Comments on: Palin’s debate performance looms large

By: C-SPAN: Debate Hub » Blog Archive » Republican Ticket Needs a Win in St. Louis

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:01:32 +0000

[...] Republican Ticket Needs a Win in St. Louis September 29, 2008 at 2:01 pm [...]

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:51:12 +0000

Count on Ms Mooseburger to do a repeat of her disasterous Gibson and Couric interviews. By the way, CBC has more embarrassing clips to air shortly according to the blogosphere.

By: wj

wj — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:52:59 +0000

Actually, I think if Palin manages to simply hold her own it will so massively exceed expectations that it will help McCain quite a lot. After all, if she can go from the disaster of the Couric interview to sounding like she actually knows what she is talking about, maybe she really is going to be able to get up to speed enough over the next 3 months to not be a horror if she ended up President relatively soon. And that, at the moment, seems to be the concern of an awful lot of people who otherwise would be McCain supporters.

By: mw

mw — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:19:20 +0000

I can’t believe that the VP debate can make that big a positive difference for McCain, even if Palin hit it out of the park. I go back to the Benson/Quayle debate, and the famous “you are no Kennedy” smack down. No VP debate was ever more decisive. Didn’t help Dukakis. With expectations so low, I expect Palin will do just fine, as will Biden. If McCain is to close the gap, he’ll have to do it himself in the next debate.