Gail Collins is a partisan Democrat columnist for The New York Times. How partisan? From 2007 through Election Day 2021, she wrote 58 columns that included the story that Mitt Romney put his Irish setter on the roof of his car in a luggage crate on a family vacation trip to Canada. She’s so partisan that when Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, she wanted George W. Bush to resign so Obama could be inaugurated on the spot.
It’s in this vein that Collins has taken up the story of Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota running against President Biden for the Democratic Party nomination. She’s expressing relief that Phillips has no plans to run as a third-party candidate in the fall. She wishes Biden had drawn some intimidating challengers in these nearly invisible primaries.
“Imagine the great race the Democrats could have if Biden, 81, decided he was…
