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  Date / Time: 10/2/2008 6:25 AM UTC

  VP Debate
  

  Sarah “Joe Six Pack” Palin gets ready to rumble

  By Jimmy Orr | 10.01.08

  

  Could the vice-presidential debate actually be consequential this time around? You bet. No offense to any of the vice-presidential wannabees, but a Biden - Romney showdown or a Biden - Pawlenty (remember him?) contest or a Biden - Portman (who?) debate would not likely be must-see TV.

  We’ve got Joe Biden and Sarah Palin to look forward to. And make no mistake, this thing is being billed as the Thrilla’ in Manilla, but could end up as disastrous for either or both as Milli Vanilli.

  The gaffe-meisters

  After all, we’ve got one candidate who is synonymous with gaffe-prone. Go ahead and Google “gaffe prone.” Top result? Joe Biden. Google “Joe Biden.” Top related search? Joe Biden gaffes.

  In the other corner, we’ve got Sarah Palin. And in the short time the country has come to know this moose-hunting, hockey mom from Alaska, she’s gone from hero to zero, from chic to geek, from rising star to falling star in just one month.

  When you consider that the rise and fall of Sarah Palin has occurred in just one month, you see the impact of this incredibly short news cycle.
  With all the news reports, analyses, talk radio, bloggers,TV punditry, late-night jokes, skits, You-Tube remixes — it feels like we’ve known Sarah for months if not years.

  Palin-hysteria

  Even with all the recent hullabaloo stirred up by conservatives freaked over Palin’s recent television interviews, she projected a stronger image — even a flash of feistiness — Monday night with Katie Couric.

  The performance didn’t satisfy her harsher critics who pointed out that Republican nominee John McCain had to join her to protect the governor from more ‘gotcha journalism.’

  Joe Six-Pack

  But on a conservative radio talk show program on Tuesday Sarah Palin sounded a bit more like the Sarah Palin the public heard at the Republican convention.

  “Oh, I think they’re [critics] just not used to someone coming in from the outside saying you know what? It’s time that a normal Joe Six-Pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency, and I think that that’s kind of taken some people off guard, and they’re out of sorts, and they’re ticked off about it,” she said.
  http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/10/01/sarah-joe-six-pack-palin-gets-ready-to-rumble/
  
  Syrin's comment
  Sarah is so dangerously out of her depth and so delusional -- perhaps blinded by ambition -- that she is in total denial about the real-world ramifications of her ineptitude. Instead, she's excusing her embarrassing television interviews and farcical candidacy as an historical breakthrough for "normal Joe Six-pack Americans." 

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