According to Wesley Pruden of the Washington Times, the Democrats have the killer ticket for aught-eight: Joe Biden (pictured) and John Kerry.

Of course, it’s unclear which party they’d be killing.

By rendering their rare brand of campaign magic and insulting everyone at once, Biden-Kerry would wipe the convention clean. Nobody would attract media attention like Joe and John opening their mouths.

You could say this hasn’t been a week to - as Borat might phrase it - make benefit for the glorious U.S. Senate. The honorable members of the planet’s most exclusive club are jockeying for position to attach their names to resolutions denouncing others’ resolutions.

Joe Biden blew his thin presidential chances before he even left the starting block. John Kerry blew off what remained of his Senate cachet, finally conceded the 2004 election and ultimately dropped out of the 2008 race he was never in - and all by simply being himself.

When you start your campaign being quoted saying something monumentally dumb, as Biden did - that Barack Obama is “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy” - it’s generally not a good sign.

Biden insists, no doubt accurately, that he meant neither slur nor slander of Barack Obama. Neither did Trent Lott with his infamous birthday tribute to the late Strom Thurmond, but his remarks still cost him his post as majority leader.

You might think that U.S. senators, forever telling everyone within earshot what deep thinkers and artful speakers they all are, would be better spoken than to frame a compliment as an insult.

Interestingly, Biden was no harsher on Obama than he was on John Edwards or Hillary Clinton in his critique of the Democratic field, which was published by the New York Observer. But a man who can’t spot a gaffe this size a mile away will find the road to the White House to be a short one.