Muh Scranton

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....The Democrat vote total in 2016, in heavily Democrat Scranton and Lackawanna County, was only 51,593, a barely winning plunge from a 26% margin to 4% after eight Biden/Obama years. Not a great endorsement for a native son and a native daughter.

Additionally, adjacent and historically Democratic Luzerne County, part of the same Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Metropolitan Statistical Area, treated neighbors Joe and Hillary even worse. That county went from a comfortable 8% Obama/Biden victory to a humiliating 20% Trump crushing of the girl next door.

Let's get back to Joe and his acclaimed "Scranton values." When Biden was selling his soul to be Obama's amanuensis in the 2008 campaign, he never raised his voice or objected to Obama's closed-door diatribe against Scranton Joe's roots:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them... They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Guns? Religion? Anti-immigrant?

Joe, who never suited up for the first day of deer season, or marched in the St. Ann's Novena pilgrimage, or hung around much with the immigrant community of Poles, Lithuanians, Italians, and Slovaks whose child labor roots made up the majority of the coal field population, said not a word to condemn Obama's slander of his own roots.

Nor did Biden ever refute his boss Obama, his Democrat colleagues, and his media propagandists when they insulted the education and intelligence of those Trump voters in his native land. Maybe Biden didn’t learn it in Delaware schools, but everybody I grew up with in Scranton and environs knew there were only 50 states (48 then), that Viennese spoke German not Austrian, that the Marine Corps was not a corpse. Given his recent commentaries, Biden apparently shares his mentor’s ignorance.

If Joe has any current connection to Scranton it might be for a role in the bizarro cast of “The Office.” He wouldn't measure up to Michael's executive skills, but he would be a good fit as a character in the pool of dithering incompetence in Scranton's fictional Dunder-Mifflin office.

Yep, Joe Biden may claim a Scranton cachet in a desperate attempt to win a critical state he had forsaken sixty plus years ago, but those gun-toting, churchgoing coal crackers hain’t da amadans Joe and his Democrat enablers and fawning media portray them to be. More probable, like with Illinois Hillary, they’ll send Delaware Joe’s presidential dreams to da corpse house.

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