Handicapping the Dems' 'Bonfire of the Mediocrities'

With the standard caveat "It's waaaay early" (is that enough a's?) here's my analysis of the Democrat horse race so far.

Who am I to do this? Well, I was among the first to publicly predict a Trump victory, but so what? I was taking a flyer then and am now. But so is everybody else. So here goes.

But before I start, you will note I channeled Tom Wolfe by calling this the "Bonfire of the Mediocrities" because I don't think you could possibly find twenty-four duller individuals in a phone book (to channel William F. Buckley) than those running for the Democratic nomination. It's stunning, actually, and a sad commentary all by itself about our politics. Where are the Bobby Kennedys of yesteryear? I'd even take Hubert Humphrey, I'm so desperate. The best and the brightest? This is more like the worst and the dimmest — and I'm not just talking about Bill de Blasio and Eric Swalwell.

Further, there may be "nothing new under the sun," but I have yet to hear a single idea with even an iota of originality from any of those "mediocrity-crats." Everything is recycled as if copied from the back pages of a Sears catalog circa 1932 — copied being the operative word.

But enough of burying my lede. If you're going to take a flyer, take a flyer.