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An Emmy for Palin, a November Loss for the GOP
McCain's campaign has been a shambles, but the strangest move has been to turn Sarah Palin into an actress.
Go to YouTube and search Palin Alaska Debates. Watch some video of her during those debates and other posted videos of her speaking before small groups of Alaskans. Her accent is dialed way back. There are no you betchas, no gosh darns, no winks. Her viewpoints aside, she comes across as a capable speaker, an administrator. If she would have spoken like this during the Biden debate, McCain might be picking up independents and moderates.
Instead, McCain's camp created a sitcom role for Palin: Hockey Mom Goes To Washington. During the Biden debate, I could see her slip between Hockey Mom voice and her normal candidate voice. To make her "one of us," McCain's camp dumbed her down for prime time TV. Palin overplays the Hockey Mom role, but with ratings like that, she takes home the Emmy. And come November, McCain and his team, in large part due to Palin's performance, simply goes home.
Comments (2)
Palin has always been an actress. Let's not forget that she was a serious beauty pageant contestant at one time. A former Miss Congeniality, no less. Debating is as much performing art as intellectual contest. More so, for political debates. I submit that Palin's beauty pageant as performing art experience is what carried her though the debate.
October 3, 2008 11:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
She did well for a future run in 2012, that's the election Obama will reach 400 EV's. Right now our ceiling is 375. Add Arizona and TEXAS (yea I said it) to that list and we are good to go.
October 3, 2008 11:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
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