I assume the gaffe-master is making jokes because he’s confident that Blumenthal will win in Connecticut despite lying about his military service, but who knows. This is Joe Biden we’re talking about. He’s known to ask wheelchair-bound men to stand up and make racist jokes on camera. Political genius he is not.

Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday took an unexpected dig at Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal for misstating his military service record.

While speaking at a barbecue for wounded soldiers, he commented about veterans coming home from the Vietnam War. Biden, who has a penchant for being loquacious, veered into the Connecticut Senate race.

“I didn’t serve in Vietnam. I don’t want to make a Blumenthal mistake here,” he said according to a pool report. “Our attorney general from Connecticut, God love him.”

Later he said “I have a bad habit of saying exactly what I think.”

You don’t say.

Incidentally, Biden joins Blumenthal in having a history of lying about his career.  In 1987, Biden admitted to plagiarizing a law review article for a paper he wrote in law school. So he’s already made a “Blumenthal mistake” in a way.