BREAKING NEWS: Amy Klobuchar QUITS presidential race the day before Super Tuesday and says she will endorse Joe Biden

UK Daily Mail  "Amy Klobuchar quit the presidential race Monday - and will throw her endorsement behind Joe Biden.
"The Minnesota senator quit on the eve of Super Tuesday, making her the third to leave the race in 36 hours, following billionaire Tom Steyer and former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg.
"She is the first of the three to indicate that she will endorse a rival. 

"This is a developing story, check back for updates "

Joe Biden, The Comeback Geezer

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Joe Biden, The Comeback Geezer  . . . "But no matter what happens on Super Tuesday, Democrats seeking to oust President Donald Trump in November who are happy about Saturday are celebrating a Pyrrhic – or maybe more accurately geriatric – victory.
"Buttigieg’s campaign is telling reporters that he departed the race for the sake of party unity and the need to settle on a nominee who will win a little more than eight months from now. The subtext, however, is to stop the far-left Sanders from leading the entire Democratic slate on a kamikaze mission while there remains time to do so.
In last week’s CBS debate, Buttigieg warned, “we’re not going to win these critical, critical House and Senate races if people in those races have to explain why the nominee of the Democratic Party is telling people to look at the bright side of the Castro regime.”
"The continued candidacy of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who finished behind even the fourth-place Buttigieg in the Palmetto State on Saturday, also helps in the anti-Sanders mission since her votes would almost all belong to the Vermont socialist were she to drop out." . . .  Stumbles Or Senility?

Trump’s laugh line at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday that “Joe’s not going to be running the government” is actually a realistic and grave concern that will be fully fleshed out by the Trump campaign if Biden wins the nomination. A Democrat president in 2021 and beyond who is fatigued and strained by age, and possibly dementia, will be dominated and manipulated by whoever is around him, in this case the increasingly dominant and aggressive left of the party.

77-Year-Old Joe Biden Now The Youngest Man Left In The Democratic Primary
. . . "Of the men remaining on the Democratic side, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are both 78, although Bloomberg’s birthday was last month and Sanders will turn 79 in September." . . .  Ocasio-Cortez Attacks Biden’s Age


Biden on Trump Calling Coronavirus a Hoax: ‘Has He No Shame?’  "Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden attacked President Donald Trump’s administration for its response to the coronavirus outbreak on Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “State of the Union.' ” . . .

Biden's strength is his sincerity and the intensity of his convictions. Joe can fake that better than anybody.

Chris Wallace challenges Joe Biden on campaign gaffes – at end Biden makes a fool of himself

Biden Says He ‘Became A Professor’ After Leaving White House — Made $775,000, Never Taught A Class

Think Trump is ‘outrageous?’ He’s nothing compared to these past presidents

NY Post   "Unprecedented, unprecedented. Everything is unprecedented. Nothing like this has ever happened before.
"Except it pretty much has. Whenever you see the word “unprecedented” in the media, you should ask yourself: Has this reporter ever read a history book? Make the case against Trump if you want to, but if you pretend the sorts of things he does are without precedent, you simply make yourself look ignorant.
"Virtually any presidency you examine is guilty of far worse acts than whatever you think is the worst thing Trump has ever done, from John Adams’ Alien and Sedition Acts, a breathtaking offense against freedom that was meant to punish political resistance, to Millard Fillmore’s Fugitive Slave Act, which made it so the evil tentacles of the South’s slavery regime could reach up North and pluck back people who had successfully made it to freedom. Even Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and did nothing to stop his troops from shutting down newspapers they didn’t like.
"Think Trump is more vulgar than anyone who’s held the office before him? In 2016, when Marco Rubio once implied he had a small dingle-dongle, Trump responded, “I guarantee you there’s no problem” — and everyone got the vapors. But Lyndon B. Johnson actually liked to show off his Johnson, peeing in the open air outside the House Office Building. When reporters once asked Johnson why the US was in Vietnam, he pulled out his todger and exclaimed, “This is why!' ” . . .

Franklin D. Roosevelt threw 120,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans into prison camps during WWII.

Mayor ObaPete departs the scene

'Mayor' Pete Runs Out of Obama Speeches to Pilfer. Drops Out of Democratic President Race.

. . . By "suspending" his campaign there's more latitude in how to deal with campaign donations.
In South Carolina, Buttigieg came in behind billionaire Tom Steyer, who has also dropped out of the race.
Political Twitter urged the Democrat and veteran to get out. "Drop Out Pete" was trending on Twitter until news leaked, and then "Thank You, Pete" became a trending hashtag.

"The thank you's for Buttigieg were an endorsement of him getting out to make room for Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden. Many people thought a brokered convention was a very real possibility.

"Expect more dropouts as the March 3 Super Tuesday gauntlet gets closer."

This Fox video is a bit too CNN-ish for me, but gives an interesting comparison of Pete-Obama speeches: 

LEAKED AUDIO: Voicemail Details Mayor Pete’s Call to Joe Biden To Discuss “Our Plans” Hours Before Buttigieg Dropped Out Of Presidential Race

. . . "Barnett, reached Sunday night, told True Pundit that Buttigieg left a message for Biden on his voicemail asking the vice president to call him back to discuss Buttigieg’s “plans” for his campaign — about five hours before Mayor Pete announced he was dropping out of the presidential race late Sunday. Buttigieg had apparently called the wrong number." . . .

Democrats sing "My Corona"

Image by Dianny of Patriot Retort

Officials admit it: Trump saved lives and spared America from worst of coronavirus

"President Trump has been outrageously lied about by Democrats, who invented a claim that he called the illness a 'hoax,' and he's also been subject to assorted howls of 'chaos' and unreadiness and doing nothing-ness from other quarters of the pious left.

"Turns out none of this was true. Here's what is true, in Trump's own tweet:. . . "

If you think Democrats and the media are politicizing coronavirus, you’re right  "The media routinely call Trump divisive and controversial, forgetting that they are the ones stirring up the divisions and the controversy. Looked at objectively, Trump’s presidency is consistent with the American mainstream through Reagan. Indeed, even though some values have changed since Reagan’s time, Trump is still well within American norms. It's the media that's advocating for divisive and controversial policies, both at home and abroad.

"Mostly, the media’s name-calling has been merely irritating. After all, people who wish to do so have been able to separate the wheat from the chaff. The habit, however, went from irritating to dangerous with coronavirus’s appearance on the scene. From the first day, the media decided to use coronavirus as a way to destroy Trump’s reelection chances." . . .

The Morning Briefing: Coronavirus Is the New Y2K

Fact-Check: Obama Waited Until 'Millions' Infected and 1000 Dead in U.S. Before Declaring H1N1 Emergency   " 'Let's call it Trumpvirus," urged a New York Times opinion writer conspiratorially. Nancy Pelosi groused that President Trump waited too long to attack the coronavirus (COVID-19) and then impetuously declared he couldn't have leftover and unspent Ebola virus money to fight it, while Senator Chuck Schumer looked down his nose and over his glasses to intone that it was the end of the world and the president hadn't spent enough money to stop the scourge. Joe Biden and Michael Bloomberg have both been called out for politicizing the virus." . . .

2008: Biden and the Tale of Aldrich Ames

Seven of these "nine years" came after Biden had deliberately ignored Thurmond's warning about the importance of the Security and Terrorism Subcommittee. By the time Ames was doing serious damage to U.S. national security -- in addition to causing the murder of the ten sources cited by Clinton, Ames betrayed at least 100 American intelligence operations -- Biden had long since shut down precisely the tool Thurmond intended to discover spies like Ames.

Jeffrey Lord   "Can we talk judgment?

"In spite of a warning from his Republican predecessor, one of Senator Joseph Biden's first acts as the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1987 was to abolish the Committee's Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism. Biden's action came just as one of the most famous spies in American history had begun leaking secrets to the Soviet Union. The spy -- Soviet CIA mole Aldrich Ames -- went undiscovered for nine years, almost the entire period of Biden's chairmanship of the Committee. Biden relinquished his post after Republicans re-captured the Senate in 1994. Ames was finally arrested that year.

"The Subcommittee had been established by the GOP's South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond within a month of the Republican takeover of the Senate in the 1980 Reagan landslide. The election brought 12 new Republicans to the upper chamber, handing control of the Senate to the GOP for the first time in 26 years.

"On December 14, 1980, the New York Times featured Thurmond in an article spotlighting his new role as the incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Saying that Thurmond was "ready to take the offensive" after the GOP's decades in the minority, the very first major change the Times cited was Thurmond's decision to move on national security issues. "Just created," wrote concerned Timesman Tom Wicker, "is a subcommittee on 'Security and Terrorism' which has the obvious possibility of reincarnating the old Communist-hunting Internal Security subcommittee. Chairing it will be the ex-admiral, ex-POW and new Senator from Alabama Jeremiah Denton…"

"In a statement Thurmond brushed aside liberal concerns that the subcommittee would somehow bring Joe McCarthy back to life, warning "that if we don't know who the enemies of this country are then we're in real trouble." An aide to Denton, the ex-POW who had been held captive in North Vietnam along with John McCain, said that Denton "wants to get a better handle on the matter. He wants to talk to the FBI about what it sees as security dangers." As an added insult to liberals, Thurmond abolished a liberal favorite, or as Wicker described it, the "important Subcommittee on Anti-Trust and Monopoly." This jewel had been headed by Ohio's liberal Democrat Howard Metzenbaum and was scheduled to be run by a GOP liberal, Maryland's Charles Mathias. Thurmond, exercising his new power, simply abolished the subcommittee targeted at capitalists and replaced it with the new Security and Terrorism Subcommittee that would investigate Communists. This meant that the staff, research and investigative resources of the Senate Judiciary Committee could now be directed at various perceived threats to U.S. national security -- such as Soviet penetration of U.S. intelligence agencies." . . . More