Well, now.  Seems like the VP was witnessed out shoe shopping yesterday in a secure Alexandria Johnston and Murphy store.  The interesting thing is that he was looking for only a single shoe.  Odd you say?  For most maybe, but the salesman was reported to have acted as if he’d honoured this request for the affable politico a few times in the past (as a Delaware Senator and now as VP).  And why a single shoe, you might ask?  Fair question.  It was because the matching black winged tip suffered irreparable damage when the Walter Reed surgeons were forced to extract it from his mouth (sans anesthetic) after his introduction of his boss at the historic Health Care Reform bill signing yesterday.  The “Big F#@&*$! Deal” he uttered into the Presidents ear produced a Daisy Cutter that would virally make the global rounds in but 10 minutes and send the entire bible belt searching for a bar of Ivory.  It has now been tracked and monitored to the edges of the Milky Way.  It was that big of a story.

Trouble is, is it that big of a deal?  Seriously.  Yeah, I know we must watch what we say (little pitcher’s, big ears, and all) and it looks so undignified to have a head of state (or semi-head) drop the Big One… and right at the F’n podium… at the F’n bill signing… to the F’n President!  But the fact was, it is precisely what every Dem in the room was thinking.  I was told by someone in the room they saw a prominent woman mime something to the effect “F’n right we got ‘er done!)

It’s what normal Americans say when they get hyped up.  Truth be told (now be honest folks) it’s what we all (most) say from time to time… just never to the President at an historic signing… WTF!

Very few I’ve talked with or interviewed by phone had bad words to say.  Of course, the family values Richter Scale measured a 9.2 (would level most heathen cities) and sent Glens U and Beck looking for their Pepto.  But most I talked to thought little of it.  I know, soooo many were horrified… oh my.  But some (yes from both affiliations) thought it was funny; one said cool.  One lady who hates anything Biden called him “refreshing”.  This is Joe… plain and simple.  He don’t have a governor on his oral engine and that makes him normal… at least in our eyes.

So crack open a Bud, bring up youtube, and take a gander of what normal is to a lot of folks.

Now the Dems can only pray that the whole Health Care Bill doesn’t get F’d up.

Apples with apples.  We’ve all heard the term.  Comparing like with like, if you will.  When talking political party analytics as applied to what differences – or similarities – may exist  in the respective ideologies, design, manner, protocol, and rhetoric, the side by side comparisons can appear to speak everything from marginal and ambiguous to flagrant and absolute.  It’s both what drives the voters nutz, yet to the polls at the very same time.  The sleek and soapy words “compromise” and “Partisan… or non-partisan” along with a  perpetual barrage of double talk wear out the carpet in every voter’s brain.  And should one have the temerity to attempt pinning any politico to a simple yes…or no answer, they are met with a well rehearsed tap and a shell game of verbiage that would have the AFLAC Duck shaking the bill off its head.  They want to be popular.  And will do anything to achieve that distinction.

So we will begin a series to best explain (in our whacky way) and provide the real differences between Delaware’s Hatfields and McCoys… er, ah… Democrats and Republicans.  We think of it as a public service… DE2010 style.  We will not only look at the differences in the two but analyze the poli-speak (see doubletalk) and do our best to translate.  Ya know “what they said and the genuine translation…”  They hate that.  They truly do; and it makes us drool.

So tonight we begin by examining why the Dems have absolutely no primary engagement on or anywhere near the books.  It is strictly verboten. Really?… you may ask.  Yes, really.  While the Repubs have laid their table with “Old Country Buffet” style; allowing any Tom Dick and Rose to get in line for a match with Carney, you’ll not catch so much as a whiff of primary competition for John, unless of course Spencer starts doing some serious fundraising or hits the lottery.  And you won’t see it for Coons either.

Why?  A few reasons actually.  First is that the Dems all know the score.  It is Biden’s party and he calls the shots.  You won’t see the grassroots Tea’s and 9-12’s mussin’ up his fine hair and takin’ money and the spotlight from the chosen one’s.  That oddly includes Coons who by default became one.

Secondly, anyone with the balls – or stupidity – to take such a triple dog dare would find themselves in the trash compactor more commonly referred to as the “Obama Machine”.   It wouldn’t be pretty.  Suicide rarely is.

And third on the hit parade are the Media giants (yes, the tongue’s cheeky) hiding just inside the neatly tailored party pockets.  You really believe WDEL and News Journal (fine bastion of journalistic principle it is) would ever buck Biden?  A political outlaw would be reduced to laughing stock status… and stat.

Now that’s not to suggest there aren’t a few whose screws need tightening itchin’ to stand on their Borax box and give ‘er the ‘ole college try; if for no other reason that they by law… can.   We hear the rustling of leaves, snapping of twigs and wagging of tongues.  There’s some figures who is talkin’, folks.  Now if they got the stones, the cash, and the capacity to leave their senses at the door… remains to be seen.

Final Note:  The Dems will rest easy during primary season.  Carney will stay sharp and Coons will gain ground.  That’s the way Uncle Joe and the Big O want it…and that’s the way it’s gonna be.  Capiche?

The Dems, on the heels of unsettling shifts in party popularity have brought in some new muscle and brains (and with a Delaware lineage… how bout that).

David Plouffe, a former Obiden campaign guru, is now entrusted with placing his finger and resume in the political dike, hopefully stemming the dark tide that flooded Jersey and Virginia in ‘09, and swept into Massachusetts with a full levy breach last Tuesday,  turning Ted Kennedy over in his grave and sending the DNC to higher ground.   The GOP is breaking out the backhoe to dig a new grave if the Dems can’t shore up their coastline… and soon.

The kid has the acumen and the brains, but has the horse left the barn?  This will be interesting so stay tuned.