We cats have a soft spot for Joe Biden. Just that — a soft spot. We believe he was a terrific Vice President for Barack Obama, and with the exception of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, he was a good US Senator.
He was never our first choice when he ran for President earlier, but we would have been more than okay with voting for him if he'd won the Democratic nomination. We were pleased when Obama picked him as his running mate in 2008.
And today there's no doubt in our minds that he's running for President again. Even before analyses like this came out, we were completely convinced when, on Election Night 2017, he called Virginia Delegate-elect Danica Roem to congratulate her on becoming the first transgender member of the state legislature. A former Vice President doesn't do that unless he wants to line up his Democratic ducks in an important primary-season state like the Old Dominion.
Despite smart moves like that, we're not sure that Biden understands the obstacles he would face in a 2020 run. We've seen way too many tweets from women who swear they'll never vote for him because of what happened to Anita Hill. And there's a real hunger in the Democratic for new young leadership — how else do you explain the phenomenon that is Beto O'Rourke?
So Joe needs to think about a couple of things. One is that he'd better get Professor Hill to endorse him — in fact, not just endorse him, but appear with him at a media event and stand next to him and swear that everything is okay now and she thinks he'd be the greatest President ever. The other is that he should pledge to only serve one term, and announce his pick for VP right away. And that pick had better be a woman. Just our two cents. In the meantime, we cats welcome the New Year, and we PURR.
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