“The best path forward for the
electoral college is to throw support behind a candidate whom a
number of Trump-pledged electors can support: Vice President Joe
Biden. As the sitting
vice president, Mr. Biden is ready to immediately become president.
And he is respected by both the right and left as a great statesman.”
– Adam Copley, Pleasantville,
PA, published on December 14, 2016
For
the holidays, have The Washington Times opinion editors entered “The
Twilight Zone”? (Do they think they actually work for The
Washington Post?) As it isn't April Fool's Day, what else
explains why liberal fascism is granted precious space in their scant
Letters section? Given
that The Times is supposedly the “conservative” Washington
newspaper, the above
absurdity
is one for the ages. So, American elections shouldn’t count? The
people's choice of President-elect Donald
Trump shouldn’t really matter? The Electoral College should go
rogue, subvert the 2016 election by elevating laughingstock Joe
Biden to the presidency?
Let's
sample the words and behavior of this “great statesman”. An
obtuse gaffe machine with a habit of skinny
dipping outside of the vice president's residences in Delaware
and Washington (in front of understandably red-faced female Secret
Service agents). When clothed, he says J-O-B-S is a three-letter
word. He once described candidate Obama as “the first mainstream
African-American who is articulate and bright and clean”.
But wait, the comic relief gets richer. Mr. Biden's unknowing off
the cuff remark that his boss “has a big stick” is another real
gem. He's only “presidential material” to those lost
souls desperately in need of psychological intervention.
Moreover, Joe
Biden's political instincts are similarly disastrous. Domestically,
as senator, he crafted the federal three-strikes
legislation (copied by states like California) that's filled
America's prisons to
bursting with non-violent offenders. As vice president, he
supported the economic
fiasco that is ObamaCare.
Not to be outdone internationally, he was against the decision to go
after terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. He couldn't even arrange a
simple Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) in Iraq, leaving a
demilitarized zone ISIS moved into. Mr. Biden can't govern his brain
or his mouth—let alone lead America. Therefore, one questions the
boneheaded editorial decision to promote such an unworthy buffoon as
president.
The
Washington Times should not pander to progressives or otherwise
parrot the MSM's anti-Trump
propaganda. That means ending the practice of promoting
liberals' screwball
notions in their Letters
section. Doing so wrongly alienates their loyal readership. More
importantly, The Washington Times mistakenly hobbles the conservative
viewpoint it's supposed to champion. Ironically, opinion editors
need to read their own publication. Specifically, they should look
to same-day column entitled “The mad search for pro-Trump
columnists” by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. Within, Mr. Tyrrell
highlights this systemic problem: the legacy media's overt
liberal bias disregards the potent ideas that have fueled Donald
Trump's populist
revolution within the Republican Party.
In retrospect,
it's no wonder why it took The Washington Times 33 years—and 1
billion dollars in losses—to reach
profitability for the first time in September of 2015. Around
the same time, the powers that be condensed the Commentary section.
The Letters to the Editor section was halved to the meager size of a
postcard. Suddenly, an unimportant daily “book review” was made
visually central (given a full column on the other half of the page).
As this feature often seems more like an advertisement, it has no
business being there. (One presumes the redesign was done for
economic reasons. Given their history in the red, it's
understandable.) In any case, the problem lies with careless
Washington Times opinion editors. They consistently act like their
Post counterparts by filling Letter space with anti-Republican
claptrap.
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