If I had to pick one candidate from the major party tickets that I am most like, I would pick Biden.
Why?
1. “Still, Mr. Biden has a tendency to claim a monopoly on the truth. And we all know he is long-winded. Much of his success tonight will depend on how much he can keep himself in check.” A NYTimes Blog Thing.
2. “This story was entertaining, but it wasn’t strictly accurate. It turned out that you did not, in fact, even speak with Senator Kerry until well after he had issued a vigorous denunciation of bin Laden. This episode is one of several in which you have appeared to exaggerate your importance. Recently, you spoke of being “shot at†in Iraq. This, too, turned out to be false. Why should voters trust you, after you have made so many provably embroidered assertions?” Another NYTimes Blogamajigger.
3. “In the words of Robert Draper’s classic GQ profile of the Delaware Senator: ‘Joe Biden Can’t Shut Up.’” Time.
4. The McCain Campaign is already running a neat ad featuring some of Biden’s more spectacular gaffes:
“I think I probably have a much higher I.Q. than you do.”
Impeccable tact, indeed.
5. The Biden Gaffe Clock. Awesome. As we know from Every Sports Movie Ever, a few big plays aren’t enough. Consistency is the mother of success.
A guy who talks so much he can’t help but say something stupid, offensive, awkward, or at least ill-advised nearly every day? If that doesn’t explain me, I don’t know what does.
Anybody else care to take a shot at some idle self-reflection?
Austin would be Biden, too.
Davey, unquestionably, would be Obama.
Myself? Gee, I honestly don’t know. I’ll let Austin and Davey pick for me.
Okay, Frank’s got me pegged personality-wise. Knows my faults too well, darn him.
Do we have to keep the analogies to the 2008 election? Frank and Austin aren’t nearly cliched enough (politically, at least) to fit the present quadrivium.
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Austin as Spiro T. Agnew? Anybody?
I don’t mean that as an insult. Before the whole bribery-tax-evasion-resignation thing, he actually seemed like a pretty cool dude.
His greatest claim to fame: using alliterative epithets to malign his enemies.
I want Dan Quayle!