Sarah Palin wins the debate tonight no matter what happens. Expectations are so low for her that being able to stand on two feet and speak her name will be probably all she needs to do to be acclaimed the victor by the media. But Joe Biden can win the debate with the rest of the 70% of America that has Bush Derangement Syndrome by being simply himself. He comes off well with a certain blue collar charm, he has a reassuring voice and I doubt anyone else on that stage will sound half as grown up as he will.
No, the person I pity is Gwen Ifill. Watch and see if the media and the GOP spinners don’t spend 90% of their time telling us how mean and nasty and angry and UNFAIR! the black woman moderator was to poor Joe Sixpack Sarah Palin. I wouldn’t want to be in her place for a million dollars.
Well, Okay, maybe a million.
Palin should do very well. She’s been following Biden since the 2nd grade, knows him inside out.
Don’t you mean she has been following Biden since – like – the second grade?
whatever. She’ll be going into the debate feeling good armed with this open letter from a group of conservative editors in her purse.
like, PASSED the second grade.
At this point, I am only interested in how she looks on stage. She’s so unqualified that it’s not even funny anymore and what she says does not matter one single bit.
She will look “faaabuloussss”
You know, she’s attractive and all, but I don’t find her particularly fabulous looking, and I don’t think she is the least bit sexy. And a lot of the men I know see it that way too. There are a lot of women her age and older who are really drop dead gorgeous and sexy as can be. She is not one of them as far as I am concerned.
I find her enormously sexy. She’s not drop-dead beautiful, but she hits so many of my “interest” points in terms of attractiveness.
I figure that she’s here to stay, so I might as well enjoy the view. Being shallow, in a small way, helps mitigate the ridiculous farce she and John McCain have turned their campaign into.
I suppose she is OK – until she opens that mouth of hers and starts yapping. Anyone who is not seriously turned off by that really needs help!
She is marginally attractive I guess, in that shake-your-hair-down-and-remove-your-eyeglasses sort of way….but between that annoying voice and her personality, I’d hope that it negates any sex appeal to all but the most shallow guys.
It’s the voice, definitely the voice. Yup.
For me, her unattractiveness is not related to anything gender specific. It’s her eyes. She has the same vacant yet deep and calculating stare as many other power-hungry fundamentalist wackos around the world. Same as George Bush.
I’m sure I’ve been somewhat affected by hearing her speak and learning about her, but I swear that was my first reaction when I saw her speak at the RNC, and it really creeped me out.
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How she will camouflage the bulge? Any ideas …
Sarah Palin's Beauty Pageant"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."She’ll hide the device in her beehive.
This is what I wrote on another board about her performance tonight:
More to the point, it is my belief that what she says does not matter one bit. After the Gibson/Couric catastrophes, the entire world knows she’s had to have crammed something fierce for the debate. Thus, the thoughts she expresses on the stage will not be her own. She didn’t care about the world around Alaska before she signed up to be McCain’s running mate. That lack of curiosity makes any statements she makes tonight ridiculously inauthentic.
In cultural issues (abortion, et cetera) she has some foundation and can speak with conviction, but on anything else, she’s empty as my bank account.
I think that will show tonight.
Ha! Moose antlers?
Oh, I was thinking more along these lines…
I wouldn’t want to be in her place for a million dollars.
My guess is that Gwen Ifill’s net worth is substantially more than a million dollars.
I’m not too worried about the wingnut assault on Ifill. Unlike Dan Rather, the rest of the journalistic establishment as well as her own bosses seem to like Ifill quite a lot. No one is looking for an excuse to get rid of her, so “kerning” arguments are going to fall flat. They can rally to the defense of their own quite handily if necessary.
If anything I’d expect an assault against Ifill by the McCain camp to explode in their laps. A grass roots assault by wingnuts will be slapped aside like so much noise.
tonight, she is under a lot of pressure. A Palin brain fart that keeps Obama’s momentum going is fatal to McCain at this point. All it may take is a few “like what?” or “can you give us specifics?” follow up questions from Ifill (just like Courtic) to drown Palin.
Go Gwen!
The polls showing Obama ahead are all outliers.
The debates are all subjective and McSame/Palin won.
The American people are overwhelmingly behind the GOP this year.
The Economic Rescue Plan will pass the House.
We will be greeted as liberators in Baghdad.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Betamax is the future of video technology.
GOP operatives are already set to smear Ifill as biased. Of course, Fox will go along with that spin. But other members of the MSM have not been giving McCain/Palin as much of a pass as they gave W. If the whole GOP debate spin revolves around attacking Ifill (one of their own) other members of the press may push back.
If, on the other hand, Biden comes across as even slightly condescending (or even is perceived as bullying Palin), the GOP can try to score points on style — no matter how much more competent Biden may be at addressing the content of the questions.
Politico | Palin’s new plan: Go after Biden
Another Hail Mary from the ‘Campaign that Can’t Get Its Act Together.’