re: #136 Jay C

Agree: and on the list of Dumb Things Joe Biden Says, this one (IMO) doesn’t even rank particularly high. Old Joe is a long-time, old-school Party guy: he’s running for President on the Party line, by the Party rules, and knows that he’s going to have to have his nomination confirmed by the Party, at the National Convention next summer (in the full glare of the media) - even if he wanted to have his best friend in the world, the most reasonable Republican in Washington* as his running mate, he’d still have to convince the rest of the entire Democratic Party apparatus that it is a good idea. Which, just as a SWAG, Ain’t. Gonna. Happen.

* a fantasy construction, to be sure: as repeatedly noted

He’s running as a more or less centrist, and a “uniter”
He had to *say* something like this.

We really need to see context and calm down
He said

“The answer is I would, but I can’t think of one now. Let me explain that. You know, there’s some really decent Republicans that are out there still, but here’s the problem right now: they’ve got to step up.”

What do you think ” step up” means?

This is a lot of campaign nothingness.