The reasons Palin failed last night

[Curtland1015]

Going in, many (well most) seemed to think she would get up there, pee herself, start crying and pass out. Well she didn't. If she didn't WIN, she at least held her own. She stuck to her talking points and while snarky, she didn't over do it. But most of the polls out since then have pretty decisively called Biden the winner. Why? I think it's for all these reasons:

*Obviously, the flirting. It backfired big time. A wink and a giggle may have been enough to get Pat Buchanan's old Model-T era motor running, but it's not going to fly with most men or the vast majority of women out there. At some point very early on it rocketed past charming and onto embarrassing.

*Biden has gotten almost NO press in the past few months. This actually worked pretty well to our advantage. Whenever Sarah would pop out some sarcastic one liner, pretty much no one knew what the hell she was talking about. Biden's lack of main stream coverage was kind of a boon here.

*Coming right out and SAYING she wouldn't answer what she didn't feel like answering. Huh? Again, this will make the right wing "morans" jump for joy (take THAT LIBRUL MEDIA!), but to Joe and Jane America, it just shows an arrogant ignorance of the facts.

*"I've only been at this for five weeks!" Way to go Sarah. Do you think people like being reminded you have almost no experience"? Is that supposed to make them feel better when the guy one step above you has one foot and four toes in the grave?

Certainly there are other reasons. Her not talking about the question asked, etc... but MOST candidates do that, to be honest. Sarah proved she'd make a good weatherperson last night, but only the super neo-cons out there could truly have been excited about what they saw.

[thereismore]

1. Well, she had been a sportscaster, so she knows how to project a bubbly persona. nt

[phantom power]

2. I will say this for Palin...

I think she made the Republican case about as well as possible. I think the debate was a pretty straight-up exposition of what the Democrats and the Republicans represent.

What I think is shameful is the insulting post-debate "analysis" that avoided all of the many substantive things you could say about the debate.

[flowomo]

3. Is she a viable candidate for re-election as governor....

or to make a move on a U.S. Senate seat from Alaska? Before the debate, I would say "no" -- she had become a clown, her FUTURE as a politician ruined. Last night, I think she regained the admiration of her own party and rescued her ability to run again for something else. In that sense, she did not fail. Of course, you and I hate everything she stands for -- but that would be true of most Republicans -- but that doesn't mean she won't be a player in the Republican Party. As I say, she went from Dan Quayle to just regular Republican last night.

[patrice]

4. The winks were INSANE.

[hisownpetard]

5. Why do you say that? Isn't that what Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher used to do?

:hi:

[patrice]

6. I don't know about Meir & Thatcher winks; but SP had to have looked exactly like certain highschool

b*****s most women have met.

[hisownpetard]

7. She is an imbecile. I've had my fill of cutesy from Bush, more than enough for a life-time.