Joe Biden aides want to limit his exposure to cut back on gaffes

It has been becoming clear to anybody who has been watching Joe Biden on the campaign trail that the former Vice President does not have both oars in the water any more. He has made some unexplainable and embarrassing gaffes over the last week on simple things. (My personal favorite one to date is his admission that Democrats do not care about facts.)

  His aides have a plan to help good ole Joe turn down the gaffe machine and that plan is to limit his schedule and lessen his speaking engagements because they know if he opens his mouth something “unfortunate” is going to come out–he cannot help it.

  Here is more:

Biden, who has retreated from the public eye after a hellish week of gaffes consumed his campaign, is being pushed to retool his schedule to limit public appearances and thereby cut down on the opportunities for verbal missteps. In particular, many are advising the 76-year-old former vice president to curb the number of events he does in the afternoon and evening – the time of day Biden has been most likely to say something embarrassing.

At the moment, the push is being made under the guise of giving Biden “more down time” before the race heats up in the fall ahead of the early primary contests.

“He needs to be a strong force on the campaign trail, but he also has to pace himself,” one of Biden’s allies told The Hill this week.

The suggestion that Biden start limiting his appearances comes less than two months after the candidate’s team publicly avowed to run a more energetic and engaged campaign.

  I guess the more “energetic and engaged” campaign strategy has not worked out so well for the 76 year old candidate. Oh course getting late day confusion is known as “sundowning” in  Alzheimer patients…

  But I am no doctor, I would never suggest Joe Biden has Alzheimer’s even if the symptoms are there, maybe he cannot physically handle the rigors of a national campaign any more. Which brings us to the question is he fit for the office he seeks? He is not going to be able to cut back on his schedule as President simply because he cannot mentally or physically be able to handle the job.

malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium