Roger L Simon: "Biden's departure gives Republicans an early Christmas gift"

. . . "Although Joe is,  to be polite, somewhat intellectually challenged and his integrity not always of the first tier  (plagiarizing in law school?),  the man had the unthreatening air of a conventional Democratic Party pol, sort of a much better-known and much more likable Martin O’Malley. He could have won.

"This leaves the Republicans battling Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.  Hillary — no matter how she does in Thursday’s confrontation with the Benghazi committee (and she would have to have a full-bore nervous breakdown for the press to declare her the loser), the email situation is not going away.  Because of a court order, her love letters from Sidney Blumenthal et al will be streaming out in doses for months to come. Who knows what’s in them?

"And there’s Hillary’s much bigger worry — the FBI investigation. " . . .  

. . . "Whatever the case, Bernie’s old fogey version of socialism will go nowhere in a national election, just as socialism has gone nowhere as an economic system (evidently unbeknownst to Bernie, who still thinks the Scandinavian countries are socialist when they are doing everything in their power to free up their markets.  Unfortunately, this may be too late for Sweden.)

Obama's FBI? Really? You can't be serious?