22 July—Have you ever seen Kamala Harris looking so happy? Well, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Kamala probably has been sticking pins in a Joe Biden voodoo doll since 2020 and finally she has results. The seal, by the way, is actually the Vice President’s with the Vice part strategically cropped out.

In all events, it looks like Joe Biden has let down the side once again, the side on this occasion being ultra-mature people. Okay, senior citizens (and senior undocumented migrants, as Joe and other Democrats prefer to call illegal immigrants), geriatrics, golden-agers, old-age pensioners, wrinklies, old farts. Call us what you will as long as you feed us, don’t abuse us, and change our diapers.

Don’t forget that Donald Trump also is a wrinkly old fart, much as he tries to hide it with makeup and bluster.

After unyielding and increasing pressure put on the poor old incumbent president by fellow Democrat pols thinking only of themselves, as usual, Joe Biden couldn’t take it any longer and mercifully pulled out of this year’s presidential race. He must be very relieved, truth be told, now that he doesn’t have to worry about campaigning or otherwise embarrassing himself in public.

Nice guy that he doubtless is, Joe Biden has been a party hack all through his overly long, safely undistinguished political career. And that’s reflected especially in one line of his de rigueur drop-out announcement: “I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down.”

Here it is again: “I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down.” Let’s parse “my party and the country.” First, Joe puts his party before his country. But wait a minute. It’s not even his country, it’s only the country. But it’s his party.

Shame on Joe Biden. Is his Freudian slip showing? Well, it’s likely that one of the old hack’s young hacks actually wrote the announcement, so we’ll give old Joe the benefit of a doubt. Or not.

So President Joe Biden, the weak but stubborn old quitter, naturally endorsed his faithful and equally unpopular Vice President Kamala Harris to run in his place. Because realistically he had no choice.

Donald Trump’s nasty young attack prick/running mate, J.D. Vance, (as if Trump has ever needed an attack prick) opined, “If Joe Biden ends his reelection campaign, how can he justify remaining President? Not running for reelection would be a clear admission that President Trump was right all along about Biden not being mentally fit enough to serve as Commander-in-Chief. There is no middle ground.”

Not that Trump is mentally (or intellectually) fit to serve as anything but a convict, to be sure, but the young prick may have a point, if only tangential to Biden’s actual fitness for office. There’s the 25^th Amendment to consider, especially Section 4. But let’s not. Rather, let’s consider practical politics.

Incumbents often—but not always, mind you, as we’ve seen with Ford, Carter, Bush 41, and Trump himself—have an advantage in presidential and other elections. So if Joe were to resign, Kamala would become the incumbent, thus giving her a boost, however slight. And the laudable object of this presidential election is to keep Trump out of the White House, whatever it takes.

Moreover, since Kamala Harris would be an incumbent with no record to hold against her—she’s only been a vice president and what harm can she do in three months, after all?—Joe Biden, who’s effectively a lame duck, should seriously consider resigning forthwith.

For our country . . .