Walter Mondale
Michael Dukakis
Bob Dole
John Kerry
Mitt Romney
Hillary Clinton
Joe Biden

These are the establishment “it’s their turn” candidates who were not VP during election and were nominated by a major party in my life.

(W could be an exception, but asterisked because of Supreme Court election stealing fuckery)

Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
Donald Trump

These are the nominees who the party establishments did not see coming. Though the party bosses didn’t back them at first, they brought popular support.

No one can win just by hating the other guy. You have to have passion. No matter how bad we hated Bush, his people loved him. And no one was more than “meh” for Kerry. Even so, I made hundreds of calls. The election was my birthday. My worst birthday.

And W was bad. So bad. Only now is Trump becoming as bad as Bush was in actuality and not just in possibility. But like Star Wars or some shit: You can’t win with hate alone. It takes a little love to get you over.

The Republicans did the same with Romney. They hated Obama so badly. But Romney stirred no passion in anyone but half-dead party bosses.

There are a million reasons to dislike and distrust Biden. He would be be far better than Trump—so would my dog—but one of the biggest is the fact that he can’t win this race. He and the Biden Boomers will give us a second Trump term.

And they are so arrogant they will, again, blame anyone but themselves. I would love to be wrong—I’d far rather fight Biden than Trump in 2021—but hating the other guy can’t win elections.

But hey, it may not matter after the Supreme Court ruling on Wisconsin. Trump might flat-out steal the election. And I’m sure, as in 2000, and with Iraq and nearly everything else, the Democratic Establishment will simply fold.

We suck.