Zombie Palin/Biden Debate Thread (Democrats suck)

I don't believe any polls.

 

Proxying Republican bastards.

 

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/post-vp-debate-thoughts.html

 

I thought both did really well. Biden really struggled early in the debate, but came on strong as the night wore on. Palin IMO really did about as well as the republicans could have hoped for.

I am an Independent, so these mean a lot to me. My man of choice was always Rudy G. I tend to agree with a lot of his views. To be honest, Obama scares the shit out of me. I don't trust him for a second either. But here is the single reason I will be voting for John McCain. The house and the senate are ruled by the democrats. I really think it's important to have someone on the other side to ballance that out. The same thing happened when Bush was in office and the house and senate were republican. With Obama in office there will be no one to say "hey, we shouldn't spend 400 trillion dollars on minorities and illegal aliens"

 

Exactly. Neither canidate blew it or fell flat on their face. Palin is not the idiot the interviews made her out to be. Biden is not the idiot the media made him out to be.

So now it's back to the issues.

For me, Palin bolstered the idea that the rep party might just might be for the middle class (I don't get that from McCain at all),

The maverick issue is important and an aspect I like about McCain. But I thought Biden attacked that well and I really don't know if he is really a maverick (I would hate to get suckered into a gimmick phrase or word).

Taxes . . . ugh. I think this is the reps best hook to get votes. Many are hurting, many are confused about politics and many will end up knee jerk reaction vote of I DON"T WANT TO PAY MORE TAXES and that means I'm voting for *flip a coin* McCain.

I'll pull a Biden and say the strangest comment while I ramble . . . I want Biden for President. The dude knows his shit and sounds intelligent. I like him. He comes across sincere, balanced, experienced and well respected. I say throw Obama and Palin out and have a Biden/McCain ticket. (They got along in the past . . .)

 

I found the debate very intriguing. I am a little more patient with Palin and her knowledge of the history of Politics, supreme court and deep inner working of Washington. I think up until she was picked up on Mccains ticket very little of that was relevant to her as a Mayor, and then she hasn't been a Governor long enough to have delved too deeply. With that said My takes on the debate.

Biden won the debate from the stance of a traditional political debate. Palin did a better job using the platform to speak to voters.

Biden sruck me as a traditional Washington product, Palin to me comes across as more of a get the job done person.

I kept expecting to hear " Yeeehaaaa Jesters dead!!!" Followed by a buzzing of the tower.

I am really irritated about the Obama camp and their theme of change but really focusing on the Bush administration, which to me is irrelevant right now. To me we are where we are, where do we go from here? I liked that Palin called Biden on that.

I think it is really telling that Biden shifted to using her tactic of "Home Town"

My mind hasn't been made up yet. I hate how Washington operates, Biden seems to represent that, and Palin seems to speak more to my thoughts about politics, but I'm not concvinced she is quite ready to be Presient... But she's running for VP so ....

 

I'm not in the McCain camp, but I was pleased by her performance and her folksy nature. I would never vote for Obama/Biden but before the debate I thought I would not vote for McCain/Palin...I liked Palin's performance, she kept it relatively safe though and didn't go outside her comfort zone.

 

Chris Matthews is contemplating running for the Senate as a Dem in '10.

LMAO at you for thinking he is objective.

 

I used to really like Chris Matthews, but the objectivity train left the station for him about eight months ago. I think he's going to look back at his statements and performance during this election and feel a bit embarrassed.

 

great book and cause

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Okay, I've now watched CNN's, FOX's and MSNBC's analyses, and it's like they watched three different debates. Can't anyone just be honest anymore?

 

BBC America.

 

Nope, still biased. No one likes a sore loser

 

PapaG is contemplating misreading my posts as a Rep in '08.

LMAO at you for thinking I said he's objective.

 

I don't know too many Democrats that visit Drudge's web site.

 

He didn't steal her tactic. That was his tactic first. Every since Obama picked him, they've talked nonstop about Scranton, Scranton, Scranton. It's juts that the media hasn't given any airtime to Biden, so people have no idea what he's said.

 

He got in some feud with Olbermann (which didn't make too much sense to me, since Olbermann is in New York, and Matthews is in the Washington D.C. studio for the most part), and took a like 1 1/2 month vacation away from Olbermann, and ever since he's gotten back from that, he's been downright terrible.

And Matthews used to work for Tio O'neill, did anyone think he wasn't biased?

 

The buzz this morning is that Palin won the debate.


Palin/Jindal 2012?