Posted on 10/01/2008 12:33:37 PM PDT by wattsmag2
We all know how a single sentence or phrase can capture the minds of the audience witnessing a debate. Things like Reagan saying "There you go again."
Well I am assuming the McCain/Palin camp has people monitoring this site. Lets come up with a few good ones. Who knows, we might help make history.
My contributions:
Should Biden play up his vast experience, Palin should say.
Senator, you have been in the Senate for ages. You have not changed anything. Your speeches are not about change, they are about partisan politics and you have had your snout in the Congressional feeding trough on a steady basis. It is time someone took the trough away and John McCain and I are gonna do that.
Should questions from the OBVIOUSLY partisan moderator point toward inexperience, Palin might say:
I may not be an expert in foreign policy yet, but I am a quick learner. I went from small town mayor to governor of the most resource rich state in the nation. I did so by taking on the special interests and my approval rating is 4 times that of Congress. Others have underestimated me too.
On Obama and change she might say:
You know Obama said if you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig. He should know. He has been snout to snout with Biden and the other Senators at the feed trough. John McCain and I are gonna put em on a diet.
On her inexperience:
“Well, I am younger than Senator Biden, so I haven’t had the opportunities for experience that he has. For instance, unlike Senator Biden, I never watched FDR on television in the 1920s.”
“Senator Blutarsky, oh sorry, I meant Biden...”
Palin: Biden has a brilliant foreign policy regarding energy. Transfer hundreds of billions of dollars to foreign countries that hate us.
If you put lipstick on a vanity, it’s still a vanity.
What I meant in my comment on age to Katie was not disrespect for any ones age just that Sen Biden is a problematic old line fixture in Washington, dating back to when I was in 2nd grade and McCain was still a POW.
No, God will supply Palin with the right quote at the right time, just like the “lipstick” comment at the RNC, MN. It must be spontaneous, and it will stick. She ad libbed that when telepromter went haywire, and that’s the best waym it has to be a fill in, and spontaneous.
“Senator Biden, you’ve been in Washington for so long that you’ve even forgotten how to spell the word truth!”
You can’t stage these moments. These come from the wit and understanding of the participant and its value is the honest spontaneity of it. Sarah Palin has been squished by the handlers... my hope is that she can recover her originality and speak from that rather than the deluge of information they’ve attempted to cram into her brain.
“Senator Obama is likeable enough.”
Good one!
I would love to see a line about Biden's "experience" like yours, or better yet, after Biden responds to a question about some problem by noting some failed legislation he pushed twenty years ago, Palin can point out that every issue or problem in this country that Ifill asks about is one that Biden has failed to fix in his 36 years in the Senate. My only concern is that McCain has been in the Senate for a long time too, so it might not work. But it certainly points to the need for some fresh, outsider energy in Washington.
If she is asked about her experience, and especially if Biden is foolish enough to tout Obama's experience, Palin can say that Obama's only relevant experience is that which he has gained in the process of running for president. But that's way different from running a state or a country. If it weren't, then every president would perform wonderfully simply by virtue of having been elected. I don't reckon there's any way to pack that into a one-liner, though.
“When you say tax cuts for the “rich”, Ms Ifill, I would like to translate for the American people who we are talking about when we say “rich”. These are the people that sign your checks, America, our employers, our investors, and our entrepreneurs. We make them the declared enemy of tax policy at our peril.”
Senator, you question my expreience, How much executive experience does that 127 wonder boss you have. You know the one YOU yourself and Senator clinton said doesn’t have the experience.
You know Senator, in most government jobs you have to stay in the position for sixth months before you can seek a promotion.
You know Senator, showing up in washington once in awhile for the job you were elected to do doesn’t qualify as foreign policy experience either.
Republican: Trickle down prosperity
Democrats: Trickle down taxes
You know Senator, I wouldn’t be going through an ethics investigation right now if that law you championed against spousal abuse actually helped women and children.
Is it my fading memory, or have there ever been so many vanity threads as there are now?
Most of them are like this one, seemingly much wittier in the poster’s head than when actually committed to print.
Gee I noticed that every other Senator with as many years in the Senate as you is rich. What are You doing wrong? Are you too dumb to take a bribe?
If Biden tries that stupid line about McCain wanting to give oil companies a $4 billion tax break, she can say that McCain wants to cut taxes for every company. Oil companies are part of that. "We don't go around demagoguing like that, saying that Senator Obama wants to cut taxes for 95% of pedophiles."
If Biden asserts, as he has on the stump, that McCain's health care package would be a tax hike--which is demonstrably false--or if he says any such whopper, she can say "Senator Biden, that's just not true. Even by the standards of Washington, D.C., that was a real whopper. Maybe you really believe what you just said, and maybe you don't and you said it anyway--I'm not sure which would be worse."
Of course, she'd not say anything like that. For whatever reason, "independent" voters don't like snarky answers, however justifiable they are. But it's fun to daydream.
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