Numbnuts: She’s Back
October 3, 2008The weenie writes in the NYPost
Palin had suffered through a series of nightly interview bits with CBS anchor Katie Couric that seemed to last a month, with the Alaska governor shedding credibility by the minute. But last night, they instantly became a distant memory.
Palin held her own against Joe Biden, and flashed the poise and charm that made her such a star at the Republican convention.
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She talked about regular middle-class people with the credibility of having lived that life every day, even for a time lacking health insurance. Or, as she put it at the end, she and John McCain will “fight for the middle-class, average family – like mine.”
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Last night, Palin plainly had two ingredients that were missing from her network TV interviews, and they made all the difference:
* She was more familiar with the substance. If she’d been as well-briefed and comfortable with the material before those interviews, the McCain campaign could have spared itself weeks of bad publicity.
* She’d learned to sidestep questions she found awkward and steer the discussion onto better ground for her (usually energy policy).
Put those together with her off-the-charts likeability, and you could see why she was a political force that so confounded the opposition in Alaska.
I wouldn’t normally post something from numbnuts, but he makes a good point. Even a bad batter with a .197 batting average hits the ball 1 out of 5 times.
