Sometimes, you just have to wonder what Joe Biden is thinking about beneath that magnificently manufactured coif. Or why he says what he does.

Last week, he provided the GOP with a semi-blueprint for victory in 2010. Roughly paraphrased, this is what Mr. Biden said at a fund-raiser for Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords: If the GOP successfully flips 35 Democratic House seats in 2010 in what have been Republican-leaning districts, then it’s end game “for what Barack and I are trying to do.”

This is hardly ground-breaking political strategy, but it does provide Republicans ample talking points. For all they need to do in these districts is point to what “Barack and I are trying to do” — a health-care overhaul more and more Americans are opposing, a cap-and-trade energy program that amounts to a de facto tax on every American consumer, and confusion about this nation’s mission and place in the world.

And that’s before even mentioning the words “spending,” “deficit,” and “generational wealth transfer.”