The establishment media insists President Biden’s stock has regained its footing, and yet they’re all still foaming at the mouth to find a better Democrat nominee than a doddering 80-year-old to run in 2024.

As the Democrats like to say about everything: it’s great, but we could do better.

Wasting no time at all, the Washington Post rolled out their rankings of potential nominees on Dec. 3, and obediently installed Biden at #1.

Gird your loins, Colorado, because this is who official Washington is eyeing for the big dance:

  1. Joe Biden
  2. Pete Buttigieg
  3. Kamala Harris
  4. Jared Polis
  5. Amy Klobuchar
  6. Gavin Newsom
  7. Bernie Sanders
  8. Gretchen Whitmer
  9. Josh Shapiro
  10. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker

The Post gets right to the box-checking:

It’s possible we could be talking about two candidates from whom one could be the first gay president.

Because that’s all that matters to them. If only they were as diligent with their fact checking:

Polis combines things progressives love on issues like health care with an independent and sometimes libertarian streak, including being among the first Democrats to push the party toward a less-strict coronavirus posture — something we quickly learned he was ahead of the curve on.

By less strict, they must mean only a handful of businesses were forcibly shut down by the state, Polis threatened us with death, and the education of our children was pushed onto the back burner.

And PeakNation™ will never forget the 1,100 nursing home deaths after faulty COVID tests were delivered through a $90 million, no-bid contract from one of Polis’s buddies who had just opened the company — and contributed to Polis’s campaign.

Polis still refuses to address the scandal and his Democrat-backed legislature blocked an audit of the contract.

But by all means, Polis, run on that accomplishment.

Despite the Post’s eagerness to put a gay man in the White House by whitewashing his past, Polis is going to have to earn the voters’ trust and confidence, which so far stands at zero.

So far, so good.