About Francesca ChambersFrancesca is the Editor of Red Alert Politics - an online publication written by and for young conservatives. Red Alert Politics is a product of Clarity Media Group, the parent company of The Washington Examiner and The Weekly Standard. She is also a contributor to The Washington Examiner.
Francesca is a veteran of several political campaigns and political organizations. She has also worked in new media and communications at The Leadership Institute, at the Republican National Committee and on Capitol Hill. She has been featured as a speaker at Leadership Institute, Cato Institute, Americans for Prosperity's "Defending the American Dream Summit," the State Policy Network's annual conference and CPAC, in addition to appearing as a regular guest on the "Big Picture" with Thom Hartmann on Russia Today.
She has also appeared on ABC's "Nightline", PBS' 'NewsHour', PBS' "To the Contrary", MSNBC, CNN, on TheBlazeTV (aka Glenn Beck TV) and had radio segments on Take Action News with David Shuster, NPR and "The Michael Koolidge Show."
In 2012 she was named to the DC GOP's first ever "35 under 35" list.
Francesca graduated from the University of Kansas with BAs in Political Science and Journalism. At KU she was an editor of the University Daily Kansan and an active member of Student Senate.
Let Biden be Biden
Duh.
Of course Obama would have had an easier time getting reelected if he had replaced Biden on the ticket with someone as smart and exciting as Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), Mitt Romney’s running mate. But the Obama campaign advisers were clearly too inept to figure that out when the President began running for reelection earlier this year, and they’re not going to switch it up now. As Breitbart’s Dana Loesch correctly pointed out this afternoon on twitter, that would be the ultimate sign of panic among the Democrats if Biden were given the boot. (Which is why they’re not going to do it, as Commentary’s Bethany Mandel, aka Bethany Shondark, said in reply.)
The Obama campaign is keenly aware of Biden’s deficiencies. Several of Biden’s most offensive remarks were made before he was ever selected as Obama’s running mate the first time around in 2008. If the Obama campaign were concerned that Biden would be a drag on the presidential ticket, he would never even have been vetted for VP in ’08.
Likewise, bumbling Biden is a Godsend to the GOP. His often off-color gaffes reinforce the fact that Romney running mate Paul Ryan would be exponentially more qualified to be President on ‘day one’ than Biden.
While the theory holds that VP candidates don’t usually affect the outcome of presidential elections, and neither the addition of Ryan to the Romney ticket or the continued presence of Biden on the Obama ticket will make or break the November election, the VP picks will play a role in the 2012 election, albeit a a relatively small one compared to jobs and the economy.
Today White House Press Secretary Jay Carney made it clear Biden would remain vice president if Obama is reelected. So I say to Republicans, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth – let Biden be Biden.