Day 4: Dithering on down the campaign trail with compass set to ‘destination unknown’

A CARTOONIST WANDERING a vast event like the RNC Convention has perhaps little standing to offer a political takeaway from the experience, but I won’t let that deter me from offering this wrap up.

As bad as Biden’s debate performance — and it was really bad — the weeks of dithering by the Democratic party have played right into Trump’s hands. Immediately after the debate the perception was that Biden was frail and weak, but the party’s handwringing and the slow drip have transferred those attributes to the Democratic leadership. As the saying goes, when there is a hard choice to be made, there are three choices: a good decision, a bad decision, and no decision, and the last is by far the worst. If the election turns on the perception of strength — and with it the arguably related characteristics of decisiveness and leadership — the Democrats will be punished for having chosen the third option.