My favorite headline about the debate:
For Palin, mission accomplished
Analysis: Facing low expectations, Alaska governor stands her ground
Because America doesn't deserve the best and the brightest even though Palin was certainly a hit with the third-rate thinkers set.
SARAH ROCKS!
First, I would like to see all the Sarah doubters and detractors in the Beltway/Manhattan corridor eat their words.
Eat them.
Sarah Palin is the real deal. Five weeks on the campaign trail, thrust onto the national stage, she rocked tonight’s debate.
...or maybe not.
CBS News and Knowledge Networks have conducted a nationally representative poll of 473 uncommitted voters to get their immediate reaction to tonight's vice presidential debate.
After the first presidential debate, a similar survey showed that more uncommitted voters identified Barack Obama as the winner
Final numbers from tonight's poll have yet to come in, but we do have some early results. (These numbers may change as more respondents complete the survey.) They suggest that once again more voters have responded favorably to the Democratic candidate.
Forty-six percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed say Democrat Joe Biden won the debate, compared to 21 percent for Republican Sarah Palin. Thirty-three percent said it was a tie.
Eighteen percent of previously uncommitted percent say they are now committed to the Obama-Biden ticket. Ten percent say they are now committed to McCain-Palin. Seventy-one percent are still uncommitted.
I'd like to see Michelle Malkin suck on that.
Suck it.
Might I also add that "Team Maverick" is one of the stupidest things that I've ever heard. Why not "sociable loner"?
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Don’t like “Team Maverick”?
How about “Mantle Quest”?
Nope, not a new show on Adult Swim… more’s the pity…
Well, the DSM IV might, in this case, be of help. How about “Team Oppositional and Defiant Disorder”? Or “Team Antisocial Personality Disorder”? Or… say, “Team Personality Disorder”?
Michele Malkin, author of the book “unhinged”, is also suspected of killing the baby girl’s mother?
Who knew?
Yeah, the team of mavericks struck me that way when she used it. Kind of like a cluster of fucks.
The whole mission was to get Palin through the debate without positively losing every single last person who will never vote for Obama. Sure, it was mission accomplished, but when your entire mission is to avoid landing in the shitpile, it’s not much of an accomplishment, is it.
It just occurred to me, thanks to David Neiwert who told us before, that MM shares Palin’s “accomplishments” as a college grad who made an unsuccessful stab at something resembling journalism. No wonder she relates.
Seen the Media Curves insta-poll? Biden blew Palin away. On every single issue, he was favored by at least 62% of independents.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the wingnuts to acknowledge that Mooselini was speaking in complete talking points, with some down-home cuteness thrown in to sweeten the pot for the “She’s just like me!” crowd. Oh look, Sarah can memorize! She’s definitely qualified to be Preznit!
Btw, when did it become acceptable in a debate to refuse to answer the questions you didn’t study?
I wanted to smack her so bad I could hardly stand it.
The representative of Joe Six Pack suceeding the representative of Joe Six Figure as Vice President. Is this a great country, or what?
Refusing to answer questions because you don’t know the answer isn’t acceptable in elementary school, let alone as the second most powerful position in the world. And her fake folksy and horrible accent got very old, very fast.
AND the judge ruled the Troopergate probe can move forward. Are you packing yet, Barbie??? Cause even YOU must now know you’re gonna lose 11/4!!!
I’m glad to see conservatives encouraged, even ecstatic about the fact that their vice presidential candidate can read prepared text from index cards, can speak in complete sentences, and can perform well in front of a camera.
But in the end, candidates still have to say something. A content-free performance isn’t the stuff of wonder and amazement, but then, I’m not supporting a candidate who has such ugly meltdowns answering simple questions from softball reporters. After beating the drum for bush, they probably do think Palin probably is a political rock star.
I want a vp who will actually do something to help this country recover from George Bush’s failures, not someone who’s little more than a trophy vice president.
You know that you are dealing with high quality material when not doing a total face plant qualifies as a victory.
I wonder if the schoolteachers are going to be happy to hear their reward is in heaven?
She’s on the ticket until the end, and really, that’s a good thing.
Oh, and “John McCain’s military strategy”? I had no idea John McCain had been formulating military strategy. No wonder he doesn’t have time to visit the Capitol.
Michelle Malkin doesn’t live in the Manhattan/Beltway corridor? Her smear on Gwen Ifill ran on page nine of the NY Post, and she lives in a suburb of DC.
here’s what bothers me;
as far as I can tell there are no uncommitted, there are only those that won’t admit they are voting republican because they get too much grief
this is the most polarized election ever, I do not believe there ia a significant number of “uncommitted”
The sad fact is Ps. Palin is going to be excused for being a blithering idiot by her rabid supporters. These way-below-average intellect, shoot-from-the-hip reactionaries (most of which fill my small-town neighborhood) need someone to rally around - and Sarah’s their gal. Her supporters are too ignorant to know how stupid she is. An intelligent person will only sound French to them. Depressingly, even when McCain loses in November, I’ll STILL be surrounded by an increasing number of idiots (they ARE the fastest procreators).
QFT. This would have been the RNC’s excuse to kick her to the curb. This way, all the Dems have to do is push Troopergate and Bridge to Nowhere.
Team Maverick is that like Team Rocket?