Posted on 08/30/2008 1:34:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin is deadly. In fact Joe Biden might as well be debating Anne Coulter. Palin is that good.
I feel sorry for Biden already.
What unsettles liberals is that sexist (by nature) conservatives are rallied and energized by a female candidate. This does not fit their view of conservatives (and of themselves).
Hillary is now old hat.
lol..that’s right. And the other panel memebers (including Brit) had fun ridiculing Kondracke’s idiocy. Beltway Boy Morty is so mortified by (as far outside the Beltway as possible) Palin he’s crumbling on national tv. Great entertainment.
"One liberal commentator--a former U.S. ambassador and not normally an unabashed vulgarian--licked his chops Friday afternoon: "To steal an old adage of former Secretary of State James Baker . . . putting Sarah Palin into a debate with Joe Biden is going to be like throwing Howdy Doody into a knife fight!"
I'm not too worried about Sarah more than holding her own - the big ??? is whether the format is truly balanced and whether the questioners/moderator keep it like a typical VP debate (in which Sarah Palin will shine), or will the cooperate with the Demagogues in turning it into some exam/trivia contest about foreign policy minutia that Biden would be much more likely to know. On the major issues, I think SP will be fine, and she has a far more appealing presence -- plus Biden will have to tread very carefully to not piss off a lot of people if he goes into the kind of heavy-handed attacks that the Demagogues love to do.
But I can certainly imagine that there may be foreign policy minutia that she will not know and will not have time to bone up on in 4 weeks. Personally, I don't care a bit whether or not she can recite any details of the SALT-II talks, etc. but I can easily imagine that with Biden the 'Rats and MSM will try to turn the whole debate in that direction.
>> Sarah Palin is deadly. In fact Joe Biden might as well be debating Anne Coulter. Palin is that good.
Sincere, guileless righteousness is powerful, isn’t it?
Reagan-esque.
Biden doesn’t have a chance. I almost feel sorry for him.
McCain showed a lot of courage in choosing Sarah Plain. Obviously she has solid conservative credentials. Pro-lifers and Evangelicals will come out to vote for her based on her record. And Palin has more executive expereience then Obama and Biden combinded. Its only logical that Palin will help McCain pull in more of the women vote. Including Independents and even ticked off Hillary voters. Those are the pluses.
Any downside to choosing Palin will come from her daily behavior on the campaign trail and how the liberal media portrays her in the news. Also, Palin’s performance in the VP debate will be under a bright spotlight.
Overall, a good choice by McCain. How it plays out is anyones guess.
Biden IS one of the “good ole boys” network. He is also a relic. Hope he starts looking for some good lines to plagiarize soon. He is going to need it.
I think, hope and believe she will eat his lunch while handing "Scrappy" Joe Biden his own head on a platter.
I saw that!
It just floored me.
In the time Obama has been running for president (and not doing the job he was being paid to do) Sarah was cleaning out crooked Alaskan politicians and gaining valuable (and real)executive experience.
The last 24 hours had made me realize that a great part of Obama's success in the last 20 months is because he got the early jump on the primary and was the only new, young (relatively so) face on the campaign trail.
This campaign has been needlessly and interminably long because Obama's wealthy backers started him early in hopes of bleeding the competition financially dry.
Now, in only 24 hours, Sarah Palin has moved him and Jaberin' Joe from smug offense to reactionary defense.
John McCain is in the Catbird seat (at least for the next week or two).
The press and Washington is so blind-sided over this pick that they are left speechless.
More people than ever before are listening closely to what the candidates are made of and to what they say.
The Left is in big trouble and they have very little ammunition to attack Palin with. Inexperience? Imagine that, and their main candidate has only 178 days in the Senate and has only been a community activist before that for a short time.
Palin has run a business, been a very successful mayor, an accomplished Governor and a Commander in Chief of one of the largest National Guard units in the Country.
If she is really what the accounts say she is, I will vote for the ticket after all. I was prepared to walk away.
I used up all my popcorn during the democRat convention. I think I better re-stock.
I’ve been a big Fred B fan for many years now.
Mort Kondracke really irritates me. But then of all the left-leaning Fox contributors only Juan Williams is tolerable. And he is beginning to lean right.
Why, I wonder?
For sure, Biden has 35 years of campaigning and political experience behind him. He has often spoken -- on the hustings, on the Senate floor, in Committee meetings and on the Sunday morning shows.
All of that is true.
However, at the same time he was doing these things, he has given ample evidence that he is a pompous blowhard, a gasbag of the worst kind.
He is not quick afoot. Given the choice between a terse direct response and a laborious circumlocution, he will inevitably choose the latter. And extend it. He is given to tired cliches, not the pithy epigram.
Biden is no "quick-witted debater". He is a ponderous target for one.
Based upon her performance at the VP introduction yesterday, she'll be picking his bones by the close.
>> Why, I wonder?
See my post #8.
Palin will be packin'.
With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years, he’s been able but undistinguished. I don’t think people could really name a big, important thing that he’s done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America. And again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it’s smaller than Chula Vista, California; Aurora, Colorado; Mesa or Gilbert, Arizona; north Las Vegas or Henderson, Nevada. It’s not a big town. So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I’m really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States?
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