Reply #20: Not so sure about the "leaks" being con jobs, but

[DaveT]

never in the history of TV politics has "the expectation game" been set as low as it is for Sarah on Thursday night. She has become a national laughing stock -- and if she just manages to string three or four coherent sentences together, it will indeed be a huge improvement over the mush-brained performance she gave in the Couric interview. Remember, she was terribly lame with "Charlie" but the wingnuts came up with all kinds of spin in her defense.

Putin's head flying over Alaskan airspace, on the other hand, finally broke the back of wingnut audacity . . . .

I would expect the handlers to prime her with a couple of jokes, and if she belts them out the way she read her lines at the RNC, the Right Wing propaganda machine will be gleefully spinning at full tilt about how she confounded the "liberal elite's" contempt for real Americans . . . and blah blah blah.

Biden has his work cut out for him in maintaining a friendly, upbeat tone without showing any hint of contempt for her. Not an easy task if she starts babbling incoherently about the need for reform to reform things that have to be reformed.