Posted on 10/02/2008 7:31:20 AM PDT by rightinthemiddle
Sarah Palin: danced around her rivals 'like Muhammad Ali'
One of Sarah Palin's former political foes has delivered a warning to Joe Biden before tonight's first televised vice-presidential debate: underestimate her at your peril.
The Alaskan state governor and moose-hunting "hockey mom" plucked from obscurity by the Republican nominee John McCain has been getting intensive coaching ahead of the debate from experts including the former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger.
Republican concerns grew after interviews in which Ms Palin, 44, has appeared lost for words and supporters feared that a poor performance could deal a lethal blow to the McCain campaign in the same way that her performance at the Republican convention breathed life into it.
Her gaffes include citing Alaska’s proximity to Canada and Russia as giving her foreign policy experience.
But Mr Biden - who famously came a cropper during a primary debate in 1987 when he borrowed a line from the British Labour leader Neil Kinnock without crediting it - will be careful to avoid complacency, especially after an account in today's Los Angeles Times of Ms Palin's success in Alaska.
The newspaper said that Ms Palin had been "woefully unprepared" when she started her run for the Alaska governorship in late 2006, stumbling in her answers before an audience of electrical workers
But within a few weeks she was much more at ease and, in the words of one observer, she ended up flummoxing her rivals "like Muhammad Ali dancing around the ring".
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Right! The expect who argued with Communists about the shape of a table.
She will come through. And as Rasmussen himself said, not every American is looking every minute at the debates, the polls, the tv news. I think a lot of minds have been made up long ago. And I think McCain is going to win.
Don’t “hope” that Sarah does well. Pray.
Matthew 10:19-20
19 But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak; 20 for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
“The base is getting pissed.”
I wouldn’t say I’m pissed - I would say I’m frustrated and disappointed. Then again, as Rush said, we can’t really expect McCain to be anything but McCain... and recently he’s just gone out of his way to remind us why we never liked him to begin with.
Gwen is one of the worst moderators and her love for Obama will show no bounds tonight as she rigs the debate. Our best hope is America sees the charade and calls fall and decides we aren’t seeing the real obama becuase of the biased media coverage.
I wouldn’t mind for Sarah to sink her teeth into Gwen to get the base fired up.
fall = foul
Why not? Gimme something to hold on to.
I believe that McCain supporters made up their minds right after Palin was put on the ticket. Those who are “disenchanted” will, I pray, vote for McCain/Palin. There is just to much at stake to pretend that we’ll be better off with Obama. Conservatives are generally the “strong silent types”. I’m counting on political clarity on November 4.
> The expect who argued with Communists about the shape of a table.
The dispute over the shape of the table (which lasted about a year) began when the Paris peace talks began in 1968 when Lyndon Johnson, not Richard Nixon, was president. Kissinger didn’t really take charge over Vietnam negotiations until about 1970. I know that Henry Cabot Lodge replaced Averall Harriman as chief negotiator in Paris when Nixon replaced Johnson.
Unfortunately for Palin she has spent the past month in the presence of a moron. McCain has undoubtedly been hammering his piss-ant, spineless version of reaching across the aisle into her. So a bright, tough conservative will probably come across like a weepy, indecisive RINO during the debate. That will be McCains gift to the republican party and the career of a potentially great politician and patriot. Anyone still wonder why so many libs lined up to vote for McCain in the primary?
Thank you for posting that.
Her gaffes include citing Alaska’s proximity to Canada and Russia as giving her foreign policy experience.
Well, that’s a hell of a lot worse than Obama citing the running of his campaign as giving him executive experience! /s/
Have faith in the American people, not in the MSM's hatchet job on Sarah Palin.
very well put
Exactly.
But consider the alternative.
When I see how obama's acting and what he's demanding and voting for now, even before he could be president, we are totally screwed if he gets in. All he!! will break loose.
Good grief. You two pessimists need to read this.
Don't just skim it, or you will miss the point. Take two minutes and read the entire thing.
I disagree.
Thanks, Friend. :)
Thanks, Friend. :)
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