The Left thinks Biden won because he was rude

I was reading some columns in Slate and Politico this morning in which liberals were ecstatic that “Joltin Joe Biden” wiped the floor with Paul Ryan. Roger Simon opined, “Biden smirked, sneered, and openly laughed at many of Ryan’s responses. It could have looked rude, but Biden made it look tough.”

Really?

I thought it made him look childish, small, rude, and diminished his office. It was as though he watched the infamous Gore vs. Bush debate and thought, “That big sigh behind Bush was a master stroke!”

Columns on the left are relishing in the attacks on Ryan because it’s how they feel. They WANT him attacked. They want a big fight. They believe this is the kind of thing that Obama should have been doing last time around.

They’re wrong.

I can’t imagine non-political voters–those not engrossed in the horse race, but endure it to perform their civic duty every 2 to 4 years–will see this rudeness as a plus.

In 2008 the Obama promise was of a new era of Hope and Change that would herald a new tone in Washington. If the 2008 campaign were a fruit it would be a fruit from Eden, promising paradise. Four years later, the fruit has proven that while it was beautiful to look at, it was poor to consume. And Biden’s performance exposed a rotten core with his rude laughter like the buzzing of flies around the carcass of what might have been.