Comments on: Debate Prediction

By: Nimrod Gently

Nimrod Gently — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:39:53 +0000

The bar has been lowered so much that nothing short of walking into the middle of the room, lifting her skirts and taking a great big shit into a big bowl of flour will prevent her from being declared the winner and practically sworn in then and there.

Realpolitik, don’t you just LOVE. IT.

By: Mylegacy

Mylegacy — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:27:33 +0000

I am afeard – so afeard of this debate.

I have been saying that Sarah is not STUPID just IGNORANT – I’m now SURE she’s both. That’s what is scaring me so much. I think most evryone has come to the same conslusion. If we are wrong and she is only IGNORANT she could really surprise tonight.

Because I now think she is BOTH – I see little likelyhood of her doing well. As a Management Consultant I know of HUNDREDS of ways to answers questions you don’t know the answers to without looking stupid – she doesn’t seem to even know one yet.

The only way I can see her doing OK is if Biden flubs it big time – he’s GOT to answer his questions like it’s McCain sitting across from him and if his answer isn’t dead on McCain will rip him to shreds.

McCain is a disgrace for picking this unqualified woman who has NEVER spent even a SECOND thinking about the issues that confront this nation. McCain should go down in history as a man who is beneath contempt.

I know – I’m rambling – told you I was afreard.

By: Bruce Henry

Bruce Henry — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:15:00 +0000

Right after Fred said Palin was overcoached, he said, “Ah’m not a chicken, son! That theah’s a chicken! Now go ‘way, boy, ya botha me.”

By: essrog

essrog — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:29:24 +0000

So I should not expect some mavericky stunt for this debate? Awwww

There’s a narrative currently being warmed up to cushion a poor Palin performance, that Gwen Ifill can’t be expected to be a fair moderator because of her book about Obama.

Of course, the book was known well enough in advance that if it were a serious problem McCain could have had her replaced as a moderator, but this would have deprived him of the prerogative of claiming press bias/unfairness after the debate

By: MJ Kitchens

MJ Kitchens — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:29:12 +0000

Palin will be ready with smiling attacks on Obama and Biden’s records on tax increases. It won’t matter whether or not it is true. She will say in a a smiling and charming way, and if Biden goes back at it, she will change the subject and claim he was playing “gotcha”. Palin has gone from “pitbull” to “poor-picked-on-media victim in a month. It will be VERY hard for Biden to win htis debate. If he does, it will be because he focuses on his own charm and a real post-partisan approach.

By: midderpidge

midderpidge — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:46:10 +0000

This debate is Palin’s to lose. Expectations are so low for her she only has to show up to beat them. She has had time to memorize and rehearse broad answers that she will shoehorn into any question, ignoring the specifics, pretty much like Bush always does. Biden will get caught up answering the questions fully in detail, while Palin will spew campaign gibberish.

In other words, Biden will be too specific, beyond the expertise and knowledge of most Americans while Palin can play talking points and sound bites. It’ll be a replay of the Gore-Bush debates where Gore answered all the questions, proved he was the master of details and yet “lost” to Bush whose answers demonstrated he had little in depth knowledge about anything.

By: PD100

PD100 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:37:08 +0000

It’s a sure bet-

Stupid fingers.

By: PD100

PD100 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:36:11 +0000

It’s s sure bet that Biden will lose the swimsuit competetion.

By: Duros Hussein 62

Duros Hussein 62 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:26:19 +0000

I think it will be tough for Biden to win no matter what he does.
Sexism, real or perceived, will win the day.

If he’s too tough on her, we’ll hear “He’s picking on her because she’s a girl.”

If he goes easy on her, it’ll be “He wasn’t tough on her because she’s a girl!”

Kind of a built-in victim factor.