Quickies: You Really Have To Wonder

     Liz Peek, who contends that the steadily deteriorating, scandal-ridden Joe Biden is an unacceptable presidential candidate the Democrats must somehow shove aside, thinks this is a real possibility:

     [Hillary] Clinton is the only VP candidate who would be able to pull off such a last-minute switch. She has the team, the resources and the experience to be the nominee; Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), former Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) do not.

     Clinton is ready and eager. She is desperate to avenge her 2016 loss (which she still blames on Putin) and has pumped up her public profile to keep herself in consideration. In past months she has conducted endless interviews, promoted the uber-flattering four-part Hulu film about herself, made headlines by attacking Bernie Sanders and Mark Zuckerberg, and fired unending broadsides against President Trump.

     Say what?

     Hillary is hideously polarizing, but she would be a more forceful nominee than Biden, has enormous name recognition and, perhaps most important, can begin and end a sentence without major detours. And, she has not been credibly accused of sexual assault.

     But Hillary has been deeply and screechily involved in defending her husband against well-substantiated allegations of sexual assault and sexual misbehavior. Gennifer Flowers. Paula Jones. Kathleen Willey. Juanita Broaderick. And of course, Monica Lewinsky. Is that the sort of candidate the Democrats want to replace the unacceptable Joe Biden?

     Add to this that Hillary’s health is suspect. The collapses, the seeming uncontrollable tics that approached convulsions, and the frequent protracted coughing were memorable indications that she’s not equal to the burdens of high office…if, considering her volcanic, uncontrolled temper, she ever was.

     More, Hillary is a two-time loser: once against Barack Obama, once against Donald Trump. The Democrats have not renominated a loser since 1956. That year, Adlai Stevenson was the only Democrat willing to run against the tremendously popular President Dwight Eisenhower. She’d be as much a sacrificial lamb as Walter Mondale was in 1984, so why not stick with Biden?

     Hillary is also incapable of coping with her own past, including such tidbits as the private email server, the scandals over her Haiti “charity,” and the outrageous Russian payments to her and her husband after the Uranium One deal. Worse, she’s spent the greater part of the past three and a half years explaining how her 2016 defeat was “not my fault” – and those efforts have not endeared her to the Democrats’ kingmakers.

     If I were a betting man, I’d put a bunch on the Biden replacement being anyone but Hillary Clinton.