I say this without having read any blog commentary on the Joe Biden choice (yet), so I don't know how it went down in Orangeland and what strategies were analysed behind it. I thought Sebelius would have been the best choice from the offer. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Remember, Biden authored the Violence Against Women Act and killed the Robert Bork nomination to the Supreme Court (which might very well have saved Roe). Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin