Palin: Hockey Moms, Joe Sixpacks, Unite!
The McCain-Palin ticket has worked overtime to argue that predatory home lending, rather than the deregulation of Wall Street, is the real cause of our economic crisis.
A few moments ago, Sarah Palin took that message and seemed to freight it with a pretty heavy historical reference, saying that hockey moms and Joe Sixpacks should unite and say, "never again."
"Never will we be exploited again," Palin said that hockey moms and Joe Sixpacks should say. "Never again will we be taken advantage of."
Hockey moms, Joe Sixpacks, unite!
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"Is called fairness" Good one, Joe!
October 2, 2008 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
She is blatantly programmed here. She gets asked a direct question about healthcare, and gives an answer about taxes. Pre-programmed.
October 2, 2008 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Joe is subdued no more!
October 2, 2008 9:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Joe is impressing me.
October 2, 2008 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's getting better. Let's see what's next...
October 2, 2008 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why doesn't Biden ask her if it's patriotic to not want to pay taxes during war time?
October 2, 2008 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmm.. 'Government, you're not always the solution, you're the problem, thats patriotic'
If a dem said that, they'd be accused of hating america
October 2, 2008 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Go Joe!
October 2, 2008 9:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fairness - yes
October 2, 2008 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Her debate thus far is so W.
Likeable and fucking retarded.
October 2, 2008 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't understand the "do you really want the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to run healthcare?" argument. I'm biased obviously but it's just weird coming out of the mouth of someone running to be in charge of said government.
October 2, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
If it's so fricking bad, why hasn't John given up his federally run healthcare?
October 2, 2008 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
ultimate bridge to nowhere - soundbite soundbite soundbite
October 2, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's now on top form!
October 2, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yup.
October 2, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Joe is awesome tonight - perfect. He's not taking any shit off her.
Damn straight, Joe.
What happened that I missed - she said she wouldn't answer a question - what question -
October 2, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
John being a deregulator.
October 2, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's spewing spam straight from DemBillC!
Holy fuck!
October 2, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe she IS DemBillC.
October 2, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now we know DemBillC is.
October 2, 2008 9:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
Tena, I left you a birthday vid in the thread about raising the bar for Palin.
October 2, 2008 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks - I'll find it.
October 2, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
John McCain tells one thing to one group then tells another thing to that same group, hell he will do it in the same speech.
October 2, 2008 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anyone noticing that she isnt answering any of the questions being asked? She is totally in rebut mode.
October 2, 2008 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes - she's avoiding anything she doesn't want to talk about. She wants to stick with what she's memorized.
October 2, 2008 9:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's dropping those "g"s tonight like she's a grade C Gabby Hayes!
October 2, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Has she actually answered a question yet?
October 2, 2008 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
She tanked on saying there was nothing she would take off the table (based on the CNN tracking focus group)
October 2, 2008 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Y'all are being awful quiet about that tracking poll in general - is she doing well?
October 2, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
those heads are rearin'
Put politics aside like we put the campaign aside - Bitch, please!
October 2, 2008 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
THANK you! Smug, catty wench.
October 2, 2008 11:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Has she actually answered a question yet?
October 2, 2008 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not so far as I can tell.
October 2, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it just me or does she sound like shes starting to break up.
October 2, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's a sprinter in a long distance race.
October 2, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
He scored on the tax break for oil companies.
October 2, 2008 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
The windfall tax bit was nice by Biden.
October 2, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
He scored big on that one.
October 2, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I yellow line tanks on "adjusting the principal" of mortgages...
October 2, 2008 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
When is she going to fall apart? Are they allowed to go after each other?
October 2, 2008 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where are you seeing the Independent yellow line? I thought that CNN had made the inexplicably sexist decision to track this debate as male/ female responses.
October 2, 2008 9:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think they increase their MALE v. FEMALE baramoeter depending on how many of the I's or D's or R's clikc their buttons. So the Yellow line still goes up, but they show the M v. F ratio...
October 2, 2008 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not watching it. I need a break. She actually is answering as if she's in a beauty pagent. It's so sick I can throw up.
October 2, 2008 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Two things that don't match:
Sarah Palin & Climate Change
October 2, 2008 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow she just tanked on the focus group by avoiding the question.
October 2, 2008 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you, man, I'm getting nervous again.
October 2, 2008 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
CNN focus group breaks it out by men and women. Women are totally more enlightened based on this focus group. Thought you'd like to know.
October 2, 2008 9:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hammer her on causes leading the right solutions, Joe. Hammer her into a pancake.
October 2, 2008 9:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
On climate change: "I don't want to talk about causes"
WTF?
October 2, 2008 9:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
That global warming answer was treading on Couric territory.
October 2, 2008 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
My husband just came in and he wants the sound on. Ahg! I can't stand her voice!!! And what the fuck is she smiling at?
October 2, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hope we get out of this with a wash. Cuz for some unknown reason, she's able to form complete sentences tonight.
October 2, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
She doesn't answer the question...
The climate change answer is uggh
October 2, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Reminder: JOHN MCCAIN IS A REPUBLICAN and CANNOT BE TRUSTED!
October 2, 2008 9:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's talking too fast!
October 2, 2008 9:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
This page is taking forever to reload. I thought Josh upgraded his servers?
October 2, 2008 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Word. It's taking longer and longer to post.
October 2, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
WTF? She's not even answering any of the questions.
October 2, 2008 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
O good - thank you Joe. He just took a stand for gay and lesbian rights and she's fucked except with fundies.
October 2, 2008 9:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, same sex marriage and environment questions? Who is this masked moderator?
October 2, 2008 9:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
For those of you who are brave enough to watch CNN with the "real time" reactions-how are the lines looking?
October 2, 2008 9:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Biden's Same Sex talk stays flat, with a slight dip in R's.
Now Palin tries damage control with pretending she's "tolerant".
October 2, 2008 9:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
That got me, too. "Tolerant"? WTF?
October 2, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Get to the FOREIGN POLICY so she can FAIL EPICLY!
October 2, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh God, foreign policy. I need a beer.
October 2, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hate people who call it Eye-rack.
There is no short A in any language other than English.
It is ee-rawk.
October 2, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Any language other than English?
Obviously vowel differences are subtle, they're not like consonants, as they're more shades of gray. But I would argue both French and German have something pretty close.
And there are thousands of languages. None of them?
Maybe Arabic doesn't, but you should just say that.
October 2, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well smartass, a linguist taught me that when I took a lot of linquistics in undergrad because I was thinking of becoming a linquistic anthropologist.
You just attacked me and you didn't name a language with the kind of flat short A English has. French does not. I took French, I spoke French and you're full of shit.
October 3, 2008 1:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Holy crap! They have a plan to get out of Iraq? Has anyone told McCain?
October 2, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
She hates gays. I get it.
October 2, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pre-surge levels??
October 2, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Al Qaeda and the Shi'a fighters?????
They hate each other.
Bitch, please -
October 2, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. The focus group is flat-lining her on Iraq, both men and women.
October 2, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin stayed about even on foreign policy, if that. Biden has had some big peaks.
October 2, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Um....
White flag of surrender?
bitch, please...
October 2, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Meanwhile, Biden's Iraq comments go immediately up.
October 2, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Every time Gov Plain makes reference to a BO vote, notice how Biden comes back with a reference to a vote JM made similarly.
NICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
October 2, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
BIDEN: Must say "DON'T TELL ME I'M HANDING MY SON A WHITE FLAG!"
October 2, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fight Republicans! Not Sarah Flipping Palin!
October 2, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
She played the "surrender" card.
October 2, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
She wants to stay forever in Iraq. She's fucked.
October 2, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
White flag one of few times it went below the flat line with the focus group.
October 2, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm disappointed in Ifill so far.
October 2, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's hitting it right on Pakistan and Iran. Go Joe!
October 2, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good Gawd, her fizzy/dizzy Suzy Cheerleader demeanor drives me insane!
October 2, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Castro brothers. ROFL!
October 2, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Didn't they direct the Matrix?
October 2, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Woww. Just.. wow.
October 2, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Independents seem to reject following Israel blindly, based on the dips in the CNN snap, realtime poll...
October 2, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
"TALK, TALK, TALK"'s a winner.
October 2, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Didn't they learn from the first debate the preconditions attack doesn't work.
October 2, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is rich. In the space of a few weeks she's gone from "We need to have a plan here" as the depth of her thinking on Iraq to accusing Obama of surrender.
October 2, 2008 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
She blew it with the basically diplomacy is okay but really it doesn't work.
October 2, 2008 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just want to wring her scrawny neck. I shouldn't be drinking and watching this.
October 2, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Go after Bush as being "ABSENT" as a president!
October 2, 2008 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Republicans ARE A BLUNDER!
October 2, 2008 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is the crux of the debate! McCain = Bush! Get em JOE!
October 2, 2008 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bush's Iraq Policy = Economic Meltdown at home!
October 2, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did you hear that deep breath? Biden sounded like he was gonna blow.
October 2, 2008 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nook-ya-ler makes an appearance...
October 2, 2008 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can Palin get through another foreign-policy question without ignoring the question and going back to energy?
October 2, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
From CNN's Bill Schneider: "Palin's answers do not lack confidence, they lack coherence."
Yup.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
October 2, 2008 10:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
In the second half, I don't know what the question was (and it probably wasn't even about Palin's answer), but Palin misspoke(?) and essentially said that the bloody mess on Main Street was now affecting Wall Street.
October 3, 2008 7:12 AM | Reply | Permalink