Time for the replace Biden crowd to shit or get off the pot

The buzz Sunday evening was that the next 48 hours were key if they wanted to replace Joe Biden on the top of the ticket. Today was a waste, if not a setback. That leaves tomorrow.

There seems to be a couple of camps of thought here:

One is that running for President is a serious and complicated matter and that it would take time, money, and energy to get another campaign off the ground.

The other is that the Democrats could hold something akin to a reality television show and perhaps pick a winner through a series of call-in votes from viewers, text messaging fees may apply. Rumors are both Ryan Seacrest and Carson Daly are up for the job as host with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama acting as super-mentors for the competitors.

Call me a skeptic, but I sort of believe that those in the former camp might have a bit better grasp on reality than those looking to hold a blitz primary. Think about all of the things one has to consider:

• Money? If anyone other than Kamala Harris takes over the nomination, the Joe Biden Presidential fund goes with Joe Biden.  Donald Trump has raised nearly a half billion dollars, much of it spent on infrastructure, and has well over a hundred million in the bank. Whoever wins will have no money and lots of expenses just to get off the ground.

• Speaking of ground, there would be no preset candidate ground game. Sure, Democrats have Party infrastructure in place, but that has always been augmented by a Presidential ground game as well. This would need to be started up almost from scratch.

• How about a staff? You need a Vice-Presidential candidate, you need a campaign manager, you need surrogates in most every battleground state, and you need campaign offices, people to run them, legal, communications, cyber-security, human resources, network, computer, advertising. All in all, you need hundreds if not thousands of campaign workers. There is no guarantee that Biden supporters are automatically going to fall in line with the person replacing their preferred candidate or that the new candidate would want them.

• While those who favor the Blitz primary believe that they would get a large audience, the legal and party-rule logistics makes it virtually impossible for this to be held during their scheduled convention. That would mean that they would be expecting networks to show two different Democratic processes, which could lead to legal problems with the Federal Election Commission requiring equal airtime for both Parties. They would likely have to face a choice between having a televised blitz primary or having a televised convention. I don't see how they can expect both.

At this point, the reality is really twofold. Biden would have to voluntarily step down and probably would need to do so yesterday to make sure they have time to plan this before the state ballot deadlines start to pass. Even if he stepped down and the Party decided to turn everything over to Harris, that decision must come within the next couple of weeks to beat that same clock. Even that might be pushing things.