Let's see …

The hats are zinging into the ring. Bernie is the latest with Joe Biden waiting in the still-crowded wings. 

I can't understand why some so-called candidates are there in the first place though; they don't have the perennial snowball's chance in hell. But this is still a free country – so far – so let a thousand roses bloom. 

As things stand now and in the near future, let me do some personal thumb-nailing of who I see in the race with more than that snowball's chance. Let me also say that any one of the following would make a better president than the bum – as LeBron called Trump – we are stuck with now. This is all based, too, on Trump being around for the 2020 campaign, so I  deeply hope that all this becomes moot.

Trump says he's most afraid of Joe Biden. He has good reason: Biden is as close to the anti-Trump as there is right now: a man of the people who has said he'd like to take Trump out behind the gym and kick his ass. He might have had a better shot at Trump in '16, but I think he saw that Hillary was the party choice from jump and decided not to muddy the waters. Drawbacks to me are that he will be 77 in 2020 and he as white as a cumulus cloud. I can never understand why a bunch of old white men down in DC can 

legislate for and govern a citizenry that is much younger and becoming less white with every generation. This seems like a good time to change that.

A lot of Biden's stuff goes for Bernie. He had his shot. Step aside, old blood.

Now Beto O'Rourke gave Ted Cruz a good scare down in Texas and he is under 50 and a crowd pleaser so far. Not that it means anything, but Beto is an arm-waver and perhaps a little bit drastic when it comes to walls, saying he wants to tear down the one in his home town of El Paso, which alarmed some party biggies. 

On the distaff side, as the old sexist phrase goes, we have another arm-waver, Elizabeth Warren, who got out of the gate – to use the dreaded horse-race jargon – first and is off and running. Her drawback is that I'm not sure she can withstand a full frontal “Pocahontas” assault from Trump. Also, she seems like something of a scold to me, which can be off-putting.

My two favorites at this subjective point are Amy Klobuchar and Kamala Harris. True, Klobuchar seems Minnesota nice, but there are tales afoot that she is a harridan with her staff. “Cruel” is actually a word used to describe some of her actions by ex-staffers. But she is smart and a battler and would give Trump all he can handle. Whether she would win is, of course, the big question.

Kamala Harris is my choice, despite some cavils about her time as a prosecutor in San Francisco. I can actually picture Trump creeping around behind her in a debate like he did with Hillary and I can see Harris turning around and saying something like, “Get back, fool, you're in my light!” 

There is only one video extant of Trump ever laughing. Kamala Harris laughs more in one hour than he has in his life. And it a big, inclusive, heartfelt laugh. America needs that after the current horror show.