Get up, Joey! If someone knocks you down, get up. Get up, Joey, get up!

Throughout former Vice President Joe Biden’s career, he has repeated these words of advice from his father countless times. It is almost surely Biden’s favorite mantra. Both personally and professionally, he indeed has gotten up from the mat again and again. Now, just when know-it-all pundits (such as I) pronounced his political career finally over, Biden has dusted himself off and, yes, gotten up.