QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: Are you ready for the Summer of Biden?

His latest slip, in which he said that he had been contacted by the late Margaret Thatcher (d. 2013), expressing concerns about President Donald Trump, was great fun. It’s particularly amusing because Biden’s last known big British politician gaffe concerned Neil Kinnock, Thatcher’s great rival, whom he plagiarized horribly during his 1988 run.

We should be fair: the Thatcher-May error was hardly big, especially by Biden’s standards. It’s not comparable, for instance, to the time he called out ‘stand up Chuck, let ’em see ya’ to wheelchair-bound Sen. Chuck Graham. Biden obviously meant to name Britain’s current and second woman Prime Minister, Theresa May, and, hey, it’s hard to tell the difference between two women when you aren’t sniffing them.

He quickly corrected himself, called it a ‘Freudian slip’, which in itself is a Freudian slip – and pointed out that he ‘knew her too.’ Oh Joe, you wily old cad.

Such mistakes aren’t off-putting in a candidate: they can even be endearing. Biden, 76, is bound to say far worse over the coming weeks – and a series of high-profile faux pas could help his campaign suck up lots of airtime that might otherwise be inhaled by a Pete Buttigieg or a Beto O’Rourke. That’s how Trump won, remember? A Summer of Biden might be exactly what the old man needs to stay ahead.

As Brit Hume wrote when Biden was only 43, “The rhetorical fervor of his stump speeches and debating style, have earned him the reputation of a man whose mouth often runs — and runs, and runs — well ahead of his mind.”