Biden has been a weird and creepy guy almost from the get-go. The death of his first wife, Neilia, and baby daughter occurred right after his narrow victory over GOP incumbent Caleb Boggs in December 1972. He came close to doing the most adult thing in his life and resigning before he was sworn-in (in order to care for his two remaining toddlers, one of whom, Beau, is now the Attorney General of Delaware).
He’s had a bizarre (and slanderous) narrative claiming that a drunk trucker killed his wife and daughter when it was, in fact, her driving error that caused the accident, pulling out in front of the truck. He also made some other rather strange comments regarding his late wife, one in that he implied missing her (or rather missing sex with her) because of her “Playboy Playmate” body. Frankly, I don’t think the guy has ever played with a full deck, and whether it was this tragedy that turned him that way, that may simply be sauce for the goose.
I truly wish Pete duPont had done the right thing years ago and removed this cancer from Delaware (as he could’ve done in either 1972, had he primaried Boggs, or 1984 when he retired from his two terms as Governor). Too late now as the state has gone to the dark side.
My understanding was that J. Caleb Boggs was going to retire in 1972 but that Nixon, wanting to keep Pete du Pont in the House and prevent a likely GOP Senate primary between Du Pont and a former congressman, leaned on Boggs to run for one final term. Had Nixon stayed out of it, Du Pont would have been elected to the Senate in 1972. That would have meant that (i) Joe Biden may have never become a Senator but (ii) Du Pont would have never served as governor or Delaware; history certainly would have been very different.
But, yes, had Pete du Pont run against Biden in 1984, Biden would have been gone for good. Well, maybe Biden would have run against William Roth in 1988, but he probably would have lost then as well.
Well done, as usual, FM!
NFHale: What happened to Plugs is tragic. However, that doesn’t give him the right to ruin our nation.
He said that? Out loud to somebody? Poor guy.
It's too bad (for the country, great for him and his sons obviously) that he found another wife to get him interested in the art of screwing over the people again.