neither Palin or Edwards are that great in the looks department. For politicians perhaps, but that is like being the only person with a nose in a leper colony - your beauty is the result of stark contrasts.
A Palin Edwards conflict would be less stark and Palin certainly would've had less Press hype going into this. All the criticism of Palin and focus on her inexperience only made her look that much better when she holds her own and, in fact, disarms a 35 year veteran of DC politics.
The media love the money. If the nation becomes so poor folks can't afford electricity or buy products from advertisers they lose. So they subconsciously defeat Democrats by so blatantly supporting them.
Hyping up this debate was simply good business. They have made billions more this year from advertisers than they did in 2004. This election cycle has been a year long Christmas for the networks.
They don't care who wins.
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By my standards...
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- The bar is low and the stakes very, very high for Palin. Reminds me of Nixon "Checkers" speech.
- I don't think anyone can say that Ifill sandbagged her.
- But then what's the mechanism for choosing a new running mate?
- Palin's cleaning Biden's clock. ;-) (n/t)
- Yet again the polls show that you are out of touch.... (n/t)
- Yeah, riiiiight.
- Riiiight.... and you thought McCain won the first debate....
- And the left here thought Cheney lost to Edwards
- She's unresponsive but on-message. Lying faster than Biden can correct her. Some are getting through. (n/t)
- I gotta go lie down...
- Good thing it wasn't the word 'change'
- Me, too...
- CALL AN AMBULANCE
- Seriously, both of them did pretty well.
- I agree.
- flirting with the camera
- Interesting ..
- Biden was in a very tight corner
- Pageant strategy
- "Sarah Palin is a lot like a squirrel."
- re: Pageant strategy
- Empty good looks - that never stopped anyone from making it big in life
- flirting with the camera
- Yes, they did. Better than their principles, imo. (n/t)
- I agree.
- I gotta go lie down...
- Palin's cleaning Biden's clock. ;-) (n/t)
- Reminds me of the Sarkozy Royal debate for the french presidency
