JOE, DO IT FOR BEAU

WHAT WOULD BEAU DO?

GO FOR IT JOE!

Your son, the late Beau Biden was right. We can't let the Clintons get back into the White House. Joe, we know you are devastated by your son's passing. But, thanks to Maureen Dowd, we now know what he expressed to you in his last words. His wishes have struck a chord though the Nation. You must run. Your fellow countrymen and women need your experience, your stability, your values and your common sense. Beau knew all this. Don't let his expression for the welfare of the Nation go unheeded.

Think of our choices without you. First take a look at the Republican field of candidates. The GOP has offered up a group of non-entities, freshly elected, wild-eyed Senators who will shut down the government at the drop of a pin, puppets who repeat scripts handed out to them by their big donors like the Koch brothers and Adelsons, one verified snake oil salesman, an Afro American non-politician book salesman (this has become a traditional candidate-category of the GOP) , a female former CEO with no experience in elected office (her only experience being a candidacy rejected by the voters), governors who have run their states into the ground legislating as right-wing ideologues so as to prepare themselves for the Tea Party dominated primaries. We also have another Bush. This one, eschews his surname and calls himself "JEB"....for perfectly good and obvious reasons. This Bush seems to be running because his Pappy said he had to do it. He is not so fast mentally and his foot seems to be lodged in his mouth much too frequently. His demeanor recalls the look of a scared deer in headlights, on the stump and in the debate. Then, we have the entertaining circus performer and loose-cannon Donald Trump who, right now, far and away leads the GOP pack in the opinion polls. His popularity is a good measure of what the American people really think of the GOP field. But who knows what he really stands for?

Our only other choice (beside sincere, honest, nice guy, Bernie, a Socialist-Independent from Vermont) is Mrs. Clinton, the former First Lady. Hillary, thinks the Nation owes this job to her just for sticking around with Bill. Upon exiting the White House, she was handed a safe Senate seat, foisting her self on New York where she did little but prepare for her Presidential bid. That easy election was her first and only experience as an elected official. She lost the nomination in 2008, and as consolation prize was again presented with a plum job, that of Secretary of State where she did little but rack up thousands of air miles. This candidate will not hold press conferences, does not reveal her positions on key legislation and is again enmeshed in self-inflicted scandals. She is tied to a husband who sells influence abroad and at home for large sums of money. She is such a divisive figure most pundits believe that with her "negatives" she could not win the general election. The Republicans will hammer her in 2016.

Clinton touts herself as the "most experienced candidate". But that credit would end the minute you enter the race. She can not hold a candle to your long and fruitful 45 years of government experience. Almost no one in memory has come to the job with your long years and diverse preparation. I only remind you so as to jog your memory (and those of my readers) that you served as Senator from Delaware for 36 years. Then as Chairman of the Foreign relations Committee, and, finally, as a much beloved Vice President for soon to be eight years. Who can measure up to that record? This record is what gives Clinton and her minions the shivers of fear. Her recent bluff and phony claims that she has the delegates all tied up is only an attempt to scare you off. She does not know you that well.

We suffered through eight years of Clinton and her husband's scandals, once, that was too much. If Hillary were actually to win the general election, it is questionable if she could govern effectively...challenged as she is with her own sketchy value system, the poor judgment she has clearly demonstrated in this last campaign, her husband's tangled financial arrangements, intrigues and bimbo eruptions and the divisiveness which clings to her like glue. We can not put our Nation again through another bout of Clintonism and the attendant waste of energy and effort spent on scandals and government investigations.

If you run the people will flock to YOU, Joe.

Do it for Beau...that's what he would have wanted. Your race and your presidency would be a fitting tribute to his memory.