Slate predicts... 1. Returns to Vietnam and jails himself. 2. Offers the post of "vice vice president" to Warren Buffett. 3. Challenges Obama to suspend campaign so they both can go and personally drill for oil offshore. 4. Learns to use computer. 5. Does bombing run over Taliban-controlled tribal areas of Pakistan. 6. Offers to forgo salary, sell one house. 7. Sex-change operation. 8. Suspends campaign until Nov. 4, offers to start being president right now. 9. Sells Alaska to Russia for $700 billion. 10. Pledges to serve only one term. OK, half a term. http://www.slate.com/id/2200927/
I really don't think a shot-gun wedding in Alaska would have any affect on the election, but call me crazy...
What about the possibility of Palin giving intentionally terrible interviews and then coming out Thursday sounding like she knows what she's talking about?
Part of me has wondered if Palin is playing opossum. They set the bar really low and get Biden to drop his guard. If she doesn't fall flat on her face, people will give her points. If she rises up to give a simply mediocre performance, people will think she's a genius.
i'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the alaskan governor debate has topics that are a little less complicated than the vp of us debate
I could see how someone who thinks Palin is qualified would hope that she is being deliberately bad. This is extraordinarily unlikely. I still expect that she will be able to spit out bits of memorized material more or less on point and avoid a disaster. You could see her attempting to do this with Couric and she may yet be able to do it during the debate.
I don't think her past performances are acts, but if she does pull it off, it would reflect the amount of drive she has.
In the Alaska debates she was debating about things she has an intimate knowledge of.....but in the VP debate, she has to debate about stuff she knows basically very little about....or is cramming to understand. She is not stupid, just ill prepared to be VP. DD
