past lewd incidents.
Conservative GOP political consultant Constantin Querard told The Wanderer on March 4 this was an example of Biden being a phony.
“Biden is prone to talk tough from time to time, but it’s almost like a character for the stage that he’s putting on and taking off,” Querard said. “No one takes him seriously when he talks about punching anyone. He does seem to be in a genuine mental fog at times, and that is bound to be an issue in the race, particularly as the campaign hours and stresses grow.”
Querard added: “I’m watching (Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth) Warren to see if she is really committed to her progressive beliefs, in which case she gets out and endorses Bernie Sanders, or if the formerly far more conservative former Republican Elizabeth Warren doesn’t actually believe in what she says she does, and she stays in or gets out without endorsing anyone.”
The desperation of the establishmentarian wing of the Dem Party was shown when its leaders quickly coalesced behind the increasingly senile-seeming, befuddled Biden despite the ton of stinky baggage he carries, including the possibility that he wouldn’t be able to complete his first term.
The vice-presidential nominee he chooses this summer would, therefore, succeed him soon as president, and that, ahem, personal choice would become all the more consequential.
Former abortion clinic manager and now pro-life leader Abby Johnson tweeted: “It’s gonna be a long eight months with Biden. I can’t even joke or laugh about his blunders anymore. They are a painful reminder that he is not well. The fact that everyone in the Democratic Party is willing to sweep that under the rug is shameful.”
Just about everyone suffers a slip of the tongue, but Biden’s gaffes or worse betray a person whose mind appears actually to be living in the past sometimes, as aging minds are known to do.
When he recently referred to the president of China as Deng Xiaoping, Biden was naming a Chinese dictator who died back in 1997. When Biden recently referred to his current race for the U.S. Senate, maybe his mind had slipped back at least 11 years, when he ceased to hold that position in January 2009.
He recently said his late son, Beau, had been attorney general of the United States, but he was attorney general of the family’s home state, Delaware. Beau died of brain cancer in 2015.
And what could Biden possibly have been thinking when he said in February that 150 million Americans had been killed in gun violence since 2007? That’s nearly half of the population of this entire nation eliminated in less than 15 recent years by gunfire. That’s not some random error.
Moreover, Biden invented tales to make himself seem better to voting segments, such as claiming for the South Carolina Democratic primary that he had been arrested in South Africa in the 1970s while trying to see imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
Biden must have known that he’d be caught in this lie, but he said it anyway.
And are people supposed to forget Biden and son Hunter’s shady dealings with the Ukrainian power company Burisma while Biden was Obama’s vice president?
A Small World After All
We know that the presidential administration of incapacitated Woodrow Wilson was run by others, and to a lesser extent ailing Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s. But if we need someone else to run goofy Joe Biden’s presidency, why not just vote directly for that person instead of electing Biden then letting puppet-masters control his reign?
To say that Biden could be dangerous in higher office now isn’t hyperbole.
By the way, we hear all this Democrat and dominant media urgency about the importance of obtaining good health care, but we were told 10 whole years ago that Obama and his Democratic Congress had provided that answer with Obamacare. Yet to watch the never-ending circus now, you’d almost think people couldn’t even buy aspirin these days.
Maybe, because he’s a liberal Democrat after all, Biden figures he can get away with about anything on the national scene, like Dem presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton had destroyed tens of thousands of specifically subpoenaed emails but didn’t face punishment.
Meanwhile, no less than the president of the United States recently was sternly rebuked through no less than impeachment for, um, diaphanous bad acts. But, after all, he was, and is, a rather conservative Republican.
At least Biden’s campaign had the basic sense on March 3 to arch an eyebrow at the proffered grimy endorsement of ethically challenged former FBI director James Comey, who said Biden “will restore decency, dignity” to the presidency. Comey was the official who decided to close the email case against Hillary in 2016 without recommending charges.
Sometimes it seems it’s a small world after all.
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