It's a 3-0 count in baseball. Would you give your slugger the green light?

[endthewar]

I think this is a great analogy for Biden. He's officially Obama's top surrogate, yet all of the pundits in the media are essentially telling him to take the next pitch and not swing the bat. In my opinion, you don't spend top dollar on a baseball slugger and not give him the green light. So with Biden, I think he should be given the green light and feel free to swing away if he gets a hanging curveball on a 3-0 count. Anybody else agree that Biden should be turned loose on Palin?

[Wapsie B]

1. Aim for the fences Joe!

:applause:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Biden's set up perfectly.

Like I was saying yesterday, with one zinger Biden could break the back of the McCain campaign, get his name back in the media cycle, and be an instantaneous internet meme.

[bunkerbuster1]

3. If the last pitch was high and in?

Chin music?

Yeah, swing away, kid.

[TheKentuckian]

4. Just put in play

Failin can't field.

[FlyingSquirrel]

13. Nice response to the analogy. n/t

[Upton]

5. Why help them out by swinging at ball four?

[endthewar]

You can knock it out of the park and put the nail in their political coffins.

Have voters thinking "incompetent" when they see "McCain/Palin".

[dem629]

6. Respectfully disagree.

The Obama/Biden ticket is on the rise. The numbers are going up, up, up. Biden's job tonight, in my opinion, should be to change nothing.

Let Palin keep burying her own ticket.

Now, IF it looks like she's holding her own, MAYBE Biden should get a swing in toward the end, just to knock her down. (I know I'm mixing a boxing metaphor with a baseball one. Sorry. :) )

[endthewar]

16. So on 3rd and 7 you'd call a safe run up the middle?

Legends are not made that way. :hi:

[MNDemNY]

7. Not with bases loaded, tie game in the bottom of the 9th.

[endthewar]

12. The election isn't tomorrow and the game isn't tied

2 more presidential debates does not the 9th inning make. :patriot:

[MNDemNY]

14. I thought we were takin' baseball!!!

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[Guaranteed]

8. Don't tell him too much of anything at all-

Let him feel the tone and make the choice himself. He'll do well.

[FlyingSquirrel]

9. This ain't baseball.

If he slugs it outta the park, they'll spin it like he took the bat and slugged Palin with it.

[endthewar]

18. For this analogy, by definition, a home run is a home run

I define a home run as Biden performing in the debate in a way that has most Americans thinking "incompetent" when they see "McCain/Palin".

[TexasObserver]

10. No, take a pitch and see where the next one is. Green light on that one.

[smoochpooch]

19. Ding ding ding! You always take on 3-0. 3-1 is the count to swing on! n/t

[Buck Rabbit]

11. The pitcher threw ball one in the dirt, ball two over the back stop,

Ball three hit the batter in the warm-up circle. The bases are loaded and it's bottom of the ninth.

You take a pitch. If she puts two over the plate in the first two thirds of the debate you swing.

[endthewar]

17. LOL!

So you're saying that Biden should be ready to duck when the next pitch comes? :rofl:

[RagAss]

15. He needs to assess what damage she does to herself first....

If she falls into the shit early....then he needs to go in and end it with a blast to the upper deck in right field.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

20. tie game...bases loaded... botom of the 9th...

OF COURSE NOT!

[endthewar]

21. The election isn't tomorrow and the game isn't tied

Pretty self-explanatory. :eyes:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

22. 2-3 run lead. If this is 7th or 8th inning I'm taking. 6th or earlier, swing away, of course

[endthewar]

23. Two more presidential debates and 4 more weeks of campaigning

Along with the obvious fact that McCain will employ at least one or two "game-changers" between now and election day, this game is nowhere near over in terms of innings. However, we do have an opportunity right now to pile on some scores to put the game out of reach! :bounce:

[rufus dog]

24. dig in the back foot, hands back, swing like Reggie Jackson