Where are the surrogates? Where is the energy? Where is the DNC?

The Republican Party went deep into the rings of hell to develop Project 2025, or whatever it’s called, to inspire its base, map out its future and scare the bejeezus out of the liberal left. They basically admit they want to convert the United States into a fascio-christian dictatorship that will gain power in the November election and hold onto it until the end of time.

Then they allowed pieces of it to seep into the so-called mainstream media which – although they would deny it – is still so consumed by ratings that it is treating Donald Trump as a semi-normal presidential candidate instead of the felonious and highly disturbed narcissistic madman he really is.

Now, after rolling out an 81-year-old man with a bad cold and laryngitis to debate the loud, obnoxious reality show star hopped up on Adderall and pathologically incapable of telling the truth, the Democrats seem willing to throw in the towel more than four months before the general election.

All I can say to that is WTAF?

It’s June, ladies and gentlemen. We don’t vote until November. There are 130 days between now and Election Day. Instead of weeping and moaning about poor Joe’s subpar performance in one presidential debate, the Democratic Party needs to get up off its ass and start a serious campaign for the office. It’s way past time they got started, but they need to do it today.  

Where is THEIR plan for 2025? Has anyone seen it? Or read it? Or heard about it? What does it say?

Where are the surrogates to help support President Biden in key states around the country? Where are the Obamas? Kamala? Cory Booker? Gavin Newsom? The Clintons? Bernie? Schumer? Buttigieg? Schiff? Beto? Klobuchar? I could go on and on. Where are these people and what are they doing to help?

And where is the frigging energy? The party is acting like they were the first team to be eliminated from The Amazing Race.

For the record, I hate Donald Trump with the force of a thousand suns. One of my last wishes as an old man is to live longer than he does so I will know when he’s unalive. But I will give him credit for one thing: He can conjure up plenty of energy when he wants to insult or bully an opponent, and that energy was on display last night. He hasn’t forgotten how to play the role of the reality show mogul who pretended to be the world’s greatest businessman while firing lesser humans who crossed his path.

And he has learned how to speak to his followers during a debate. Other than accepting credit for a massive tax cut and the defeat of Roe v. Wade, I don’t think anything he said was the truth, but he planted a lot of spurious seeds into some weaker minds … and that’s all he needed to do.

So back to the Democrat Party. I used to be a Democrat but changed my registration to Independent when it became obvious they had become too timid, too hesitant, too reluctant and too nice to get the big things done, even when they controlled both houses of Congress and the White House. (I still vote with them, but I don’t want to be known as one.)

Now, however, they even seem reluctant to get behind their chosen candidate and fight for victory in the most important presidential election of our lives.

So no, it is not time to ask Joe Biden to step down. No, it is not time to find another candidate who would be starting over from Square One. No, it is not time to cut and run or hide under the blanket of retreat.

Yes, it’s time to pull out all the stops and band together to support Joe Biden for these last 130 days until November 5. Yes, he’s 81 and he can’t do it all by himself. And yes, the party needs to step out of the shadows and into the sunlight where it can be seen by the voters who count.

Otherwise, we’ll be left with the unthinkable, and I’m trying not to think about that.