bill-tb:
Two Senators who have never done anything, and never held accountable for their failures. Perfect Democrat candidates.
Oh, Biden’s done a lot.
1. He invented Borking and poisoned partisan politics all the more by poisoning the judicial nomination process. Clarence Thomas would no doubt point out that Biden was the head of the high tech lynch mob. Mrs Alito losing it and walking out crying? It was while Biden was smearing her husband.
2. He was one of the last ones still in the Seante that pulled the rug out from S. Vietnam by cutting off military equipment aid and air support. Something that Republicans will likely refresh the memory of America’s million Vietnamese-Americans, 120,000 Cambodian, 100,000 Hmong – and 2.3 million Vietnam Vets and their 18 million relatives of Biden’s key involvement…
3. Voted against the Gulf War but for the Iraq war, voted against Reagan’s SDI and matching the Soviet nuclear buildup in Europe.
4. Reliably pro-abortion, anti-gun, anti-drilling, anti-nuclear. For tilting laws to favor women over men (family courts, Title IX, Violence Against Women Act). Pro Open Borders amd mass immigration.
5. Of Senators, none quite have the reputation of the two-faced person that Biden has. The “hearty hail thee well regular Joe, common man” superficial Biden, then the viper underneath that eagerly slimes others and works to kill careers of those he opposes. And who pretends to be open-minded when his votes are very predictable.
6. Flaws like using a Brit politicians material in 1988, or bloviating are minor. We almost elected a bloviator in 2004, and there are a dozen Senators with swollen egos more intoxicated with cameras and the sound of their own voices than Biden. Think of Byrd, Schumer, Kerry, McCain.. As for Neil Kinnock’s ripoff (which he said was flattering) – That was in 1988. By now we know like Jewish gagwriters, politicians and their hired writer-bitches steal from other politicians material and their speeches freely. Not like academic plagarism at all.
Arnold, Dubya rip off Regan regularly. Dems rip off JFK, MLK, and FDR mannerisms and phrases like clockwork. Obama has an even better excuse for ripping off the speech cadences of Wright and the phrases of Deval Patrick – he paid good money for both. 43K of his own money over the years direct + 390K in taxpayer money to Wright
over the years, and mega-bucks to the Team Axelrod speechwriters that churn out material suitable for their generic black politician from Mayors Washington, Streeter to Gov Patrick to The One Obamessiah Himself…plus whiteys that have to speak to blacks to convince them to support their real estate projects or spot in City Hall – like the Crown and Pritzker billionaires and Mayor Daley.
Biden has 36 years in the Senate, starting as an eager McGovernite. He is hardly the worst Senator, but his better half of 4 decades as a quintessential Washington insider has a plethora of “Oh, Shits!!” regarding his judgment.
The stuff I mentioned is just off the top of my head and no doubt is less than 10% of the stuff Biden did that could hurt him as VP. But 6-time Senators are not total bums. Biden has his strengths – or voters would have shitcanned him long ago.
