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Sam Yikin on 03 October 2008
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Sqrl said:
akuma587 said:
Sqrl said:

We got Claire McCaskel (sp?) out here saying Palin failed to de-link McCain from Bush ..and that was her main criticism of Palin tonight. Gimme a break folks..the gig is up, she did very well and she had solid answers.

You make it very hard for me to take you guys seriously if you honestly think she is incompetent after this debate. Its a completely untenable position now and that's exactly why Obama surrogates are out their abandoning it as you read this.

A little honesty and integrity please? Give the woman credit, she knew her stuff and she did very well tonight by any measure.

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.

 

1.  If by "every respect" you mean dodging the questions and reciting stump speach lines.

2. Democrats were saying she would be a formidable opponent before the debate.

3. Nearly all polling data that I've seen has Biden winning in all categories. You're very much the minority here.

And also, I fail to see your logic in the first paragraph. How does other people DISLIKING her cause you to LIKE her more? Feeling sorry for her I can understand. But that is NEVER EVER EVER a good reason to vote for someone.

And of course her two best appearances were speeches. They have these little things called teleprompters. When she actually needs to think for herself is when she looks like a moron. The Couric interviews are absolutely inexcusable.