Nixons here.
So what did you think?
The debate was riveting. The reaction was even more interesting. The Republicans somehow twisted reality around to the point that they believed Palin won simply because she didn't completely fail as everyone expected. Man, talk about the theory of success via lowered expectation!
As if, simply because she managed to keep talking, keep winking (were we the only ones who found that disingenuous and annoying?) and didn't run off the stage in a fit of tears that she won this debate.
Far from it amigos. Watch it again. We counted only one time that she even attempted to answer the question offered. It seemed as though she had a list of speeches memorized. She would scan what Biden or the moderator were saying for key words, and then launch into one of her canned answers/mini speeches. Perhaps the Nixons are "old school" when it comes to the spoken language, but if one was to transcribe word for word some of her answers one would find that some of her mini speeches were catch phrases swirled around dangling participles, tense disagreements. Hell, just plain filler.
Yes, Biden is a career politician. We couldn't help but think how much he probably wanted to just pat her on the head, give her a donation for the PTA, and send her off to get the mini van washed. We assumed that he would play it safe. Everyone was expecting (this debate was really about expectation wasn't it?) him to come off condescending. In his own surprise performance, he was patient, attentive, overly respectful really. So many he times he could of pounced on her shaky statements with such ease and shredded her. But the fact for Biden was that he couldn't really win by winning as he would be seen as "mean" or chauvinistic. "Typical beltway politician" they would say. How long has McSame been in the Senate now? We're not sure, but we're pretty sure we've seen pictures of him riding a dinosaur into D.C. Ha. See what we did there?
In his own shining moment however...when Palin tried to play the "I'm a mom with a special needs child...the one who knows about sitting around the kitchen table making hard decisions...you know, something a heartless career politician like Biden could never relate to" bull sh*t...Biden, choking slightly on the memory of it, reminded her that much earlier in his life his wife and two of his children had been killed. That he had to sit at the kitchen table with his two surviving sons and figure out how they were going to make it back from that hell; both financially and emotionally. I'm sorry, but that is the first and probably the last time that we cried during a debate. Damn you Biden!
Call him lawyerly, call him a career politician, but that was one of the most "human" moments the Nixons have ever seen from a politician.
Keep your fake winks Mrs. Palin. In fact, keep your "betchas", your lame hockey mom references, and your annoying Minnesota via Canada accent too. We grew tired even of the timbre of your voice by the end. We kept thinking, "too bad Tina Fey couldn't just play this part for you. Her imitation of you is much more palatable than the real you."
-the Nixons
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