Fightin' Joe? Uh huh

New Hampshire winters expose the weakest

Joe Biden has a debate tonight, and PJ Media’s Rick Moran has the fight card

Joe Biden sits in a New Hampshire hotel plotting his comeback. Or maybe writing his concession speech. Whatever he's doing he's not campaigning. Five days before the most important election of his life -- the New Hampshire primary -- and Joe Biden held no town halls, gave no speeches, made no appearances of any kind.

Another poor showing on Tuesday and the "electability" argument, that's really all he has going for him, will vanish. Word is that he's mapping out a strategy to help him survive until South Carolina -- his supposed "firewall." But realistically, New Hampshire is Biden's Alamo and anything less than a third-place finish there would be catastrophic.

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But it's a mirage. The Democratic Party -- the world itself -- has passed Biden by. His politics, his personality belong in another time, another political era.

…. It's too bad that "gut punch" didn't wake Biden up to the fact that he's not making history, he is history. Joe Biden was a congressman, a senator, and the vice president of the United States. But despite those lofty accomplishments, he has not been a consequential figure. He hasn't been a leading voice in any of the historic arguments in Congress. His name graces no monumental legislation.

He has largely been a non-entity over the last 40 years. It's why he generates no enthusiasm -- at least, on the scale of a Sanders or Warren. And his supporters are just beginning to see that … there's no "there, there" with Biden. His economic message -- such as it is -- is a wish list of organized labor legislation. He has bowed to the progressive majority and now makes noises that sound more friendly to the ears of radicals, but fall far short of the transformative rhetoric of Sanders or Warren.

To mount a comeback, Biden is going to have to take a page from the Book of Trump and start speaking truth to socialist power. He's going to have to savage Warren and Sanders as candidates who will drag the Democratic Party down to inglorious defeat. He's going to have to go after Pete Buttigieg as anti-black and too inexperienced.

I dunno. Seems to me that even if Joe threatens to punch Bolshevik Bernie in the nose or invites Chief Betsy to arm wrestle behind a New Hampshire barn, he’ll (a) probably lose and (b) incur the wrath of the Childrens’ Cruscade, and gain nothing. I think the man’s toast.