Joe Biden: 'I like Sarah Palin'

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On the WSJ Washington Wire blog, Susan Davis writes that Vice President Joe Biden appeared on ABC's "The View" Thursday, and as it usually does on that show, the top of Sarah Palin came up:

Biden was also pressed for his thoughts on his 2008 vice presidential rival, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. “If you meet her, she is a charming person,” he said. “I say this and people look at me like I’m kidding, I like her.”

The show’s conservative, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, asked Biden if he thought Palin posed a threat in 2012, Biden replied: “The governor says she’s not running. I don’t know what she’s going to do. I’m sure whoever the Republican nominee is, it will be a very contested race.”

Of course Sarah Palin has never said that she's not running. On the contrary, she has hinted that she may be very interested in makeing a run. Joe reminds us very much of what Ronald Reagan said in his landmark "A Time for Choosing" speech:

"Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."

Still, it was very gracious of the veep to say that he liked Gov. Palin, and he was right on the money about how charming she is.

We think that at far as liberals go, Joe Biden isn't such a bad guy, even though he's wrong on a good many issues. He's old school and doesn't seem to drink as much Haterade as the current crop of leftist extremists who are in control of his party and the federal government.

- JP