SALT LAKE CITY — Sarah Palin thinks Hillary Clinton should join the Democratic ticket for vice president, replacing Joe Biden, who spent the early part of this week moving from one gaffe to the next.
On Tuesday, Biden told voters in Virginia that, "with you, we can win North Carolina," a comment that suggests that Attorney General Eric Holder might need to rethink his opposition to voter ID laws. That was also the day that Biden told a largely black audience that Republicans were going to "put y'all back in chains."
Then on Wednesday, Biden forgot what century he was in, asking an audience in Blacksburg, Va., "Where is it written that we cannot lead the world in the 20th Century in making automobiles?"
Scott Johnson at Powerline thinks Biden is, metaphorically, a dead man walking. "Will Obama dump him? I think he will, in a heartbeat, if internal polling shows that Ms. Hillary would help him. Obama is a cold guy and Biden has done nothing but embarrass him."
The Weekly Standard pointed to the president's schedule today, which includes meetings with the Vice President and with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
John McCain said on Fox News Wednesday that replacing Biden would be "wise" but predicted it would not happen. “I think it might be wise to do that but it’s not going to happen obviously, for a whole variety of reasons,” McCain said.
“I’m not sure if I were Hillary Clinton I would want to be on that team,” he added. “I think her ambitions frankly are for 2016, and I’m not sure that would enhance that likelihood.”
On CNN, Former Viriginia governor Doug Wilder, a Democrat and an African American, disputed the Obama camp's spin that Biden's chains comments were not racially charged.
"First of all, without question they were appeals to race," Wilder said. "The important thing I got out of this was Biden separated himself from what he accused the people of doing. As a matter of fact, what he said is they are going to do something to y'all, not to me. Not us. So he was still involved with that separate American."
Any inclination in the Obama camp to follow McCain's advice may be dampened by Sarah Palin, who on Tuesday said that he should replace Biden with Hillary, arguing that Obama must find a "diplomatic way of replacing Joe Biden on the ticket with Hillary. And I don't want to throw out that suggestion and have them actually accept the suggestion, because then an Obama-Hillary Clinton ticket would have a darn good chance of winning."
