Grr Biden Smash

Too many things going on tonight to keep track of. But I'm staying in to watch the VP debate. Not because I think it will matter much but because it's likely to be the most entertaining event remaining in the 2012 campaign. Apart from the inevitable voter suppression and voter fraud lawsuit derby we'll be watching for the following several months, I mean.

Anyway, here's my favorite pre-game analysis I've seen this week.

You have a brittle prick who's coping badly with the media falling out of love with him, going up against a guy who embraces being a goof and plays the role well. Ryan has three superpowers—smug disdain, shameless prevarication and ducking the issue—and he's going to be locked for 90 minutes, in front of the entire nation, next to a dude with working-class bona fides, a subtly strong command of foreign and domestic policy and every incentive to wring Ryan's pencil neck.