There will be a female president one day

A woman one day will be president.

Only not this woman — meaning Elizabeth Warren — and not this time.

Her fight with Bernie Sanders on the issue of a woman’s electability to the high office — with each calling the other a liar — is a last-ditch effort to keep her fading campaign alive. Poor Bernie.

He was ambushed by Warren and CNN and he never saw it coming, mainly because he and Warren were friends, or so he thought. But she leaked to CNN a private conversation with Bernie where he allegedly told her a woman could not be elected.

Then Warren, a former Cherokee, former Republican and a former friend, feigned shock when Bernie denied saying it and made herself appear the victim.

To top it off, and with television cameras running, she insulted Bernie by refusing to shake his outstretched hand following last week’s debate.

It was a nasty breakup between two leftists fighting for the same bloc of votes. But Bernie should have been on guard. It is not for nothing that Warren described herself as one of the “nasty women” who sought to defeat Trump in 2016. “Nasty women are tough,” Warren said back then. Now it was time to get nasty with her “friend” Bernie.

As Harry Truman once famously said, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.”

Hillary Clinton could have become the first woman president had she run a decent campaign in 2016, and not insulted half of the country by calling Donald Trump supporters “deplorables.”

Even so, Hillary still bested Trump in the popular vote, only to lose in the Electoral College. So, a woman can be elected president, just not Warren.

Some would argue, though, that we already have a woman president, or something close to it.

That would be Nancy Pelosi, president of the Democrats, all of whom in the House voted to impeach President Trump totally along partisan lines. It is a wonder that they did not include Vice President Mike Pence in their frivolous articles of impeachment, given that Pelosi, as speaker of the House, is third in line to the presidency.

Were Trump to be convicted and removed from office,

Pence would take his place. If something happened to Pence, Pelosi would become president.

With those two gents gone, Pelosi would become the first woman president without even campaigning for the job. As such, she could then name lapdog Rep. Adam Schiff to fill the vice president’s job.

That is what President Richard Nixon did when he named Rep. Gerald Ford to the job after Vice President Spiro Agnew left office after being accused of corruption. Ford became president when Nixon resigned in disgrace in 1974.

Ford then chose former New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller as his vice president.

This may be conspiratorial and far-fetched, but the thought came to me after watching Pelosi’s staged celebration when she signed the two articles of impeachment before sending them over to the Senate for trial.

It was as though she were practicing being president or, more likely, mocking President Trump. Like the president does when signing important documents, Pelosi had a dozen or so pens lined up on her desk to publicly sign the articles with, something she could have done in her office.

Then, like presidents do, she gave the pens out as souvenirs, suitable for framing, to House committee chairmen and to the Seven Dwarfs (Pelosi is Snow White) she selected to serve as House managers at the Senate impeachment trial.

Pelosi treated the solemnity of impeachment as a joyous occasion — which to her it was — rather than something sadly momentous she was doing to the country, rather than for it.

What she and everybody else who pays attention knows is that while the Democrats in the House impeached the president, the Republicans in the Senate will acquit him. The Democrats did it because they hate him, pure and simple. Trump ruined their world. And they can’t defeat him

Not lost was the irony of President Trump signing the first phase of the historic trade treaty with China at a ceremony at the White House at the same time Pelosi was practicing her presidential penmanship or, in these woke days, her penwomanship.

After Trump is acquitted and re-elected, he should thank Pelosi. She will have helped him win.

There will be a female president one day. But it won’t be Warren, or Pelosi.