Because Joe Biden is SUCH a much smarter and honorable person than Sarah. < /BULLSTALIN >
I make this exact point every time somebody starts in on Palin's intellect. It generally causes them to short circuit for a second or two as they recognize the truth and then have to quickly reroute the hate through a new logic path in their brains.
Before the RNC convention, McCain was behind about 8 pts. Post Palin convention speech, McCain was up 4 pts.....a 12 pts swing.....and that was all Palin.
Before Palin, McCain rallies got a few hundred. With Palin, they had to move to bigger venues as she drew tens of thousands.
At the 2008 financial crisis, McCain shut down the campaign, went into prevent defense mode and used Sarah as a “fall guy prop”.
McCain simply gave up and got some of the worst advice ever from losers Steve Schmidt and Nicole Wallace.