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George Logan, who lost a campaign against present 5th District U.S. Representative Jahana Hayes in 2018 by a slender 1% of the vote, is once again challenging Hayes.
Republicans, who have not won a seat in the present
all-Democrat U.S. Congressional Delegation since former U.S. Representative Chris
Shays surrendered his seat to Jim Himes in the 2008 election, are hopeful that
Logan may be able this November to snatch the seat from Hayes’ tightly clenched
jaws.
The Democrat Party appears to be somewhat in disarray.
President Joe Biden, after much pressure had been applied to him by leaders in
the Democrat Party, recently announced he was shelving his presidential campaign.
Supporters of President Biden, judged by leading Democrats unfit to run for a
second term in office, have been discreetly silent on a series of important
questions.
If Biden is not fit to run for a second term as president –
not, it has been supposed, because of his advanced age, but rather because of evident
mental deficiencies -- why then is he fit to hold the office of the presidency
until he leaves his post in January 2025, having completed a single term?
Democrats have been loud in aspersing Biden with praise now
that he has become a presidential byword.
Republicans in Connecticut insist that national Democrat
office holders who regard themselves as watchtowers of small “d” democracy have
slipped in blood. Democrats throughout the Biden presidency have insisted, even
after an awakening debate with Republican Party presidential nominee Donald
Trump, that Biden was perfectly competent to hold the presidency for a second
term.
Very late in the game, they changed their collective minds –
after it had become apparent that polls showing Trump beating Biden
substantially were not figments of the diseased imagination of Trump. Then too,
money, the mothers’ milk of politics, was drying up. Attacks upon Biden’s
deficient policies by a solipsistic Trump were succeeding in drawing votes from
tradition Democrat constituent groups.
At this point, a party putsch was hastily arranged, and
Biden was persuaded to give up his ambition for a second term. The tousle
between Biden and Democrat Party bosses such as former Speaker of the U.S.
House and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was a long and agonizing political
soap opera.
Democrats went on to praise Biden’s selflessness and his magnificently
productive first term in office. The glittering effusions of Junior U.S.
Senator of Connecticut Chris Murphy are typical.
A recent report in the Hartford Courant, “Ticket change
driving energy, enthusiasm,” tells us that Democrats in Connecticut have
“turned the page” following Biden’s decision to throw in the towel. The
reporter pointed out to Murphy that “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,” the Democrats
post-putsch designated hitter, “espouse essentially the same policy positions
on major issues.” Was a renewed sense of enthusiasm enough to change a
substantial number of votes in the upcoming election?
Swing voters, Murphy answered, may turn the trick. “I don’t
think there is any doubt that enthusiasm for Kamala Harris is going to be much
higher than enthusiasm for Joe Biden after the debate… That’s the reality.
You’re going to see a lot more Democrats, a lot more women, a lot more people
of color turning out for Kamala Harris.”
Maybe, but Murphy’s view of the future is full of caveats.
There are very few differences between Harris and Biden in
matters of policy. Indeed, vice presidents have always – and for good reason –
been perceived as presidential shadows. There has been no space between Biden
and Harris in policy matters.
It was for this reason that President Franklin Roosevelt’s
first Vice President, the irrepressible John Nance Garner of Texas, when asked
his opinion of the office of Vice President, chortled “It isn’t worth a bucket
of warm spit.” Actually, Garner had mentioned another warm body emission – not spit.
In matters of policy, foreign and domestic, Vice President
Kamala Harris’ record in office shows that for three and a half years she was
Biden, minus the disqualifying infirmities.
All this means that if Hayes will enthusiastically support a
President Kamala Harris, she must defend the Harris-Biden foreign and domestic
policy prescriptions – because they are one and the same. Indeed Hayes’ votes
in the U.S. House show a point by point alignment with the Biden-Harris policy measures.
Republican presidential nominee Trump may or may not be able
to draw the public’s attention to failed Biden-Harris policy issues. Trump has
in the past tended to focus more than necessary on personal issues, and he has
been encouraged to do so by failed attempts, politically and judicially, on his
personal weaknesses.
Logan is not Trump, though he has not shied from defending
Trump against unjust attacks launched by angry, envious and intemperate
Democrats. He is fully prepared to confront the Biden-Harris-Hayes record on
policy issues, and to question whether a small “d” democrat Praetorian Guard
responsible for Biden’s ouster as a presidential candidate is not being dramatically
disingenuous when it claims to “defend democracy” by depriving 14 million
Democrat primary voters in a putsch arranged by post-primary party bosses.
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