That's Just Joe

Joe Biden is living up to his reputation as a Gaff-a-minute politician. They're stacking up so high, the press can no longer ignore it. IHT has a short article that sums up his greatest hits of the past few weeks.

For example:

In Fort Myers, Florida, last week, he referred to the "Biden administration," before quickly correcting himself to say the "Obama-Biden administration."

"Believe me, that wasn't a Freudian slip," he said, laughing and crossing himself. "Oh lordy day, I tell ya."

Here's my favorite:

Earlier in the week, in Columbia, Missouri, Biden urged a paraplegic state official to stand up to be recognized.

"Chuck, stand up, let the people see you," Biden shouted to State Senator Chuck Graham, before realizing, to his horror, that Graham uses a wheelchair. "Oh, God love ya," Biden said. "What am I talking about?"

Do his gaffes matter? No. Victor Davis Hanson observes:

Almost any thought that comes into his head goes out his mouth, and the strange thing is that no one seems to mind (imagine if Sarah Palin had said Obama was good looking, or a step backward, or that Romney would have been a better pick than herself)...

Hanson even coins a new term to explain this phenomenon:

Biden's Law: If one makes enough gaffes, they soon reach a point that none of them matter.

Hanson concludes:

I have heard a lot of conservatives rattle off all the reasons why Biden is duplicitous, a bully, and often mean-spirited—before ending up with an inexplicable sigh, "But I sort of like Joe Biden." Even weirder—I sort of do too, but don't know quite why either.