I have a feeling the last exchange is going to make its way into an ad that will ostensibly be about McCain's dereg past, with the added bonus of Palin looking like an idiot.

A Post Trutle

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year old Texas rancher whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Sarah Palin and her bid to be a heartbeat away from being President.

The old rancher said, "Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle."

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.

The old rancher said, "When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle. You know she didn't get up there by herself, she doesn't belong up there, she doesn't know what to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put her up there to begin with."

Not mine, but I thought it was funny and applicable here.

Can you imagine what a debate between this woman and Joe Biden would look like? "Hilarious" doesn't begin to describe it.

I could almost believe that McCain is ducking the Friday debate solely to push Palin off the calendar. But even McCain must know that Palin and Biden will have to debate someday. (He must know that... right?) And heck knows he doesn't want it to happen any closer to Election Day than necessary.

Karl Rove must be so disappointed in Rick Davis! Rove had to present George W. Bush as presidential material, and somehow, he successfully lipsticked that pig. Whereas poor Davis can't even smooth over the fact that his photogenic veep is a dunce of the first order.

Come to think of it, W's dad must be feeling pretty smug about having gotten away with Dan Quayle, too.

2008

COURIC: I'm just going to ask you one more time, not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation?

PALIN: I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you.

1960

When asked by reporters at the end of a televised press conference to list one of Nixon's policy ideas he had adopted, he [Eisenhower] replied, "If you give me a week, I might think of one."

You're such an elitist, Crowley, requiring that words are used in the proper context.

Couric was speaking English, a foreign language used by elitists who want to flaunt their superiority over ordinary real Americans. Palin, on the other hand, was speaking correct and very proper American. Couric may not have understood her, the elites (including ourselves) did not get it, but Sarah Barracuda fooled us all, spoke directly to the people. They got her right away. 100 points to Palin, goose egg for Couric and the elites. Yaaaayyy. Go John, you go girl, Sarah. Bfpleaaghh on elitist snobs.

More evidence of a decline in journalist standards and the liberal media out of control. Using actual real clips.

Let's see. Couric asks about Rick Davis, and Palin has no good answer. Couric asks about McCain's regulatory bonafides, and Palin has no good answer. Those are bullets Palin took for McCain. Weirdly enough, Palin looked bad because she was more accessible to reporters than McCain - so she got the hard questions that should have been asked of the man at the top of the ticket.

Palin's pathetic swipe at Obama is more revealing of her weaknesses. She only seems to be in her element throwing red meat to the conservative base. When a reporter asks a follow-up question, she has no idea how to reposition the point for mainstream viewers. If I were Biden, that's the exchange I would watch most closely.

Can ANY serious person say with a straight face that he/she would be comfortable with this person leading our country? As Damon said the other day, we should be outraged that McCain put her a heartbeat away. Fuck him for doing this to us. Seriously. It's inexcusable, unforgivable. I don't like Romney, but I'd be a lot more comfortable knowing he was #2.

What I don't get: if McCain wanted conservatives, why not Huckabee?

Repost now that there's finally a thread on this topic:

Palin interview = near disaster, but not total disaster. She plays the folksy bit convincingly enough to glide through the interview at what may be called a minimal level of lucidity.

What does her in is the transcript. You think it *sounds* muddled? Trying reading the half-sentence gibberish towards the end.

www.cbsnews.com/.../main4476173.shtml

In a nod to fairness, Couric baited Palin with that Great Depression question, then went on to put the assertion in Palin's mouth for her evening newscast.

Unfortunately that's what happens when your Hail Mary pass is an unvetted, untested small-state governor. She gets torched by Katie Couric (!).

"... Look, I've got certain information, certain things have come to light, and uh, has it ever occurred to you, man, that given the nature of all this new shit, that, uh, instead of running around blaming me, that this whole thing might just be, not, you know, not just such a simple, but uh--you know?"

The incredibly long painful pause before restating the ludicrous line that Rick Davis "recused himself" from dealings with Freddie & Fannie when asked if he did not still hold a stake in the firm told so much about Palin's lack of depth and the McCain campaign's dishonesty on this point.

ralphnelle:

McCain and the Republican party needed a both a conservative Christian and somebody young to avoid becoming the party of nothing but big business and grandparents after taking on Obama.  Being female helps a lot in this effort by showing that he is capable of progress.  I too despised Romney for the way he ran in the primary, but I would have found him far more credible as a choice in accordance with the principal of "Country First".

Watching Sarah Palin's heart-to-heart with Katie Couric , I have a couple of gentle suggestions for

Couric is tough? That's tough? Whatever happened to real journalists asking really tough questions?

Daisy Mae speaks gibberish, she never gets asked about her pro-life position, and she hasn't met with real reporters in a true press conference. And the election is only weeks away. What a travesty.

You know, if that "post turtle" story ever hears air time, it'll stick to Palin like white on a sheet.  Hilarious, memorable, and absolutely on point.

Neither Biden nor Palin has looked terribly presidential this week.  Guess that is why they are number 2s. Better make sure those docs at GW Med Center and the Secret Service are on full alert for whoever wins.

Biden on his most gaffe filled day is immesurably more Presidential than Palin is. If Biden were at the top of the ticket he would be 20% points ahead right now.

As far as McCain goes, he isn't too far behind Biden in the gaffe department.