Palin will go on the attack

[Doug_Orlando]

She's a nitwit but can still rally the base. She can't have the crowd chant ‘USA’ or ‘dill baby drill’ like she does at her rallies but she can give simple demagoguery and go on the attack - the far right will eat it up. And she may win some of the “Wal Mart moms” back (what the campaigns call them) if she appears tough. She’s all about appearance anyway – nothing about issues. Her handlers know better than go toe to toe with Joe B.

[timber84]

1. concern noted n/t

[breadandwine]

33. Exactly right, Doug. She'll attack.

Demagoguery OBFUSCATES THE ISSUES and hate and attack is a key part of demagoguery. Whatever she says it will be all about attack. If she didn't know what to attack on, she'd be busy screaming, "Obama had a piece of toilet tissue on HIS shoe and HE didn't even KNOW it!!!!!"


Lipstick! Lipstick! Lipstick! Lipstick! Lipstick!

[Erin Elizabeth]

2. None of that matters.

Wanna know why?

The far right that you mentioned? These debates aren't for them. They aren't for either side's base.

These debates are for the true fence sitters. Those who simply don't have any allegiance to a party and are waiting until now to decide.

I hope she does get all attacky and nasty, because if she does that, she'll erase the only good thing she can get out of this debate: sympathy points.

[JenniferJuniper]

4. Exactly.

She's probably better off breaking down in tears of frustration.

[Erin Elizabeth]

13. Yep. In all honesty, her ONLY hope is sympathy points.

But if she's nasty or testy in any way, she can kiss that victim card goodbye.

If I were Biden, I'd be HOPING she tries to get all nasty-like. Hee. I want to see that.

[breadandwine]

34. I'm not sure you're right, Erin. The veep candidate's job is not necessarily to win a popularity

contest but to ROUGH UP the opposing presidential candidate. The veep is supposed to be an attack dog so that the pres. candidate can keep "clean." Even if Palin loses the debate, if her attacks raise doubts about Obama, she wins. If she draws blood it doesn't matter what people think of her. Her task is to "soften up" Obama. The Republican 527s will finish the job later.

[AlCzervik]

3. did you think she would not attack, really? All she can do is attempt to smear because

she has no game, no game at all.

you get that, right?

[breadandwine]

35. Exactly. She'll attack, and haul out boilerplate about taxes and spending

and such.

[RichGirl]

5. I think she'll be exactly like she was with Couric today....

....when both she and Biden were questioned. She'll try her best to give straight forward answers. A debate, if you watched last Thursday, is not a popularity contest, it's dry and serious. She will have to show she is qualified and be presidential. Her cutesy antics are totally out of place in that setting.

[breadandwine]

37. I only agree partially, Rich Girl.

Definitely she will try to win the "likeability" test. But while being witty and vivacious at the GOP convention she was also very nasty in WHAT she said, even if not in the WAY she said it. The McCain camp needs to beat up Obama and she's the one who's supposed to do it. So she will belt Obama, albeit with a smile and a velvet glove. But if you ignore her smiles and winks and flirtation and coy sideways looks, and just read what she said, it will be quite venomous.

[dbonds]

6. Oh please let her go on the attack, please please

That would free up Joe to respond in kind and she would be crushed. She has no platform to attack from.

[Raschel]

30. That's what they want Joe to do, she'll be baiting him

hoping he turns on her. I don't think he'll do it. They don't want to give her any room to be a sympathetic character.

If she attacks and he remains above the fray she'll be not only known as stupid, but ugly too.

[frogcycle]

7. thanks for the insight

[vaberella]

8. Good to know. She comes across as a enraged chihuahua. n/t

[breadandwine]

38. I don't agree that Palin hurts her ticket by attacking.

Democrats have been losing elections for years on the false comfort that if the other side attacks they are only hurting themselves, blah blah. Just look at Kerry not responding to the Swiftboat attacks. Real nasty. Had to hurt the GOP, right? And then Kerry was bleeding and wounded.

Face it. There are plenty of attacks that draw blood. Obama responded to the "celebrity" charge saying, "That's it? That's all they have?" And guess what. His lead in the polls evaporated while McCain was accusing him of being a celebrity.

Palin will attack and in my opinion it will cover her and her running mate's deficiencies and also draw blood.

[vaberella]

52. My point is that she hurts herself...she starts sounding belligerant when doesn't know the answer

other's read it as "cute" (ala SNL).

[blue sky at night]

9. the base is.......

baseless and getting more baseless by the minute. Fuck their base, I want to take them out and smack them!

Had fun today with an old white lady with a mcsame/palin sticker on her car, holding up my sign that says "are you stupid?"....when she got mad I turned it over: it says "you are asshole!"

[breadandwine]

40. Politicians have won elections by calling their opponent a "thespian."

It means an actor. Never underestimate the gullible American public's capacity to fall for dumb GOP attacks. Palin will attack and it will draw blood and it will wound Obama and Biden.

[livetohike]

10. Badgering Joe Biden will make her look like an idiot

The majority of people who will watch are curiosity seekers. No one expects to hear her say anything intelligent or of substance. She can't do anything but look like a fool who is way out of her league on the national stage,imo. She will not have a teleprompter and if they are allowed to have notes, she will be looking down at them frequently. Most likely losing her place.

[Erin Elizabeth]

15. I believe they are only allowed to jot down notes *during* the debate.

Not bring any in. I doubt she'll even attempt to take down notes AND keep up with the speaking stuff, too. That would be too much of a taxing thing. Look for her not to even pick up the pen.

[livetohike]

20. Interesting! She's toast then without any prompts

No one can cram a lifetime of information in their brain in one week and also worry about their body language etc. I will look for that pen :-).

[breadandwine]

41. She won't look like an idiot badgering Joe Biden. She will do it with a glint in her eye.

She will do it charmingly and it will draw blood.

[livetohike]

54. You're pretty confident in her skills then?

I'm still waiting for her to string together five words that make sense. She's going to have to answer a question.

[frylock]

11. her confidence will have been shot to shit after the beatdown she took this week..

i expect nothing of the sort.

[nini]

psst

basketball season is ready to start soon :D

[frylock]

22. hey there!

i can't wait! :hi:

[nini]

24. The new CEO where I work is a Celtics fan

I had to suffer through the finals in more way than one :-)


I'm ready and have high hopes. :-)

[frylock]

25. that must have been awful!

i'm looking forward to another western conference championship to be sure!

[Erin Elizabeth]

17. Plus if the reports are true--she's been blowing the debate

practices.

[frylock]

27. she probably became distracted by a butterfly or something

[endthewar]

31. Releasing that photo was a big mistake

It tips off the Obama campaign that she's practicing against Randy Scheunemann. That tells them the kind of crap the McCain campaign is feeding into her head right now.

[breadandwine]

42. Aw, don't be so sure about her confidence level. The GOP apparatchiks can slip her a prozac.

Or something similar. If they wired Bush they can do anything.

[David Dunham]

12. Biden will attack McCain a lot and will do fine.

[jeanpalmer]

43. That's it

It will be an hour and a half of beating up on John McCain, and Palin trying to defend him. She dares not attack Biden or Obama, Biden will steamroll her.

[jeanpalmer]

45. Hopefully Biden will have the facts handy

so every time Palin makes a general statement about McCain being a maverick or an earmark fighter etc., Biden can tick off the facts to show otherwise. Something Obama didn't do in his debate.

[Clio the Leo]

14. I'm convinced the "I've been listening to him since the 2nd grade....."

..... remark was a warm up for tomorrow night. She was too excited to defend herself to Katie when she called her out on it. Her response was the ONLY intelligent answer she's given Couric. "Oh, I was just point out what a experienced leader he is and how he's been in the senate forever!" (big poop eating grin)

[breadandwine]

44. What they call in psychology "passive aggression."

Palin knows how to wield a stiletto in a velvet scabbard. If she doesn't, her handlers do.

[Cha]

46. That was one of her most disingenous

moments when she said she didn't mean anything by it when Katie called her on it.

You don't say something like that and then act like you didn't. It was too stupid in the first place.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

16. We've already had a taste of her sarcasm...

Biden needs to show her no mercy. She will flip on him in an instant and attempt to make an ass
out him for being a gentleman. she is not to be underestimated.

[breadandwine]

47. Also, the GOP knows how to do quips. And Democrats mostly don't.

Palin will have "zingers" and I bet Biden won't.

[GoneOffShore]

18. You registered to post this?

And hid your profile?

:eyes:

And is your keyboard very small?

[PBS Poll-435]

26. I am going to call this one

saddoug

[rocktivity]

19. What base?

At this point, it's not big enough to swing an election--if it were, the Dems wouldn't have done as well in '06.

:headbang:
rocknation

[breadandwine]

48. This isn't only about preaching to the choir.

The GOP knows how to use attacks to draw blood. That is more than just pleasing the base. And Democrats get overconfident about the attacks "not working" every time.

[margotb822]

21. Her attacks don't hold water outside of the base

Her credibility is in the tank and her negative ratings are soaring. Besides, whatever she says will either be untrue or incoherent.

[breadandwine]

49. Oh really? What do you think happened over the lipstick thing?

Obama's polling numbers went down considerably. Don't confuse things like the bridge to nowhere, that was an embarrassment, with the attacks. The GOP attacks work.

[kiranon]

23. Predict she will accidentally attack McCain's positions instead of Obama's.

[bluedawg12]

28. Not for the first ime. LMAO! n/t

[Imagevision]

29. The next Tina Fey/Sarah Palin skit should be a gas...

[breadandwine]

50. SNL probably doesn't have time to write a skit based on the debate for this week.

And the writing for the last Tina Fey/Palin skit was, in my view, rather tepid. Fey is overlooking a lot of Palin's mannerisms and inflections and facial expressions. And the writers in my opinion really haven't done their homework about Palin. They don't know a lot about her.

[progressivebydesign]

32. that's all she ever does. She's a nasty witch who loves to make cruel and sarcastic comments.

it's all she ever does. What would be so damn different?

[Swamp Rat]

36. LOL!

:D

[Neshanic]

39. Ya, like a beaver wit it's young in danger! Thems beavers are tough ones.

[breadandwine]

51. Right. What would be so different about her attacking?

"Attacking covers all sins" for Palin.

[Guaranteed]

53. If she does that Biden has free reign to hit back and she loses the sympathy narrative. nt