But, I do think the debate (as structured)is tailor made to the nasty canned sound bites she's been spewing on the campaign trail. Without any follow up--it will be hard for her to trip up unless she really gets caught with an unexpected question.

I also think this Ifill stuff will work--She was on with Russert many times during the last 7 years, and I was always struck by her BBQness. I doubt she will ask anything out of the ordinary, and anything that will press her--and I feel that even more so now.

The real question is whether the BBQ media will take the serious issues of our time and grade her performance accordingly, or will they perpetuate this nonsensical "expectations" game and fall for her "glittering generalities" and nasty zingers that will most surely be what she employs in the debate.

I just thought of something that would be insanely funny for tomorrow night. The convoluted wisdom is that Palin wins for breathing, right, so what's Grampa Joe got to lose?

I say he answers every question with completely senseless non-sequitors. "I like puppies and where's my pizza?" "You know, Wilt Chaimberlin liked cheese." "If I had a quarter for every time I saw a puppy there'd be on the left, third row."

Just take a dive.

If he did this, first off, I'd fall on the floor and pee myself laughing; and second it would suck all air right out of the post debate Republican spin tents. It would be an internet sensation, and no one would want to spend time talking about Palin's stoogy pavlovian propaganda - "Did you hear when Biden said 'there I was - in my fuzzy slippers' and just stared at Gwen?!? CLASSIC!"

You are an American Hero, LFoD. A goddamned American Hero. If you were a flag, I'd salute you. Before I burned you. Because I can. That's just how I roll with my First Amendment.

Palin wins debates when she is allowed to generalize. She has NO specifics about anything. She is a cable teevee newsreader. It is up to the moderator to make sure Palin gets specific. If she has to go to specifics then she totally loses her bearings.

But Mr. The Bob Cesca is correct, the difference between Palin's little backwoods ass-eatery and tomorrow night's debate is the difference between Little League T-ball and the Major Leagues, if by the Major Leagues you understand me to mean genetically-altered Army Majors fitted with Space Gills and able to play The Baseball on Venus while farting in perfect harmony to the tune of Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra*.

Look, if I grw in up in some third-world shithole of a "state" that's so galactically removed from Reality that I get a fat Government Check just for accidentally being born there and you can launch missiles at wolves from low-flying planes for sport, I could get up and make with the yammering in front of whatever corn-pone tinfoil-hat wearing bunch of mouth-breathers the Town Council could line up beneath my podium and Taser™ into coherence for thirty minutes. I could do it with my junk hanging out. But this isn't that. More people will be watching her by an order of magnitude on Thursday than live in her entire arctic wasteland of a state. She's coming out of 7 and a half innings of really, really shitty play. And no one will have their minds changed. Period.

Tomorrow night is the carnival. The freak show. My boy Biden will bring what he's got, and I'll be happy. Then I'll watch some porn and have a Pop-Tart.

* I used to sprach with Zarathustra all the time, that guy was a total dick. He could bore the asshole out of a '57 Chevy**.

** Total non-sequitor, I have no idea what this means.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Elvis has left the planet.

Can someone get a website together that lets us count keywords, nouns, verbs, and all other various parts of speech? Cause when this is over I want to be able to PROVE beyond a doubt that Smokin' Joe won the sucka'.

Joe had 108 Nouns to her puny 56
Sarah invoked "the privilege of serving" 83 times, but Biden smoked her at the river with 5, count 'em FIVE "pre 9/11 thinking"'s

I'm looking forward to watching you guys be silly tomorrow. :)

QT

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