SCREW the polls! The PALIN verdict is IN on last night's debate: "Great. Great."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Debate Watching with Gov. Palin

Updated 12:10 a.m.
By Perry Bacon Jr.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/07/palin_watching_debate_at_nc_pi.html



Aboard her campaign plane, after taking questions for the first time from the reporters who follow her every move, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told the assembled press and two senior aides standing near her that she didn't want to watch the presidential debate "in my hotel room with just campaign staffers."

The campaign hadn't scheduled a debating watching party for her, but that plan quickly changed. After Palin spoke at a rally here, her campaign entourage of aides and reporters drove to a local pizzeria called Boli's on the Boulevard. Palin went casual, appearing in blue jeans and a purple windbreaker she had been given after her speech at the East Carolina University a few minutes earlier.

As she greeted the surprised crowd of more than 50 at the small pizza place, she posed for several cell phone pictures. When Dana Corey, who was about to start eating, realized Palin was there, he was on the phone with wife. He asked if Palin would say hello and the governor did, joking, "Libby, why is your husband here drinking beer without you?"

Asked how the debate went, she was enthusiastic as usual.

"Great. Great. It was a great night for America. He's proposing real plans that will work for economic recovery and energy independence," she said of her running mate.

"I think Barack was even less candid than usual," she added, not explaining exactly what that meant. "But McCain has fought on and sounded very energized and it was a good night for him.... It's gonna be a great 28 days to go. Taking this message of reform on the road and just having it resonate more and more every day is what I believe's happening. And it's good. It's very good. I look forward to the 28 days."

But Palin is aware of her ticket's political situation. Asked on the plane about her reflections from her first month on the campaign trail, she used a word she would repeat at the rally here: "underdog." That analysis may have been unavoidable, given that she was about to touch down in North Carolina, a state Republicans have won for decades but where polls show Obama effectively tied.

"I've been an underdog quite often in my life -- and so has John McCain. And we both have come out victorious," she said. "I anticipate that's what going to what we see at the end of the day on Nov. 4."

[shadowknows69]

1. She was in a bar again?

I wonder if someone could goad her into doing shots of Jager and do a table dance or something. "Hockey moms know how to toss a couple back, you betcha we do!"

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Lemme get this straight.

She's out on the trail questioning Obama's forthrightness one day.

The next she's saying he's not "as candid as usual."


:wtf:

[Razoor]

3. wow she must of watched another debate than the rest of us

she must of watched another debate than last night. shes so clueless

[Lasher]

4. You betcha