How to counter the Palin Effect?

Democrats have abandoned the idea of avoiding Sarah Palin to concentrate on John McCain. Oh dear. Let’s see what Joe Biden has been up to:

Exhibit A: In Wisconsin, Biden is asked if Sarah Palin represents a step forward for women. His response: “well look, I think the issue is what does Sarah Palin think? What does she believe? I assume she thinks and agrees with the same policies that George Bush and John McCain think,” Biden added. “And that’s obviously a backward step for women.”

Exhibit B: Biden, again, “I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy, because there’s joy to it as well, the joy and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect. Well guess what folks? If you care about it, why don’t you support stem cell research?”