“So, you have a candidate for me this year?”
“Yes, sir, we do.”
“What’s his name?”
“Joe Biden.”
“Joe Biden? Hasn’t he been in politics for like a million years?”
“Yes.”
“And what’s he accomplished?”
“Well, what have you accomplished?”
“Fair point. But is he at least a she, or a minority, or — eh — semi-young?”
“No, no, no; not at all.”
“Then why’s he the Democrat candidate?’
“Because we say so.”
“Alrighty then.”

“Do you think that after the election we can replace him with someone younger and more ethnic?”
“No trouble at all. Barely an inconvenience. Already in the works.”
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Nominating aging buffoons is tight…
All we are saying is give senility a chance.
Isn’t he, you know, suffering from Dementia?
I’m going to have to ask you to get off my back on that sir.
Slight correction.
“Isn’t he the one who’s always groping and sniffing small children?”
“We’re going to have to ask him to get all the way off their backs on that one.”