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akuma587 on 02 October 2008
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Sqrl said:
akuma587 said:

 

I am just going to copy and paste what Rubang said:

Come on sqrl. You've gone from a neutral party who wants to debunk myths to a full-fledged member of the Palin Defense Force. She did extremely well for someone who was supposed to speak English. Wasn't a debate though. She dodged every single question. And even said it was intentional because dodging questions is now "straight talk."

 

 

I've never denied that I like Palin, and I think its fair to say all of the attacks and smears have moved me more and more in her favor, especially as things you guys are proven wrong time and time again. And the place where she consistently does the best is when you remove the media filter between her and the people as she pointed out very astutely tonight. I don't think that is a coincidence at all that her two best performances have come when the media opinion gets removed and she gets to talk directly to the people.

@issue,

She did very well here tonight in pretty much every respect, and on top of that her performance makes sense in regards to her extremely high approval rating in Alaska, then we have the democrat surrogates dropping the incompetence issue like a bad habit, and the Luntz Group polling data shows that she did very well with independents scoring record highs on a couple of issues, and not just on likability but people also mentioned her substance as well. With the exception of foreign policy, which she did very good on as well, I thought she had better answers than Biden across the board.

Honestly if you guys can't just admit that she did very well, even on substance, then we truly have no common ground to work from.

I have done my fair-share of Palin hating, but I also posted the pictures to disprove the whole pregnancy myth, and discourage it when people bring up non-issues like that.

But I cannot agree that she was strong in the substance area.  She may have been strong on the substance that was written down on a notecard that she brought into the debate, but she was not strong on the substance of the actual questions in the debate.  Every chance she got to dodge an issue she did it, and every time she could revert back to her script she did.

 



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