These are my observations and opinions from my select news of the day.

A BIDEN-CUOMO TICKET?  In my laughable Sunday special, in which I recounted how an Arizona Democrat pol saw Bernie Sanders’ campaign suspension paving the way for a Joe Biden victory in November, I also wrote of his recommendations for key cabinet roles under Biden.

BUT MONDAY MORNING, under a headline in the Wall Street Journal column, “Biden-Cuomo Is the Way to Beat Trump,” written by Lance Morrow, a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, he suggests that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should be selected as Biden’s running mate, not Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as was mentioned in my special.

Having written about the ways Biden could win over Sanders supporters, I allowed that giving them a say on the platform would encourage a further move to the left for Biden.

Morrow reminds readers that the Democrats’ overriding imperative is to oust Donald Trump, and says their other ambitions – putting a woman on the ticket, the Green New Deal, Medicare for All – should be put on hold.  Not that the Biden team is going to take his advice, but that would be difficult with the Sanders backers hanging around.

Putting Cuomo on the ticket, Morrow says, “is the best bet to draw enough from the disconsolate ambivalent Democrats – the millions of independents, conservative Democrats and discomfited Republicans.”

BUT, BUT, BUT – Using a chess analogy, Morrow writes, “ Sometimes in chess, you have to sacrifice your queen in the interest of toppling the opponent’s king.”  Biden promised he would put a woman on the ticket.  “Mr. Biden would pay a price for going back on his promise.”

Despite talk of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as a running mate for Biden, Amy Klobuchar’s name has again surfaced.  Some choice.

Whitmer is the subject of Robert Stacey McCain’s American Spectator piece, “The Worst Governor in America,” in which he suggests that choosing Whitmer “would almost certainly destroy whatever hope Democrats still have of winning Michigan in November.”

Klobuchar barely made the minimum requirements to qualify for the presidential debates, and couldn’t gain traction while touting her qualifications. She positioned herself as the moderate Midwesterner who can unite the party, but her neighborly appeal fell flat in Midwest Iowa, where she placed sixth.

Would Sanders supporters go for Klobuchar, who indicated her concern for socialism during one of the debates?

ANOTHER PROBLEM FOR BIDEN – “Joe Biden has a big problem,” comments Rick Moran in PJ Media. “He can’t get elected without the support of far-left Bernie Sanders supporters, but to do that, he has to propose radical policies that will cost him the votes of almost everyone else.”

“Biden will have to thread the needle, going only so far and no farther.  But radicals are usually ‘all or nothing’ voters and adopting some of the Sanders agency probably won’t satisfy them,” Moran adds.

From the Sanders camp, surrogate Nomiki Konst, who has worked on party reforms on his behalf, said, “We can try all we want to use our leverage as a movement, but at the end of the day, I wouldn’t expect anything coming from the establishment, the Biden campaign, or the Democrat National Committee.”

I’M NO FAN OF MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, who became the first female secretary of state from 1997-2001.  She’s one of those individuals who believes that a woman should be favored for election just because she is a woman.

In a Wall Street Journal feature on Albright written by Alexandra Wolfe to introduce Albright’s latest book, “Hell and Other Destinations,” Wolfe recalls how Albright elicited social-media vitriol while supporting Hillary Clinton for president in 2016.

At a New Hampshire campaign event, she drew loud applause when she said, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other,” a phrase she now sees as a flippant mistake.

I was reminded of Clinton’s statement that she didn’t do well with white married women who faced ongoing pressure to vote the way “your husband, your boss, your son, or whoever.”  I saw that as an insult to right thinking women.

I picked up on something that perhaps the average reader might pass over. Wolfe writes about Albright’s 2001 founding of the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm.

At the same time, however, Albright remains involved in world politics, as chair of the National Democratic Institute, a non-profit group that gets some support from the U.S. government and is loosely affiliated with the Democrat Party.  NDI’s board and advisory committee is made up of former Democratic notables, like Chris Dodd, Bill Bradley, Tom Daschle and Barbara Mikulski and Donna Brazile.

I wonder, how much is “some support,” and why are taxpayers of the conservative persuasion forced to help foot the bill for this left-leaning enterprise?

                 May God continue to bless the United States of America.