"maverick"-y governance

[radfringe]

The VP Debate: Palin's Big Mistake
By Eugene Robinson | October 3, 2008; 12:10 AM ET

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I thought Sarah Palin made one huge, central mistake -- and I expect it to be reflected in surveys asking voters who won (as it is already, indeed, reflected in a CBS snap poll of uncommitted voters indicating that they saw Joe Biden as the winner). Her error was that she hardly talked at all about policy solutions, except when the debate got onto the subject of energy and offshore drilling. There, she seemed on terra firma. But on everything else -- the financial crisis, the economy in general, health care, the war on terror -- she gave little more than promises of reform and "maverick"-y governance.

People are paying attention to the candidates in this election. Americans understand the stakes. Whatever you think of Palin's mugging, eye-rolling and other theatrics -- some viewers doubtless saw it as evidence of freshness, resolve and spunk; others, like Lou Grant in the old Mary Tyler Moore show, must have been muttering "I hate spunk" -- you still wanted to hear what she and John McCain proposed to do about the mess we're in. That was something she didn't deliver, and my hunch is that we'll hear that assessment from voters in the coming days.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/10/the_vp_debate_palins_big_mista.html

[CJCRANE]

1. She said Mcain-Palin are a "team of mavericks".

Have you ever heard of such a thing?

Surely it's mutually exclusive...a maverick is meant to be a lone wolf, a loose cannon.

A "team of mavericks" sounds like a recipe for chaos to me.

[mikeytherat]

2. Sarah and John are "The Lone Rangers."

:rofl:

mikey_the_rat

[Historic NY]

3. Mavericks are loose cannons.......really