And I disagree with that with every "string" in every quark of every atom of my body

Good night~

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 pointed out McCaskel because she is basically "the" Obama surrogate.  In her introduction on the segment I just saw Chris Wallace introduced her as "a woman the Obama campaign regards as their best and most eloquent surrogate".  This isn't a fringe comment, this was a talking point.

edit: Howard Wolfson also just said "She passed any test that people put out there for her to pass." and "She did very well tonight."  he went on to say he thinks Biden did better but the point is that he didn't think there was a legitimate basis to criticize her or he would have. endedit(ok now I'm done.).

As for the rest of what you said, I think it falls nicely into the "not going to bother" category.  We fundamentally disagree if thats truly your position.

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.

And I disagree with that with every "string" in every quark of every atom of my body

Good night~

String Theory FTW!

Planck Length, anyone?

I couldn't watch the debate, to nerve-racking.  Although from the few bits I managed to watch, she seemed, at least, coherent.  Is the general idea on here that her answers sounded memorized, and thus, ingenuine?

Not only were they memorized, but they were completely irrelevant to the actual questions.  Every single response was a random talking point, and not even in a good order.  She even tried to say that not answering the questions was good, because it might not be what we ant to hear, but it's "straight talk to the American people," which I personally took as an insult, because what I wanted to hear was an answer to the question, so I could compare the two responses.