I will be attending the Phillies playoff game tonight. It starts at 6, and hopefully it will end in 2 hours so I can rush home and watch the Palin-Biden debate. A debate that I am now convinced Palin will win easily. Yes, she has been disasterous over the last three weeks in interviews with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric. Yes, research into her record has revealed a truly manipulative lying white trash creationist who cares nothing about using her children for political gain.
None of that matters. She is a good debater. Don’t believe me?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYaJkWUBP3s[/youtube]
The McCain campaign has been working the refs in order to lower expectations for this debate while at the same time ensuring that the debate will be easy on Palin. They have launched a full scale attack on Gwen Ifill, so much so that I believe a McCain operative is responsible for her broken ankle. They insisted on a debate format that only allows for short concise sound bite answers to answers, and no give and take that we saw in the first McCain-Obama debate. They have leaked reports from inside the McCain campaign about how Palin’s mock debate and mock interviews were horrible, and how she was being flown to Arizona, accompanied by a host of McCain senior aides to do emergency debate prep. The expectations are so low for Sarah Palin right now that so long as she does not drool on the stage, she will win. Couple that with the video above, I predict the pundits and the networks will go ga-ga again.
Will this be a game changing moment? No. But it will stop the bleeding for the McCain campaign for a few days.