Palin's former aides say under the lipstick is a real pit bull

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[Chet 99]

[Slapshot68]

“I would choose life. And I am confident you will be asking my opponents these same scenarios?”

I love it! Go Sarah!

[donnab]

Set her free. She has been too polite to the Courics of the world.

[ronnie raygun]

I am hoping to God that Sarah is being kept docile and innocent to throw off Biden. All reports are out there that Gibson and Couric showed the American public that she is not bright and not experienced and a sure pushover.
I hope she is Mccains grenade and she pounds “ plugs” into the ground. DON’T LET US DOWN SARAH!

[anniegetyourgun]

It’s shameful how the LASlimes telegraphs debate questions and strategy to their friend, Gwen Ifill.

[Yo-Yo]

FREE SARAH PALIN!

[Moose4]

They’re trying to paint her out to be another Reagan—in their minds, all hat, no cattle.

Well, maybe we’re about to see that the American people prefer some down-home common sense over detailed policy wonkishness!

}:-)4

[no dems]

I thought that McCain missed many opportunities in the debate Friday night. I’ve been offline because of Hurricane Ike. How does everyone think McCain did in the debate? I was disappointed that he didn’t look B. Hussein in the eye and tell him what a liar he was on more than one occasion.

Does anyone know why Mac wouldn’t even look at Obama?

[fantom]

Ifill is a lefty hack like the rest of the so called reporters at NPR. If it was not for tax payer largess she would be unemployable . Her job is to destroy Palin , nothing more nothing less. She needs the job...

[Skooz]

"I would choose life. And I am confident you will be asking my opponents these same scenarios?"

Sweet. I bet that left the MSM hack stammering.

[Loyolas Mattman]

Hey Chet.

Do you have this card? If so, where did you get it?

I've been a life-long Giant fan, and I guarantee that I will be more nervous Thursday night than I was on Super Bowl Sunday back in February.

I'm amazed at how many of us have “bonded” with Sarah in just a few short weeks. If things go as they have been the last little while, I guess we will have to become fans of Alaska politics.

However, as Michael Strahan said to his teammates on the bench as Eli was leading the Giants on the winning drive against the Pats: “Believe and it will happen...”

[Hoffer Rand]

A lefty hack who is currently writing a book, glorifying 0bambi. Yeah, no bias there...

[SlowBoat407]

Does anyone know why Mac wouldn’t even look at Obama?

If it were me, I'd have to do the same just to keep my temper. It's hard enough having to listen to that adenoidal voice.

[BurbankKarl]

Author Tom Hamburger was one of the biggest pushers of the Valerie Plame was outed from an undercover intelligence position myth over the past few years. He chalked it up to “anonymous sources”, etc.

[Rhino54]

That’s what the Dems and the MSM are afraid of.

[FrankR]

" Does anyone know why Mac wouldn’t even look at Obama? "

Well, I'm guessing that McCain was figuring that bamalamma would see it as a personal attack and would start dealing off the bottom of the deck of race cards.

You know how thin-skinned he is.

McCain is trying to use the respectfulness and manners of an age gone by on Obama...who is a total street thug who doesn't have a clue about any kind of politeness or class.

I don't think McCain fully understands in-yo-face politics, and is trying to run the campaign like a gentleman. It may be his undoing.

Man-up Johnny Mac...you've only got the election to lose.

[6SJ7]

They’re trying to paint her out to be another Reagan...

Like that's a bad thing?!

[applpie]

maybe he is afraid of possession....make eye contact....i have you under my control.

[B4Ranch]

Two years on, Halcro and Knowles admit they are still baffled how their mastery of policy and state issues was trumped by Palin's breezy confidence and feel-good answers.

"When you try to prove she doesn't know anything, you lose, because audiences are enraptured by her," Halcro said. "And her biting comments give you a sense of how competitive she is. Anybody who doesn't take her seriously does so at their peril."

[Loyolas Mattman]

We could be so lucky.

I was reading Reagan’s “Life in Letters” over the weekend for a pick-me up and got a chuckle out of the Gipper complaining about how Rather sandbagged him on an interview by using deceptive editing and tricked-up camera angles. This was 28 years ago, and it read like it could have been written last week.

Sarah, you must be all that if the media has to resort to the same tricks they used on Reagan to make you look bad. Keep the faith!