October 10, 2012 - 8:43 am
South Carolina Dem chairman and perennial bigmouth Dick Harpootlian, on the vice presidential debate:
Harpootlian also said rank-and-file Democrats expect Vice President Joe Biden to hit Paul Ryan hard during their debate in Danville, Ky., on Thursday. “Joe’s gonna take out the old meat-ax and go to work,” he said. “They’ll have to call the humane society.”
Did the big Democrat just dehumanize an opponent and compare him to livestock worthy of slaughter? I think he did.
Will President Obama decry the use of violent and possibly vegan-offending rhetoric in our political discourse? I’m sure he won’t.
I don’t think Sheriff Joe could beat Paul Ryan with an ax.
But I’m thinking an MMA style match would be more fun than watching that Raddatz chick throwing softballs to Joe.
Good.
He will take a meat-ax to a gun fight.
Meat-ax? Thy don’t even let Spongejoe Hairplugs eat his supper with a fork.
Careful — Biden’s apparently suffering from bovine spongiform encephaly!
South Carolina isn’t a swing state, and has been solidly Republican for a while.
Just have the Democratic Party chairman in Florida or Oiho (sic) spout on like that, and see what response he gets.
Well, I suppose anything could happen. An asteroid might hit the earth. An al Qaeda strike could knock out Romney’s plane and leave us with no choice at all. Many people already say the election is between Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber (you pick which is which).
But let’s keep three things in mind:
1) Nobody votes for Veep
2) Ryan seems to relish a debate on the issues and knows how to handle a screaming troll.
3) Biden can’t help himself. If the campaign had to take 6 days to prep him for an insignificant debate, that means they’re trying to instill muscle memory and rote responses that will interdict his usual aimless bloviating. What are the chances that Biden will fight Ryan even to a draw? Well, like I said, anything could happen. But we’re better off focusing on what is LIKELY to happen, not what could happen.