Biden?

My only real concern is that he not be elected and that his candidacy is detrimental to the Dems, be he nominated or no.  But I do like one thing he appears to be doing.

His attitude toward the accusations, ranging from that of  oppression even in the worst degree, deserving of immolation, to just plain dimbulbedness, over his tendency to get a little too close sometimes, is, as I see it, this:  "ok, I'm listening. I stand corrected in that I am now better apprised of the changing standards for casual public physical contact , especially between men and women and I  stand informed that at times my practices in that regard have been unpleasant for some.  I will act on this by being more restrained because I like people in general and I really like being liked by them and I don't want to trouble them in this regard. But I do not recognize a necessity on my part for contrition, for penance, for auto da fe; if you think I do, I say  to you frankly, I disagree. I have, in my public life, displayed a sensitivity adequate to prove to any person of common sense my fundamental regard for all except conservatives.  If you are one who maintains that my recently noted behavior is characteristic of the expected and consummate malice of my sex ,then you disregard my freely chosen behavior to the contrary".

If that is his attitude I congratulate him for a signal service he is doing. Why, the poor dear, he's accident prone just like me and he doesn't refrain from parodying the sight of himself in his awkward moments. And he displays a refreshing lack of tolerance for  presumptuous politically correct aggression which is largely eschewed, in cowardly fashion, by his Dem colleagues.

I had a friend who got too close sometimes; he meant nothing untoward about it and I knew it.  BFD, if you know what I mean.

Those who , having become convinced of purposeful and forceful degradation of their sex or race by members or the whole of , other sexes or races and  who rage that their perception is irrefutable and moreover, was obvious and completely acceptable to those who "willingly" did them this offense, have intimidated significant official portions and  social factions of our polity and our society. They very often assume that their accusation satisfies all standards for conviction and punishment. Despite his devoted membership in a  party enslaved by that principle, Joe Biden appears unable to abide it and I respect him for that.

We conservatives are assumed by those who condemn Biden to be far beyond the pale. Of course, the pale was that borderland of the  Russian empire, which was  murderously hateful of "Christ killers" but equally so of those whose society also exemplified exceedingly positive values and the determination to preserve them, in which a kind of tolerance was grudgingly extended. Beyond it? - Complete outlaw and subhuman status, attended by "appropriate" and unrestrained  sanctions.

I think (and I think he  would squirm at this) that Biden senses the outrage we have felt for decades by the attacks directed toward us by "politically correct" converts and the newly enlightened by leftist doctrine. Nothing like a convert for fanaticism, right?

Nah, you'll never be one of us Joe, but I do laud  what I see to be your assertion of your self respect in the face of the mindless totalitarian crowd.  Jack