McCain Camp Working On Palin-Biden Expectations Game

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"The expectations game is afoot in advance of the debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. The conventional wisdom's wonderment amounts to these two ideas: Will Joe Biden wield his foreign policy expertise like a bludgeon and hurt the frail damsel from Alaska? Will Sarah Palin be able to complete a sentence without offering up an arrhythmic mashup of ancient McCain talking points? Based upon the pre-debate chit-chat, the best thing either Veep candidate can do for their ticket is confound everyone by standing still and saying absolutely nothing!

So what's a McCain flack to do? If you are Nancy Pfotenhauer, you go on Fox And Friends, a mythical land where they still believe John McCain "suspended" his campaign, and where the idea that McCain bravely paved the way on the bailout package instead of dully gumming up the works still roams from glen to glen like a magical unicorn. Gretchen Carlson is especially adorable, telling Pfotenhauer, "I think this debate thing may have gotten in the way" of the bailout work. That's right! This "debate thing!" Yeah, what was that "debate thing" all about, anyway?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/29/mccain-camp-working-on-pa_n_130206.html

If you haven't watched the Couric/Palin interview, check out the clip embedded on this page. Scary.

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1. Sarah Palin: "No, the bar is not set low, she has to "command respect"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7250714&mesg_id=7250714

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2. Wow, they are making threats against the debate moderator and this is

Monday.

"Anyway, the McCain camp is going to keep a close eye on this debate. As Pfotenhauer intimates, if moderator Gwen Ifill asks Palin too many foreign policy questions, she's going to have to answer for it."

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3. As if Ifill has to answer to the McCain campaign for anything.

Funny.