Listening to the lead-up to the debate tonight, it seems that Palin’s strategy will be to avoid issues and try to convince us voters that she’s “one of us.” Magnifico posted an amazing quote from a piece written by Andrew Halcro, who debated Palin more than two dozen times, in an essay by A Siegel.
“Andrew, I watch you at these debates with no notes, no papers, and yet when asked questions, you spout off facts, figures, and policies, and I’m amazed. But then I look out into the audience and I ask myself, ‘Does any of this really matter?'” Palin said.
So just as a reminder as to why Palin is likely to avoid those pesky little things like facts, figures and policies…here’s “Sarah’s Greatest Hits” from Josh Marshall at TPM.
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I was wondering if you would post one, or if Stu was going to do it. 😉
I’m in for the first hour.
I still haven’t read last week’s New York Review of Books, and I don’t claim to read half the newspapers and magazines that I come across, much less all of them!
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“Can I call you Joe?”
not covered
problems, and Obamas rescue criteria
Sarahs talking about barometers and soccer games
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Palin: go to a soccer game and talk to a mom.
We’ll see how long that lasts.
in reaching across the aisle
and John was talking about the work force not the economy. Sarah trying to get in that Joes old
Johns deregulation as cause for troubles. Palin had blamed predatory lenders and sounded half way sane for once.
Obamas tax raising votes
and John voted the same way on the bill she’s talking about. Bringing up Sarah didn’t respond on deregulation
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perhaps the one issue Palin wants to talk about. Joe holding his own on this one though.
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government, you’re not part of the solution…you’re part of the problem.
businesses won’t have a tax increase
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McCain’s health care plan is the ultimate bridge to nowhere.
Good line!!!!
peoples tax cuts that McCain has planned and that they won’t give those rich people more tax cuts. Going to eliminate wasteful spending like tax dodge for post box off shore
She’s bringing up energy. I think Joe can hang her on this one. I hope he does.
tax breaks for other energies. Lost my train of thought while I was typing
about making bankruptcy harder for average people last year. She would have voted for it too.
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Of course, I don’t expect the wingers to see that. They’ll probably love it.
And you can tell when Ifill or Biden hit on an issue she’s been told to avoid. She changes the subject.
She knows its real.
I think it is man made. It is clearly man made. If you don’t understand the causes, you can’t come up with the solutions.
25 times McCain has voted against alternate fuels
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she just garbled whether or not humans are responsible. And then said she doesn’t want to argue about its causes.
Biden: clearly man-made. If you don’t understand the cause, you can’t come up with a solution!!!!!!!!!!!
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endorses “drill baby drill.”
committed couples and same sex marriage.
Sarah, of course not for gay marriage. But she is tolerant she says. She has diverse family that don’e agree with her and are gay.
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Phewwyyy on both of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hope Joe gives the same answer as Obama did. That John voted against the funding on the one with the time line.
Surge worked, blah, blah, blah.
but not Obama.
John wrong on various issues. Obama right on them.
that Iraq isn’t the central front on terrorism
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ginning up the fear of Iran. Basically blowing off what’s happening in Pakistan.
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Dictators who hate us for our freedom. Blech!!!!!!!!!
this admins total failure on foreign policy. Sarah doesn’t think it was a failure. Did we just win the debate?
how Johns policy will be different than Bushs on a bunch of different issues
Just when Sarahs scaring us again about others getting nukes.
The same as all the years in Afghanistan.
replanting the opium poppy fields? Putting in superhighways?
with its “just cuz” 82 days of bombing…
They supported it, then when they saw how it turned out, they changed their minds. Our hero Bush would never do that.
as regard his criticism of “conduct of the war”
Kill bin Laden… tell the CIA members visiting him to unplug his dialysis machine… how many millions can we allocate to this?
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line about getting rid of greed on Wall Street. I’d love to see someone ask them how they’re going to do that.
maybe they could refuse to enforce the property laws, and we could “save the economy” by liberating our due from the rich…
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on education????
When McCain is suggesting a freeze on all federal spending except military??????
she’s nuts, she’s stupid…
we are a shining city on a hill, thus we don’t have to apologize for a million deaths in Iraq, or for supporting dictators in Latin America, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran etc. or for killing two millions in Vietnam, 500,000 in the Philippines, slavery, Jim Crow, etc. etc.
Go back to Craig Ferguson’s talk about political “personality gossip.” We don’t want to have breakfast with you; we want you to be politicians.
Ask Hugo Chavez for a break…
so you CAN’T spend on infrastructure.
So Bush’s tax cuts, the rising unemployment rate… just a coincidence?
by voting for the USA PATRIOT Act, looking the other way while the FBI spied on you, etc….
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is an idiot. But she “performed” pretty well.
I don’t think good enough to change things. But she wasn’t a disaster.
Now, if we could just ask her to quit pursing her lips and winking. LOL
No swimsuit competition?