Joe sounds like a Conservative in a Democratic suit.
Nothing could be further from the truth, he is just one of the stupidest mofos in Washington. It's not the
doesn't hink before he speaks, it's that he's
mentally incapable of thinking before he starts unleashing words from his pie-hole. His staffers generally did a good job of making him appear to have at least a 90+ IQ when he was in the Senate (Except when they would get lazy and plagiarize for his script, and get caught) but he doesn't have that kind of organization to run interference for him or the set-up Kabuki theater of Senate hearings as the VP, he has to be able to answer direct questions extemporaneously, which is a recipe for disaster.