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George Logan, who lost a campaign against present 5th District U.S. Representative Jahana Hayes in 2018 by a slender 1% of the vote, is once again challenging Hayes.
Republicans, who have not won a seat in the present all-Democrat U.S. Congressional Delegation since former U.S. Representative Chris Shays surrendered his seat to Jim Himes in the 2008 election, are hopeful that Logan may be able this November to snatch the seat from Hayes’ tightly clenched jaws.
The Democrat Party appears to be somewhat in disarray. President Joe Biden, after much pressure had been applied to him by leaders in the Democrat Party, recently announced he was shelving his presidential campaign. Supporters of President Biden, judged by leading Democrats unfit to run for a second term in office, have been discreetly silent on a series of important questions.
If Biden is not fit to run for a second term as president – not, it has been supposed, because of his advanced age, but rather because of evident mental deficiencies -- why then is he fit to hold the office of the presidency until he leaves his post in January 2025, having completed a single term?
Democrats have been loud in aspersing Biden with praise now that he has become a presidential byword.
Republicans in Connecticut insist that national Democrat office holders who regard themselves as watchtowers of small “d” democracy have slipped in blood. Democrats throughout the Biden presidency have insisted, even after an awakening debate with Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump, that Biden was perfectly competent to hold the presidency for a second term.
Very late in the game, they changed their collective minds – after it had become apparent that polls showing Trump beating Biden substantially were not figments of the diseased imagination of Trump. Then too, money, the mothers’ milk of politics, was drying up. Attacks upon Biden’s deficient policies by a solipsistic Trump were succeeding in drawing votes from tradition Democrat constituent groups.
At this point, a party putsch was hastily arranged, and Biden was persuaded to give up his ambition for a second term. The tousle between Biden and Democrat Party bosses such as former Speaker of the U.S. House and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was a long and agonizing political soap opera.
Democrats went on to praise Biden’s selflessness and his magnificently productive first term in office. The glittering effusions of Junior U.S. Senator of Connecticut Chris Murphy are typical.
A recent report in the Hartford Courant, “Ticket change driving energy, enthusiasm,” tells us that Democrats in Connecticut have “turned the page” following Biden’s decision to throw in the towel. The reporter pointed out to Murphy that “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,” the Democrats post-putsch designated hitter, “espouse essentially the same policy positions on major issues.” Was a renewed sense of enthusiasm enough to change a substantial number of votes in the upcoming election?
Swing voters, Murphy answered, may turn the trick. “I don’t think there is any doubt that enthusiasm for Kamala Harris is going to be much higher than enthusiasm for Joe Biden after the debate… That’s the reality. You’re going to see a lot more Democrats, a lot more women, a lot more people of color turning out for Kamala Harris.”
Maybe, but Murphy’s view of the future is full of caveats.
There are very few differences between Harris and Biden in matters of policy. Indeed, vice presidents have always – and for good reason – been perceived as presidential shadows. There has been no space between Biden and Harris in policy matters.
It was for this reason that President Franklin Roosevelt’s first Vice President, the irrepressible John Nance Garner of Texas, when asked his opinion of the office of Vice President, chortled “It isn’t worth a bucket of warm spit.” Actually, Garner had mentioned another warm body emission – not spit.
In matters of policy, foreign and domestic, Vice President Kamala Harris’ record in office shows that for three and a half years she was Biden, minus the disqualifying infirmities.
All this means that if Hayes will enthusiastically support a President Kamala Harris, she must defend the Harris-Biden foreign and domestic policy prescriptions – because they are one and the same. Indeed Hayes’ votes in the U.S. House show a point by point alignment with the Biden-Harris policy measures.
Republican presidential nominee Trump may or may not be able to draw the public’s attention to failed Biden-Harris policy issues. Trump has in the past tended to focus more than necessary on personal issues, and he has been encouraged to do so by failed attempts, politically and judicially, on his personal weaknesses.
Logan is not Trump, though he has not shied from defending Trump against unjust attacks launched by angry, envious and intemperate Democrats. He is fully prepared to confront the Biden-Harris-Hayes record on policy issues, and to question whether a small “d” democrat Praetorian Guard responsible for Biden’s ouster as a presidential candidate is not being dramatically disingenuous when it claims to “defend democracy” by depriving 14 million Democrat primary voters in a putsch arranged by post-primary party bosses.
