Please, it's just such an ugly sight, he was alright, wasn't he? Yet by now he's clearly lost more than his primary. Was it 2000?
Are we looking at the struggle for life of an ego which, starved by pious modesty and principled morality, get such an unexpected mega-boost for being the VP pick - as an award for that same principledness - that it never got over the loss then (never mind winning the popular vote)??? 'Coz the indignation was justified - then. Gore had a brilliant concession speech, but today we must conclude Joe's ego never swallowed it. It vowed to come back, principles and all (never mind twisting them to perversion).
He was ever so close then, and he actually wasn't that far off now, and morality was on his side then - he just can't get over the fact that this time, it isn't. He can't get over it Big Time. It has totally blinded him. Leave the DSM on the shelf, this man is out of touch with reality.
Yet it may still not be too late. His withdrawal would save the Democrats precious time and money, and it would save him some pretty dark days that no-one would wish on anyone except his truest enemies (and there's more deserving candidates for that position). Plus it would spare the world audience this ugly sight of a desparate man, entangled in a sorry web of his own making.
Of course, beating him up more - however tempting at times - is not ever going to do that. As egoes come, they feed on friction, they devour resistance, that's how they are built. But Joe is a religious man, and in the Talmud there is plenty of wisdom to be found which, if someone could corner him with a profound selection, may somehow do the trick so it can dawn on him that this is NOT about HIM.... and that he can still somehow find a not too conspicuous exit route and that will be that, go retire some place under the sun.
So please, anybody more versed than this goyische foreigner, bring on the quotes, and get someone to feed them to him, before there's no way back, and the world houses yet another hapless fool. There's way too many of them already - especially in places of power!!!