She could have recoted the alphabet in spanish and it wouldn't have mattered.
What matters is how many undecideds she connected with.
How many undecideds felt like she understood.
How many undecideds would not be surprised to see her at a grocery store.
That is what matters and i think she did well with that.
Nothing matters to you except results and you didnt even get that.Not out of the Bushidiot and not out of Palin now:
October 2, 2008 at 23:17:31
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The Palin Ploy – No Depth Behind the Wink
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October 2, 2008
We have watched Sarah Palin lower the expectations on herself for several weeks now. In an almost calculating manner, she has tripped over herself in nearly every interview. I hated to be this cynical but it appeared that Palin had set herself up to appear capable by merely surviving tonight. Then I realized after the debate that she simply cannot handle follow up questions. THAT is the problem. She is fine when she is rambling through pre-packaged sound bites and winking but when asked for the substance, the depth; there simply is nothing behind the wink.
Let me be clear. Sarah Palin did better tonight then I expected. But during the course of the debate it started to gnaw at me how she was answering the questions. There was nothing but sweeping generalizations, pre-set talking points with buzz words, and deliberative folksiness designed to make her seem more likable; when all it really did was make her seem more plastic. She brazenly stated at the beginning that she would not adhere to the format of the debate and answer the questions the moderator wanted answered. Can you imagine that? And she followed through on her threat all night long. When faced with a question she preferred not to draw an answer out on, she simply gave a one-word response and went back to a previous talking point. She was even asked once what her Achilles heal was as a candidate and she went on a two minute rant about all of her positive attributes! It was almost bizarre in the way that she ignored the majority of the questions and stuck with her script and the format did not allow for correction.
One of the arrogant and moronic talking points Palin kept drubbing was this notion that the Obama campaign keeps “looking back” because they are talking about the disaster the past eight years have been. I understand that the McCain campaign doesn’t want to have the American people vote based on the last eight years but this notion that we should not consider what has happened for the past eight years is beyond stupid. Now in the post debate coverage, this is the chief talking point from the GOP minions. Beware America; this will be their ploy moving forward. Don’t fall for it. John McBush stands for four more years of the last eight years. THAT is why their new tactic will be to not talk about the last eight years and to brand the Obama campaign as “looking back.”
While we are at it, enough with the pre-packaged sound bites. John McCain is not a maverick. It is almost as if their hope is if they say it enough, people will somehow believe it. He has voted with Bush 90% of the time over the last 8 years. His economic plan is the same as Bush. His war plans are worse than Bush. He is McBush and it doesn’t matter how much Sarah Palin smiles at me; that remains the truth. John McCain is not a reformer. He has been the greatest proponent for the deregulation that has crippled our economy. You can wink at me all you like; it doesn’t change reality.
This was a tough assignment for Joe Biden. Clearly the strategy was for Biden to attack McCain and stay away from engaging Palin. I understand the strategy because if he had attacked Palin directly, it would have been spun as picking on the woman. Considering the McCain campaign’s propensity for casting Palin as the victim, this was probably a wise move.
So, Sarah Palin did survive. She did so however by being completely dismissive of the rules and format of the debate and brazenly boasting about it. She also then threw the gauntlet down toward the end by stating that she would not deal with the “media filter” anymore. Keep an eye on this America. If she refuses to speak with the media, as she basically has since being announced, then she is clearly hiding something. It is time that people stand up and remind the candidates who makes the decisions in this country. If she refuses to answer simple questions then she should be dismissed from any serious consideration, period.
Sarah Palin did nothing tonight to suggest that the concerns about her substance were not real. If anything, she confirmed them. She had meandering answers that did not respond directly to the question, ignored other questions completely, and overplayed her folksy hand. I say that as I mean it. I think it is a show. I think she overplayed it tonight. Call me crazy but I do not want a Vice President who can’t answer a question without winking at me and mangling the English language. I said it recently; I do not want to have a beer with my president. I want them to be smart not folksy. I want them to be better than I am; elite…if you will. We have had eight years of a “regular” president and we cannot afford another four years of McSame.
The GOP will try hard to spin this as a slam dunk for Palin. Nonsense. She was relatively vacuous in her answers; smiling and winking instead of reflecting and answering. She had relatively little grasp on facts, even getting the name of the General in charge of Afghanistan wrong. She was completely dismissive of the rules and simply went back to her pre-packaged talking points when confronted with something she couldn’t answer. What we needed, what America needed desperately tonight, was a follow up question. That was what the difference between this debate and her failed media interviews. It is also why she stated in the debate she would not go through those “filters” anymore. I do not blame her because there is no substance behind the flash. There is no depth behind the wink.
Anthony Wade, a contributing writer to opednews.com, is dedicated to educating the populace to the lies and abuses of the government. He is a 41-year-old i
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