““since she has 5(?) kids and a husband, she can debate”
Why anyone would be considering Palin is beyond me. She has little experience, and is a virtual unknown. Just like the kid Pawlenty. Putting Palin or Pawlenty up against an old blustering hand like Biden in the VP debate would be like sending someone with a knife to a gunfight. It’s time to haul out the big gun of debaters, which is Romney. Romney could go head to head or toe to toe if you’d prefer, with Biden, and poke Biden full of holes. It would be logic versus illogic. Reason versus mild insanity, rationality versus irrationality. Romney would decimate Biden, make mincemeat out of him. Pawlenty would be a joke, Ridge couldn’t hold his own in a debate, Palin along with Pawlenty is a no-name featherweight, and Bobby Jindhal, although I love him, is also too young, too inexperienced, and also took himself out of contention anyhow.
This will be a test to see how smart McCain is. And also whether he thinks with his head and treats politics as the business that it is, or thinks with his heart and chooses one of his buddies who are unacceptable to the base, namely Joe Lieberman (Dem, liberal except on defense), Tom Ridge (pro-choice), Rudy Guiliani (pro-choice) or Lindsey Graham (another “maverick” just like McCain, we don’t need two of them). If McCain picks one of these guys, I sit home as McCain would have proven to me that he is too much the maverick, too contrarian, too disdainful of the Republican base, and is thus too politically stupid to be President. You just don’t rub it in the face of those that brung you to the dance.”
I agree 100%. Romney is the only mentioned possibility that would kick Biden’s butt in a debate.
I respectfully disagree. Palin is now the best choice. Why? She’s more conservative than Romney, she draws to a needed demographic (Them PUMA’s are PISSED), and only political junkies actually watch the VP debate anyway. And she’s smokin’ hot (for a Governor anyway).
Romney is awful. If you think Biden is going to have to “unsay” some things he said in the past and attempt to cover up his positions, Romney is probably going to have to burn down all the newspaper archives in the country.