Monday, August 18, 2008

BIDEN?

After I've been screaming "Kaine!" all day, I now see the Netroots getting all gushy about Joe Biden. TNR's Jonathan Cohn summarizes the gush.

OK, your funeral, Netroots. Maybe it's because I'm an old guy, I find it impossible to take Biden seriously. The two things I most associate with Biden are hairplugs and plagiarism. But if Democrats think "gravitas" when they think of Joe Biden -- i.e., an old guy to function as Obama's Dick Cheney -- maybe that makes sense. If you're a Democrat.

The difference between Biden and Cheney, however, is huge. Cheney had an extensive record of executive-branch service and had been Secretary of Defense. Biden never been anything more important than a senator from Delaware, which isn't very important at all.

The mention of Caroline Kennedy in the Drudge item, however, reminds me that Biden's a Kennedy crony, which would be evidence of a sort. Maybe Obama's spending Wednesday and Thursday in Virginia as a sort of consolation prize to Virginia for not choosing Kaine.

So if the Netroots borked Bayh and the Netroots love Biden, then why shouldn't the Netroots president have a Netroots running mate? Biden, maybe.

But the PUMAs are going to hate it. Bad.

4 comments:

  1. Mr. McCain,

    Does anyone read your blog? Just scanning through your latest offerings and there is nary a comment.

    Maybe your regular readers are unable to type?

    Just curious.

    Chubby Parker

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  2. It's the comment moderation.

    I read, but if I can't immediately see what I write, I'm a lot less likely to leave a comment. (Which probably suits the host just fine.)

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  3. Ben may have a point about the comment moderation. But I've had plenty of posts with 20+ comments, it's just that in putting up 250+ posts monthly, most posts don't get comments.

    In general, one will note that conservative bloggers get fewer comments than do liberal bloggers. I think conservatives use blogs more for information-gathering, and less for discussion.

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  4. And your 20+ comment posts would probably have had 50+ comments with no moderation.

    Which, again, isn't necessarily a bad thing -- there are blogs where the posts are nice and serious, but the comments sections are real cesspools.

    Of course, there's a very easy way for us readers to guess at the readership (or a part of it, at least) -- the sitemeter. (That misses the people who read it via the XML feed, but it gives you a minimum, at least.)

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