Disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and some powerful enablers in his administration have been on a revenge tour of sorts in recent months, with his former secretary and close advisor Melissa DeRosa releasing a scathing book Tuesday, in which she unsheathed her claws against anyone and everyone who she says wrongly accused Cuomo and herself of wrongdoing during his time in office.
Both appeared together on Bill Maher's "Real Time" program Friday night, where unfortunately Cuomo was lovingly treated with kid gloves. While DeRosa made her opinions known, it was Cuomo baring his own fangs that by far got the most attention, specifically what he had to say about President Joe Biden, for whom Cuomo did no favors whatsoever when he brought up Biden's own "#MeToo" scandals from 2020, highlighting them for the world to be reminded of ahead of 2024:
"I think what Biden's calculus was — he was accused [by] Tara Reade, fingers in the vagina… other women came out — ‘He smelled my hair,’ etc. He wanted to quickly distance himself from this," Cuomo said. "He could have said, 'You know what? I went through this. Let's take a deep breath and actually get the facts before we ask a governor to resign.'"
After telling Maher he'd probably run against Biden in 2024 if he was still in the governor's office and also suggesting a Democrat presidential primary was necessary this time around, Cuomo explained why he thought Biden was unfit for a second term and why he believed the Democrat strategy for 2024 was all wrong:
"I don't know that candidate Biden is the strongest candidate that we can put up, and frankly, I doubt it," Cuomo continued. "I think the Democratic Party has to engage with real people and real voters on a different level. They're too much ‘Trump is no good and Trump is a bum.’ You can't run on banking that the other guy is gonna lose. You have to have an affirmative strategy to win, and the truth is there has been a paralysis of government, right? There's social division, political polarization equals government paralysis, and that is on the ground. And they have to see that, and they have to answer that."
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I don't know if Andrew Cuomo is right about the Biden/Democrat campaign messaging for 2024 and really don't care. What I do enjoy about this, though, is that at a time when Joe Biden is trying to flex the most muscle to prove to the American people that he has what it takes to effectively handle serious matters both foreign and domestic, high-profile Democrats, including a new primary challenger (Rep. Dean Phillips), are now openly tearing him down - intentionally or not - by essentially saying he's too old, ineffective, and curmudgeonly to serve a second term.
Between that and their infighting over the Israel issue, I'm settling in with some popcorn and sweet tea, and of course, a bottle of Tylenol, because though watching Democrats eat their own is fun, it's still watching Democrats, which can give one a headache if not careful -- mainly due to the eye-rolling it takes to get through it all.