The Good, Bad and Joe Biden

Well, that was interesting. Two nights, 20 people in Miami and we saw just how far, 495 days out, we have to go until one of these people (hopefully) takes out Hideous Orange.

Over the course of the two nights, the six women (and a few of the men) came across as viable. Even Marianne Williamson, who was mostly invisible last night, managed to get in the best zinger of the night when she took the rest of the podium to task.

“(I)f you think we’re gonna beat Donald Trump by just having all these plans, you’ve got another thing coming.”

It took her 27 minutes to say that, but it basically put everyone else on stage on notice: If you’re going to run against the King of Mar-A-Lago, you can’t run on policy alone, you have to appeal to base emotion, something the scam artist-in-chief has done his entire life.

Ms. Williamson won’t ever be president. But if she makes this group look more empathetic to those voters who can’t stand Trump but think voting for a Democratic candidate is a one-way-ticket to hell, then she’s done her job.

Joe Biden, the front runner, got schooled by Kamala Harris. In a heated, personal, painful exchange, Harris recounted how she and her sister were bused in the late 1970’s in Berkeley, California and how a then-Senator Biden voted against Federal intervention in busing cases, even though Courts had ruled in such cases that it was needed.