Victor Davis Hanson
Biden is hardly the sober and judicious alternative to a supposedly reckless Donald Trump.
"Some polls put 76-year-old Joe Biden as the Democratic front-runner for the 2020 presidential election. There is certainly some logic to that reckoning.
"Biden has far more experience than any of his likely party rivals — 36 years in the Senate, eight years as Barack Obama’s vice president, and two past presidential runs.
"He may be the only Democratic candidate who could likely win back some of the “deplorables,” “irredeemables,” and “clingers” of the critical Midwestern swing states.
"But all of that said, the folksy Biden is hardly the sober and judicious alternative to a supposedly reckless Donald Trump.. . .
"Biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that grilled Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork in such a crude fashion as to turn the failed nominee’s name into a verb. “Borked” is now synonymous with the sort of character assassination that Biden led. His later aimless and incoherent questioning of Thomas during his confirmation hearing managed to enrage both critics and supporters.
"Biden was accused of — and confessed to — plagiarism in law school, and he withdrew from the presidential primaries in 1987 after being caught plagiarizing British Labour-party leader Neil Kinnock in campaign speeches (while also inserting fabrications about his family’s background).
"On the 2008 campaign trail, Biden committed so many verbal gaffes that President Obama reportedly lamented in frustration, “How many times is Biden gonna say something stupid?”
"More recently, Biden — who has called for more civility in public discourse — has boasted that he would like to take Trump (whom he referenced as “the fattest, ugliest SOB in the room”) behind the proverbial high school gym “and beat the hell out of him.” . . .
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