The Democrats are doing everything to sully their chances of winning the 2020 election by pushing out every centrist in the running in favor of a far-left socialist radical agenda, and it’s glorious.
On the same day that CNN aired a focus group of just six people against former VP Joe Biden, the far-left Huffington Post published a scathing hit piece on him for being a Wall Street, big-money, abortion softie.
The article first attacks Biden’s image as “Middle-Class Joe” and his supposed working-class appeal, arguing that his career suggests otherwise.
“In more than four decades of public service, Biden has enthusiastically championed policies favored by financial elites, forging alliances with Wall Street and the political right to notch legislative victories that ran counter to the populist ideas that now animate his party,” the article declares. “If he declares for the presidency, Biden will face a Democratic electorate that has moved on from his brand of politics.”
HuffPost takes particular issue with Biden going up against Sen. Ted Kennedy by joining with Republicans on a piece of anti-trust legislation that exempted the soft-drinks industry at the behest of Coca-Cola.
“Antitrust law was an early salvo in what became a quarter-century struggle to shift the Democratic Party’s base of support away from organized labor toward large corporations,” reports HuffPo. “Biden became an advocate for corporate interests that had previously been associated with the Republican Party.”
The Washingtonian even quoted Biden as saying in 1974: “A lot of us sit around thinking up ways to vote conservative just so we don’t come out with a liberal rating. When it comes to civil rights and civil liberties, I’m a liberal but that’s it. I’m really quite conservative on most other issues.”
Spooky stuff if you’re a leftist of the Green New Deal variety.
Another HuffPost article blasted the former vice president for not being liberal enough on abortion, taking issue with a quote of his from 1974 denouncing third-trimester abortion.
“When former Vice President Joe Biden was a freshman senator he said in a 1974 interview with Washingtonian that he believed the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling clearing the way for legal first-trimester abortions ‘went too far,’ and that he didn’t “think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body,” lamented HuffPost.
The same article criticized Biden for supporting legislation in the 1980s that banned U.S. aid to foreign research on abortion and for saying that taxpayers should not be forced to pay for them.
In 1981, for example, Biden proposed the Foreign Assistance Act, which barred U.S. aid from being used for any medical research on abortion. It’s still in effect to this day. He has also voted in support of the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding for abortion procedures.
“Those of us who are opposed to abortion should not be compelled to pay for them,” Biden wrote to a constituent in 1994.
He also supported former President Ronald Reagan’s “Global Gag Rule,” which prohibits the U.S. funding any nongovernmental organizations that offer or advise on reproductive health care if they also offer abortion. President Trump was quick to revive it in 2017.