Biden is 76 years old. He’s been around Washington for a long time — first as a senator for 36 years and then as B. Hussein Obama’s vice president for two terms. He’s also been through a lot of personal tragedy. That makes it especially easy to think fond thoughts when his name comes up, as it often does these days, in discussions which consistently show Biden as the early
DEMOCRAT frontrunner.
But let’s get serious: Actual Candidate Joe Biden is going to be a lot less popular than Potential Candidate Joe Biden. To begin with, there’s his record. he has a long history of handsy behavior, and downright sleazy off-color statements, toward women.
Then there’s his long, notorious track record of gaffes and other verbal flubs.
Don’t believe me?
Behold the spectacle of the past two weeks. First, Biden gave a speech in which he appeared to announce (prematurely) that he was running for president, in the process describing himself (absurdly) as the "most progressive" candidate in the field, and immediately walked it back.
Then, desperate to head off concerns about the would-be candidate’s advanced age and record on racial issues, his staff floated the idea of Stacey "Queen Lateetha" Abrams, the 45-year-old failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate, serving as his running mate and campaigning with Gropin' Joe. Abrams has made it clear she isn’t interested.
Biden’s always been a one-man gaffe machine. (That’s one reason his two previous presidential bids went nowhere.)
Biden will apologize. And then apologize again. And then again. Endlessly.
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