I watched the Democrat's debate and I have to admit that I really like to police chases on TV. It's live TV and you just don't know how things are really going to end up. Will the perpetrator get apprehended, 75% of the time he, or she, will. Will the perp crash and burn, 20% they do. Or will the bad guy vacate the vehicle and tryout for the LA County track team. Another 7% or will I just nod off. I like to watch UFC fighting. These knuckle heads just stand there and beat the crap out of each other. I'm a peaceable man like some movie cowboy used to say but I will watch some other guy take a lickin'. Being I don't have cable TV out here in this quiet little fishing village, I don't get to see it too often. I also like to watch live comedy on TV. Back in the day Saturday Night Live was the bomb.
The reason I bring these factors up is the debates have all of the above and more. The socialists, Bernie and Elisabeth Warren, started out bashing the millionaire in the White House. Then they realized they had a billionaire right on the same stage with them. That's when the dam burst. It was like watching an Italian family brouhaha. There was blood everywhere. Bloomberg became the local pinata. I'll admit I did empathize with Joe Biden. The poor guy was also getting it from all sides.
My in house political maven maintains that although Bernie is building up a cozy lead but he is scaring the crap out of the DNC. The machine knows beating Trump in November is going to be an impossibility and if the Socialist gets the nomination, they won't stand a chance.
She figures that although Bloomberg won't get enough votes to secure the nomination, neither will Bernie. This will throw the Democratic convention into a street fight. I remember the last time that the convention had a big fight for the nomination was 1952. I was a wee laddie of ten years old so I sort of remember it on TV. We didn't have a TV then, but we didn't need one. The neighbors on both sides had their sound turned up full blast. It was a three, or four, day endeavor. It was kind of the same situation. The smart money was betting on Eisenhower beating whoever became the Dem's nominee. More deals were made in those few days then in the last two years in congress. The winner, or loser depending on your point of view, was Adlai Stevenson. It was like watching Mohamed Ali taking on Helen Keller in the ring. As, I' sure you already know, Ike handily won and became president.
The French like to say that the more things change, the more they stay the same. So 1956 was like a rerun of Ike verses Adlai and Ike, once again, beat the poor schlumpf.
If history repeats itself, we're going to see four more years of The Donald.
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