Palin Wins Debate Big With Flair

[Stoner]

Great article hit squarely on the head.

Posted in The New York Post on October 3, 2008

Last night was a big, big win for Sarah Palin.

She showed originality, charisma and sass - a style that is refreshing and different in our politics. She didn’t just win the vice-presidential debate, she showed that she belongs with Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton as among the best communicators of our modern political times.

Her sallies against big government were brilliantly conceived and well executed. Her line that she didn’t understand how Washington worked because politicians vote for something right after they vote against it, for example, was just wonderful.


Another classic came when she bit back at moderator Gwen Ifill and opponent Joe Biden and said she’d answer the questions as she wanted to, not necessarily as they wanted her to do.

Gone, long gone, are the worries about how good or well-prepared Sarah Palin is.

Most important, she showed how John McCain would bring change to Washington. Would that McCain could articulate his own sense of change as well as his running mate did!

For his part, Biden sounded like the warmed-over has-been that he is - he seemed to be on downers. Where she was thrilling and exciting, he was hypnotically boring. He seemed like more of the same, while she seemed like a breath of fresh air.

Without trepidation, she tossed aside the Bush years and spoke of the “blunders” in Iraq. She was able to skewer Wall Street and show Republican opposition to the greed there.

She even handled Biden very well on his turf, foreign policy - meeting him head-to-head on every issue, and winning.

Everyone realizes that Palin has been in this field for only five weeks; her ability, nonetheless, to prevail against a veteran like Biden is a testament to her intellect and skill.

That smiling face, those novel phrases, that informal style - it was all a pleasure and a refreshing change.

And she got her ticket off on the right foot for October - making the tax issue stick and zinging Barack Obama’s economic programs and his big-spending plans.

The Alaska governor did a wonderful job of displaying her experience and justifying her candidacy in terms of her expertise on energy issues. It’s now far harder to dismiss her as an unqualified flake.

More, she connected in a way that few politicians do: She speaks for us.

Palin did a lot to help McCain last night - illustrated the best about him. But she did more to help herself - vaulting to a leading role among women in American politics. Her authenticity and unique style will be with us for years to come.

Last night’s Palin victory will have an immediate impact on the presidential race - arresting McCain’s fall and slowing Obama’s surge.

The only question is whether it will be enough to reverse Obama’s gains of the past week. It might go a long way in that direction.

PALIN WINS BIG WITH A REAGAN-LIKE FLAIR at DickMorris.com

 

[WillowTree]

Hillary complimented Sarah on her skills too.

 

[Red Dawn]

Palin Wins Debate Big With Flair

List of all the scientific, post-Debate polls

Debate Winner:

-Fox News
Biden 61%
Palin 39%

-CNN/Opinion Research
Biden 51%
Palin 36%

-CBS
Biden 46%
Palin 21%

-Survey USA
Biden 51%
Palin 32%

-MediaCurves (indies)
Biden 67%
Palin 33%


Biden Wins. Huge.

 

[midcan5]

Curious but the Couric's interview was more telling of Palin. As the debate started she set the fool's rule, she wasn't going to answer questions, she was going to repeat slogans. Slogans matter more to republicans than facts.

"In a conversation, you have to build your sentence phrase by phrase, monitoring the reaction of your listener, while aiming for relevance to the question. That’s what led Ms. Palin into word salad with Ms. Couric. But when the questioner is 30 feet away on the floor and you’re on a stage talking to a camera, which can’t interrupt or make faces, you can reel off a script without embarrassment. The concerns raised by the Couric interviews — that Ms. Palin memorizes talking points rather than grasping issues — should not be allayed by her performance in the forgiving format of a debate."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/opinion/04pinker.html?ref=opinion

"Palin launched into her charm offensive — winking, smiling, dodging questions and speaking in her signature Sarah-phonics , a mash up of sentence fragments and colloquialisms glued together with misplaced also’s and there’s — gibberish really. Everyone in the bar lapped it up. It was The Sarah Palin Show." Charles M. Blow

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/opinion/04blow.html?scp=1&sq=blow&st=cse
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/opinion/04herbert.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

 

[Chris]

"Flair was something the Nazis made the Jew wear." - Office Space

 

[Missourian]

Biden Wins. Huge.

A few more Biden "wins" like this one and McCain will our next president.

 

[jreeves]

"Flair was something the Nazis made the Jew wear." - Office Space

Spam is something that Chris posts hourly.....

 

[Chris]

A few more Biden "wins" like this one and McCain will our next president.

Don't worry, McCain isn't going to be the next president.

 

[DiveCon]

"Flair was something the Nazis made the Jew wear." - Office Space

Godwins law

 

[Chris]

Godwins law

Great movie, you should watch it sometime.

 

[DiveCon]

Great movie, you should watch it sometime.

figures a moron like you would think it was a movie
Godwin's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Chris]

figures a moron like you would think it was a movie
Godwin's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Figures a moron like you would think Office Space was not a move.

 

[DiveCon]

Figures a moron like you would think Office Space was not a move.

ah, so because you used a quote from that movie, all of a sudden Godwins Law is nullified?

 

[Chris]

ah, so because you used a quote from that movie, all of a sudden Godwins Law is nullified?

Who cares?

The flair joke from Office Space was a good one.

 

[WillowTree]

A few more Biden "wins" like this one and McCain will our next president.

Ron Paul won every one of his debates too.

 

[Stoner]

Don't worry, McCain isn't going to be the next president.

Of course he is. If you think for one nanosecond that hard working, everyday day Americans are going to vote in a lying, religion-hiding, terrorist-friendly, corrupt, inexperienced, greedy fucktard then you're in desperate need of grain in your silo.