Posted on 10/05/2016 6:53:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Last night was the only vice presidential debate of the 2016 cycle. The conventional wisdom was that it would be boring and unimportant, but it turned out to be exciting and far more substantive than the presidential debate Lester Holt moderated last week.
1. Pence Crushed It
Before the debate began, the Republican National Committee published a piece about how Pence had won the debate. Much was made of this mistake, but the RNC must have a psychic on staff, because Pence absolutely crushed it.
He had control of the debate from the opening question to the final round. He was calm, cool, and collected. He answered questions with a laser focus on campaign messages — national security, American strength, sensible immigration policy, etc. He managed to do all this while eliding the extremely serious differences between his own conservative principles and Trump’s more progressive populism. I’m not even saying this showed integrity or principle — but it showed remarkable debating skills. He was absolutely unflappable in the face of interruptions from the other people on the stage.
Pence had only one instance of Kaine seeming to get under his skin, which included a phrase political reporters got giddy over. And when Kaine, who has been trying to appeal to social conservatives by talking about his Catholic faith, successfully avoided mention of his support for Hillary Clinton’s radical abortion policies, Pence baited him into going public about them.
In general, Pence took his message directly to whoever was watching, while Kaine was trying to appeal to the moderator and other journalists....
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My guess is that it means more this year than previous years.
Hilary is considered to be sick -- who would replace her?
Trump is considered to be a loose cannon -- is his VP just as emotional?
Kaine is not presidential.
Pence is presidential.
People will make note.
The most bizarre part of the whole debate was Kaine’s repeated insistence that Hillary Clinton had “eliminated Iran’s nuclear weapons program,” a mind-bogglingly inaccurate description of the Obama administration’s Iran-friendly nuclear deal.
and then.....
With the yippy-yappy Kaine coming off petulant, ill-tempered, and somewhat obsessed with Trump, Clinton’s choice seems like a less likable version of herself, and therefore less wise...
Yawn....
My ex lives in the “progressive” information bubble of CNN and MSNBC.
She did not like Kaine, and liked Pence.
She is lukewarm about Hillary, and buys into the anti-Trump propaganda.
She may not vote...
I was happily surprised at Pence’s tough stance on KGB Putin. He is exactly the sort of person Trump needed as his running mate. This will no doubt upset our resident Putinisas.
Kaine is looney tunes
If the vagina ticket were to croak after elected,
This boob becomes
Pres?
Oh crap
Molly Hemingway is my absolute favorite TV pundit and reporter. She’s amazingly intelligent and very conservative. She comes on Fox News a lot. Just wish Molly would replace Megyn Kelly.
Kester Holt’s earpiece. Wasn’t that normal?
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