After Joe Biden’s half century in public life, the media has finally caught on to breaking news: Biden is a bit of a creep with women.

It’s no coincidence that the eleventh-hour revelation from our firefighting journalists comes just as the former vice president seems set to enter the presidential fray about five feet to the right of the Democratic Party’s increasingly Corbynite candidates. If Biden does jump in the arena, he does so as the de facto front runner, a popular politician who’s had the blessing of avoiding the last two years of chaos and is perfectly positioned to declare himself the true heir to Obama-ism, flip back the Rust Belt, and govern as a traditionally liberal president.