So he wasn’t always stupid?

Via Washington Examiner:

At the height of the Watergate scandal, Joe Biden said Democrats were “more immoral” than Republicans.

“Let me say for the record clearly, clearly Democrats are as immoral as Republicans, if not more immoral in some of the big cities, a great deal more immoral in the traditional sense,” the 30-year-old Delaware senator said at the City Club of Cleveland in Ohio, which released an audio recording of the event this year. “But as a practical matter, politicians as a whole, in my opinion, having practicing law for four years, are a good deal more moral than lawyers as a whole, or doctors or businessmen.”

The future vice president made the comments in May 1973, months after the so-called Nixon tapes were released to the public, proving that President Richard Nixon had learned about the break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters at the Watergate Hotel and oversaw a cover-up of the crimes.

Despite those revelations, Biden urged Democrats not to seize on the Watergate scandal as a campaign issue and boasted about how he “put on a 20-minute tirade” for attendees of a fundraiser in New Jersey about “the virtues of the Republican Party.”