Biden has more baggage than most people remember.
1) the plagiarism of Nile Kinnick;
2) many, many gaffes too numerous to count;

http://content.time.com/time/specials...

3) a few truly racist comments

such as Obama being the first "clean" African-American candidate, or
“You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent."

4) his consistently erroneous foreign policy;
5) his role in Supreme Court judicial obstructions, particularly Robert Bork, whom Biden said once that he would support.

A clown would have a better chance than Biden to be elected president. But then again ... doesn't Trump look a little like a clown with all that spray-on suntan?

Biden is sufficiently connected to Obama and his policies that a prospective Biden presidency would be seen by the general public as a third Obama term. He's also a political insider at a time when being an insider is toxic. I think Biden would do better than Hillary, but would still lose.

Biden's biggest problem, if he becomes a Presidential candidate, is his utter hypocrisy. For someone who plays the "empathy game" well, he gives next to nothing to charitable causes, even the ones he publicly supports (document in his tax returns). He's made more sexist, racist comments than any politician out there. He's tied to Obama policies that both Sanders and Hitlery are lambasting, but undoubtedly would join in maligning them if he became the party nominee.

Biden and Warren: Tweedledum and Tweedledumber. The Biden baggage, unlike Clinton's doesn't make him a traitor. But that's pretty much all that can be said to his benefit. Warren is as clueless as any delusional person can be. Her understanding of economics may even be less than Biden's.

Biden hasn't a single coherent thought in his head. What sealed it for me was when he advised a double barreled shotgun as a self defence weapon...and then went on to say that you should give a warning shot. Check my math here, but 2-1=1 shot left? Also, in many jurisdictions a "warning shot" equates with a negligent discharge conviction. So, he suggests using a weapon that is entirely inadequate for the task and then encourages it to be used illegally? Is this the guy we want to have a finger on the button?

When a political power base is at stake there is no limit to what those in power will do to preserve it. Hillary, Biden, even Sanders, are safe but Trump poses an existential threat because he is unpredictable. Nixon was taken down because he erroneously concluded that he was actually the President of the United States. He went off the reservation by taking actions that cost his kingmakers fortunes. Freeing the dollar from gold and opening trade relations with China without warning cost these people billions and they don't take that kind of betrayal kindly. The threat posed by Trump is that he is a wild card. No one can predict what he will do and that kind of uncertainty is completely unacceptable to the true hidden forces behind our government and that of the major world powers. Unless Trump is actually a Trojan horse, which seems unlikely, the more successful his quest for POTUS becomes the greater peril he faces. Not from the people but from the man behind the curtain.

Now That's a combo...a mental patient and a creature that identifies as Hiya Watha.

To paraphrase Biden: "then Mr Thomas asked Ms Hill 'who put this pubic hair on the top of my coke can?'". Classic Biden. No one has clipped it yet so have to watch youtube hearing to find it or it was white washed.

I was hoping for a Cruz/Sanders matchup

Biden should have run. In fact-why do no Democrats under their mid-60s seem to have been interested in running?

This idea illustrates how much trouble the dems are in. Vote for a crook or a clown? Trump in a landslide.

Biden I could live with, if I had to. But Warren would be too much to bear. It would be like a younger Pelosi taking over the White House.

This doesn't seem probable. The "movers and shakers" that matter right now are the delegates. About 45% of the delegates to the Democratic Convention are ardent Sanders supporters and are pledged to him on the first ballot. I can't see them voting for Biden if Hillary disappears. Some Hilliary delegates would do so, but I doubt more than half of them would go to Biden, a man who did not win a single primary vote. A good number of Hillary delegates would move to Sanders. He wins on the first ballot.

a high probability possibility...great speculation...any chance you trade the stock market and can send a few high probability trades my way...

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. - H. L. Mencken
And the accompanying...
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
- H. L. Mencken

Say Hillary gets a white washing of her offences instead of a pardon from Obama and agrees to step aside for Biden/Warren who then beat Trump by a nose for the presidency.
Meanwhile using her political connections Hillary runs for the Senate in 2018 and wins (in NY, state of idiots.). She calls in favors and is chosen by the Democrat majority as President pro tempore of the Senate.
In an act of patriotism, a secret service agent (of middle eastern descent, chosen for his political correctness) reveals himself as a right-wing terrorist and kills both Biden and Warren along with most of the high ranking GOP members of con-gress at a secret meeting at Camp David. With the president, vp, and speaker of the house dead, Hillary steps in as Empress.

Well, I can understand why the Democratic establishment would never accept Bernie Sanders. No connections. Connections are everything in Party apparatuses. With this difference: the Republican establishment, with their rules, didn't protect themselves as well. So Donald Trump beat them.

Having said that: Joe Biden seems to me the most colorless candidate the Democrats have run since Adlai E. Stevenson.