I'm used to disappointment. I'll handle this one, too.

[DFW]

I really had hoped Joe Biden would tough this one out. Apparently there were factors at work of which I wasn't aware (probably still am not). Fair enough, I'm not part of the Biden inner circle, so there is no reason I should have been.

I still have not forgiven any Democratic Senator who urged Al Franken to resign and have not apologized to him. Kamala Harris is a charter member of that "elite" circle. But OK, there are much bigger fish to fry, and we are the ones who get fried if the Republican ticket wins the White House. Well, let me rephrase that: takes the White House. They won't win it, but if there is any Democrat still out there who thinks they will accept losing a fairly held election without cheating, I want some of what you're smoking, and I don't even smoke.

I have no clue who the VP pick will be. If the Harris campaign is smart, they will keep everyone guessing for a while, so as not to give the Republicans time to prepare their lies and propaganda in advance. I have one friend among the ones supposedly "under consideration." He has not said a word to me, and nor should he. If he has been informed that he is being vetted (entirely possible), he will not take my calls or answer my emails. Either that, or he will tell me, but ask me to STFU, which I will. I kept quiet for five years about how I knew before anyone else that Joe Biden was Obama's pick for VP. Two people might have (and should have!) gotten in trouble otherwise.

I have my own favorite "logical pick (Gretchen Whitmer)," but whoever the VP pick is, this is (my feeling, not my fact-based opinion), once again our race to lose. The Republicans know it, too. If you now hear them screaming that Biden needs to resign the presidency immediately, that Harris has no right to the Biden-Harris campaign money--make no mistake about it, people, it means that they are terrified. If they thought they had this, all you would be hearing from them right about now would be a big yawn and a loud "so what?" Is there anybody out there who has heard that from nationally quoted Republicans or Fox Noise? I didn't think so.

I was disappointed that Joe Biden was not going to have a second term. I don't think I'll be disappointed about the outcome of the presidential election--not now.