VP Debate: McCain's Big Gamble Comes Up Snake Eyes

[napi21]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/vp-debate-mccains-big-gam_b_131489.html

If the reaction of the Republican women in the room is any indication, it was not a very good night for Sarah Palin. The only noises heard during the debate were groans when Palin turned her folksiness meter up to 11 (which was often), and applause when Joe Biden delivered his best moments of the night: making personal his understanding of the plight of single parents sitting around their kitchen tables, looking for help; and his impassioned pushback on Palin's endless description of John McCain as "a maverick."

The loudest ovation of the night -- at least in that ballroom (granted, not the most representative-of-America crowd) -- came when Biden said that Dick Cheney was the most dangerous VP in history.

After watching this debate, I am convinced that if the country somehow has a collective mental meltdown and elects Sarah Palin, she will be even more dangerous than Cheney. Not only does she want more power for herself than the Constitution grants -- or than Cheney took for himself -- but she is so obviously not equipped to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, it takes your breath away that McCain picked her. He claims to be putting his country first, but the debate proved beyond any doubt that he has actually chosen to put his country on the betting line and roll the dice. And they've come up snake eyes.

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Watching Biden and Palin on the same stage was like watching a tennis champion walk onto Centre Court at Wimbledon only to find himself facing an over-eager amateur from the local high school. Or as Pat Mitchell told me, "Biden was taking part in a vice presidential debate; Palin was taking part in a junior high debate."

Good article. Read the whole thing at the link if you have the chance.

[ErinBerin84]

1. haha

""The home-spun homilies have to go," Martha Stewart told me. "And, oh my god, words do have ending consonants."

[opihimoimoi]

2. McCramps had a mental breakdown when he chose Palin....Country First my Ass.

[speedoo]

3. Cutie-pie Palin may have impressed some men lasat night with her antics.

But she had the opposite effect on women, based on post-debate reaction.

Women are not buying her phony act.

[calimary]

4. Yep, doggonnit!

I loved that CNN people meter - that ran throughout the debate from its test group of undecided Ohio voters. It was clear, throughout the debate - women were NOT buying it. The men were, but the women saw through the kewpie-doll schtick.

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