How Will Righties Take Kabuki Joe?

At The Plank, Nate Silver has some numbers:

Republicans

Candidate  Fav-Unfav
Kaine       29-30 (-1)
Bayh        23-43 (-20)
Sebelius    14-45 (-31)
Biden       22-63 (-39)
Clinton     21-75 (-54)

[…] Joe Biden will not have a terrific amount of crossover appeal. On the contrary, though the animus might not be as personal as in the case of Senator Clinton, Biden will be seen my many GOPers as a partisan blowhard. One can argue, however, about whether this really matters. The notion that Obama was going to win over some large number of “Obamacans” had not realistically been in play for a couple of months now, as the GOP base has begun to rally behind John McCain.

Maybe. The interesting thing here is that the GOP campaign machine has hit Obama hardest on personality, and everyone knows how that line of attack would have developed had Hillary joined the ticket. I’m slightly biased here — I love Biden’s personality, and would choose him over any Democrat living if I had to be lectured at by any of them — but I wonder whether I’m completely alone in that regard. Hmm…

WITH ME: Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, Peter Lawler, Alex Massie, Megan McArdle

AGAINST ME: John Schwenkler, K-Lo, Bill Kristol (ironically), Jay Nordlinger [last time you’ll see those names in a row]

ON THE FENCE: Gawker, Yuval Levin, Andrew Sullivan, Dean Barnett

Much more at Just Above Sunset.