The White House has already defended Biden with the laughable claim he’s “one of the leading statesmen of his time.”

Via Free Beacon:

BOB GATES: It started with voting against assistance to Vietnam, the assistance package at the end of Vietnam War that basically left the South Vietnamese government high and dry. I think he said with the fall of the Shah that this “represented progress towards human rights in Iran” when the Ayatollah took over. He voted against almost every element of the Reagan defense buildup, the B-1, the B-2, the MX missile. [He] opposed Reagan’s approach to trying to deal with the Soviet Union. [He] voted against the first Gulf War. Those are a few examples.