MCCAIN SPIN......AMERICANS DON'T CARE IF SHE CAN'T ANSWER EVERY QUESTION

[babylonsister]

Sam Stein

McCain Camp's Pre-Debate Spin: Palin Doesn't Need To Pass IQ Test

October 2, 2008 03:36 PM



Listening to surrogates and aides to John McCain on Thursday, one is left with the impression that there is no great need for Gov. Sarah Palin to actually answer questions during tonight's vice presidential debate.

Indeed, the spin coming from McCain surrogates and strategists is that all Palin has to do is pass a sort of artificial personality test, in which she strikes an emotional thread with the average voter -- question, answers, or intellectual capacity be damned.

Such were the talking points mere hours before the debate in St. Louis, which peaked with Sen. Joe Lieberman - a man not unaccustomed to the pressures of such a forum - actually proclaiming that Palin's relative ignorance helped her relate to "regular people."

"She's not lived in the world of Washington, so she doesn't know every detail of all the questions senators deal with," Lieberman told NBC's Andrea Mitchell. "But, frankly, that's her strength. I think that's why a lot of regular people out across America think she's going to be their voice."

Mitchell interjected, "Senator, she wants to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. You know, that doesn't mean just being an average mom, it means bringing other skills."

But Lieberman stayed on the point, stating later, "I think tonight is not a kind of final college exam. I think the point is who is she as a person... Whether she can answer every detailed question, I don't think that ultimately matters to the American people so long as they think she passes those other personal thresholds."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/02/mccain-camps-pre-debate-s_n_131295.html

[1corona4u]

1. Uhm, yeah, we do.

[demo dutch]

2. Lieberman is an asshole!

[treestar]

3. Being our voice

More the function of a Congressman or even a lobbyist, but not the President.

[LisaM]

4. Well, just knowing ANY answer would be nice

anything to show that she's actually thought of a single outside and abortion and how to dish out the moola in her petrostate. That is all she fricking knows, and I think we deserve more.

[11 Bravo]

5. Or ANY question! Or if she can find her own ass with both hands!

Or if she can differentiate between shit and Shinola! IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER! SHE'S A HOCKEY MOM! PIT BULLS! LIP STICK! Come on you pussies, roll the fucking dice! Let's stick a congenital idiot next in line for the Presidency behind a senile old coot with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel!

[Howardx]

6. joe lieberman has no idea

what matters to the american people

[wileedog]

10. Nor do I think he believes a word of what he said

Somewhere deep inside he has to be thinking "WTF did I hitch my wagon to here?"

[SurfingAtWork]

7. Oh, I get it. As long as Joe 6 pack would have a beer with her

Then she passes CIC threshold.

Yeah, great idea. That has worked out for us in spades these past 8 years.

[nam78_two]

8. Lieberman...

:puke:
What is that guy's problem? And wtf is she supposed to do as the veep when she doesn't know anyfrikkingthing? She is a moron-she would fail the "are you smarter than an 8th grader" test?
It is ridiculous... They act as if it is just that she can't answer highly involved, complicated, policy questions on arcane matters. The truth is that she can't even answer REALLY simple questions...It doesn't get easier than "What newspapers do you read" for God's sake!

She looks lost, she is an idiot and she is going to be a heartbeat away from one of the most important jobs in the world? It is nuts! After 8 years of Bush haven't we had our fill of idiots with brain damage running the country?

[damntexdem]

9. And what if she can't answer ANY question?

And even if she could, would it show in the midst of all of her chatter?

[progressivebydesign]

11. They're spinning HARD today all over the news.. "style will win over substance"

"personality more important than answers", all the usual AP whores are pushing that meme. Could anyone possibly believe anymore that certain members of the media are not paid by the GOP? Armtrong Williams comes to mind...

The McCranky campaign needs to tread carefully. It was her SNARKY Bitchiness that turned off ALL of the independent focus groups and undecideds polled after her awful acceptance speech. And that stupid comment about Joe Biden and 2nd grade was WRITTEN for her... she doesn't write any of this, and unless she has a wire tonight (like bush did) she will muff the zingers so badly trying to remember them that it will go down in comedic history!